Generic Vacancy Announcement for National Consultancy Roster: Emergency Child Protection Officer, Indonesia

As part of UNICEF Indonesia’s emergency preparedness and response, the office would like to establish a pre-screened pool of Emergency Preparedness and Response Experts.

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential. 

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone. 

And we never give up. 

For every child, protection

BACKGROUND:

In the Core Commitments for Children (CCCs) it is the explicit commitment that appropriate and experienced staff and personnel with relevant deployment training are provided and rapidly deployed, that focus on action in the first eight critical weeks of humanitarian response and provide guidance for action beyond that, moving towards defined benchmarks.

As part of UNICEF Indonesia’s emergency preparedness and response, the office would like to establish a pre-screened pool of Emergency Preparedness and Response Experts. The experts are expected to work in close collaboration with UNICEF Country Office and external partners in providing technical assistance to provide direct technical support, on request, to Indonesia’s National Humanitarian Lead Agencies (national task forces and clusters), in their role of building and ensuring regional disaster response capacity. Rostered consultants would provide embedded mentoring and technical assistance in two stages of the disaster management cycle:

1. In disaster response: Supporting rapid response to disasters, mentoring governments (at national and/or subnational levels based on the emergency) to undertake more effective assessments, planning and funding proposals, including, where appropriate, advising on appropriate direct cash transfer mechanisms.
2. In disaster preparedness: Building capacity in high-risk areas, to undertake better risk analyses, preparedness planning processes and simulation exercises in line with NDRF (National Disaster Response Framework) recommendations and agreed BNPB (Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana) and relevant ministry guidelines.

Scope of Work:

Under the direction and guidance of the in Chief of Child Protection, and in close collaboration with the Child Protection Specialist/ Focal Point Protection, the consultant will be responsible for providing technical support developing and operationalizing for preparedness and response related to Child Protection in Emergencies. This will include supporting section chiefs to scale up programmatic and operational efforts to ensure UNICEF is able to respond to the growing number of needs among children and their families in in Indonesia in UNICEF’s key sectors, aligned to the CCCs.

Main Responsibilities and Tasks:

• Support the establishment of child protection coordination structures for the response to the emergency, in consultation with UNICEF, child protection partners, government and other key stakeholders.
• Support the conduct of a rapid child protection assessment using agreed inter-agency assessment tools, together with partners in the child protection sub-cluster and/or protection cluster. Where the cluster system is not activated, UNICEF should lead this assessment.
• Support the development of strategies and mechanisms to scale up the child protection response to the emergency, including addressing as relevant: family separation, gender-based violence, trafficking, the mental health and well-being of children and their families, arbitrary/illegal arrest and detention of children, and other protection concerns for children.
• Provide technical support and assistance to UNICEF child protection staff and partners, including government and NGOs, to scale up the child protection components of emergency response programmes, including development or amendment of projects and partnerships and introducing the use of innovative applicable tools.
• Manage procurement and distribution of supplies related to child protection interventions.
• Identify opportunities to work with other sectors to strengthen overall protections for children and women by integrating protection activities within their emergency response programmes.
• Monitor trends and emerging evidence of child protection concerns and the response by partners and analyse this information to advise on the child protection response.
• Represent UNICEF Child Protection in humanitarian-related meetings, as required.
• Increase access to financial resources available for the child protection emergency response through established humanitarian funding mechanisms, and by pursuing new opportunities, as required.
• Support the Child Protection Chief with oversight and management of funds for emergency response.
• Support a communications strategy to raise awareness on child protection through relevant humanitarian, media and communication outlets, as appropriate. 
• Provide inputs on child protection concerns and UNICEF’s response thereto in all UNICEF, inter-agency and government planning and reporting processes. 
• Support implementation of the Secretary General’s Bulletin on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, and establishment of system for child safeguarding.

To qualify as a champion for every child you will have…

• Minimum of bachelor’s degree in social work, international relations, law, child psychology, or relevant field.
• A minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible experience in planning and implementing child protection programming in emergency programmes.
• Knowledge of UNICEF’s core commitments to children in humanitarian action as well as the humanitarian cluster approach, particularly the child protection working group (sub-cluster), gender-based violence area of responsibility, and protection cluster
• Experience working with either the UN, International Organizations, and/or NGO.
• Fluency in English (verbal and written). Good written and spoken skills in the language of the humanitarian operation and knowledge of another UN language an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, Sustainability (CRITAS) and core competencies:

• Builds and Maintains Partnerships
• Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness
• Drive to achieve results for impact
• Innovates and embraces change
• Manages ambiguity and complexity
• Thinks and acts strategically
• Works collaboratively with others

To view our competency framework, please visit  here. 

 UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment. 

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check. 

Remarks:  

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. Individuals engaged under a consultancy contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants. Consultants are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws. 

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (if applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts. 

Disclaimer: The screening of your application will be conducted based on the information in your profile. Before applying, we strongly suggest that you review your profile to ensure accuracy and completeness. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. This vacancy is open for Indonesians only