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The Child Protection Specialist (PSEA) will develop and support the organization’s work on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse. This includes the development of tools and technical guidance on prevention, reporting, victim/ survivor protection and assistance, advocacy, data analysis and knowledge management, and programmatic interventions to end and prevent such violations.
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The Senior Adviser Child Protection (Prevention of Harmful Practices) will be part of the Prevention of Harmful Practices Unit. Under the overall guidance and direct supervision of the Director Child Protection (Post #14333) in collaboration with the Principal Adviser Gender (Post #53111), and within the context of supporting achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, UNICEF Strategic Plan, UNICEF Gender Action Plan, and UNICEF Child Protection Strategy, the Senior Adviser Child Protection (Prevention of Harmful Practices) provides overall support to the Child Protection Section on the prevention of harmful practices (with a focus on child marriage and FGM/C). This function will serve as the Global Coordinator for the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme to Accelerate Action to End Child Marriage (for which UNICEF serves as administrative agent in the Programme Support Unit) and provides oversight and supervision of UNICEF’s inputs to the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on FGM/C.
To this end, the Senior Adviser Child Protection (Prevention of Harmful Practices) will work in close collaboration with UN agencies, including the UNFPA, WHO, UN Women, and UNICEF programme and policy sections, particularly the Gender Section but also Social Policy, Education and Health; all the targeted countries and regional offices for the Joint Programmes; donors (particularly in the steering committees); and partner advisory groups. In order to ensure that the work on prevention of harmful practices (with a focus on child marriage and FGM/C) is effectively considered and coherently integrated into appropriate work streams, the Senior Adviser Child Protection (Prevention of Harmful Practices) will work in close collaboration with UNICEF divisions, in particular the Gender Section, and other teams (units) in the Child Protection Section. This is a Nairobi-based position with frequent international travel to regional and country offices, international conferences, workshops and seminars.
Purpose of the post
The Child Protection Specialist (PSEA) will develop and support the organization’s work on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse. This includes the development of tools and technical guidance on prevention, reporting, victim/ survivor protection and assistance, advocacy, data analysis and knowledge management, and programmatic interventions to end and prevent such violations.
The Specialist contributes to the achievement of concrete and sustainable programme/project results according to plans, allocation, results based-management approaches and methodology (RBM) and UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, standards of performance and accountability framework..
How can you make a difference?
Programme development, planning and management.
Advisory services and technical support
Advocacy, networking and partnership building
Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building
Management support
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
For every Child, you demonstrate…
UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability (CRITA), and sustainability
Please click Here to view UNICEF’s core values and Here to view our competency framework.
UNICEF competencies required for this post are.
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 including everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.
We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks, and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements.
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 promoting 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.
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 may also be 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.
“UNICEF only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU) / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed at http://www.whed.net/”
For more information on remuneration and benefits, please visit UNICEF’s Entitlements’ page. If you would like to find estimates for entitlements, you may use the online Salary Estimate Calculator
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