Child Protection Specialist

As a Child Protection Specialist, you will contribute to strengthening systems that protect children from violence, exploitation, abuse, and harmful practices, and improving sector coordination. You will provide strategic and technical leadership in strengthening the social service workforce and case management system, support programme design, implementation, monitoring, and reporting, and engage with partners to facilitate programming and resource mobilization.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and technical leadership in strengthening the social service workforce and the case management system.
• Support the effective design, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of child protection programmes.
• Engage with internal and external partners, including government counterparts, development partners and civil society, to facilitate and coordinate programming, and to mobilize and leverage resources.
• Engage in policy dialogue, review and formulation, as well as high-level advocacy.
• Support evidence generation, innovation for programme delivery, knowledge management and capacity building.
• Strengthen programme quality and reach, maximizing effectiveness and efficiency through proactive coordination and a strong drive for results.

Requirements

• Master or equivalent (Advanced University Degree) in international development, human rights, psychology, sociology, international law, or another relevant social science field.
• 5 years of relevant work experience in leading and supporting Child Protection (CP) policy review and formulation, as well as systems strengthening and sector coordination is required.
• Experience in engaging in high-level advocacy and policy dialogue with government counterparts and key partners is required.
• Experience in the provision of technical assistance to Government partners.
• Experience in coordinating demand generation and behaviour change interventions (including birth registration) in collaboration with SBC teams is required.
• Experience in managing donor relations, partnerships, and stakeholder engagement is required and experience in any other related fields.
• Fluency in English is required.
• Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.
• Experience working in a developing country is considered as an asset.
• UN system experience is considered as an asset.
• Experience in both development and humanitarian contexts is considered as an added advantage.
• Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.

Skills

• Child Protection Policies
• Systems Strengthening
• Sector coordination
• Advocacy and Policy Dialogue
• Technical Assistance
• Demand Generation Marketing
• Behavior Change Interventions
• Birth Registration
• Donor Relationship Management
• Partnership Management
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Social Service Workforce Strengthening
• Case management systems
• Programme Design
• Programme Implementation
• Monitoring and Reporting
• Resource Mobilization

Languages

English