National Consultant to support strengthening of protection services for women and children in Tanah Papua

UNICEF seeks a national consultant to provide technical support for child protection programme activities in Tanah Papua, Indonesia. The role focuses on strengthening sustainable, integrated protection services including birth registration, capacity building, coordination, and policy support to improve child protection outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support to monitor implementation of recommendations from the integrated services assessment in 2025, including the roll-out and application of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for integrated child protection services and Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA), in line with national standards
• Support strengthening protection services for women and children (UPTDPPA and other services), including capacity building of the social service workforce
• Strengthen coordination mechanisms, referral pathways, and community-based prevention approaches, linking community structures with UPTD PPA and essential services to address violence against children and child marriage
• Provide technical support in achieving the RPJMN target on birth registration, including improving integration of birth registration with health and other frontline services
• Provide technical support to subnational governments to strengthen policy, planning, programming, and budgeting processes related to the child protection system, including prevention of child marriage
• Support the development of strategies for programme sustainability and scale-up, including documentation of lessons learned and practical recommendations for replication

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree on social work, psychology, or related field
• At least 5 years of working experience in service delivery relevant to social welfare, child protection or related field
• Practical experience on child protection case management is an asset
• Experience in UNICEF’s children rights and protection, women and girls’ empowerment, gender, disability and social inclusion’s concept is an advantage
• Extensive technical and practical expertise on capacity building including module development and training facilitation
• Good communication skill
• Demonstrated understanding of government functions to social work reform and child protection and relevant legal framework
• Demonstrated understanding of Papua context in program and regulations related to child protection and have experiences working in Papua Provinces
• Knowledge on monitoring and evaluation including information management system for child protection
• Ability to provide guidance and training to enhance the capacity of government staff
• Strong analytical and writing skills in English and Bahasa
• Fluency in English (advance in writing) is required
• Relevant experience in child protection and related areas, program/project development and management in a UN system agency / UNICEF is an asset

Skills

• Social Work
• Child Protection Case Management
• Capacity Building
• Training Facilitation
• Government Social Work Reform
• Child Protection Legal System
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Information Management System
• Program Development
• Project Management
• UNICEF Child Rights
• Women and girls empowerment
• Gender Inclusion
• Disability Inclusion
• Social Inclusion
• Technical Writing
• Analytical Skills
• English Writing
• Policy Support
• Coordination

Languages

English, Bahasa