Child Protection Specialist, P3, Fixed Term, # 111016, Bunia, DRC

UNICEF works in a number of the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived kids. To avoid wasting their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.

Throughout 190 nations and territories, we work for each baby, in every single place, every single day, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means hand over.

For each baby, an opportunity

The basic mission of UNICEF is to advertise the rights of each baby, in every single place, in every little thing the group does — in programmes, in advocacy and in operations. The fairness technique, emphasizing essentially the most deprived and excluded kids and households, interprets this dedication to kids’s rights into motion. For UNICEF, fairness implies that all kids have a chance to outlive, develop and attain their full potential, with out discrimination, bias or favoritism. To the diploma that any baby has an unequal probability in life — in its social, political, financial, civic and cultural dimensions — her or his rights are violated. There may be rising proof that investing within the well being, training and safety of a society’s most deprived residents — addressing inequity — not solely will give all kids the chance to meet their potential but additionally will result in sustained progress and stability of nations. That is why the give attention to fairness is so very important.

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How will you make a distinction?

Because the baby safety specialist in Bunia, you’ll assist the event and preparation of the Youngster Safety programme(s) and can be accountable for the administration, implementation, monitoring, reporting, and analysis of the kid safety programmes/initiatives inside the nation programme. You’ll contribute to the achievement of outcomes in response to plans, allocation, outcomes based-management approaches and methodology (RBM), and UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, requirements of efficiency and accountability framework. Along with the above, you’ll facilitate 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, improvement and well-being as established below the Conference on the Rights of the Youngster, worldwide treaties/frameworks and UN intergovernmental our bodies. Futhermore, you’ll: 

1. Assist the preparation, design and updating to programme/undertaking improvement and planning.
2. Plan and collaborate with colleagues and exterior companions to ascertain monitoring benchmarks, efficiency indicators, programme administration, monitoring and supply of outcomes.
3. Present technical and operational assist to programme implementation.
4. Construct and maintain efficient community and partnership. 
5. Apply and introduce innovation, information administration and capability constructing.

Total, achievements in baby safety programmes and initiatives in flip contributes to sustaining and enhancing the credibility and talent of UNICEF to offer programme companies for moms and youngsters that promotes higher social equality within the nation.

To qualify as an advocate for each baby you’ll have…

• A complicated college diploma (Grasp’s or greater) in worldwide improvement, human rights, psychology, sociology, worldwide legislation, or one other related social science discipline.
• A minimal of 5 [5] of related skilled expertise in social improvement planning and administration in baby safety associated areas is required
• Related expertise in programme improvement in baby safety associated areas in a UN system company or group is taken into account as an asset.
• Creating nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency is taken into account an asset.
• Fluency in French and 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 Youngster, you reveal…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin every little 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 attain outcomes for influence (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others.

Through the recruitment course of, we check 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 kids and our world workforce should replicate the range of these kids. 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 depart, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages using 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 kids. 

Remarks:

This place has been assessed as an elevated danger function for Youngster Safeguarding functions as it’s: a task with direct contact with kids, works immediately with kids, is a safeguarding response function. Extra vetting and evaluation for elevated danger roles in baby safeguarding (probably together with further prison background checks) applies.

UNICEF’s lively dedication in the direction of variety and inclusion is crucial to ship the most effective outcomes for youngsters. For this place, eligible and appropriate Feminine candidates are inspired to use.

Mobility is a situation of worldwide skilled employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the worldwide civil service.

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the obligation station, which can be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments are additionally topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Do you have to be chosen for a place with UNICEF, you both have to be inoculated as required or obtain a medical exemption from the related division of the UN. In any other case, the choice can be cancelled.

All chosen candidates will endure rigorous reference and background checks and can be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules. Background checks will embody the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to offer further info to conduct a background test.

Authorities workers which can be 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 will not be obtained, or vital inoculation necessities are usually not met, inside an inexpensive interval for any motive.

Solely shortlisted candidates can be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of.