Child Protection Associate

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Job Description

All UNHCR staff members are accountable to perform their duties as reflected in their job description. They do so within their delegated authorities, in line with the regulatory framework of UNHCR which includes the UN Charter, UN Staff Regulations and Rules, UNHCR Policies and Administrative Instructions as well as relevant accountability frameworks. In addition, staff members are required to discharge their responsibilities in a manner consistent with the core, functional, cross-functional and managerial competencies and UNHCR’s core values of professionalism, integrity and respect for diversity.
Duties:
Needs identification, Strategy and Advocacy:

Contribute to assessing child protection issues through multi-sectoral and protection specific assessments.
Facilitate consultation with children, youth and communities to inform child protection strategy and programme activities.
Contribute to the formulation of child protection strategy and planning.
Ensure compliance with UNHCR’s child protection policy, priorities and commitments, as well as other aligned policies on age, gender, diversity (AGD) and accountability to affected populations (AAP), GBV, gender equality, disability and youth empowerment.
Support the analysis of the national systems and ensure that child protection programmes complement national child protection systems and work towards the inclusion of children of concern into national child protection laws, policies and services.
Undertake consultation with children, youth and communities and provide information on appropriate and meaningful approaches for their effective participation and programmatic responses on child protection issues.
Provide input to Protection Unit to inform advocacy to address key child protection concerns.

Programme planning and implementation:

Engage children, youth and communities in the implementation of child protection activities, provide information to children, youth and communities about child protection services and monitor and report on needs and issues to inform the Operations Response.
Conduct Best Interest Procedures for individual children at heightened risks and prepare Best Interests Determination report, when required.
Participate in the Best Interests Procedure Case Conferences and BID panels and draft associated documentation as required.
Implement child protection SOPs and ensure up to date and effective referral to key services.
Store and update child’s case file in UNHCR data bases in accordance with UNHCR standards.
Engage with children, youth and community members in identifying community-based child protection activities.
Monitor and support appropriate care arrangements for unaccompanied and separated children and referral of children to ICRC or other relevant partners for establishment of family linkages.
Regularly report on emerging protection issues and concerns voiced by children, youth and communities and assist in drafting reports, compiling and preparing data for the protection unit/section.
Provide functional guidance to UNHCR and partner staff involved in child protection activities.

Partnership, coordination and capacity building:

Assist the Child Protection interagency coordination and information management activities as needed.
Provide technical support and monitoring to child protection partners.
Assist in carrying out learning needs assessment and analysis of findings.
Support in implementing learning activities for UNHCR and partners staff and communities.
Support the identification and management of risks and seek to seize opportunities impacting objectives in the area of responsibility. Ensure decision making in risk based in the functional area of work. Raise risks, issues and concerns to a supervisor or to relevant functional colleague(s).
Perform other related duties as required.

Minimum Qualifications:

Years of Experience / Degree Level
For G6 – 3 years relevant experience with High School Diploma; or 2 years relevant work experience with Bachelor or equivalent or higher
licable.

Certificates and/or Licenses:

Law;
Social Sciences;
Community Dvpt/Social Work;
Human Rights

Relevant Job Experience:
Essential:

3 years of previous work experience relevant to the function of child protection in a local context and having experience in the field of child protection prevention and response, broader protection or social work involving empowerment of women and girls, gender, child protection, mental health, counselling and working with survivors, humanitarian and development issues. Skills and experience in interviewing and working with children and families including supervision of child protection case management.

Functional Skills:

IT-Computer Literacy
PR-Child Protection Case Management and Best Interests Procedures
PR-Child Protection Information Management System
PR-Child Protection Prevention and Response Programming

Language Requirements:

For International Professional and Field Service jobs: Knowledge of English and UN working language of the duty station if not English.
For National Professional jobs: Knowledge of English and UN working language of the duty station if not English and local language.
For General Service jobs: Knowledge of English and/or UN working language of the duty station if not English.

Source: https://unhcr.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Coxs-Bazaar-Bangladesh/Child-Protection-Associate_JR2435446

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