Child Protection Specialist (Gender-Based Violence in Emergencies (GBViE)), Temporary Appointment (364 days) at UNICEF

Major Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and technical support to UNICEF ESARO and COs to scale up efforts to address GBViE
• Work with the UNICEF sectors, clusters and inter-agency partners to ensure GBV prevention, risk mitigation and response is adequately integrated across sectors and actions to reduce risks of GBV
• Strengthen knowledge management and policy development on GBViE for ESARO and COs.
• Improve coordination of UNICEF GBViE interventions internally and at the inter-agency level.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Minimum requirements:

• Education: Advanced (Master's level) degree in psychology, social work, human rights and public health or other related degree, or equivalent programming experience.
• Work Experience: At least eight (8) years of relevant work experience in GBViE prevention and response in humanitarian settings (with UN agencies and/or NGOs).
• Strong understanding of GBV case management system, GBV programming approaches, practices and applications i.e. on Adolescent Girl Programming, GBViE Minimum Standards, GBVIMS, IASC GBV guidelines.
• Demonstrated skills in planning and facilitating workshops and other capacity-building modalities.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills: the ability to liaise with people successfully and effectively in a wide range of functions in a multi-cultural environment.
• Experience of coordinating regional multi-year donor projects across countries.
• Strong planning, project management and budget skills required.
• Ability to work independently and productively, with multiple stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.
• Flexible work attitude: the ability to work productively in a team environment and independently, and to handle requests or issues as they arise.
• Ability to collect, collate and analyse data in a scientific and effective manner and strong writing skills.
• Availability to travel frequently in the region.