International Consultant – Social Service Workforce Strengthening, Home-Based with travel to Nigeria (Abuja+ Select states), 160days.

UNICEF works in among 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 youngster, all over the place, every single day, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means quit. 

For each youngster, Safety

How will you make a distinction? 

1. Assist the federal government and key Baby Safety companions to overview, strengthen and maintain community-based Baby Safety mechanisms in a bid to ship an outlined package deal of Baby Safety Providers on the family and neighborhood degree, coordinated by social service workforce with statutory case administration obligations for youngster safety, and supported by auxiliary social employees.  This consists of utilization of current SOPs for case administration, case coordination and referral procedures and protocols, and a supervision framework.
2. Map out state establishments and academic constructions that may undertake the coaching, persevering with skilled improvement, monitoring and comply with up of auxiliary social workforce in choose states
3. Develop and roll out pointers and a user-friendly capability toolkit for supporting community-based Baby Safety teams (CBCPG). The Pointers can be accompanied by an Administrative Be aware which can be issued from the Federal Ministry of Ladies Affairs to all State Ministries of Ladies Affairs or related state entities informing them what must be performed as regards to CBCPG.
4. Pre-test the toolkit by means of the facilitation of a TOT workshop with key stakeholders and develop a capacity-building plan for a full roll-out of the programme.
5. Develop a monitoring and analysis framework with related instruments.
6. Lead and help the choice, recruitment and coaching of auxiliary social employees in choose states that may help the work of community-based CP constructions.
7. Put together and current a remaining report of the task.

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

Superior College diploma (Grasp/PG) in a related area of examine (Diploma in Social Service workforce, youngster safety) with minimal of 8 years of related expertise.

•            Related expertise in programme improvement in youngster safety associated areas in a UN system company or group is taken into account as an asset.

•            A minimal of eight years of related skilled expertise in social service workforce strengthening, planning and administration in youngster safety associated areas is required.

•            Expertise in system constructing of kid safety techniques in West Africa and/or different growing nation can be thought of a bonus;

•            Expertise in each improvement and humanitarian contexts is taken into account as an added benefit

•            Wonderful information of the worldwide and regional requirements on social service workforce strengthening for youngster safety and worldwide devices on kids rights;

•            Potential to work by means of networking and partnership

•            Wonderful information of statistics, social service techniques, improvement agenda

•            Earlier expertise with UNICEF is a bonus.

•            Information of human rights-based strategy to programming

•            Expertise in facilitating consultations with authorities representatives, NGOs, academia, kids, adolescents, and different stakeholders

•            Fluency in English

•            Wonderful writing abilities

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 world workforce should mirror the variety of these kids. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, regardless of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender identification, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or some other private attribute.

UNICEF presents 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 throughout the choice course of and afterwards in your task. 

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and targets of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF additionally adheres to strict youngster 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 supply further info to conduct a background examine. 

Remarks:  

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

People engaged underneath a consultancy or particular person contract is not going to be thought of “workers members” underneath the Workers Laws 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 Situations of Contracts for the Providers of Consultants and Particular person Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are answerable 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 health insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for the complete interval of the contract. Chosen candidates are topic to affirmation of fully-vaccinated standing in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Well being Group (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which should be met previous to taking over 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 capabilities for UNICEF during their consultancy contracts.