Consultancy: Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) Consultant, 106 working days

Consultant Programme & Policy

Overview

Conduct PSEA assessments and capacity building trainings for UNICEF partners

You have:

• Master's degree in social sciences or equivalent experience
• Minimum 5 years of relevant professional experience with a Master's degree or 7 years with a Bachelor's degree
• Relevant knowledge and skills in Gender, GBV, child safeguarding, and PSEA
• Familiarity with the UN Harmonized Assessment Tools
• Fluency in English and Arabic is required
• Knowledge of another UN official language is an asset
• Experience working in developing countries and emergencies is considered an asset

Contract

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UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, protection

Safeguarding and Protection from Sexual Exploitation and abuse (PSEA)are at the core of UNICEF’s mandate. As a lead agency in child protection and GBV globally; UNICEF is mandated to strengthen the protection of children and women from all forms of violence including SEA and is committed to creating environments where the population we serve is safe and respected by humanitarian and development personnel and they can access services without fear of SEA.

In line with the United Nations Protocol on Allegations of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Involving Implementing Partners, UNICEF is required to conduct PSEA assessments for all partners prior to entering into partnership agreements. The objective of the PSEA Assessment and the recently harmonized PSEA Assessment Toolkit is to facilitate a sustained improvement in SEA prevention measures and a reduction of SEA risks in programme implementation across the development sector.

By August 2023, UNICEF needs to ensure the transition to an inter-agency approach through the application of the UN Harmonized PSEA Assessment Tool and therefore all new and/or existing high risk, moderate and low risk partners will need to be (re)assessed. The key objective of the procedure and its implementation is to determine/assess UNICEF IPs’ organizational PSEA capacities and support them as relevant to reduce the risk of sexual exploitation and abuse in UNICEF implementing partnerships.

Having in mind the strict deadline and a high volume of partnerships, UNICEF is in need of a consultant to be able to accelerate the (re)assessment procedure and meet the deadline. The consultant will be in charge of conducting (re)assessments, capacity building trainings and development of PSEA and Child safeguarding Action Plans for organizations that reflect identified areas of improvement on PSEA.

How can you make a difference?

Work Assignment Expected Results

Task/MilestoneDeliverableTimelineDevelopment of an inception report with exact deliverables/deadlines1. Review and Summary report on all UNICEF’s PSEA frameworks, the previous reports on PSEA work, and Child safeguarding

2. Inception report submitted and approved by UNICEF January 2023 (10 days)

A. PSEA Webinar for national and international UNICEF implementing partners

B. Capacity building training of moderate and high-risk partners on PSEA and child safeguardingA. 91 IPs informed about the PSEA requirements and UN Harmonized PSEA Assessment Tools through

(one three-day webinar to introduce the new IP assessment tool – three webinar and one preparation days)

B. Moderate and high-risk partners trained on PSEA and CS

(One three-days training covering PSEA and child safeguarding – one three-day training and one preparation day)

February 2023

(4 working days)

February 2023

(4 days)

PSEA re-assessments of low, moderate and high-risk partners91 IPs assessedMarch – May 2023

(30 working days)PSEA assessments of new partnersNew national and international IPs assessed against the UN Harmonized PSEA Assessment ToolsJune 2023

(7 working days)Thematic Capacity building trainings on PSEA topicsThematic webinars conducted for moderate and high-risk partners on investigations, community complaint mechanisms, IA SOPs, victims' assistance, safe programing and preparation, SEA awareness raising

June – July 2023

(14 working days)Development of PSEA Action Plans reflecting areas of improvementPSEA Action Plans for national and international IPs developed

Coaching and field visits to IP premises conductedJune –August2023

(25 days)Capacity building of UNICEF’s suppliers on SEAUNICEF Suppliers trainedJune 2023

(2 working days)Two webinars for UNICEF’s staff on PSEA HACT addendum tool and SEA risk mitigation in UNICEF’s programsUNICEF staff trained on PSEA HACT addendum tool and risk mitigationJuly – August 2023

(4 working days)Training for all the new UNVs on SEANew UNVs trained on SEAAugust 2023

(2 working days) Preparation of a drop box for UNICEF’s partners on SEADrop box done and functioningSeptember 2023

(1 working day)Final report and the next stepsFinal report submittedSeptember 2023

(3 days)To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in social sciences *A first University Degree in a relevant field combined with 2 additional years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an Advanced University Degree.
• A minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience with a Master's degree and 7 years with a Bachelor's degree.
• Relevant Knowledge and Skills in Gender, gender-based violence (GBV), child safeguarding and Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA).
• Familiarity with the PSEA Assessments/UN Harmonized Assessment Tools.
• Proven expertise and/or ability to conduct capacity building trainings and assist partners in the development of action plans that reflect identified areas for improvement on PSEA
• Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset.
• Fluency in English and Arabic is required. Knowledge of another official UN language ( Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Remarks:

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.

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