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Child Protection Specialist (Sub Cluster Coordination), P3, Niamey, Niger #131633 (Temporary: 364 days)

Job no: 578188

Position kind: Fixed Term Appointment

Location: Niger

Division/Equivalent: Dakar (WCAR), Senegal

School/Unit: Niger

Department/Office: Niamey, Niger

Categories: Child Protection

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UNICEF maintains unwavering assist in addressing the wants of youngsters and communities affected by humanitarian crises. Central to this engagement is UNICEF’s function in supporting humanitarian coordination – along with nationwide and native stakeholders – to enhance effectiveness of Child Protection in emergencies, attain collective humanitarian outcomes and fulfill UNICEF’s international accountabilities as cluster lead company for the Child Protection Area of Responsibility (CPAoR). In Niger CPAOR is led by UNICEF and co-led by the Direction of Child Protection (included within the Ministry of Public Health) and contains CPiE (Child Protection in Emergencies) representatives of National and International NGOs working within the space of CPiE.

In 2023, UNICEF Niger launched its new Country Programme (2023-2027) with the purpose of making certain that populations, together with girls, kids, adolescents, younger individuals and particular wants teams, have extra inclusive, equitable and enhanced entry to high quality primary social companies, first rate employment, social safety and safety from dangerous practices.

The challenges going through Niger’s primary social companies, embrace restricted sources, epidemics, hard-to-reach areas as a result of insecurity and inhabitants displacement, significantly within the areas of Diffa, Tahoua, Tillabéri, and Maradi. In addition, migratory actions have led to elevated vulnerability for in danger propulations significantly kids.

Psychological and emotional abuse, sexual and bodily violence, abductions, publicity to improvised explosive units (IEDs) are among the many safety dangers affecting kids in line with a number of assessments. The recruitment and use of youngsters in non-state armed teams (NSAGs) can also be a difficulty, though not effectively documented as a result of reluctance of communities to speak about it. Family separation is a significant concern that safety evaluation stories spotlight with each displacement.

In addition to the results of displacement and safety incidents, migration and child trafficking are rising points within the Agadez and Zinder areas.

The deterioration of the socio-economic scenario, contributes to elevated sexual violence within the household, group and faculty, affecting women and boys and adolescents. Services and responses to child and adolescent survivors of sexual abuse are restricted, in addition to instruments for the prevention of GBV incidents in opposition to kids and adolescents. For women, the safety disaster in addition to the closure of colleges, is a significant factor within the aggravation of early marriage (which is already a structural drawback) as a damaging coping mechanism for households.

To guarantee full geographic and thematic protection of child safety actors in Niger, this function is required to coordinate the interventions. This submit holder will probably be assisted by a part-time data administration supervisor who collects and analyzes knowledge on Child Protection contexts and actions carried out by Child Protection actors within the humanitarian settings.

How are you able to make a difference?

Under the supervision of the Chief Field Operations & Emergency, the Child Protection Area Of Responsibility Coordinator is accountable for giving technical help and assist to the event, planning, implementation, monitoring and analysis of the emergency interventions within the Child Protection sector. In specific, the CPAoR Coordinator is accountable for facilitating and coordinating the CPAoR sub present steerage to all companions on widespread requirements, methods and approaches, be certain that all vital child safety gaps and vulnerabilities are recognized; and that data is supplied on roles, duties and accountability to make sure that all gaps are addressed with out duplication. The Child Protection Specialist (Sub-Cluster) works with the Protection Cluster and in shut collaboration with the Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Area of Responsibility.

The most important duties of the Child Protection Specialist (Sub Cluster) are the next:

1. Collaboration with Protection Cluster, SGBV Sub-Cluster and different actors

• Work with the Protection Cluster and different, humanitarian actors, at nationwide and discipline degree, to reply to humanitarian wants and coordinate emergency responses.
• Collaborate with the Protection Cluster and contribute to Child Protection/Gender Based Violence coordination mechanisms, prevention and response,
• Work with the Protection Cluster and/or different actors to determine alternatives to combine Child Protection into different safety sub-sectors actions.
• contribute to the event of key messages for broader humanitarian advocacy/messaging initiatives of the safety cluster or the workplace of the Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator.

