Apply: UNICEF Child Protection Specialist

Deadline: 13 July, 2021

Location: Bamako, Mali

United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has opened applications for the role of Child Protection Specialist.

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

Responsibilities

  • Ensure the monitoring and reporting of grave violations against children in Mali and work closely with the UNICEF West and Central Africa Regional Office (WCARO) and the UNICEF country offices in Burkina Faso, Mauritania, and Niger
  • In close collaboration with the MINUSMA child protection section, prepare – for management approval – quality and timely quarterly reports (GHN), country reports and contributions to the secretary general
  • Co-chair monthly meetings of the MRM technical working group, and follow up on recommended actions
  • Ensure the capacity-building of the relevant actors in conflict-affected regions
  • Coordinate and participate in formal DDR process to ensure the screening of troops in order to secure the release of children and provide them protection and care through UNICEF partners
  • Engage in dialogue and provide training/sensitisation sessions to national and international forces on the protection of children
  • Provide technical expertise for the implementation of actions plans signed between parties to conflict
  • Provide technical assistance and monitor projects implemented by partners in line with the monitoring of grave child rights violations
  • Conduct detention and prison visits to monitor the presence of children detained for their association with armed groups and advocate their release
  • Support and advise the committee on the safe school declaration
  • Liaise with the members of the Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) group of friends to support the implementation of its mandate and activities
  • Provide to the UNICEF chief of protection with technical, advice on the MRM
  • Strengthen the link between monitoring and reporting, and programmatic response to children victims of violation
  • Ensure coordination between the MRM and all other programmes within the UNICEF protection section, particularly child protection in emergencies
  • In close collaboration with the CPiE specialists and the CP sub-cluster, provide technical assistance and manage interventions around CAAFAGs including release and reintegration in line with the handover protocol
  • Contribute to UNICEF’s advocacy strategy on child protection and children’s rights
  • Contribute to other child protection in emergency issues as requested by the chief of section

Requirements

  • Advanced university degree, preferably in International Human Rights, Humanitarian Law, International Relations, or a related field
  • Five years of relevant professional work experience at national and international levels
  • Professional experience in human rights and/or child rights monitoring and reporting
  • Advanced technical knowledge of the MRM, including on the specific role of UNICEF within the MRM
  • Strong analytical and communication skills (both written and oral)
  • Fluency in written French and English
  • Knowledge of the Malian or the Central Sahel context will be an asset

To apply and for more information, click here.

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