Child Protection Officer

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Description

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• Technical support to Government institutions to regularly generate data and evidence using existing digital systems, such as Primero and CPIMS to inform programming and advocacy.
• Coordinate evidence generation initiatives for the child protection programme
• Support the internal data monitoring and reporting processes for the section, including through coordination and quality assurance

• Collate and analyze administrative data on child protection and maintain a statistical overview of priority indicators and trends
• Prepare periodic analytical reports on progress being made to inform policy, advocacy and programming and support utilization data and evidence for policy advocacy, including through development of policy briefs and developing partnerships with key Ministries and NGOs to advocate for policy reforms
• Liaise with the social policy team of UNICEF to use data and evidence to reform public policy for children, focusing on budgeting for child protection
• Provide technical oversight to Government to operationalize Primero digital case management system, including through capacity building
• Support Government and NGOs, to coordinate through interoperability and improve referral processes across different case management system

• In collaboration with relevant output managers, technical child protection officers, and with the research and evaluation manager, coordinate the evidence generation initiatives (e.g. surveys, evaluation, studies, etc) of the child protection programme, with focus on strengthening new data and evidence that can inform UNICEF strategies in the next country program;
• Collaborate with other sections to analyse linkages between CP outcomes and other child rights related indicators (e.g. data on violence in schools, data on health outcomes linked to harmful practices) and feed data and analysis into the child protection program strategies, and UNICEF cross-sectoral priorities.
• In collaboration with the T4D specialist, explore the application of new technologies to fill data and evidence gaps in child protection

• Ensure timely and quality preparation of the section inputs to mid-year and end-year reporting process
• Regularly monitor and record progress against child protection program outcome and outputs indicators, identifying challenges and gaps to be addressed through programming
• Work with output managers to document best practices and human-interest stories for the child protection program
• Perform any other duty related to M&E that may arise throughout the year.

• Advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: development studies, sociology, international relations, and/or related fields,
• Relevant trainings in data science, and/or in qualitative and quantitative reach an asset.

• A minimum of two years of professional experience in child protection, case management, social policy, information/data management, advocacy, M&E are required.
• Experience working with digital case management system or digital other systems, and/or managing data through technology required.
• Experience in research and evaluation is considered an asset.
• Relevant experience in programme development in child protection related areas in a UN system agency or organization an asset.

• Fluency in English is required.  Knowledge of another official UN language or local language of the duty station is considered as an asset.

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