Home based in Catania, Sicilia: Alternative Care Consultant – (220 working days between 15 October 2023 and 15 September 2024) – Europe and Central Asia Regional Office (ECARO)

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Objective of Exercise/Task

Assist the native different care system for unaccompanied and separated youngsters, together with promotion of guardianship scheme, in shut cooperation with the kid safety Institutional actors and the civil society Organizations. Within the context of migration and asylum, Italy continues to be a frontline nation for arrivals each by sea from the Mediterranean and by land from the so-called Balkan route. The nation is at instances thought-about a vacation spot nation whereas many different instances as a transit one for all these migrants and refugees who’re attempting to succeed in Northern European nations. Refugees and migrants, and particularly youngsters and girls travelling alone, proceed to undertake harmful journeys to succeed in Europe. Moreover, the current eruption of hostilities in Ukraine generated a brand new inflow of individuals in the direction of EU nations, together with Italy. In 2023, the variety of folks crossing the Mediterranean Sea and coming into Italy doubled in comparison with 2022; within the reception system, greater than 20,000 UASC are registered, being a major enhance in comparison with 2022. Constant and growing land arrivals via the Italy-Slovenia border have additionally been recorded. The reception capability in Italy is overstretched, the system is now struggling to accommodate refugees and migrants, notably unaccompanied and separated youngsters. Regardless of efforts from the Italian Authorities and a strong authorized safety framework, crucial gaps stay by way of alignment with worldwide minimal requirements, particularly when unpredictable and big flows occur.

The imaginative and prescient of UNICEF operation in Italy in 2023 is to technically help Authorities to make sure compliance with minimal worldwide requirements and to supply humanitarian help, safety and social inclusion to migrant and refugee youngsters and girls on the transfer by strengthening the kid safety, GBV and training and integration techniques. By enhancing the capability of the Italian reception system from arrival to all phases of reception to guard and care essentially the most susceptible refugee and migrant youngsters, these transitioning to maturity, and girls, UNICEF goals at 1) strengthening the protecting atmosphere at disembarkation and transit factors by enhancing entry to little one safety, GBV and MHPSS companies in addition to strengthening child-safeguarding and GBV danger mitigation measures inside the reception system; 2) selling and making certain quick household and community-based care options for unaccompanied and separated youngsters; 3) making certain that UASC, refugee and migrant adolescents, and girls have entry to life-saving and life-protecting data; 4) making certain that UASC, refugee and migrant adolescents and youth have entry to abilities constructing and job orientation alternatives that promote early integration; 5) Scaling up actions to counter racism and discrimination.

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Scope of labor

Regulation n. 47/2017 offers the authorized framework for the safety and social inclusion of unaccompanied youngsters. It
introduces within the Italian system particular provisions to make sure that a authorized guardian is nominated by the Juvenile Courtroom for every unaccompanied and separated little one, and it acknowledges foster care as a precedence and best option. Even when it’s acknowledged as strongly protecting and regardless of the efforts of the Italian Authorities, the inclusion of UASC within the nationwide foster care system and the volunteer guardianship system stay restricted and partial by way of the quantity and availability of educated foster households and guardians. On this realm, UNICEF additionally goals at strengthening the capability of the Italian reception system by diversifying and consolidating Different Care pathways and foster care alternatives intently working with key stakeholders such because the CNCA, the Prefectures, the MOI in addition to the Juvenile Courts. That is to boost safety and foster look after essentially the most susceptible youngsters, together with refugee and migrant youngsters, and people transitioning to maturity, UASC, households, and girls who survived/are liable to gender-based violence. The marketing consultant will additional develop sensitization alternatives and networking in the direction of the enhancement of the guardianship and foster care techniques for UASC. Beneath the steering of the CP Specialist, he/she is going to contribute to the efficient and environment friendly implementation of the Regulation n. 47/2017, specializing in guardianship and foster care via elevating consciousness and sensitization by scouting alternatives for elevating consciousness and volunteer guardians and foster households recruited. As well as, the marketing consultant will help the piloting of accelerated foster care pathways for UASC that UNICEF is piloting in Lampedusa in coordination with native and nationwide authorities. The marketing consultant will journey often to Lampedusa to evaluate the state of affairs in an effort to determine bottlenecks and criticalities in implementing expedited foster care, together with the identification of susceptible youngsters, and suggest possible suggestions to beat the constraints. The marketing consultant will work in shut coordination with the Native Juvenile Courtroom, the native Municipalities, the Regional Ombudsperson for Childhood and Adolescence, the Prefecture and the CSOs and IPs at the moment lively within the native context and in group facilities. The work will contain common reporting and monitoring of the actions by the gathering of knowledge and common visits to the primary hub of reception like Lampedusa.

