Vacancy Announcement: Child Protection Specialist (Gender-Based Violence), P-3, Fixed-Term, Sana'a, Yemen

Overview

Provide key functions to support child protection initiatives.

You have:

• Advanced university degree in social sciences, law, or relevant field.
• Five years of professional work experience at national and international levels in child protection.
• Fluency in English is required.
• Arabic is highly desired.
• Knowledge of another UN language is considered an asset.

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 90,997 USD and 119,154 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, Protection.

In the 1970s UNICEF established presence in Yemen to respond to the urgent needs of children in the poorest country in the Middle East. In 1991, Yemen ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child and it was enacted immediately. Since then the country has been making steady progress for children until it plunged into a brutal conflict in 2015 but even before that, Yemen needed large amounts of humanitarian assistance.

In collaboration with local authorities, non-governmental organizations and community partners, UNICEF is working in all the governorates in Yemen to respond to the needs of children throughout the country with a continuum of services to help children survive and grow to their full potential through the following programmes: Health,* *Nutrition, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene,* *Basic Education, and *Child protection**.*

For more on our work in Yemen, please visit our website: https://www.unicef.org/yemen/

How can you make a difference?

To make a difference, the Child Protection Specialist will perform the following key functions\accountabilities:

• Programme Planning, Development and Management.
• Promotion of UNICEF’s Global Goals
• Knowledge Management.
• Rights-Based and Results-Based Approach.
• Sectoral Work Plan Development, Implementation, and Monitoring.
• Programme Delivery, Evaluation and Reporting.
• UNICEF and Government Accountability.
• Communication, Collaboration, Networking and Partnership.

For more details on the Job Profile, hold CTRL & double-click: GJP Child Protect Specialist L3 updated.doc

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

Education:

Advanced university degree, preferably in the social sciences, law or another relevant 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.

Work Experience:

Five years of professional work experience at national and international levels in child protection, including international work experience for IP and additional experience in gender based violence.

Language: Fluency in English is required. Arabic is highly desired. Knowledge of another UN language is considered an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

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.

View our competency framework at http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/UNICEF_Competencies.pdf

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.

Female candidates and/or industrial candidates are especially encouraged to apply and please take a look at some of our entitlements for our female staff members: Female Entitlements Edited2.jpg

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. A diverse and inclusive workforce is part of UNICEF’s DNA | UNICEF Careers, irrespective of their race\ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

We offer a Compensation, benefits and wellbeing | UNICEF Careers including parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and UNICEF provides reasonable accommodation for job candidates and personnel with disabilities | UNICEF Careers, UNCIEF 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, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles”.

Remarks:

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

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Appointments may also be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Government employees that are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.

Emergency recruitment: Please note that this is a non-family duty station, currently classified as “E”. The successful candidate for this emergency recruitment MUST be available to commence work within 31 days of receiving an offer.

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