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For each child, … safety..
UNICEF performs a pivotal function in addressing gender-based mostly violence in emergencies (GBViE), recognizing it as a worldwide disaster and a important human rights subject. As a frontrunner in GBViE prevention, danger mitigation, and response, UNICEF has built-in this precedence into its Strategic and Gender Action Plans (2022-2025) and Child Protection Strategy. GBViE efforts are cross-chopping throughout UNICEF’s objectives and core commitments, making certain danger mitigation is embedded in all sectors. UNICEF additionally leads in growing GBViE programming and instruments, co-growing tips, constructing interagency capacities, and advancing progressive approaches. Notably, UNICEF emphasizes technological options, partnering with ladies and women to handle digital literacy and connectivity gaps, aligning these improvements with world efforts just like the Generation Equality Action Coalition.
How are you able to make a difference?
UNICEF is looking for a passionate and skilled Child Protection Specialist – Gender-Based Violence in Emergencies (GBViE) to drive innovation and coordination in addressing GBViE. Based in Geneva, Switzerland—a worldwide hub for humanitarian partnerships—the Specialist will signify UNICEF in interagency efforts, have interaction with donors, and strengthen key partnerships with entities just like the GBV AoR, Protection Cluster, and UNHCR. This function is central to advancing GBV danger mitigation, supporting UNICEF’s management in interagency coordination, and aligning humanitarian actions with world high quality requirements. If you’re able to champion GBViE priorities, form worldwide advocacy, and contribute to transformative options, that is your alternative to make a significant impression.
To qualify as an advocate for each child you’ll have…
The Child Protection Specialist – GBViE will lead efforts to strengthen gender-based mostly violence danger mitigation throughout UNICEF-led clusters and sectors, specializing in safeguarding the rights and security of ladies and women via progressive approaches. This contains offering technical assist for GBV danger mitigation, growing digital instruments just like the Pocket Guide app and U-Report Safer Chatbot, and tailoring GBV Digital Minimum Standards for UNICEF’s Technology and Innovation work. The function may even contain supporting regional and nation places of work in implementing expertise options that prioritize security and advancing initiatives corresponding to UNICARE to make sure inclusive and moral programming.
The Specialist will signify UNICEF in world advocacy, networking, and partnership-constructing efforts associated to GBViE. This contains co-chairing the GBV AoR Technology & Innovations Reference Group, partaking with donors and interagency our bodies, and advocating for GBV integration in worldwide boards. Additionally, the function encompasses managing UNICEF’s digital GBViE merchandise, corresponding to scaling the Laaha digital secure house platform and Primero/GBVIMS+, in addition to driving useful resource mobilization, advancing analysis on expertise-facilitated GBV, and fostering collaborations with tech corporations to handle the digital gender hole. This place is pivotal in making certain UNICEF’s management in GBViE improvements and selling sustainable, impactful options globally.
The following minimal necessities:
Advanced college diploma in public well being, social work, political science, human rights and worldwide regulation or different associated diploma, or equal programming expertise.
Work Experience:
- At least 8 years of programme administration expertise, ideally together with at the least 3 years implementing GBV programming in humanitarian contexts.
- Demonstrated expertise in human-centred. feminist-oriented approaches to technological growth, utilization and administration, together with familiarity with flagship UNICEF merchandise, corresponding to Primero/GBVIMS+, the e-Referral Pathway for GBV, and Laaha Virtual Safe Space.
- Demonstrated expertise growing expertise and digital merchandise for ladies and women in low connectivity and low literacy settings.
Desirables/Assets:
- Demonstrated expertise with GBV service supply, together with case administration and its intersections with info administration.
- Demonstrated understanding of GBV danger evaluation and danger mitigation measures as they relate to expertise/digital options.
- Exposure to and consciousness of the event life cycle, structured evaluation, design and programming method.
- Experience working with all kinds of stakeholders and capturing of necessities in an inter-company setting.
- Experience working with UNICEF operations at some mixture of HQ, regional and nation workplace stage an asset.
Language Requirements:
- Fluency in English and French (verbal and written) is required. Knowledge of an extra UN Language (Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Spanish) is taken into account an asset.
For each Child, you exhibit…
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin the whole lot we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values
The UNICEF competencies required for this publish are…
- Builds and maintains partnerships
- Demonstrates self-consciousness and moral consciousness
- Drive to attain outcomes for impression
- Innovates and embraces change
- Manages ambiguity and complexity
- Thinks and acts strategically
- Works collaboratively with others
Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its completely different ranges.
UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived youngsters and our world workforce should replicate the range of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, no matter their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-financial background, or every other private attribute.
We provide a wide range of benefits to our staff, together with paid parental depart, breastfeeding breaks, and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of versatile working preparations.
UNICEF doesn’t rent candidates who’re married to youngsters (individuals beneath 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and goals of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority, and discrimination. UNICEF is dedicated to selling the safety and safeguarding of all youngsters.
All chosen candidates will bear rigorous reference and background checks and will likely be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to supply further info to conduct a background check.
UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the obligation station is required for IP positions and will likely be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments can also be topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Should you be chosen for a place with UNICEF, you both should be inoculated as required or obtain a medical exemption from the related division of the UN. Otherwise, the choice will likely be canceled.
Remarks:
As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration in the employment of the employees is the need of securing the very best requirements of effectivity, competence, and integrity.
Government workers who’re thought of for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities positions earlier than taking on an project with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the best to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance just isn’t obtained, or obligatory inoculation necessities are usually not met, inside an affordable interval for any purpose.
UNICEF doesn’t cost a processing payment at any stage of its recruitment, choice, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and coaching). UNICEF is not going to ask for candidates’ checking account info.
All UNICEF positions are marketed, and solely shortlisted candidates will likely be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of. An inside candidate performing on the stage of the publish in the related useful space, or an inside/exterior candidate in the corresponding Talent Group, could also be chosen, if appropriate for the publish, with out evaluation of different candidates.
Additional details about working for UNICEF could be discovered here.
Child Protection Specialist – GBViE (P-4), PG Child Protection/Migration, outposted in Geneva # 131060 (Temporary Appointment 364days)
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