EMERGENCY ROSTER: Child Protection in Emergencies (National and International Consultancies)

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

Throughout 190 nations and territories, we work for each little one, all over the place, on daily basis, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means quit. 

For each little one, Safety…

Malawi’s new Nation Programme (2024-2028) contains three parts: (1) little one survival and improvement; (2) studying, abilities improvement, and safety; and (3) social coverage. All parts are supported by the programme and operational effectiveness and effectivity imperatives. All UNICEF programmes deal with risk-informed programming throughout the humanitarian and improvement nexus in all of the above three final result areas.  Threat-informed programming throughout the humanitarian and improvement nexus in all three final result areas will contribute to strengthened catastrophe preparedness, enhanced local weather adaptation/mitigation and response, and elevated resilience capability of establishments, communities, and younger folks. Programming aligns with UNICEF Core Commitments for Kids in Humanitarian Motion and the Inter-Company Standing Committee’s Transformative Agenda. 

Malawi is ranked fifth within the 2021 World Local weather Threat Index. In keeping with the Kids’s Local weather Threat Index (UNICEF, 2021), Malawi is among the many high forty nations with excessive local weather danger for kids and essentially the most weak communities.  Malawi is extremely prone to local weather and environmental shocks, together with flooding, drought, cyclones, and excessive warmth. Such shocks have lately elevated in frequency and magnitude and are amongst Malawi kids’s best threats. As per UNICEF’s ‘Local weather Panorama Evaluation for Kids in Malawi’ report (2022), climate-related hazards have resulted within the lack of life, displaced hundreds of individuals, and broken or disrupted roads, well being amenities, faculties, and energy provides throughout the nation. Malawi additionally faces frequent outbreaks of cholera, endemic malaria, and the re-emergence of vaccine-preventable ailments equivalent to polio, contributing to a necessity for a programme response totally conscious of an elevated poly-crisis atmosphere.

How are you going to make a distinction? 

The Baby Safety in Emergencies Guide is predicted to offer technical experience and assist with a particular deal with the next:

• In shut collaboration with different little one safety companions and the Authorities, take the management in establishing the kid safety coordination buildings for the response to emergencies.
• Assist in conducting a speedy little one safety evaluation with companions within the little one safety coordination buildings utilizing agreed inter-agency evaluation instruments.  The place the cluster system will not be activated, UNICEF ought to lead this evaluation.
• Assist scaling up the kid safety response in emergencies with explicit deal with prevention of kid sexual abuse and exploitation, household separation, gender-based violence, and trafficking; provision of psychological well being and psychosocial assist companies to kids and their households, prevention of arbitrary/unlawful arrest and detention of kids, and different safety considerations for kids.
• Present experience and technical assist to UNICEF little one safety group and Implementing Companions, together with Authorities and CSOs, in creating programme proposals and mobilizing funds for a speedy little one safety response in emergencies, in addition to in writing donor stories and documenting human curiosity tales.
• Assess the availability wants and coordinate the procurement and distribution of provides associated to little one safety interventions.
• Discover the alternatives of inter-agency and cross-sectoral collaboration to strengthen general safety of kids and ladies by integrating safety actions inside their emergency response programmes.
• Monitor the tendencies and rising proof of kid safety considerations and the response by Authorities and analyze this data to advise on the kid safety response.
• Accumulate the required knowledge and contribute to creating of Humanitarian State of affairs Experiences, After Motion Overview stories and different stories to tell little one safety and office-wide interventions and measurement of outcomes.
• Assist the Baby safety group with oversight of funds devoted to little one safety emergency response.
• Conduct capability improvement actions on CCCs and little one safety in emergencies for nationwide and district degree stakeholders and implementing companions.
• In shut coordination with the UNICEF Baby Safety and Communication groups, elevate consciousness on little one safety considerations and UNICEF’s response thereto by related humanitarian, media, and communication retailers, as applicable.

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

Tutorial qualification:

• Superior college diploma in social work, worldwide relations, legislation, little one psychology, or related discipline.

 Work expertise:

• A minimal of 5-8 years of expertise within the little one safety programming in pure catastrophe and/or armed battle contexts
• Expertise working with UNICEF and/or different related actors is most popular.
• Intensive work expertise exterior the humanitarian sector related to this submit could also be thought-about a alternative for humanitarian experience.
• Expertise of coordination with Authorities and companion organizations is most popular.
• Expertise within the UN widespread system is fascinating.

 Technical abilities, data, and power areas:

• Information of UNICEF’s Core Commitments to Kids in humanitarian motion in addition to the humanitarian cluster method, significantly the kid safety working group (sub-cluster), gender-based violence space of accountability, and safety cluster
• Capability to work successfully underneath stress and in emergency settings.
• Capability to develop new and nurture present inside and exterior networks, partnerships and relationships which ship outcomes.
• Capability to speak confidently and persuasively, each orally and in writing.
• Capability to research data, remedy issues and make selections in varied contexts
• The best ranges of non-public integrity and dedication to adhering to required requirements of conduct.
• Information of results-based administration rules is a robust asset.
• Good data of MS Workplace (together with PowerPoint, Excel, and Phrase) is important.

 Languages:  

• Fluency in written and verbal English is required, familiarity with Chichewa can be asset.

Please confer with the hooked up full Phrases of Reference  Terms of Reference_Child Protection in Emergencies.pdf for extra particulars on the consultancy and necessities.

For each Baby, you reveal… 

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS). 

To view our competency framework, please go to  here. 

 UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived kids and our international workforce should replicate the variety 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 every other private attribute.

UNICEF affords reasonable accommodation for consultants/particular person contractors with disabilities. This may occasionally embrace, for instance, accessible software program, journey help for missions or private attendants. We encourage you to reveal your incapacity throughout your utility in case you want affordable lodging through the choice course of and afterwards in your project. 

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and goals of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF additionally adheres to strict little one safeguarding rules. All chosen candidates can be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules and can due to this fact endure rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to offer extra data to conduct a background verify. 

HOW TO APPLY…

consultants ought to present the next:

1. Cowl letter:

• Describing the candidate’s related expertise with related kind of assignments (max 300 phrases)

2. Up to date Curriculum Vitae (no more than 4 pages)
3. Two newest efficiency value determinations and/or suggestions letters from latest assignments together with reference contact particulars (telephone numbers and electronic mail addresses)
4. When a necessity arises, the workplace will invite pre-selected roster candidates to offer their monetary proposal (all-inclusive charge) for the particular project in addition to to verify their availability and curiosity on the time of the deployment want.

5. Embody along with your utility related samples from related work (net hyperlinks additionally may be supplied).

Remarks:  

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

People engaged underneath a consultancy or particular person contract is not going to be thought-about “employees members” underneath the Employees Rules and Guidelines of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures and won’t be entitled to advantages supplied therein (equivalent to go away entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their circumstances of service can be ruled by their contract and the Basic Circumstances of Contracts for the Providers of Consultants and Particular person Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are chargeable for figuring out their tax liabilities and for the cost of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with native or different relevant legal guidelines. 

The chosen candidate is solely accountable to make sure that the visa (relevant) and medical insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for the whole interval of the contract. Chosen candidates are topic to affirmation of totally vaccinated standing in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Well being Group (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which have to be met previous to taking on the project. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and usually are not anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply places or instantly work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out features for UNICEF at some stage in their consultancy contracts.