Contract type: Temporary Appointment, Consultant
Level: P-4
Location: Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Comoros, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), United Republic of Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mauritius, Seychelles
Categories: Child Protection, Emergency
Seeking external candidates only
Contract Type: Temporary Appointment (TA) or Consultancy
Duration: 3 months to 364 days
Location: Countries based in Eastern and Southern Africa
Job Description
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
Since two years, countries in the ESA region have experienced an alarming increase in the number of new, or re-emerging humanitarian emergencies, including public health (including Ebola, Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever, yellow fever, wild poliovirus, and Cholera), armed conflicts and natural disasters emergencies.
UNICEF ESAR has prioritized the critical need to support countries to rapidly scale up capacity to prevent, mitigate, and manage ongoing and anticipated emergencies as well as to enhance capacity for preparedness and response to these emergencies.
Purpose
The purpose of this external announcement is to attract suitable Child Protection Specialist (Violence against Children in Emergencies & Gender-Based Violence)candidates interested in working in any of the countries within UNICEF’s East and Southern Africa region to respond to emergencies for the next 36 months.
The countries within each region are listed on the following website: http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/index.html.
How can you make a difference?
As part of UNICEF’s Core Commitment for Children in Humanitarian Action, the Country Office is expected to provide leadership and support GBV coordination structures and address violence against children, including GBV, from a programming perspective. To fulfill this function, the UNICEF Child Protection Specialist on Violence against Children, will provide technical assistance to UNICEF on prevention of and response to violence, including GBV in emergencies, to strengthen programming and coordination efforts in affected areas.
Key activities & duties
- Work with the child protection section and other UNICEF sectors to ensure violence prevention and response, with specific attention to GBV, is adequately addressed across sectors and humanitarian interventions to implement risk mitigation measures to better protect women and children.
- Advise on any violence-related issues, especially GBV, that require immediate action and advocacy, provide technical support UNICEF programming strategy, advocacy and policy documents to address violence against children, especially GBV (e.g. ensuring distribution of supplies such as dignity kits).
- Facilitate the inclusion of the issue of violence against children/ GBV, into humanitarian appeal processes and documents.
- As needed, conduct assessments and/or consolidate existing information on the situation of violence against women and children, including GBV.
- Provide technical assistance on program design to ensure that there are multi-sectoral integrated programmes to address violence against women and children, including GBV, for emergency affected areas.
- Work in close collaboration with key partners to strengthen programming for adolescent girls (e.g. adolescent specific, age and sex-separated areas in Child Friendly Spaces).
- Develop new or adapt existing training materials to the local context and implement trainings as needed.
- Create linkages between violence against children, GBV and CP working groups to promote comprehensive care for both children and adults survivors.
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
Education-
- Advanced university degree in social sciences, including social work or child psychology, or other relevant field.
Work Experience-
- A minimum of 5-8 years of professional experience with the UN and/or international and national NGO.
- Good understanding and knowledge of child protection, with a particular focus on violence against children, including GBV, and experience working in emergency settings.
Language Requirement:-
- Fluency in verbal and written English and/or French (depending on the country office’s official language). Good written and spoken skills in the language of the humanitarian operation and knowledge of another UN language or a local language is an asset
For every Child, you demonstrate…
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and 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…
- Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (1)
- Works Collaboratively with others (1)
- Builds and Maintains Partnerships (1)
- Innovates and Embraces Change (1)
- Thinks and Acts Strategically (1)
- Drive to achieve impactful results (1)
- Manages ambiguity and complexity(1)
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.
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:
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station, which will be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions.
Appointments are also 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.
Deadline: E. Africa Standard Time