2. Strategic Planning

• ln collaboration with Child Protection Actors, implement the 2025 Child Protection Sub Cluster plan, primarily based on the evaluation of 2024 plan achievements and gaps and develop and replace a Child Protection sub-cluster technique.
• Train regional actors (Child Protection Regional Services and Child Protection Working Groups on coordination together with key coordination instruments and work with Child safety actors to bolster the nationwide child safety techniques equivalent to Child Protection service mapping and institution of a referral.
• Update the CPIE actors’ mapping, which allows to determine gaps, keep away from duplication, and construct complementarity of accomplice actions.

3. Assessment, Monitoring and Evaluation

• Work with the Protection Cluster lead to make sure that key child safety issues are mirrored in OCHA led multi-sectoral assessments and monitoring instruments.
• With Child Protection Actors, guarantee periodic evaluate in opposition to agreed indicators of interagency response.
• With companions, determine response gaps (together with geographic protection and programmatic scope) and search options for filling gaps.
• Contribute to the preparation of UNICEF month-to-month Situation Reports (SitRep).
• Coordinate the updating of OCHA Online Reporting System (ORS).

4. Capacity Building

• Strengthen the functioning of the Case Management Task Force created throughout the CP AoR to enhance the standard of the actors’ interventions after which contribute to the administration of knowledge on weak kids at authorities degree by means of the CPMIS+/PRIMERO.
• Work with Child Protection actors at nationwide and discipline ranges to implement the capability constructing inter-agency plan that meets the wants of key nationwide and native stakeholders (e.g. coaching on Mental Health and, nationwide psychosocial information replace, PSEA (safety from sexual exploitation and abuse) consciousness)
• Collaborate with the Mental Health and Psychosocial Working Group to take account of the child dimension and introduce applicable working instruments for child safety stakeholders.

5. Management and Representation

• Promote, respect and be certain that the Principles of Partnership are mirrored within the day-to-day work of the Child Protection coordination mechanism at nationwide in addition to discipline degree.
• Establish results-oriented, two-way communication channels between the nationwide and regional degree to strengthen a extra standardized operational child safety response. eiFbOoG BSRYCC
• Represent Child Protection Actors throughout the Protection Cluster, the OCHA lead inter – cluster coordination mechanisms and, when potential, throughout the HCT/UN nation workforce, in addition to inside some other inter-agency humanitarian coordination mechanism.
• Maintain the contact with the worldwide Child Protection Area of Responsibility by means of calls, conferences, sharing data, paperwork and instruments.

6. Fund Raising

• Promote 2025 Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan (HNRP).
• Set up an advocacy and fundraising Task Force to assist nationwide and native NGOs of their advocacy and fundraising methods.
• ln session with Child Protection Actors, coordinate mobilization of sources by means of humanitarian funding mechanisms, together with Regional Humanitarian Fund for West and Central Africa and CERF.

To qualify as an advocate for each child you’ll have…

• An superior college diploma in one of many following fields is required: worldwide growth, human rights, psychology, sociology, worldwide regulation, or one other related social science discipline.
• At least 5 years’ expertise, in inter-agency coordination and programme administration within the space of child safety in emergencies.
• Demonstrated wonderful management, negotiation, communication, facilitation, advocacy and writing abilities.
• Experience working in a creating nation is taken into account as an asset.
• Relevant expertise in programme growth in child safety associated areas in a UN system company or group is taken into account as an asset.
• Experience in each growth and humanitarian contexts is taken into account as an added benefit.
• Full working proficiency in oral and written French is required; Working Knowledge in English required.

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The UNICEF competencies required for this submit are…

• Builds and maintains partnerships (1)
• Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness (1)
• Drive to realize outcomes for impression (1)
• Innovates and embraces change (1)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (1)
• Thinks and acts strategically (1)
• Works collaboratively with others (1).

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Advertised: Dec 26 2024 W. Central Africa Standard Time

Application shut: Jan 04 2025 W. Central Africa Standard Time