Position Title: Child Protection Specialist
Job Description
Hiring organization: UNICEF
Job title: Child Protection Specialist on Information Management
Job type: Full Time
Contract type: Temporary Appointment
Level: P-3
Location: Ethiopia
Categories: Child Protection, Emergency
Application closing date: March 14, 2023
Application Tip: We encourage you to read the job description carefully before you start the application process. Highlight your skills, motivation and experience and tailor your letter of interest accordingly.
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.
Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
And we never give up.
For every child, a fair chance
UNICEF has been present in Ethiopia for 65 years and its history is closely tied to Ethiopia’s gradual transformation into a modern economy with strong aspirations for middle income status by 2025.
UNICEF works to support national efforts to ensure the realization of the rights of children and women through improved child survival, development, and protection. Over the past six decades UNICEF has established strong relations with the government of Ethiopia, bi-laterals, donors, development partners and civil society.
How can you make a difference?
The purpose of this deployment is to support the UNICEF Country Office to scale up information management capacities for the emergency response programme in fulfillment of UNICEF’s CCCs. The specialist will ensure that the UNICEF Country Office has useful, valid and reliable information on 1) the situation of children’s and women’s rights, 2) the performance of UNICEF-supported programs in emergency contexts. The IM specialist is also responsible for building the capacity of UNICEF staff and their implementing partners in the area of monitoring and reporting.
If you have the required profile, you are highly encouraged to apply. Taking up this assignment is motivating and rewarding.
Responsibilities:
Design and develop data collection frameworks (including methodologies and tools) for global monitoring of progress related to prevention and protection interventions towards generating strategic information required by the organization for decision-making and advocacy;
Develop and manage information management protocols and work plan, and ensure compliance with assigned objectives;
Identify training needs among UNICEF staff and partners for the purpose of capacity-building on information management. Subsequently, plan and organize information management capacity development activities.
Analyze and evaluate data on a regular basis to assess achievement of objectives and recommend corrective actions, when necessary.
Provide technical advice to programme staff and other counterparts on planning and management of integrated information management, including the inter-agency child protection information management system (IA CPIMS) and monitoring and evaluation.
Represent UNICEF CP programmes in inter-agency IM Task Forces and Working Groups.
Prepare the programme status reports required for management, executive board, donors, budget reviews, programme analysis, annual reports, etc.
Collaborate and network with other UN agencies and co-sponsors on information sharing.
Collaborate in the selection and dissemination of statistical results from various analyses to country and regional offices.
Job requirements:
Education-
Advanced university degree in statistics, informatics, social science research or other relevant field.
Work Experience-
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in the area of IM and/or M&E with the UN and/or NGO.
- Experience working in the context of a natural disaster or armed conflict highly desirable.
Language Requirement:-
- Fluency in verbal and written English and/or French (depending on the country office's official language).
- Good written and spoken skills in the language of the humanitarian operation in country of assignment and knowledge of another UN language or a local language is an asset.
UNICEF competencies required for this post are…
• Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (1)
• Works Collaboratively with others (1)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (1)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (1)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (1)
• Drive to achieve impactful results (1)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (1)
During the recruitment process, we test candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels:
UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.
We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.
Duty Station: Addis Ababa
How to Apply:
If you are interested in the post and feel that you are suitable for the role then apply through the below link:
https://jobs.unicef.org/en-us/job/559840/external-outreach-child-protection-specialist-on-information-management-p3noc-rapid-response-rosters-eastern-and-southern-africa-region
