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, in all places, every single day, to construct a greater world for everybody.
And we by no means surrender.
For each child, a voice.
How are you able to make a difference?
BACKGROUND
The UNICEF Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia seeks to set up a roster of consultants devoted to upholding and advancing kids’s rights by way of specialised child safety interventions for deployments all through the region. Becoming a child safety guide on the UNICEF roster is predicated on a regular one-off application that will doubtlessly open the door to a number of assignments. Successful candidates will probably be eligible for direct recruitment by the Regional Office or any of the 21 Country Offices in the area for a interval of up to 4 years, with the likelihood of renewing the roster, to replace the standing of individuals beforehand on the roster in addition to opening the roster for new candidates. UNICEF will make intensive use of the roster for its consultancy necessities, thus decreasing the time required to course of contracts and for a guide to develop into operational. This is subsequently a novel alternative for certified people to submit a single application and, if profitable, to be thought-about instantly for assignments in the related areas of experience.
The UNICEF Child Protection Roster for Europe and Central Asia serves as a human sources repository from which the Regional Office or Country Offices can draw pre-vetted, nicely-certified child safety consultants shortly and effectively, who can advance UNICEF’s mission to shield and understand kids’s rights as enshrined in the CRC.
SCOPE OF WORK AND DUTIES
The Child Protection Roster is designed to meet the consultancy wants of the area for the subsequent three (3) years. In this regard, UNICEF’s Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia invites certified consultants to categorical their curiosity in being becoming a member of the Experts’ Roster. This roster goals to present specialised companies, entry to data, and technical experience to UNICEF’s child safety portfolio, notably in the areas of:
- Access to Justice
- Justice for kids and
- Child rights
a) Applicants are required to point out a number of of the areas of experience for which they want to be thought-about. Legal and coverage reforms associated to child justice, entry to justice and child rights, together with drafting laws, methods, and motion plans. Strong understanding of authorities child justice reform processes, and demonstrated expertise in supporting authorities reforms.
b) Supporting governments to combine child rights into nationwide and subnational authorized and coverage frameworks, together with the event of methods, roadmaps, and motion plans to strengthen child rights-based mostly approaches. Assessing the affect of legal guidelines, insurance policies, and governance programs on kids’s rights and nicely-being, making certain alignment with the CRC and worldwide child rights requirements.
c) Child-friendly authorized support for kids, together with creating authorized frameworks and capability constructing programmes.
d) Design, implementation and analysis of diversion packages, restorative justice approaches, and non-custodial measures tailor-made for kids in battle with the regulation that respect kids’s rights, promote their rehabilitation, and forestall re-offending.
e) Child-friendly justice together with selling child-sensitive judicial and administrative proceedings and supporting capacities of the justice system to respect child rights and the child’s greatest curiosity and keep away from retraumatisation and re-victimisation.
f) Access to justice for kids, in explicit equitable entry to justice for essentially the most marginalized kids, together with refugees, kids with disabilities, kids with out parental care and these affected by migration.
g) Supporting reforms and capacities in in household regulation, guardianship, and civil proceedings to shield kids’s rights and nicely-being.
h) Supporting multi-disciplinary, built-in approaches for child victims and witnesses of crime, with a concentrate on violence, abuse and exploitation.
i) Specialization of the justice system, together with coaching and capability constructing for justice professionals.
j) Prevention of child offending, together with holistic and early interventions and restorative approaches and safety of the rights of kids in danger of offending.
ok) Rehabilitation and reintegration of kids as soon as they’re out of the system, together with reintegration into households, schooling programs, and communities, whereas addressing stigma and making certain entry to companies that assist their nicely-being and growth.
l) Climate justice and different rising challenges impacting justice programs and entry to justice for kids.
m) Support companies for kids with advanced emotional and behavioral wants in danger of offending and their households and alternate options to institutionalisation and detention options.
n) Empowering kids to know and declare their rights and strengthening mechanisms for child participation in justice processes and selections affecting their lives.
o) Monitoring of child rights violations and supporting mechanisms for complaints and treatment – together with unbiased human rights mechanisms.
p) Expertise in multi-disciplinary collaborative approaches for kids in danger of offending or in contact with the regulation, together with social companies, psychological well being and group-based mostly interventions.
q) Other – Please specify.
