UN Child Protection Officer Job Opportunities – United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Job Title: Child Protection Officer
Organization: United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Programme Specialist (Health)
Grade: P2
NB: This job is open to Belgian nationals only
About US:
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is mandated by the UN general assembly to advocate for the protection of children’s rights, to help meet their basic needs and expand their opportunities to reach their full potential. Together with our partners, we work in 190 countries and territories to translate that commitment into practical action, focusing special effort on reaching the most vulnerable and excluded children, to the benefit of all children, everywhere.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Supporting Programme Development & Planning
- Contribute to Situation Analysis for the child protection sector for development, design and management of child protection systems strengthening programs in Uganda, including for refugee affected children, especially related to justice for children and social welfare workforce strengthening to identify critical programme intervention points, identify measures, prepare programme work plans, make recommendations and prepare reports
- Contribute to the development of child protection program goals, objectives and strategies and results-based planning (RBM) through research, collection, analysis and reporting of child protection, including social welfare, justice for children, needs of refugee and other emergency affected children and other related information for development planning and priority and goal setting
- Provide technical and operational support throughout all stages of programming processes and prepare required documentation to facilitate programme review and approval
- Programme Management, Monitoring and Delivery of Results
- Work closely and collaboratively with stakeholder and partners to discuss operational and programme implementation issues, provide solutions and recommendations and capture and institutionalize important lessons learned
- Participate in monitoring and evaluation exercises, programme reviews and annual reviews with governments and other counterparts to assess and report on necessary interventions
- Monitor and report on sectoral programme resources (financial, administrative and other) and prepare sectoral programme reports for management, donors and partners
Technical & Operational Support to Programme Implementation
- Undertake field visits to monitor and assess programme implementation and decide on required corrective action
- Provide technical and operational support to all external partners on UNICEF’s policies and strategies to support efficient programme implementation
Networking & Partnership Building
- Build and maintain effective partnerships with government counterparts and national stakeholders through active knowledge sharing and capacity building to achieve and sustain results on child protection
- Develop advocacy materials to raise awareness for child protection programmes and also support fundraising
- Participate in appropriate inter-agency meetings to collaborate with interagency partners and colleagues on UNDAF operational planning and harmonize UNICEF’s policies and strategies in UNDAF development & planning process
- Research information on potential donors and prepare resource mobilization materials and briefs for fund raising and partnership development purposes
Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building
- Identify, capture, synthesize and share lessons learned for knowledge development and to build the capacity of stakeholders
- Apply innovative approaches and promote good practice to support the implementation and delivery of concrete and sustainable program results
- Research and report on best practices for development planning of knowledge products and systems, including on the inclusion of refugee and other emergency affected children in government protection system strengthening interventions
- Participate as resource person in capacity building initiatives to enhance the competencies of clients/stakeholders on child protection
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate for the United Nations UNICEF Child Protection Officer job opportunity should be a Belgian nationality.
- Have a Master level degree in international development, human rights, psychology, sociology, international law or other social science field.
- Have at least 2 years of relevant work experience in social development planning and management in child protection/justice for children and/other related areas at the international level and/or in a developing country.
- Relevant experience in child protection and related areas, programme/project development and management in a UN system agency or organization is an asset.
- Experience in both development and humanitarian contexts is an added advantage.
- Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language or a local language is an asset.
- Be no older than 32 years of age as of 31 December of the year of application.
- Interpersonal skills, capacity to work with different personalities to deliver on shared results
- Drive for results, setting high standards for the quality of work
- Capacity to think outside of the box and drive innovation
- Strong communication skills, fluently and confidently gathering and expressing and writing opinions and information
- Ability to analyze various sources of information and make rational judgements
- Ability to build effective relationships with a wide range of partners both internal and external and establish networks
- Ability to work strategically to realize UNICEF’s goals
- Ability to effectively promote ideas and recommendations on behalf of self as well as others/team
- A high level of proficiency in planning and organizing to deliver results on time
- Ability to identify issues, conduct rigorous research, and make conclusions and recommendations
- UNICEF’s core values: Commitment, Diversity and Inclusion, Integrity and proven understanding and sensitivity to cultural nuances
NB: The United Nations does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (Application, interview meeting, processing, or training). The United Nations does not concern itself with information on applicants’ bank accounts.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates desiring to serve the United Nations in the aforementioned capacity should express their interest by visiting the UN recruitment website and clicking Apply Now.
Deadline: 28th November 2019