Apply: UNICEF Child Protection Cluster Coordinator

By Development Diaries
May 16, 2021

Deadline: 25 May, 2021

Location: Bangui, Central African Republic

United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is seeking to fill the role of Child Protection Cluster Coordinator.

Across 190 countries and territories, UNICEF works for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

Responsibilities

Ensure regular updating of papping of child protection actors in the country and related sectors of interventions/capacities
Ensure two-way communication with child protection working groups in the field and respond to their requests
In a participatory manner, support implementation of the child protection sub-cluster workplan for 201 and draft the workplan for the subsector for 2020
Produce sectoral reports and analysis
Facilitate child protection needs assessments and contingency planning
Lead and participate in interagency child protection assessments to identify priority child protection issues and advocate delivery of appropriate response
Coordinate the mapping and prioritisation of emergency child protection concerns
Identify response gaps, and promote the sub-cluster members’ response (including activation of provider of last resort)
Disseminate child protection upcoming tools (assessments, guidelines, technical documents, etc.) in coordination with the child protection working group in Geneva and ensure responses are in line with existing policy standards and technical guidelines
Support identification of capacity building needs for the members of the child protection sub-cluster and support capacity strengthening of child protection sub-cluster members and state/sub-national sub cluster focal points
Collaborate with the protection cluster leads and OCHA to ensure key child protection concerns are reflected in all documents and humanitarian initiatives, including response plans and related budgets
Participate in inter-cluster coordination mechanisms and provide child protection input to the humanitarian country team plans and meetings
Coordinate and collaborate with other clusters such as the gender-based violence (GBV) sub-cluster to ensure that CP and GBV actors work together to meet the comprehensive GBV-related needs of children and the education cluster
Develop an advocacy strategy for issues related to child protection that require sensitisation of local authorities or donors and contribute to the development of key messages for broader humanitarian advocacy/messaging initiatives of the protection cluster or the office of the resident and humanitarian coordinator
Advocate for donors to fund humanitarian actors to carry out priority child protection activities, and support CPSC members to mobilise resources to support the same

Requirements

Advanced university degree in Psychology, Social Work, Social Sciences, Law, or a related field
Five years of professional work experience at national and international levels in child protection, including firsthand experience in cluster coordination, psychosocial support and family tracing and reunification programmes and projects for most vulnerable children including international work experience
Background/familiarity with emergency
Fluency in French and English
Ability to build trust, develop, and maintain effective working relationships with respect for diversity
Commitment to the UNICEF values and guiding principles
Excellent oral and written communications skills, as well as analytical skills, with an exemplary ability to identify problems and propose solutions
Strategic thinking and decision-making skills, with a commitment to excellence
Strong interpersonal, teamwork, and self-management skills, as well as mature judgment
Ability to perform under pressure while maintaining a sense of humour

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