Consultant International Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism (MRM)

Contract

This is a P-3 contract. This kind of contract is known as Professional and Director staff. It is normally internationally recruited only. It's a staff contract. It usually requires 5 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 115,781 USD and 151,606 USD.

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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, hope

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.

The UNICEF Mali Country Office is scaling up its Child Protection Emergency Response, with a focus on the provision of life saving services to children affected by armed conflict and on monitoring and reporting (MRM) on grave violations. Consultant technical capacity is required to ensure adherence to the MRM CAAC, the CCCs in Humanitarian Action, the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action. Under the management the technical direction and guidance of the Chief Child Protection section the team lead in UNICEF Mali CO, the incumbent will support CO, Country Task Force on Monitoring and Reporting (CTFMR) and implementing partners by providing technical support on child protection in armed conflict.

How can you make a difference?

Scope of Work

Work Assignments Overview

Specific tasks

Deadline

Orientation briefing with CP UNICEF Mali completed

December, 2023

Capacity building of consultant

Consultant trained on the MRMIMS+ and his profile created in the system

December 2023

Deployment of MRMIMS+ (MRMIMS+ pilot group)

TDH and COOPI trained on the MRMIMS+ data base and their created in the system

27 and 28 December 2023

• Prepare quality and timely analysis and reports on the situation of children affected by armed conflict, including contributions to Security Council-mandated reports, with a focus on the Global Horizontal Note Quarter 4 (September -December 2023), the inputs for the Secretary-General’s annual report on Children and Armed Conflict (2023) and the Global Horizontal Note Quarter 1 (January -March 2024). This includes timely and quality review and analysis of the incident reports and technical support for their finalization for inclusion in the reports and according to the instructions and template provided by the Office of the SRSG CAAC.

• Develop a roadmap to strengthen the monitoring and reporting system on grave child rights violations.

• Map actors present in the country or region, that have a relevant mandate and are able and willing to contribute to the documentation of grave child rights violations.

• Conduct a risk assessment to identify issues of concern and identify mitigation measures.

• Organize and implement capacity-building initiatives for the relevant actors, including delivering trainings.

• Support the MRMIMS+ deployment.

• Support UNICEF/UN’s engagement with all parties to conflict and other relevant actors where relevant, including support to UNICEF Country Representatives and Chiefs of Child Protection.

• Facilitate the functioning of the CTFMR at technical level, and at senior level if required.

• Strengthening collaboration with other UNICEF sections, the UNCT and partners, including to link the monitoring and reporting of grave child rights violations to programmatic responses and advocacy initiatives.

Production of GHN 4, 2023

Data entry of GHN4 cases in the MRMIMS+ completed.

5 January 2024

Data verification in the MRMIMS+ completed

8 January 2024

Data analysis and the report draft ready for the revision

10 January 2024

GHN 4 revised by CP Chief, Regional Office,

11 January 2024

GHN 4 cleared by CTFMR technical group, and endorsed by CTFMR Principals

12 January 2024

GHN 4 revised by SRSG CAAC office

15 January 2024

GHN 4 validated by co-chairs

16 January 2024

Final report sent to SRSG CAAC office

17 January 2024

Production of CAAC annual report

Data compilation and analysis for annual report

19 January 2024

Annual report drafted including data on UNICEF partners responses on six graves violations against children

23 January 2024

Annual report revised by CP Chief, Regional Office,

24 January 2024

Annual report cleared by CTFMR technical group, and endorsed by CTFMR Principals

26 January 2024

Annual report revised by SRSG CAAC office

29 January 2024

Annual report validated by co-chairs

31 January 2024

Final annual report sent to SRSG CAAC

1 February 2024

Deployment of MRMIMS+ (other UNICEF partners)

Partners trained on MRMIMS+ and their profiles created (SOLISA, AVS, ATDED, POD, CAEB)

5-6 February 2024

Preparation of GH 1, 2024

Support all available data Entry on six graves violations

23 February 2024

Facilitate the functioning of the CTFMR at technical level, and at senior level

CTFMR technical group meeting held

January 2024

CTFMR Principals meeting held

Jurany 2024

Provision of technical support to the Group of Friends of CAAC

Group of Friends technical group meeting held

February 2024

Group of Friends Ambassadors meeting held

2 February 2024

Consultant final report

Presentation of final hand over notes with all documents (online or not) as the final report with recommendations on way forward with activities conducted under the support period

End February 2024

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Qualifications****:

• Advanced degree (Master’s or equivalent) in law, political sciences, international
• relations or other disciplines related to human rights. A combination of relevant academic qualifications and extensive work experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Work Experience:

• Proven ability to conduct complex human rights monitoring, documenting and reporting on child rights violations during armed conflict;
• Minimum fives years of progressively responsible experience in political affairs and human rights monitoring and documentation with a focus on children’s human rights and/or child protection; and
• 5 years professional experience in the field of Child Protection humanitarian response (armed conflict)
• Fluency in English and French (verbal and written).

Other skills and attributes required:

• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to work with sensitive data and duty confidentiality.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

• Ability to work with sensitive data and duty confidentiality.

VALUES AND COMPETENCY REQUIRED:

Core Values

• Care
• Respect
• Integrity
• Trust
• Accountability
• Sustainability

Core Competencies

Functional Competencies

• Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (2)
• Works Collaboratively with others (2)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (2)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (2)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (2)
• Drive to achieve impactful results (2)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (2)

Formulating strategies and concepts (II)

Analyzing (II)

Relating and networking (II)

Deciding and Initiating action (II)

Applying technical expertise (II)

General Conditions Procedures and Logistics:

Please indicate your all-inclusive (lump sum) fees in USD against the deliverables listed above. If there is a need for business travel, the travel costs will be covered by UNICEF separately.

Consultant is required to use his own devices

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.