Child Protection Specialist, FT (NO-3), Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea #72242

UNICEF works in a few of the world’s hardest locations, to achieve the world’s most deprived youngsters. To save lots of their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.

Throughout 190 international locations and territories, we work for each youngster, in every single place, daily, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means quit.

For each youngster, Safety

With over 850 indigenous languages, and one of the ethnically numerous populations, widespread poverty and gender inequality make it onerous for a lot of youngsters to comprehend their rights.  In Papua New Guinea, UNICEF’s works successfully each ‘upstream’ (with governments) and ‘downstream’ (on the grassroots stage) to hold out its mission by means of a programme of cooperation collectively developed with the federal government guides our work within the nation.

How are you going to make a distinction?

The Baby Safety Specialist reviews to the Chief, Baby Safety for steering and normal supervision. The Specialist helps the event and preparation of the Baby Safety programme(s) and is answerable for the administration, implementation, monitoring, reporting, and analysis of the kid safety programmes/tasks throughout the nation programme with particular give attention to the providers supply and emergency preparedness and response elements of this system, The Specialist offers technical steering and administration help all through the programming processes. H/She facilitates the administration and achievement of concrete and sustainable contributions to nationwide and worldwide efforts to create a protecting setting for youngsters in opposition to all hurt, and to guard their rights to survival, growth and nicely being as established beneath the Conference on the Rights of the Baby, worldwide treaties/frameworks and UN intergovernmental our bodies.

The Specialist contributes to the achievement of outcomes based on plans, allocation, outcomes based-management approaches and methodology (RBM), and UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, requirements of efficiency and accountability framework.

Abstract of key capabilities/accountabilities:

1. Assist to programme/venture growth 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

As a champion for each youngster, {qualifications} are…

• A sophisticated college diploma in one of many following fields: social work, worldwide growth, human rights, psychology, sociology, worldwide regulation, or one other related social science subject.
• A minimal of 5 years {of professional} expertise in social growth planning and administration in youngster safety associated areas.  
• Confirmed expertise to construct and preserve partnerships with a variety of stakeholders, together with Authorities and civil society organizations.
• Expertise in youngster safety in emergency programming.
• Related expertise in programme growth in youngster safety associated areas in a UN system company or group is taken into account as an asset.
• Sound Data of the PNG Authorities system.
• Expertise in each growth and humanitarian contexts is taken into account as an added benefit.
• Fluency in English is required. Data of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish) or an area language is an asset. 

For each Baby, you display…

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…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness (3) Drive to realize outcomes for impression (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others (8) Nurtures, leads and manages folks.

Throughout the recruitment course of, we take a look at candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its totally different ranges: competency framework here.

UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived youngsters and our international workforce should replicate the variety of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, no matter their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or another private attribute. We provide a wide range of benefits to our staff, together with paid parental go away, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of versatile working preparations. UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and aims of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all youngsters. 

Remarks:

UNICEF’s lively dedication in direction of range and inclusion is important to ship the most effective outcomes for youngsters. 

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance.  Appointments are additionally topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Must you be chosen for a place with UNICEF, you both should be inoculated as required or obtain a medical exemption from the related division of the UN. In any other case, the choice will probably be cancelled.

All chosen candidates will bear rigorous reference checks and will probably be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. 

Authorities staff which are thought-about for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking over an task with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the precise to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance isn’t obtained, or vital inoculation necessities aren’t met, inside an affordable interval for any motive.

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