Child Protection Specialist – MHPSS (P-4), #130948, Temporary Appointment (TA – 364 Days) – ECARO o/p Budapest – Hungary
Job no: 577309
Position sort: Temporary Appointment
Location: Hungary
Division/Equivalent: CEE/CIS
School/Unit: Regional Services Div (ECAR), Geneva
Department/Office: ECARO O/P Budapest, Hungary
Categories: Child Protection
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The basic mission of UNICEF is to advertise the rights of each little one, in every single place, in all the things the group does — in programmes, in advocacy and in operations. The fairness technique, emphasizing essentially the most deprived and excluded kids and households, interprets this dedication to kids’s rights into motion. For UNICEF, fairness signifies that all kids have a chance to outlive, develop and attain their full potential, with out discrimination, bias or favoritism.
The ongoing warfare in Ukraine continues to devastate the lives of kids and households. Nearly 6 million refugees are hosted throughout Europe, 88 p.c of them ladies and kids. Over 4.7 million folks have returned to Ukraine, whereas greater than 3.5 million stay internally displaced. Children’s psychological well being continues to be deeply impacted. Many stay susceptible to separation and publicity to violence, and related impacts. In refugee-hosting nations, UNICEF is complementing nationwide efforts, addressing persistent humanitarian wants of these in protracted displacement whereas facilitating sustainable handover to nationwide authorities. In this complicated, protracted disaster, with persisting, intensified assaults, UNICEF continues to offer important assist to kids and households by way of psychological well being and psychosocial interventions delivered by way of little one safety programming and complementary, coordinated, multi-sectoral approaches.
Job organizational context : The Child Protection Specialist (MHPSS ) is to be primarily based within the Regional Office Programme Hub in Budapest. The Specialist studies to the Chief, Child Protection, who’s at Level 5. The Specialist will present technical assist and steerage to Country Offices (COs) and refugee response places of work (RROs) throughout Europe and Central Asia, with a concentrate on humanitarian settings, together with nations affected by the Ukraine emergency, in addition to the blended migration populations, and people affected by different humanitarian crises.
Purpose for the job:
The Child Protection Specialist (MHPSS) studies to the Chief, Child Protection for steerage and normal supervision. The Specialist helps the event and preparation of the MHPSS elements of Child Protection programme(s), with concentrate on the Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPHA) agenda, and is liable for the administration, implementation, monitoring, reporting, and analysis of those elements. The extension of the Ukraine emergency has resulted in continued and rising MHPSS wants amongst kids and households remaining in Ukraine and people displaced to neighboring nations. Simultaneously, the area is seeing an uptick in blended migration arrivals and the passing of the EU Pact has highlighted want for continued UNICEF engagement to strengthen MHPSS response and coverage atmosphere for all displaced, refugee and migrant kids and youth within the area.
To meet these wants, the Specialist supplies technical steerage and administration assist all through the programming processes to CO and RRO colleagues with a major concentrate on the implementation of the Ukraine Refugee Response Plan (RRP) in addition to promotion of kid safety approaches and techniques strengthening interventions in assist of MHPSS. H/She facilitates the administration and achievement of concrete and sustainable contributions to regional, nationwide and worldwide efforts to create a protecting atmosphere for youngsters towards all hurt, and to guard their rights to survival, growth and wellbeing as established below the Convention on the Rights of the Child, worldwide treaties/frameworks and UN intergovernmental our bodies. The Specialist is guided by UNICEF world insurance policies in MHPSS, together with MHPSS in little one safety and in humanitarian contexts.
How are you able to make a distinction?
Summary of key capabilities/accountabilities:
Support nation and refugee response places of work to plan and ship sturdy MHPSS programming in assist of these displaced, or in any other case affected by the disaster in Ukraine
Strengthen the supply of MHPSS by way of little one safety programming and system strengthening interventions in emergency-affected nations
Coordinate child-protection associated MHPSS approaches with interagency companions and different regional workplace sections—principally well being
in particulars:
Support nation and refugee response places of work to plan and ship sturdy MHPSS programming in assist of these displaced, or in any other case affected by the disaster in Ukraine.
- Support the preparation, compilation, and continuous updating of information and proof to tell UNICEF’s understanding of MHPSS wants dealing with displaced and disaster affected communities in Europe and Central Asia.
