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Mission and objectives
UNICEF, also known as the United Nations Children’s Fund, is a United Nations agency responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide. The agency is among the most widespread and recognizable social welfare organizations in the world, with a presence in 192 countries and territories. UNICEF’s activities include providing immunizations and disease prevention, administering treatment for children and mothers with HIV, enhancing childhood and maternal nutrition, improving sanitation, promoting education, and providing emergency relief in response to disasters.
Context
UNICEF KCO works very closely with government and non-governmental partners to raise awareness and build the capacity of relevant actors in these areas. The specific needs of adolescents in general and the adolescent girl in particular represent a strategic area of focus to build collective impact across the child protection, health and education sectors to address the Triple Threat of adolescent vulnerability to HIV/ AIDS, teenage pregnancies and GBV. Social and behaviour change strategies leveraging behavioural insights along with community mobilisation approaches are key change strategies of the current country programme. UNICEF strives to mobilise SBC strategies at scale in a way that better understands belief and value systems, milestone behaviour shifts, leverages local experience knowledge and amplifies local voices and agency. Overall, this position will contribute towards the implementation of UNICEF’s core commitments for children in emergencies. The position will provide the National UNV with a unique opportunity to gain experience in child protection in emergencies and at the same time work on longer-term child protection systems strengthening initiatives.
Task description
Under the direct supervision of the Child Protection Specialist (Humanitarian Situations & MHPSS), the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks: Support programme planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting: · Contribute to the planning of child protection programmes including emergency programming, GBV, MHPSS, and Public Health emergencies components. · Formulate, design, and prepare programme/project proposals, ensuring alignment with UNICEF’s overall Strategic Plans and the Country Programme, as well as coherence and integration with the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF), regional strategies, and national priorities, plans, and competencies. · Monitor programmes/projects through field visits and exchange of information with partners to assess progress, identify bottlenecks, potential problems, and child protection risks. Make recommendations accordingly to resolve issues and/or refer to relevant officials for timely resolution. · Collaborate with inter-agency partners and UNICEF zonal offices on planning and implementation of activities. Ensure organizational priorities are fully considered and integrated in development planning and agenda setting. · Monitor and verify the optimal and appropriate use of programme resources (financial, administrative, and other assets) in compliance with organizational rules, regulations, procedures, donor commitments, as well as standards of accountability and integrity. Ensure timely reporting and liquidation of funds advanced to implementing partners. · Support the implementation of the Child Protection Section annual work plan and the office Annual Management Plan. This will also entail mobilizing funding in support of planned activities, promoting visibility and advocacy for the protection and well-being of children in a humanitarian context. · Contribute to integrating Child protection in emergencies with other sectors such as Health, Nutrition, WASH, Education and Social Policy and protection including cross-cutting issues i.e. gender, communication for development, PSEA, advocacy as well as enhancing cross-sectoral coordination and collaboration Provide technical and operational support for programme implementation: · Provide technical guidance and operational support to government counterparts, NGO partners, UN system partners on child protection in emergencies and the understanding of UNICEF policies, strategies, processes, best practices, and approaches on child protection, GBV, MHPSS, and related issues to support delivery of results for children. · Seek opportunities to bridge humanitarian and development work by linking UNICEF’s long-term child protection systems strengthening work with child protection in emergencies in order to promote more sustainable interventions and risk-informed programmes. · Participate in child protection programme meetings, including programme development and contingency planning discussions on emergency preparedness in the country counties, to provide technical and operational information, advice, and support. · Coordinate monitoring, evaluation, and reporting on programme results for the section and develop harmonized tools for data collection, consolidation, manipulation, and visualization. Collect and consolidate data for humanitarian and donor proposals and reports and internal bi-annual reporting exercises. · Work with the Child Protection Specialist in strengthening national and county-level child protection in emergencies working groups for effective coordination and leveraging of resources. · Support the Child Protection Specialist in strengthening UNICEF’s resilience-building initiatives in order to achieve sustainable and resilient child protection systems including child-friendly communities through continuous engagement with county governments. Support child protection capacity building including in emergencies · Facilitate the designing of evidence-based, integrated programmes that enable UNICEF to be more community responsive at scale. · Work with UNICEF staff, government counterparts, and partners to coordinate and develop projects and identify opportunities within UNICEF for cross-sectoral information sharing, programming, and technical support · Support capacity building of relevant stakeholders and service providers on CP, GBV, and MHPSS by developing and/or contextualizing training materials and implement relevant training sessions. Support implementation of procedures to prevent sexual abuse and exploitation (PSEA) · Support the mainstreaming of Children Rights into the county governments DRR strategies and response plans · Keep abreast, research, benchmark, and implement best practices in child protection management and information systems. Assess, institutionalize, and share best practices and knowledge learned.
