Chief of Child Protection -P5, Rapid Response at UNICEF

The UNICEF Country Office is scaling up its Child Protection component in response to the emergency and technical management is required.  Oversight to ensure adherence to the CCCs for Humanitarian Action by the country office is a critical function during an emergency response.   

Key activities & duties

• Manage the Child protection regular programme and the emergency response, including all human, financial and material resources.  
• Lead the development of strategies and mechanisms to scale up the child protection response to the emergency, and enable their implementation, including potential reallocation of resources and staff capacities. 
• Manage technical support and capacity-building on child protection to the UNICEF country office and key child protection partners, including government, to scale up the emergency components of the child protection programme. 
• Ensure appropriate management.  
• Provide leadership for the establishment or strengthening of coordination structures and networking mechanisms for agencies in the child protection sector implementing major programmes in response to the emergency. 
• Monitor the trends and emerging evidence of child protection concerns and the response by Government, and analyse this information to advise on the child protection response.  
• Cultivate opportunities to work with other sectors to strengthen overall protections for children and women by integrating protection activities within their emergency response programmes. 
• Represent UNICEF Child Protection in meetings and fora, as required.  
• Increase access to financial resources available for the child protection emergency response through established humanitarian funding mechanisms, and by pursuing new opportunities, as required.  
• Raise awareness on child protection concerns and UNICEF’s response thereto through relevant humanitarian, media and communication outlets, as appropriate.   
• Ensure that child protection concerns and UNICEF’s response thereto are reflected in all UNICEF, inter-agency and government planning and reporting processes.  

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

Education-

• Advanced university degree in social work, international relations, law, child psychology, or other relevant field. 

Work Experience- 

• A minimum of 10 of experience with the UN and/or NGOs, including experience managing a child protection programme in natural disaster and/or armed conflict contexts. 
• Knowledge of UNICEF’s core commitments to children in humanitarian action as well as the humanitarian cluster approach, particularly the child protection working group (sub-cluster), gender-based violence area of responsibility, and protection cluster. 

Language Requirement:- 

• Fluency in verbal and written English and/or French (depending on the country office's official language). Knowledge of another UN language or a local language is an asset.
• Good written and spoken skills in the language of the humanitarian operation.

Deadline: 14 Mar 2023