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  • Posted: Mar 8, 2023
    Deadline: Mar 22, 2023
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    UNICEF is the world’s largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, ...
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    Programme Specialist (Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse), P4

    How can you make a difference?

    The Programme Specialist (PSEA) will be responsible for supporting the country-wide implementation of PSEA, including strategic and technical support to UNICEF Field Offices. This includes working closely with the child protection and gender advisor, as well as across programme sections, to support the acceleration of PSEA around core programmatic priorities, including safe and accessible reporting, survivor-centered assistance (in collaboration with the GBViE Specialist) and accountability, as elements of an overall preventative approach.

    Internal capacity building and technical support

    • Provide leadership, technical support, and monitoring for the implementation of the UNICEF Kenya Country Office PSEA Strategy & Action Plan, including implementation at the provincial level.
    • Deliver PSEA training for UNICEF staff, consultants, volunteers, and implementing partners, in line with the PSEA Training Plan.
    • Build the capacity of selected UNICEF staff to replicate PSEA training and awareness-raising efforts.
    • Support knowledge management efforts on PSEA, including a repository of tools, documentation of promising practices, etc...
    • Together with the SBC team, and in liaison with the PSEA Network, develop awareness-raising materials for UNICEF office and partners, including leaflets and posters for UNICEF offices and UNICEF partners’ offices including communities.
    • Develop an internal tracking tool to ensure regular and consistent monitoring of SEA cases and case management of child victims’ assistance.
    • Supporting the Kenya CO to institutionalize PSEA efforts within their programmes, monitoring, and facilities (e.g., HACT, supply section, programme component teams, etc.)
    • Support Kenya CO, in collaboration with the SBC section, to expand/strengthen communities’ access to safe and accessible reporting channels across programmes/sections.
    • In collaboration with UNICEF sections, support partners to ensure PSEA policies and structures are aligned with standards and requirements as per UNICEF PSEA Implementing Partners Procedures and the UN Protocol.
    • Assist the Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation section for the implementation of the new UN Common IP PSEA Assessment tool as required.

    Inter-agency response to SEA and PSEA Network coordination

    Represent UNICEF in the inter-agency PSEA Network, including support to UNICEF’s contributions on the Steering Committee as appropriate and delegated by the Representative.  Support UNICEF to actively engage in the PSEA network at the provincial level and promote the implementation of the national Kenya HCT Strategy on PSEA.  Work with relevant stakeholders to take forward the inter-agency PSEA Network action plan, including: 

    • Finalization, endorsement, and system-wide implementation of the PSEA Network Standard Operating Procedures/ information-sharing protocol across network members, at national and provincial levels
    • Develop and implement safe and accessible reporting channels SEA, both for humanitarian workers and community-based mechanisms that are gender and age sensitive, including promoting a coherent approach across all existing mechanisms
    • Community-Based Complaints Mechanism on SEA, building upon existing community-based complaint mechanisms as relevant. Develop 1) breach and sensitization on SEA in communities; and 2) training of PSEA focal points. Suggestion to dissociate as needs are
    • Ensure systems procedures for inter-agency referrals are nonfunctional effective, including accountability mechanisms and development of joint interagency responses about risks and concerns
    • Support to PSEA risk assessment as per HCT PSEA Action Plan
    • Support the rollout of the UN Victims Assistance Protocol.

    Support Appropriate Reporting and Response to SEA allegations

    • Support the internal rollout and implementation of UNICEF SEA reporting procedures
    • Develop and implement, in collaboration with Social Behavior Change and Child Protection teams, safe and accessible reporting channels for SEA, both for humanitarian workers and community-based mechanisms that are gender and age sensitive, including promoting a coherent approach across all existing mechanisms. For humanitarian settings it is situated in the Accountability to Affected Population framework:
    • Work with UNICEF Child Protection and GBViE Specialists to integrate SEA reporting channels within existing community-based mechanisms and services, in a manner that is gender and child-sensitive and that links to GBV referral pathways; this should include the training of community PSEA focal points and outreach and sensitization on PSEA with communities
    • Work across all UNICEF programme sectors to ensure that information about how to report SEA is accessible to children and women
    • Provide technical support to partners to strengthen internal reporting procedures
    • Once a complaint is received:
    • Ensure that all information about complaints is handled and referred strictly in line with agreed protocols: the internal UNICEF Notification Alert and inter-agency PSEA task force standard operating procedures (under finalization)
    • Immediately refer survivors to appropriate service providers so that they receive the medical, psychosocial, legal, and any other assistance support they may need, in line with the UN Victims’ Assistance Protocol

    Prevention

    • Collaborate and coordinate with partners and UNICEF sections to ensure sensitization activities on SEA are implemented across communities, and establish systems to track and monitor implementation
    • Collaborate and coordinate with partners and UNICEF sections to ensure systematic SEA risk assessment is conducted and findings are reflected and included in programme implementation

    Survivor assistance

    In coordination with the Chief Child Protection

    • Ensure that survivors of SEA access assistance and support
    • Monitor the quality of assistance and follow-up provided to victims of SEA by UNICEF partners
    • Review functionality and effectiveness of GBV and CP referral pathways – internal and interagency – and contribute to advocacy, in coordination with the GBV Specialist, to strengthen access to services for survivors.

    To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have

    • An advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: international development, human rights, psychology, sociology, international law, or another relevant social science field
    • A minimum of 8 years of professional experience in design, implementation, and management of protection or GBV programming, PSEA, and child safeguarding, preferably with the UN and/or international NGO.
    • Experience working in humanitarian contexts. Familiarity with the latest development in PSEA, inter-agency PSEA responses, and humanitarian cluster systems.
    • Excellent communication skills. Proven ability to work independently under difficult conditions. Excellent facilitation, training, networking, and advocacy skills. Demonstrated ability to work in a multicultural environment and establish harmonious and effective working relationships, both within and outside the organization.
    • Fluency in English

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to UNICEF on jobs.unicef.org to apply

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