Child Protection Coordinator -P3-P4/NOC-NOD, Rapid Response at UNICEF

As part of UNICEF’s Core Commitment for Children in Humanitarian Action, the Child Protection Coordinator) is expected to provide leadership and support to the sub-regional and national child protection coordination structures within the Humanitarian Cluster Approach. To fulfill this function, a Child Protection Coordinator is needed to secure the overall cluster coordination of child protection responses at the national level.  in their efforts to respond to the current crisis. 

Key activities & duties

• Lead and/or support child protection coordination mechanisms promoting and facilitating active participation from key actors, including, where relevant, government.  
• Work with the Protection Cluster(s) and/or other key actors to: identify opportunities to integrate child protection into other protection and other sector activities and to avoid duplication; prevent unintentional harm to children as a result of inappropriate humanitarian assistance. 
• Work with child protection actors to assess the needs, coordinate and oversee inter-agency needs assessment about child protection issues to map out priority protection gaps and identify key resources and assets, including existing child protection systems (both formal and informal). 
• Facilitate the development of an agreed interagency child protection response strategy. 
• Facilitate the creation of processes to monitor achievement of agreed interagency goals.  
• Promote and support adherence to agreed, interagency Child Protection standards  
• Undertake advocacy on behalf of the interagency group as required 
• Collaborate with the Protection Cluster lead and OCHA to ensure that key child protection concerns are reflected in all documents and humanitarian initiatives. 
• Work with the Gender-based Violence and MHPSS working groups to ensure that CP and GBV actors work together to meet the comprehensive GBV-related needs of children. 
• Establish results-oriented, two-way communication channels between regional level, national level and sub-national Child Protection coordinator groups (as relevant), to promote, upgrade and strengthen a more standardized child protection response across all affected areas. 

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have

Education-

• Advanced university degree, or equivalent experience, in social work or child psychology, or other relevant field. 

Work Experience- 

• A minimum of 5-8 years’ experience with either the UN and/or NGO, especially in emergency settings. 
• Excellent commination and interpersonal skills, and proven success in facilitating interagency processes to achieve a common goal,  

Deadline: 14 Mar 2023