Child Protection Officer, (NOA), Sao Tome (only national of Sao Tome)

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For Each Little one, a champion

Sao Tome and Principe has ratified the important thing worldwide devices for the safety and promotion of kid rights, together with the Conference of the Rights of the Little one (CRC), and the conference of the Worst Types of Little one Labor and the Minimal work Agee. Nonetheless, key deprivations concerning little one safety proceed to be confronted by kids in STP, referring to violent self-discipline, gender-based violence and sexual abuse of kids, household separation, early unions and early being pregnant, and little one labour. In recent times, essential steps have been taken to determine the normative and institutional mechanisms to deal with these deprivations, which UNICEF has been supporting.

UNICEF Sao Tome & Principe is seeking to fill a place of TA Little one Safety Officer NOA stage.

How are you going to make a distinction?

The Little one Safety Officer NOA experiences to the Little one Safety Officer NOB for shut steerage and supervision. Stage 1 is an entry skilled stage and may subsequently be usually used as a trainee stage for the aim of buying organizational data of guidelines, laws, and processes to complement tutorial and theoretical data of the career for upward mobility to larger tasks. Incumbents at this stage will not be anticipated to stay for an prolonged time period within the submit.

The Little one Safety Officer supplies skilled technical, operational and administrative help all through the programming course of for the kid safety programmes/initiatives by the appliance of theoretical and technical abilities in researching, gathering, analyzing, and presenting technical programme info whereas studying organizational guidelines, laws and procedures to help the event and formulation of the Little one Safety Programme inside the Nation Programme.

As a champion for kids, you should have the next duties/duties:

1. Help to programme improvement and planning
2. Programme administration, monitoring and supply of outcomes
3. Technical and operational help to programme implementation
4. Networking and partnership constructing
5. Innovation, data administration and capability constructing

1. Help to programme improvement and planning

• Analysis and analyze regional and nationwide political, safety, social and financial improvement developments. Accumulate, analyze, confirm, and synthesize info to facilitate programme improvement, design and preparation.
• Put together technical experiences and inputs for programme preparation and documentation, making certain accuracy, timeliness and relevancy of knowledge.
• Facilitate the event and institution of sectoral programme targets, aims, methods, and results-based planning by analysis, assortment, evaluation and reporting of kid safety programmes and different associated info for improvement planning and precedence and objective setting.
• Present technical and administrative help all through all phases of programming processes by executing and administering quite a lot of technical programme transactions, making ready supplies and documentations, and complying with organizational processes and administration programs, to help programme planning, results-based planning (RBM) and monitoring and analysis of outcomes.

• Put together required documentations and supplies to facilitate the programme assessment and approval course of.

2.Programme administration, monitoring and supply of outcomes.

 Work carefully and collaboratively with colleagues and companions to gather, analyze and share info on implementation points, recommend options on routine programme implementation and to submit experiences to alert applicable officers and stakeholders for higher-level intervention and/or choices. Hold report of experiences and assessments for straightforward reference and/or to seize and institutionalize classes realized.

Take part in monitoring and analysis workouts, programme evaluations and annual sectoral evaluations with the federal government and different counterparts, and put together minutes/experiences on outcomes for observe up motion by larger administration and different stakeholders.

 Monitor and report on the usage of sectoral programme sources (monetary, administrative and different belongings), verifying compliance with permitted allocation, targets, organizational guidelines, laws, procedures, donor commitments, and requirements of accountability and integrity.

 Report on points recognized to make sure well timed decision by administration and stakeholders. Comply with up on unresolved points to make sure decision.

Put together inputs for programme and donor reporting.

3.Technical and operational help to programme implementation

 Undertake discipline visits and surveys, and gather and share experiences with companions and stakeholders.

 Assess progress and supply technical help and/or discuss with related officers for decision.

 Report on important points, bottlenecks and potential issues for well timed motion to realize outcomes.

 Present technical and operational help to authorities counterparts, NGO companions, UN system companions and different nation workplace companions/donors on the appliance and understanding of UNICEF insurance policies, methods, processes and greatest practices in little one safety, to help programme implementation.

 4.Networking and partnership constructing

 Construct and maintain shut working partnerships with authorities counterparts and nationwide stakeholders by energetic sharing of knowledge and data to facilitate programme implementation and construct capability of stakeholders to realize and maintain outcomes on little one safety.

• Take part in inter-agency conferences/occasions on programming to collaborate with inter-agency companions/colleagues on UNSDCF operational planning and preparation of kid safety programmes/initiatives, and to combine and harmonize UNICEF’s place and techniques with UNDAF improvement and planning processes.
• Analysis info on potential donors and put together useful resource mobilization supplies and briefs for fund elevating and partnership improvement functions.

• Draft communication and data supplies for CO programme advocacy to advertise consciousness, set up partnership/alliances and help fund elevating for little one safety programmes.

5.Innovation, data administration and capability constructing

• Determine, seize, synthesize, and share classes realized for data improvement and to construct the capability of stakeholders.
• Apply revolutionary approaches and promote good practices to help the implementation and supply of concrete and sustainable programme outcomes.

• Analysis, benchmark and report on greatest and leading edge practices for improvement planning of data merchandise and programs.
• Take part as a useful resource particular person in capability constructing initiatives to boost the competencies of purchasers and stakeholders.

Influence of Outcomes

The effectivity and efficacy of help offered by the Little one Safety Officer to programme preparation, planning and implementation, contributes to the achievement of sustainable outcomes to create a protecting setting for kids towards hurt and all types of violence, and ensures their survival, improvement and effectively being in society. Success in little one safety programmes and initiatives in flip contributes to sustaining and enhancing the credibility and skill of UNICEF to supply programme companies for moms and youngsters that promotes higher social equality within the nation.

 To qualify as a champion for each little one you should have…

• A college diploma in one of many following fields is required: worldwide improvement, human rights, psychology, sociology, worldwide legislation, or one other related social science discipline.
• A minimal of 1 12 months {of professional} expertise in social improvement planning and administration in little one safety associated areas is required.
• Expertise working in a growing nation is taken into account as an asset..

Language Proficiency

• Fluency in Portuguese and dealing data of English or French is required. Working data of a further UN language is taken into account is as an asset.

For each Little one, you reveal…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin every thing we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Constitution: UNICEF Values

 UNICEF competencies required for this submit are:

• Demonstrates Self Consciousness and Moral Consciousness (1)
• Works Collaboratively with others (1)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (1)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (1)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (1)
• Drive to realize impactful outcomes (1)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (1)

View our competency framework at http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/UNICEF_Competencies.pdf

This can be a Nationwide Officer place solely nationwide of the nation are eligible to use.

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Remarks:

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Solely shortlisted candidates will likely be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of.