UN Children's Fund Careers in Ethiopia

UN Children's Fund Consultancy Careers in Ethiopia

UNICEF works in 190 countries and territories to protect the rights of every child. UNICEF has spent 70 years working to improve the lives of children and their families. Defending children's rights throughout their lives requires a global presence, aiming to produce results and understand their effects. UNICEF believes all children have a right to survive, thrive and fulfill their potential – to the benefit of a better world.

Purpose

Provide child protection in emergencies technical support and provide leadership and facilitate the processes to ensure a well-coordinated, strategic, adequate, coherent and effective preparedness and response by the regional CP and GBV Sub Cluster, including support and guidance to zonal and woreda level coordination activities.

Specific Tasks

Under the guidance and supervision of the Child Protection Specialist in UNICEF Oromia FO, and in close consultation and cooperation with the CP coordinator for the federal CP GBV Sub Cluster as well as GBV Coordinator (UNFPA, focal point for Oromia), the consultant is responsible for the following key areas:

UNICEF Child Protection in Emergencies Response Programme:

Provide technical and programmatic support for the design, implementation, monitoring and reporting of child protection in emergency programmes, child protection component of the UNICEF regional emergency response plan and ensuring that the following interventions included in the child protection priority focus areas are implemented, monitored and managed in a timely and effective manner.

Delivery of child protection response services, with a focus on delivery through multi-sectoral platforms (including education, health and nutrition and WASH)

Support the provision of psychological first aid and psychosocial support services with a focus on a package of services extending from safe spaces into the community coping mechanisms, also with a focus on psychological first aid.
BOWCA regional response plan: Provide technical support to BOWCA to finalise and implement the overall regional response plan (including the recommendations), beyond UNICEF supported communities, to implement and advocate for a minimum package of evidence-based interventions in other affected kebeles, including through partnership with NGOs. This includes ensuring that the efforts are aligned with existing government mechanisms and services to strengthen the sustainability of efforts
Resilience building and linkage with regular programming to strengthen recovery from emergencies: plan and advocate on the sustainable integration of the child protection in emergency interventions, especially the services delivered through social workers in the Government Bureaus for emergency response in to the regular programing and resilience building of communities.
Child Protection in Emergencies situation and response monitoring and reporting including regular Sit Reps: Regularly collect, analyse and report against the Ethiopia Country Office (ECO Results framework and CP/GBV monitoring framework as discussed and agreed with the office.
Reports: Ensure key reporting requirements are met and systematic coordination of appropriate responses on child protection in emergency operational response plan, with other relevant sectors, especially health, education

and WASH.
Capacity Building: Based on needs assessment, support and facilitate capacity building of humanitarian actors and front line workers on violence, referral pathways, case management, community based child protection systems, community mobilization, Child Protection Rapid Assessment, integration of child protection into other programmes (multi sectoral programming);Â and psychosocial support as per capacity building plans. Monitor and report on results of capacity building efforts.

CP GBV sub cluster coordination:

Coordinate the regional CP/GBV Sub Cluster monthly meetings and ad hoc meetings as needed, including preparing minutes and follow-up on action points.

Strengthen the capacity and leadership of the Bureau of Women and Children Affairs (BoWCA) and other relevant sub cluster partners in child protection in emergencies and sub cluster coordination, including situation and response monitoring and advocacy on child protection and GBV.

Participate in the federal level quarterly Strategic Advisory Group (SAG) meetings and ad hoc SAG meetings as needed and share findings of such meetings with the regional sub cluster members and support regular and effective communication and information exchange between the federal and Oromia regional sub cluster.

Provide the necessary support for the development and bi-annual review of the Sub Cluster work plan in collaboration with UNFPA, focal point for Oromia.

Attend and represent the regional CP and the sub cluster in:

Regional Disaster Risk management Technical Working Group meetings – to align and mainstream CP GBV interventions with other sectors;
Other ad hoc federal and regional protection cluster / humanitarian meetings as needed.

Manage the regional sub cluster information management function including monthly reporting to the 5Ws through close coordination with members at region level.

Provide monthly written inputs to the federal CP GBV sub cluster and the Field Office.

[To qualify as a/an champion or advocate for every child you will have…]

An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in a subject area relevant to Child Protection *A first University Degree in a relevant field combined with 2 additional years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an Advanced University Degree.

A minimum of 2 years progressively responsible humanitarian and development work experience in child protection and gender based violence including in emergencies with UN Agencies and/or INGOs.

Previous experience in cluster / sub-cluster coordination, preferably protection-related.
Familiarity and experience working with government counterparts

Formal training in cluster information management is an advantage.

Strong knowledge and experience in establishing coordination architecture at different levels.

Ability to train others in data / information collection, validation, data entry and analysis, monitoring and reporting is an asset.

Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset.

Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

HOW TO APPLY:
For more information and job application details, see; UN Children's Fund Consultancy Careers in Ethiopia