- Provide technical steerage and operational assist to MHPSS focal factors in Country Offices and Refugee Response Offices, on the interpretation, utility and understanding of UNICEF insurance policies, methods, processes, finest practices, and approaches on MHPSS and little one safety, and MHPSS in emergencies extra broadly.
- Support Country and Refugee Response Offices to formulate, design and put together programme/undertaking proposals for the sector with concentrate on emergency response, guaranteeing alignment with UNICEF’s total Strategic Plan and the Country Programme, regional methods and nationwide priorities, plans and competencies.
- Support Country and Refugee Response Offices to determine particular objectives, targets, methods, and implementation plans for MHPSS, together with plans at hand over or transition programmes to nationwide possession the place acceptable.
- Provide technical assist to Country and Refugee Response Offices and implementing companions in supply of their RRP and HAC commitments associated to MHPSS, guaranteeing they obtain the technical assist they require to ship on MHPSS outcomes.
- As requested by Country and Refugee Response Offices, monitor and assist country-level programmes/tasks by way of subject visits and trade of data to evaluate progress, establish bottlenecks and suggest options.
- Contribute to programmatic reporting as wanted.
Strengthen the supply of MHPSS by way of little one safety programming and system strengthening interventions in emergency affected nations.
- Document, promote, and develop the uptake of built-in little one safety approaches to supply of MHPSS providers throughout the area, with a powerful emphasis on assembly the wants of displaced and disaster affected people.
- Advance a set of kid protection-led MHPSS approaches to answer humanitarian wants consistent with organizational steerage and finest practices.
- Identify entry factors to make the most of and develop use of kid safety system strengthening approaches for the promotion of MHPSS outcomes.
- Keep abreast, analysis, benchmark, and implement finest practices in little one safety MHPSS for youngsters and households in humanitarian settings. Maintain a regional useful resource repository by way of Sharepoint compiling world, regional, and country-level assets.
Coordinate child-protection associated MHPSS approaches with interagency companions and different regional workplace sections—principally well being
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Plan and collaborate with nation and regional workplace colleagues and exterior companions to grasp wants and set up monitoring benchmarks, efficiency indicators, different UNICEF/UN system indicators and measurements, to evaluate and strengthen efficiency accountability, coherence and supply of concrete and sustainable outcomes for MHPSS.
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- Collaborate with interagency colleagues on shared MHPSS initiatives, together with shaping the MHPSS part of interagency Multisectoral Needs Assessments and Refugee Response Plans, together with indicators and steerage supplies, and monitoring methods in refugee internet hosting nations, conduct knowledge evaluation, and draft report.
- Facilitate coordination, studying trade, and capability constructing on MHPSS with concentrate on the humanitarian agenda amongst CO and RRO MHPSS focal factors throughout the area, together with by way of convening of a regional MHPSS point of interest working group and organizing regional coaching alternatives on MHPSS foundational expertise and world instruments.
- Set regional cross-sectoral programme priorities, methods, and design and implementation plans, with concentrate on humanitarian contexts.
- Facilitate multisectoral coordination on MHPSS at RO degree and supply technical assist to COs to advertise efficient inside coordination mechanisms on MHPSS at country-level.
- Work in partnership with the well being part to establish areas of synergy and cooperation and to assist influence of a multi-sectoral method to MHPSS programming for the area.
- Draft coverage papers, briefs and different strategic programme supplies for administration use, info and/or consideration.
To qualify as an advocate for each little one you should have…
Minimum necessities:
Education: An superior college diploma in one of many following fields is required: psychology, social work, psychiatry, medical psychology, psychological well being nursing or different related subject.
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Work Experience: A minimal of eight years {of professional} expertise in social growth planning and administration in MHPSS for youngsters and households is required.
- Experience working in a humanitarian emergency is required.
- Experience offering technical assist and creating MHPSS methods to be applied throughout nations is required.
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Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) is an asset.
Desirables:
- Developing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency.
- Relevant expertise in technical MHPSS programme growth and implementation in UNICEF is taken into account as an asset.
- Experience in each growth and humanitarian contexts is taken into account as a powerful benefit.
- Experience in MHPSS within the Europe and Central Asia context is strongly desired.
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Advertised: Nov 18 2024 Central Europe Standard Time
Application shut: Nov 27 2024 Central Europe Standard Time
