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For each child, champion
UNICEF is looking 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 ladies and kids in Nusa Tenggara Timur.
How are you able to make a difference?
Over the previous decade, Indonesia has made important strides in advancing child safety laws. Key frameworks, together with the Child Protection Law and the National Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN), define an bold agenda to be sure that all youngsters have entry to high-quality child safety providers and to scale back violence in opposition to youngsters. Recently, Indonesia enacted the Law on Sexual Violence Crimes, which underscores the essential function 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 final 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 important progress has been made, there stays a necessity to speed up efforts to strengthen built-in safety providers for ladies and kids, improve beginning 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 essential challenges impacting youngsters’s welfare throughout the province. Approximately 27% of youngsters beneath 18 reside 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, important gaps in beginning registration, 1 in 4 aren’t registered, forestall many youngsters from accessing important safety and social providers, underscoring the necessity for coordinated efforts to strengthen child safety methods and enhance support for susceptible youngsters. Strengthening built-in safety methods stays essential, particularly in making certain coordination amongst authorities companies, 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 staff based mostly in Jakarta, the consultant is anticipated to ship the next duties:
- Provide technical help to strengthen built-in safety providers for ladies 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 connected for the detailed breakdowns of duties, deliverables/outputs, 
To qualify as a champion for each child you should have…
- Bachelor’s diploma in social work or associated discipline.
- At least 5 years of working expertise in service supply related to social welfare, child safety or associated discipline.
- 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 features to social work reform and child safety and related authorized framework.
- Strong analytical and writing expertise in English.
- Fluency in English and Bahasa Indonesia.
For each Child, you exhibit…
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 here.
UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived youngsters and our world workforce should replicate the variety of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or another private attribute.
UNICEF provides reasonable accommodation for consultants/particular person contractors with disabilities. This could embody, for instance, accessible software program, journey help for missions or private attendants. We encourage you to disclose your incapacity throughout your application in case you want cheap lodging in the course of 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 ideas. All chosen candidates might be anticipated to adhere to these requirements and ideas and can subsequently endure rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will embody the verification of tutorial credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to present extra data to conduct a background check.
Remarks:
Only shortlisted candidates might be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of. Individuals engaged beneath a consultancy or particular person contract won’t be thought-about “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 supplied therein (equivalent to depart entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their situations of service might 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 fee 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 the whole interval of the contract. Selected candidates are topic to affirmation of absolutely vaccinated standing in opposition to 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 aren’t anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply places or straight work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out features for UNICEF for the length of their consultancy contracts.
National consultant to support implementation of child protection-related activities in Nusa Tenggara Timur Province (for Indonesian solely)
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