National Consultant To Provide Technical Assistance for the Directorate Of Children's Affairs, Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Welfare, Banjul, The Gambia, 6months

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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

In the past decade, The Gambia has put a lot of efforts in the advancement of children rights and in the promotion of child protection. In 2015, the Government of the Gambia developed a National Strategy for Child Protection (2016-2020) and a costed plan of action to guide its implementation (2016-2018). In January 2019, a new Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Welfare (MoGCSW) was formally established to address issues related to children affairs, as well as strengthening their gender empowerment programming. By all indications, The Gambia government is committed to respect, promote, and fulfill children rights and to ensure that all children in The Gambia receive comprehensive protection that contributes to the achievement of their full potential. Since its inception and despite support provided by UNICEF to establish a strategic framework for programming, learning and resource allocation, the Ministry has been struggling to play its essential role of coordination and advocacy lead for issues related to children. In addition, the Ministry receives very little funding from the central level, reducing its capacity in human resources and even more in taking the lead of the child protection in the country. All activities are funded by ONG and International Organizations with links to their own management and to donors. This situation highly affects the Ministry’s capacities in the implementation and reporting of programs with UNICEF, leading sometimes with activities not implemented in time, causing lack of results attainment for children and aged DCTs affecting the image of the organization.

In order to support the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Welfare, particularly the directorate of children Affairs to strengthen capacities in delivering results for children and in following up work plan with UNICEF, the Ministry of gender Children &Social Welfare, a technical assistant will be provided and placed directly with the Directorate of children Affairs at the Ministry while responding directly to UNICEF

How can you make a difference?

Objective: To support the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Welfare, particularly the directorate of children Affairs to strengthen capacities in delivering results for children and following up of work plan with UNICEF

In particular,

1. Support the Case Management System implementation

2. Coordinate the Mapping of all the Child Protection Stakeholders

3. Provide technical assistance in the execution of monitoring and coordination activities

4. Establish and maintain contacts with the regional Social Workers to support delivery of their indicators including contacts with the Community Child Protection Committees, interventions in communities and schools and the reporting of data

5. Support to follow donors’ administrative procedure (in particular UNICEF’s forms and procedures)

6. Support the preparation of progress reports on UNICEF activities

Expected Deliverables

The Consultant will work under the joint supervision of the Child protection Specialist and the Directors of Children Affairs and Gender Equality. The expected key deliverables are as follows:

1.A coordination system established and functional for the implementation of the case management system in collaboration with the regional Social Workers to implementing the case management system, including the use of the SOP and the reporting of cases

2. Production of an updated mapping of child protection stakeholders

3. A plan of monitoring established in collaboration with the Ministry to conduct monthly supervision of activities supported by UNICEF

4. All UNICEF activities implemented in time with timely reporting and justifications

5. A monthly report upon which payment will be based

S****cope of the work

The Technical Assistant will be at the Ministry of gender, Children and Social Welfare every working day during working hours and will be allocated an office space. He/she will have regular weekly update with the Child protection Specialist in charge of his supervision.

General Conditions: Procedures, Logistics, and Ethics

It is an office-based assignment. The Consultant will be provided an office space at the Ministry of Gender, Children, and Social Welfare in The Gambia. During the first week, the Ministry of Gender, Children will introduce the Consultant to the relevant stakeholders. The Consultant is held by strict confidentiality rule regarding all aspect of his/her work with the Ministry and UNICEF. Attached is the TOR TOR.pdf

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

  • A Bachelor’s degree in the Social Sciences with at least 2 years work experience in the field of child protection.
  • In-depth knowledge and experience in organizational management and monitoring process
  • Familiarity with National, Regional and International policies, laws and conventions/ instruments promoting the welfare and rights of women, children and the socially deprived.
  • Excellent analytical and writing skills in English

For every Child, you demonstrate…

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

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

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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