The Child Protection Officer – Alternative Care, reports to the Child Protection Specialist/ P3 for supervision. The Child Protection Officer – Alternative Care provides professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for child protection programmes/projects within the Country Programme from development planning to delivery of results. H/She prepares, executes, manages, and implements a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, evaluating and reporting. The Child Protection Officer – Alternative Care will support the UNICEF child protection programme in the area of alternative care. Accordingly, he/she will build the capacity of partners to implement quality interventions in the area of alternative care and for the child care reform, in alignment with the UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care for Children and other relevant global guidance.
Summary of key functions/accountabilities:
- Support to programme development and planning
- Programme management, monitoring and delivery of results
- Technical and operational support to programme implementation
- Networking and partnership building
- Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
- A university degree in one of the following fields is required: international development, human rights, psychology, sociology, international law, or another relevant social science field.
- A minimum of two years of professional experience in social development planning and management in child protection related areas is required. Professional experience in the area of alternative care is highly desirable.
- Experience working in a developing country is considered as an asset.
- Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language or local language of the duty station is considered as an asset.
Application deadline is 26 December 2018.