The incumbent will report directly to the Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Officer who acts as the Team Leader, End Violence against Children and will work under the overall guidance and supervision of the Chief of CPCJS. For more information on UNODC, please visit www.unodc.org

Responsibilities

Within assigned authority, the Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Officer (Psychosocial Support Specialist) will provide support in the implementation of projects and activities in the End Violence against Children portfolio.

In particular, the incumbent will be responsible for the following specific duties:

• Develop guides, tools, case studies, models, and other materials related to mental health and psychosocial support and programming for children, families and communities to promote staff capacity-building and service quality.

• Provide substantive and operational support to the development of training tools and deliver training activities to professionals from the justice, child protection, security, education and health sectors regarding measures aimed to prevent and respond to violence against children (including recruitment and exploitation by criminal and armed groups) such as mental health care and psychosocial support.

• Provide high quality training, substantive input and coaching services delivery in identified topics associated with consequences of violence, trauma-informed care, mental health and psychosocial support, sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), victims and witness support services, with focus on Indonesia, Iraq and Nigeria.

• Contribute to the development of case management policies and protocols.

• Contribute to the development of mental health and psychosocial support resources, toolkits, online training modules, etc. to build capacity of volunteers/staff in community-based organizations and other professionals.

• Provide substantive and operational support to the conceptualization, implementation and monitoring of initiatives to strengthen resilience of children and their environment to violence, including through partnership with national civil society organizations. • Support the development of regional, national and international functioning and safe referral pathways, strengthening links to available services for mental health and psychosocial support and programming for children and child protection.

• Support the conducting of technical assistance needs assessments and situation analysis by participating in the preparation and delivery of scoping missions, as requested, and by identifying needs of professionals and opportunities to enhance access to psychosocial assistance in partner countries.

• Support the conceptualization and drafting of research, specifically in relation to root causes of violence against children (including recruitment and exploitation where relevant); consequences of violence on children’s well-being and life perspectives; needs for psychosocial support in the framework of prevention intervention, rehabilitation and reintegration programmes, juvenile justice systems.

• Contribute to consultative and other meetings including roundtables, training, conferences and workshops, by proposing agenda topics, identifying participants, preparing of documents and presentations, etc.

• Participate in or support field missions, including through the preparation of relevant work material; provision of guidance to external consultants, government officials and other parties; drafting of mission reports; ensuring follow-up action. • Assist in the ongoing monitoring and evaluation of the programme by collecting relevant data on project implementation, drafting reports and supporting follow-up of activities, as requested.

• Collect and analyze data to identify trends or patterns and provide insights through graphs, charts, tables and reports using data visualization methods to enable data-driven planning, decision-making, presentation and reporting.

• Perform other work-related duties as required.