Fixed Term - Child Protection Specialist (PSEA), P-4, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Contract

This is a P-4 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 7 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 148,099 USD and 190,943 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, care

UNICEF is committed to accelerating protection from sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA) across all humanitarian settings and the development and peace nexus. PSEA is an organization-wide accountability, and UNICEF Child Protection plays a leading role and is a key contributor to this work. UNICEF’s Child Protection strategy prioritizes the prevention of violence, which includes prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse. The UNICEF’s Strategic Plan 2022-2025 includes core commitments on PSEA, including within Goal Area 3: Every child is protected from all forms of violence, exploitation, abuse and harmful practices. The Strategic Plan also includes a strategic enabler on the establishment and strengthening of PSEA systems at country-level, for which Child Protection plays a leading role. UNICEF’s PSEA commitment is further grounded in UNICEF’s Core Commitments for Children in Humanitarian Action (CCCs) and Emergency Procedures.

As a leader in child protection globally and as an agency mandated to strengthen the protection of children and women, UNICEF is also committed to driving forward best practice to deliver on the shared IASC PSEA framework and priority areas and is scaling up its programming to prevent and respond to SEA. UNICEF’s approach stems from ED Fore’s work as IASC Champion on PSEA in 2018 and 2019. Under ED Fore’s leadership, the IASC developed and endorsed the IASC Plan for Accelerating PSEA in Humanitarian Response at Country Level ("the IASC Acceleration Plan"); and a common IASC PSEA Country-Level Framework; and the IASC PSEA strategy to effectively deliver on its commitments to prevent and respond to SEA, and to advance a survivor-centered approach. UNICEF continues to advance the PSEA work as a key contributor to the IASC Acceleration Plan and the new IASC Strategy and Vision on the PSEA and Sexual Harassment (PSEAH) 2022−2026.

How can you make a difference?

Under the leadership and supervision of the Country Representative, and under technical guidance of the Chief of Child Protection, the Child Protection Specialist for Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) will develop and support UNICEF’s work on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse to meet its institutional and programmatic commitments on PSEA, in line with the CCCs.

The Child Protection Specialist (PSEA) will serve as the key technical resource on PSEA and will provide programme guidance and technical support to UNICEF Haiti Country Office in strengthening UNICEF’s PSEA programming and scaling up prevention and response efforts to SEA in line with the office wide PSEA Action Plan, as well as technical leadership in the interagency space for PSEA.

The post holder will also contribute to the achievement of concrete and sustainable programme/project results according to plans, allocation, results based-management approaches and methodology (RBM) and UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, standards of performance and accountability framework.

Summary of key functions/accountabilities:

1. Programme development, planning and management

• Support development of programme proposals reflecting priorities for PSEA, maintain partnership relationships and take other actions to increase visibility of PSEA programming and the financial resources available for PSEA work.
• Contribute to the alignment of PSEA programming with UNICEF Strategic Plan, international standards and mechanisms, donor development policies, and UN-wide interventions and initiatives.
• Contribute to the preparation of programme reports, as required, for management, donors and partners, in line with defined deadlines and endorsed guidance.
• Contribute to the establishment of specific goals, objectives and strategies and implementation plans, including proposing priorities/targets and performance measurement, using results-based planning and management (RBM) to strengthen performance accountability, coherence, and delivery of concrete and sustainable results for PSEA programming.
• Contribute to major monitoring and evaluation exercises to monitor and assess progress at country level and to engage stakeholders to take required actions to achieve PSEA results; identify and document lessons learned and facilitate strategic use of knowledge gained.
• Supervise PSEA staff by providing them with clear objectives and goals, direction and guidance to enable them to perform their duties responsibly, effectively and efficiently.

2. Advisory Services and Technical support

• Provide technical support and monitoring for the implementation of the Country Office PSEA Action Plan and the UNICEF’s requirements on PSEA as outlined in the Emergency Procedures.
• Provide technical advice to management on issues related to PSEA, including support and advise the Representative on the internal roll out and implementation of UNICEF’s SEA reporting mechanisms and responding to allegations, in line with endorsed internal reporting procedures and relevant UN / inter-agency protocols and guidelines.
• Strengthen the capacity of UNICEF staff, consultants, volunteers, and implementing partners on PSEA and understanding of UNICEF’s requirements on PSEA from the outset of the emergency response.
• In collaboration with Data, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring (DAPM) and UNICEF sections, support partners to ensure PSEA policies, systems and structures are aligned with standards and requirements as per UNICEF PSEA Implementing Partners Procedures and the UN Implementing Partners Protocol.

