National Individual contractor to serve as site manager for the multi-disciplinary ‘one-stop centers’ for child survivors of violence

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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!

The Ministry of Health and Social Protection is aiming to strengthen the prevention and response to child sexual violence, by modeling integrated and multi-disciplinary ‘one-stop’ services tailored to child survivors of sexual violence and other types of severe violence as well as developing referral, professional and case management procedures, and capacities for these cases.

The recently updated national legal framework and the ratified international conventions create the legal space for a holistic and multidisciplinary approach to child abuse and provide the legislative grounds for setting up a specialized interdisciplinary service where the intervention of the different agencies is coordinated around the child victim of sexual abuse or other severe forms of violence. Notably, the juvenile justice code aims to avoid the re-victimization of the child victim of sexual abuse, or any other type of abuse and it introduces the possibility for the court to accept the testimony of the child victim through audio-visual technologies, to avoid the presence of the child in the courtroom. The law on social care services introduces the opportunity to establish specialized social services, while the legislation on child protection recognized the multidisciplinary method of working for cases of children in situations of abuse, violence, neglect, and exploitation, including those children’s victims of sexual violence.

The Ministry of Health and Social Protection, acknowledging the gaps and the need to have such services tailored to children (victims of severe forms of violence) requested UNICEF’s support in the establishment of two such centers in Fieri and Shkodra Regional Hospitals. The centers (“One Stop Center” hereafter) will provide immediate integrated and multi-sectoral professional response 24/7.

Both “One-Stop Centers” embedded in the premises of Shkodra, and Fieri Regional Hospitals will start the gradual provision of services in accordance with the newly approved Model of Services and respective Standard Operating Procedures. Despite relying on the existing statutory workforce available in the hospitals (on call) the two centres must be managed daily, and for this reason, the Ministry of Health and Social Protection asked for UNICEF’s support with the recruitment of the two site managers (coordinators) for at least one year period.

How can you make a difference?

The coordinator is a permanent employee of the service, covering mainly a managerial and administrative role. The coordinator will report to the Child Protection Specialist and cover the following non-exhaustive list of tasks:

  • The coordinator is responsible for overseeing and managing the service’s daily operation, interagency collaboration and coordination and the financial situation of the service.
  • Oversees that center's security complies with all rules and regulations and safety procedures.
  • Manages incoming calls and walk-ins and completes necessary documentation.
  • In close cooperation with the Case-Manager assesses immediate crisis needs of children and addresses appropriately.
  • Provides appropriate follow-up and documentation of emergency incidents or non-compliance of rules.
  • Coordinates relations with external partners that are involved in the interagency collaboration and come to practice in the service, including child protection, medical and mental services, law enforcement (specifically police, prosecutor, judge, Local Government Units, Child Protection Units, with Local Coordinator against Domestic Violence at Municipal' level).
  • Arranges and coordinates the multidisciplinary team meetings of the center and the Technical Interdisciplinary Group Level including the meetings with Multidisciplinary Technical Team of the Coordinated Referral Mechanisms, when needed.
  • Acts as a contact for matters relating to child safeguarding, as the designated child safeguarding officer in the service.
  • Ensures that statistics are collected based on approved and unified data-collection tools and are made available to relevant actors, including periodical reporting to the MoHSP and to the State Agency for the Protection of Children's Rights.
  • Provides information and liaises with relevant State Agencies, local authorities, NGOs, professional networks ect.

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

Education:

  • University degree in human rights, humanities, psychology, sociology, international law or other social science fields, etc.

Knowledge and Personal qualifications:

  • Have a strong child perspective and ability to communicate with children and adolescents and their caregivers.
  • Well-developed coordinator skills.
  • Very good organizational abilities.
  • An ability to pursue issues and activities from a holistic perspective.
  • Documented experience of having worked and collaborated with national and local authorities.
  • Great communication and collaborative skills, experience, and willingness to collaborate, invite to dialogue, create a participatory environment, show flexibility, and encourage creativity and innovative solutions.
  • An ability to lead large meetings.
  • Experience of working in services serving children at risk of violence, abuse, neglect
  • Excellent oral and written communication skill
  • Excellent team leader skills, an ability to work independently
  • Experience of having worked in collaboration between authorities
  • Knowledge of violence in close relationship and its consequences and experience of working with victims of violence and perpetrators
  • Experience of working with children who have been subjected to violence as an executive social secretary in the social child and youth care and/or in treatment work
  • The ability to write clearly and well structured, but also to have the ability to adapt your textx based on the intended target group is a pre-requisite for the work
  • An ability to handle stress and work in difficult and pressured situations

Work Experience

At least 3 years of practicing experience as a social worker/legal counselor providing services to vulnerable and sexual/domestic violence victims

What to submit

- updated CV

  • monthly offer in ALL (inclusive of all taxes)

If you have any question please contact Elvana Pernaska at epernaska@unicef.org

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 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:

Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.

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. The candidate may also be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid).

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