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National consultant to support implementation of child protection-related activities in Nusa Tenggara Timur Province (for Indonesian solely)

Job no: 577810

Position sort: Consultant

Location: Indonesia

Division/Equivalent: Bangkok (EAPRO), Thailand

School/Unit: Indonesia

Department/Office: Kupang, Indonesia

Categories: Child Protection

UNICEF works in some of the world’s hardest locations, to attain the world’s most deprived kids. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 international locations and territories, we work for each child, all over the place, day-after-day, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means surrender.

For each child, champion

UNICEF is searching for a nationwide consultant to present technical experience to strengthen the capability of social service workforce to support the supply of built-in safety providers for girls and kids in Nusa Tenggara Timur.

How are you able to make a distinction?

Over the previous decade, Indonesia has made vital strides in advancing child safety laws. Key frameworks, together with the Child Protection Law and the National Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN), define an formidable agenda to be sure that all kids have entry to high-quality child safety providers and to cut back violence towards kids. Recently, Indonesia enacted the Law on Sexual Violence Crimes, which underscores the vital position of native governments in offering accessible and high quality providers. Additionally, the prevailing Law on Local Government and the Law on Village create alternatives for decentralized child safety providers.

The Child Protection Programme end result of the Government of Indonesia (GOI) and UNICEF CPAP 2021-2025 states: “Girls and boys are increasingly empowered and protected from violence and harmful practices through effective, quality child protection systems and positive social norms at both national and subnational levels, including in humanitarian settings.” While vital progress has been made, there stays a necessity to speed up efforts to strengthen built-in safety providers for girls and kids, improve delivery registration, and guarantee preparedness and response for child safety throughout emergencies.

The Child Protection Situation Assessment in Nusa Tenggara Timur (UNICEF 2024, Internal Report) brings to mild a number of vital challenges impacting kids’s welfare throughout the province. Approximately 27% of kids beneath 18 stay beneath the nationwide poverty line, making them particularly susceptible to neglect, violence, and exploitation. NTT additionally ranks second amongst Indonesia’s provinces in child labor prevalence, highlighting the pervasive nature of child exploitation and the pressing want for focused intervention. Additionally, vital gaps in delivery registration, 1 in 4 usually are not registered, forestall many kids from accessing important safety and social providers, underscoring the necessity for coordinated efforts to strengthen child safety methods and enhance support for susceptible kids. Strengthening built-in safety methods stays vital, particularly in making certain coordination amongst authorities businesses, civil society, and native communities.

The consultant will collaborate with the provincial authorities Nusa Tenggara Timur and chosen districts to reinforce ongoing initiatives and support the event of methods to maintain these efforts.

Scope of Work:

Under direct supervision from Chief Field Office and technical steering from Child Protection group based mostly in Jakarta, the consultant is predicted to ship the next duties:

• Provide technical help to strengthen built-in safety providers for girls and kids, together with capability constructing for the social service workforce to implement sustainable and resilient victim-centered interventions.
• Provide technical help to develop mechanisms to strengthen community-based mechanisms for child safety, together with referrals to civil registration providers district and metropolis ranges (in accordance with the Ministry of Village Guidelines for community-based child safety)

Please refer to the Term of Reference hooked up for the detailed breakdowns of duties, deliverables/outputs, TOR Child Protection Consultant for NTT Province_TMS.pdf

To qualify as a champion for each child you should have…

• Bachelor’s diploma in social work or associated area.
• At least 5 years of working expertise in service supply related to social welfare, child safety or associated area.
• Practical expertise on child safety case administration, is an asset.
• Extensive technical and sensible experience on capability constructing; good communication and facilitation ability an asset.
• Demonstrated understanding of authorities capabilities to social work reform and child safety and related authorized framework.

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• Strong analytical and writing abilities in English.
• Fluency in English and Bahasa Indonesia.

For each Child, you display…

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) and core competencies:

• Builds and Maintains Partnerships
• Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness
• Drive to obtain outcomes for impression
• Innovates and embraces change
• Manages ambiguity and complexity
• Thinks and acts strategically
• Works collaboratively with others

To view our competency framework, please go to right here.

UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived kids and our international workforce should mirror the range of these kids. The UNICEF household is dedicated to embrace everybody, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender identification, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or some other private attribute.

UNICEF gives affordable lodging for consultants/particular person contractors with disabilities. This might embrace, for instance, accessible software program, journey help for missions or private attendants. We encourage you to disclose your incapacity throughout your software in case you want affordable lodging throughout the choice course of and afterwards in your project.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and targets of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF additionally adheres to strict child safeguarding rules. All chosen candidates shall be anticipated to adhere to these requirements and rules and can due to this fact bear rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to present extra data to conduct a background verify.

Remarks:

Only shortlisted candidates shall be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of. Individuals engaged beneath a consultancy or particular person contract is not going to be thought of “staff members” beneath the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures and won’t be entitled to advantages offered therein (similar to go away entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their situations of service shall be ruled by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are accountable for figuring out their tax liabilities and for the cost of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with native or different relevant legal guidelines.

The chosen candidate is solely accountable to be sure that the visa (if relevant) and medical insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for your entire interval of the contract. Selected candidates are topic to affirmation of totally vaccinated standing towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which should be met prior to taking on the project. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and usually are not anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply areas or immediately work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out capabilities for UNICEF for the period of their consultancy contracts.

Advertised: Dec 11 2024 SE Asia Standard Time

Application shut: Dec 24 2024 SE Asia Standard Time