3. Support Reporting, Response and Prevention of SEA

• Provide support to country office Haiti on reporting, response and prevention of SEA and integration of PSEA within UNICEF’s programming across all sectors, including:-

Safe and accessible reporting

• Support UNICEF country office Haiti to promptly establish and/or strengthen effective, safe and accessible reporting channels for SEA that are embedded within UNICEF’s overall response and consider the needs of women and children so that any child or adult receiving assistance from UNICEF has access to a safe reporting channel for SEA, linked with CP/GBV assistance.
• Provide technical support to partners to implement community-based reporting mechanisms to ensure that all information pertaining to SEA allegations is handled and referred strictly in line with agreed protocols.
• Ensure that survivors are immediately referred to appropriate assistance (i.e. medical, psychosocial, legal, safety/security, etc.), in line with the survivor-centred approach and the established GBV/CP referral pathways, taking into consideration the safety and wishes of the survivor.

Prevention of SEA

• Provide support and coordinate with UNICEF sections to ensure diverse and appropriate prevention activities on SEA to rapidly detect and follow up on SEA risk and alerts are implemented across communities and establish systems to monitor implementation.
• Support and contribute to SEA risk assessments and analysis in collaboration with UNICEF sections, partners and interagency PSEA Network to ensure systematic SEA risk assessment and inclusion of SEA risk findings in programme implementation. Flag SEA risks at the HCT/UNCT level for interagency response.

Survivor-centred assistance and investigations

• In coordination with the Chief of Child Protection, support UNICEF’s prompt roll-out of the UN Victims’ Assistance Protocol to ensure that survivors of SEA can access assistance and support, and that UNICEF is well-positioned to support any child survivors, as the provider of last resort.
• Provide technical support and capacity development on the UN Victims’ Assistance Protocol, survivor-centred approach, and child sensitive investigations, including with UNICEF partners, the inter-agency PSEA response and related actors.
• In coordination with the Chief of Child Protection and GBV Specialist, review and monitor the effectiveness of GBV/CP referral pathways and support the scale-up of GBV/CP services to fill any gaps within the response; monitor the quality of assistance and follow up provided to survivors by UNICEF partners.

4. Inter-agency PSEA response, advocacy and partnership building

• Represent UNICEF and provide technical leadership in the interagency fora on PSEA; contribute actively in the PSEA network/taskforce (or similar) coordination meetings to help advance interagency PSEA results in line with the HCT/UNCT PSEA Action Plan.
• Support appropriate reporting and response of SEA allegations by the interagency PSEA network/taskforce, including development and implementation of effective, safe, and accessible interagency reporting mechanism for SEA and development of joint interagency SOPs in relation to receipt and referral of SEA allegations and concerns.
• Support the HCT/UNCT and PSEA network/taskforce to roll out the UN Victims’ Assistance Protocol.

5. Innovation and knowledge management

• Develop programme knowledge acquisition through systematic collection of country programme experience (lessons learned, best practices, reviews, evaluations) in the area of PSEA, including a key focus on the best practices;
• Promote critical thinking and innovative approaches on PSEA, keeping abreast of current research and introducing and implementing cutting edge practices on reporting (e.g. U-report, Primero), victim/survivor assistance and protection, accountability and prevention. Work to institutionalize and disseminate best practices and knowledge learned, including in humanitarian emergency settings.

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

• An advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: international development, human rights, psychology, sociology, international law, or another relevant social science field. *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 eight (8) years progressively responsible professional experience in programme design, planning, implementation and management relevant to child protection, GBV, PSEA or related field, preferably with the UN and/or international NGO.
• Experience working in multiple humanitarian and/or development contexts on implementing PSEA or protection related programming for children or adults.

• Familiarity with the latest developments in PSEA, inter-agency PSEA responses and humanitarian cluster systems and understanding of the intersections of PSEA with other technical areas (eg. GBV, Child Protection, AAP, etc)

• Experience with training and capacity building in PSEA or relevant technical areas

• Excellent communication, facilitation, training, networking and advocacy skills.

• Proven ability to work independently under difficult conditions and exercise sound judgement in high-pressure situations.

• Demonstrated ability to work in a multicultural environment and establish harmonious and effective working relationships, both within and outside the organization.

• Fluency in French and English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: https://uni.cf/UNICEFValues

UNICEF competencies required for this post are...

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness(3)Drive to achieve results for impact(4)Innovates and embraces change(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity(6)Thinks and acts strategically(7)Works collaboratively with others (8) Nurtures, leads and manages people.

During the recruitment process, we test candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels: competency framework 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. We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements. 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 is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. 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:

UNICEF’s active commitment towards diversity and inclusion is critical to deliver the best results for children. For this position, eligible and suitable female candidates are encouraged to apply.

Priority will be given to all the eligible candidates participating in 2022 Mobility Exercise and Staff on Abolished post.

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

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