Background
If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.
For 60 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children's survival, protection and development. The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments.
PURPOSE OF THE POST:
The Child Protection Officer reports directly to the Head of the Kramatorsk Zonal Office, with technical support and reporting to the Child Protection Specialist for supervision. The Officer provides professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for child protection programs/projects within the Country Program from development planning to delivery of results, preparing, executing, managing and implementing a variety of technical and administrative program tasks to facilitate program development, implementation, program progress monitoring, evaluating and reporting.
Duties and Responsibilities
Key Expected Results:
1. Support to program development and planning
Conduct/update situation analysis on key child protection issues in the region of the zonal office for development, design and management of child protection related programs/projects with particular focus on child participation and conflict resolution initiatives. Research and report on development trends and (economic, social, health etc) data for use in program development, management, monitoring, evaluation and delivery of results.
Provide technical and operational support throughout all stages of programming processes by executing a variety of technical, program, operational and administrative transactions, preparing related materials/documentations and complying with organizational processes and management systems, to support program planning, results based planning (RBM) and monitoring and evaluating results.
Prepare required program documentations/materials/data to facilitate the program review and approval process.
2. Program management, monitoring and delivery of results
Work closely with internal and external colleagues and partners to discuss operational and implementation issues, provide solutions, recommendations and/or alert appropriate officials and stakeholders for higher-level intervention and/or decision. Keep record of reports and assessments for easy reference and/or to capture and institutionalize lessons learned.
Participate in monitoring and evaluation exercises, program reviews and annual reviews with government and other counterparts to assess programs/projects and to report on required action/interventions at the higher level of program management.
Monitor and report on the use of child protection program resources (financial, administrative and other assets), verify compliance with approved allocation/goals, organizational rules, regulations/procedures and donor commitments, standards of accountability and integrity. Report on critical issues/findings to ensure timely resolution by management/stakeholders. Follow up on unresolved issues to ensure resolution.
Prepare regular/mandated child protection program/project reports for management, donors and partners to keep them informed of program progress and provide support in donor visits and other visibility demands.
3. Technical and operational support to program implementation
Conduct regular program field visits and surveys and/or exchange information with partners/stakeholders to assess progress and provide technical support, take appropriate action to resolve issues and/or refer to relevant officials for resolution. Report on critical issues, bottlenecks and potential problems for timely action to achieve results, Use field trips as opportunities for identifying arising child protection concerns (in particular development of child participation opportunities/needs) and provide feedback for fine-tuning of programming.
Provide technical and operational support to government counterparts, NGO partners, UN system partners and other country office partners/donors on the application and understanding of UNICEF policies, strategies, processes and best practices on child protection and related issues to support program implementation, operations and delivery of results.
4. Networking and partnership building
Build and sustain effective working partnerships with government counterparts and national stakeholders through sharing of information and knowledge to facilitate program implementation and build capacity of stakeholders to sustain results on child protection and further child participation in overall development of child protection/ social care service systems.
Draft communication and information materials for CO program advocacy to promote awareness, establish partnership/alliances and support fundraising for child protection programs.
Prepare resource mobilization materials and briefs for fundraising and partnership development purposes, in collaboration with CP team as needed.
5. Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building
Identify, capture, synthesize and share lessons learned for knowledge development and to build the capacity of stakeholders, including youth themselves.
Apply innovative approaches and promote good practice to support the implementation and delivery of concrete and sustainable program results.
Research and report on best cutting-edge practices for development planning of knowledge products and systems.
Participate as resource person in capacity building initiatives to enhance the competencies of clients/stakeholders.
Competencies
Core Values
- Commitment
- Diversity and inclusion
- Integrity
Core competencies
- Communication
- Working with people
- Drive for results
Functional Competencies
- Formulating strategies and concepts
- Analyzing
- Applying technical expertise
- Learning and researching
- Planning and organizing
Required Skills and Experience
EDUCATION
- A University Degree in international development, human rights, psychology, sociology, social work, international law or other social science field is required.
WORK EXPERIENCE
- A minimum of 2 years of professional experience in social development planning and management in child protection or related areas at international or local level is required. Relevant experience in child protection and related areas, program/project development and management in a UN system agency or organization is an asset.
- Experience in both development and humanitarian contexts is an added advantage.
LANGUAGES
- Fluency in English, Ukrainian and Russian.
The deadline for submission of applications is 27 July 2016.
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
If you have experience of working in a similar capacity and want to make an active and lasting contribution to build a better world for children and match the profile outlined, submit your application on UNICEF e-recruitment under the following link:
UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified female and male candidates from all national, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of our organization.