The marketing consultant will work in shut collaboration with the native institutional stakeholders, CSOs and IPs and UNICEF workers to:

• Promote guardianship via help to the creation of media content material and sensitization occasions open to the general public, in cooperation with related institutional stakeholders and guardian associations the place current;
• Facilitate the cooperation between key stakeholders for the promotion of foster look after UASC;
• Monitor and report on the implementation of foster care procedures when in place by assortment of knowledge, common coordination conferences and discipline visits the place essential;

Work Task Overview

Duties / Milestone	Deliverables / Outputs	Deadline
1- Volunteer Guardianship: Assist to sensitization occasions open to the general public, in cooperation with related institutional stakeholders, CSOs and guardian associations the place current;	1-2 per Month – Sensitization occasions scouted/participated/organized in cooperation with native guardianship officer	30 working days; From October 2023 to September 2024
	2 per Month – Common conferences with Juvenile Courts, Regional Ombudsman, social companies and different related institutional stakeholders	20 working days; From October 2023 to September 2024
	2 per Month – Common coordination conferences and networking occasions with CSOs concerned with guardianship sensitization and help	20 working days; From October 2023 to September 2024
2- Foster care: youngsters accessing foster care within the implementation of the pilot mannequin developed with STC and CNCA together with monitoring, reporting and data assortment.	6 conferences and communications associated to foster care procedures ongoing with implementing companions	40 working days; From October 2023 to September 2024
	4 Trainings to municipalities and social companies in 4 completely different areas within the Sicilian Area	40 working days; From October 2023 to September 2024
	Elaboration of 10 informative supplies and experiences on foster care procedures	20 working days; From October 2023 to September 2024
	1 per Month – Monitoring and data assortment report on CNCA/STC Pilot mannequin for Foster Care	20 working days; From October 2023 to September 2024
	2 per Month – Conferences with IPs and Juvenile Courts, Prefecture, social companies and different related institutional stakeholders	30 working days; From October 2023 to September 2024

Estimated Period of the Contract

220 working days (between 15 October 2023 and 15 September 2024)

Guide’s Office and Official Journey

It is a home-based consultancy contract with travels for trainings and native missions to discipline areas in Sicily. The Guide shall be chargeable for organizing their journey. Journey bills (tickets, lodging, public transport, meals) shall be reimbursed after the completion of mission upon submission of the invoices.

Estimated Value of the Consultancy & Fee Schedule

Please suggest a lumpsum skilled charge (in USD) primarily based on 220 working days. Please don’t embrace journey charges as this shall be reimbursed as and once they happen.

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

Data/Experience/Abilities required

• First college diploma (Bachelor) in Psychology, Pedagogical sciences, Social Sciences, Regulation, Political Sciences or different associated disciplines
• At the least 3 years {of professional} expertise with refugees and migrants or susceptible youngsters together with intensive expertise within the discipline of safety is required.
• Confirmed expertise of labor with native authorities.
• Confirmed information of the nationwide context as regards to guardianship, foster care and MHPSS.
• Means to work via networking and partnership.
• Demonstrated capability to work in a multi-cultural atmosphere and set up harmonious and efficient working relationships.
• Fluency in Italian and English is required.

For each Little one, you show…

UNICEF’s core values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS), and core competencies in Communication, Working with Folks and Drive for Outcomes.

View our competency framework at http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/UNICEF_Competencies.pdf

UNICEF is dedicated to range and inclusion inside its workforce, and encourages all candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, spiritual and ethnic backgrounds, together with individuals residing with disabilities, to use to turn into part of the group.

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 will, due to this fact, endure rigorous reference and background checks, and shall be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules.

Remarks:

Please embrace a full CV, and a Monetary Proposal in your software by indicating your availability and a lumpsum primarily based on 220 working days to undertake the phrases of reference above. Purposes submitted with out a skilled charge won’t be thought-about. Solely shortlisted candidates shall be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of.

People engaged below a consultancy or particular person contract won’t be thought-about “workers members” below the Employees Laws and Guidelines of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures and won’t be entitled to advantages offered therein (similar to go away entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their circumstances of service shall be ruled by their contract and the Normal Situations of Contracts for the Companies of Consultants and Particular person Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are chargeable for figuring out their tax liabilities and for the fee 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 your entire interval of the contract. Chosen candidates are topic to affirmation of fully-vaccinated standing towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Well being Group (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which have to be met previous to taking on the task. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and will not be anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply areas or straight work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out features for UNICEF in the course of their consultancy contracts.

UNICEF presents reasonable accommodation for consultants with disabilities. This will likely embrace, for instance, accessible software program, journey help for missions or private attendants. We encourage you to reveal your incapacity throughout your software in case you want cheap lodging in the course of the choice course of and afterwards in your task.