The vary of duties for consultants could embrace design and conduct of analysis and evaluation, together with authorized and coverage evaluation, evaluation, and analysis, drafting of technical paperwork, content material growth of data merchandise, documentation of good practices, strategic programme design, provision of excessive-degree coverage and operational steerage, growth of coverage papers, communication and advocacy, coaching, mentorship, and capability strengthening, monitoring and analysis companies, data administration system companies, information analytics, and others as required.
Precise duties, outputs, reporting and working relationships will probably be specified on the time of contracting for the given assignments.
SKILLS REQUIRED
To qualify as an advocate for each child you should have…
Requirements relevant to all Experts
- A primary University diploma in regulation, social sciences, social work, psychology, worldwide growth, statistics, or one other associated area. A Master’s diploma in the identical self-discipline is taken into account is an asset.
- Minimum 7 years related skilled expertise in a number of of the thematic areas of child safety as specified in this TOR.
- Excellent data of the UNCRC, its General Comments, and the authorized and coverage frameworks derived from it.
- Specialised data and understanding of child rights and safety points in growth and/or emergency settings, linked to the particular thematic areas listed in this TOR;
- Proven monitor file in the profitable supply of excessive-degree knowledgeable recommendation, capability growth and technical assist in the formulation, design, planning, implementation, monitoring and analysis of child safety insurance policies in the related areas, programmes and actions, to authorities our bodies, UN entities, unbiased human rights establishments with a child rights mandate, civil society organisations or academia is an asset;
- Research and analytical abilities, together with of authorized and coverage evaluation, and the power to use information as proof is an asset;
- Excellent communication abilities;
- Demonstrated glorious analytical, reporting, writing abilities in addition to glorious negotiation and advocacy abilities;
- Training and presentation abilities, together with the power to share and impart data, present technical and coverage steerage, construct capacities and promulgate good practices for child safety as per related areas of experience;
- Previous work expertise with UNICEF, different UN entities, NGOs, governments or different implementing companions on child safety and associated thematic areas is an asset;
- Previous expertise with child safety points in Europe and Central Asia is a powerful asset.
- Adherence to UN’s values and moral requirements, understanding of UNICEF’s mission and mandate, sensitivity and adaptability to numerous contexts.
- Excellent spoken and written English, with one other UN language or main language used in the ECA area an asset.
For each Child, you reveal…
UNICEF’s core values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS), and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.
To view our competency framework, please go to here.
HOW TO APPLY
Applicants are invited to:
- Duly full the on-line UNICEF application
- Duly full & connect P-11 History Form (might be downloaded right here: https://www.unicef.org/careers/documents/p11-form)
- Submit a monetary proposal with each day charge in USD or EUR (purposes submitted with out a each day charge is not going to be thought-about)
- Submit a Curriculum Vitae (CV) together with an inventory of related publications (with hyperlinks)
- Submit analysis of work by UN if relevant (e.g., PER)
- Submit a Cover Letter
- Select related areas of experience from SCOPE OF WORK AND DUTIES part and present a abstract of max 350 phrases summarising the experience and related expertise for every. Include proof of related works in any of the talked about areas, equivalent to inclusion of hyperlinks and references.
- Names and contacts of three (3) referees (purposes with out referees is not going to be thought-about).
Please apply to the Regional Roster by the indicated on-line deadline of 10 January 2025.
Please word that solely candidates who’re below critical consideration will probably be contacted. Once pre-certified, consultants will probably be eligible for direct recruitment by UNICEF workplaces in the area for a 3-yr interval. In the choice of its workers and consultants, UNICEF is dedicated to gender stability, inclusion and range with out distinction as to race, intercourse or faith, and with out discrimination of individuals with disabilities. Well certified candidates are strongly inspired to apply.
UNICEF is dedicated to range and inclusion inside its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, non secular and ethnic backgrounds, together with individuals residing with disabilities, to apply to develop into a part of the group.
UNICEF presents reasonable accommodation for consultants/particular person contractors with disabilities. This could embrace, 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 goals 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 will probably be anticipated to adhere to these requirements and rules and will subsequently endure 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 further data to conduct a background check.
Remarks:
Only shortlisted candidates will probably be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of.
Individuals engaged below a consultancy or particular person contract is not going to be thought-about “staff members” below the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures, and is not going to be entitled to advantages supplied therein (equivalent to depart entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their situations of service will probably 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 make sure that the visa (relevant) and medical insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for your complete interval of the contract. Selected candidates are topic to affirmation of absolutely-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 should not 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 period of their consultancy contracts.
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