Apply for Education and Child Protection Officer, (NO-B), 12 months, Temporary Appointment, Boa Vista, Brazil #00131885 Unicef Job Vacancy | Unicef Careers

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Since 1950, UNICEF has supported an important transformation for kids and adolescents in Brazil. UNICEF Brazil with its most important workplace in Brasília and 9 area places of work works in shut partnership with nationwide and sub-national governments, company companions, youth, and civil society organizations. 

UNICEF is working to make sure the nexus between the humanitarian response to the migration disaster in Venezuela and the event work deliberate on the nationwide stage, specifically through UNICEF Seal, an initiative that goals to stimulate and acknowledge actual and constructive advances within the promotion, achievement, and assure of youngsters and adolescents’ rights in municipalities of the semi-arid area and within the Brazilian Legal Amazon. The coordination and oversight of Child Protection and Education actions associated to the migration response, HD nexus and the work with indigenous communities, it’s the primary precedence of the UNICEF workplace in Roraima. 

For info on the work of our group in Brazil, please go to our web site: UNICEF Brazil.  

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Under the overall steering of the Chief Education and Chief Child Protection, and having the Chief Field Office in Boa Vista as a second supervisor, the Education and Child Protection Officer will present total technical, managerial, and operational management to ship Child Protection and Education outcomes throughout the context of the humanitarian response, working carefully with different group members, native authorities, and companions.  

Particularly in relation to training, the Officer shall be accountable for: (i) conducting and updating the scenario evaluation and evaluation, (ii) offering technical help to municipal and state authorities, service suppliers and companions (iii) making certain efficient coordination of training companions, (iv) supporting programme progress monitoring and reporting, (v) managerial and operational management in delivering  programme outcomes throughout the context of the humanitarian response, (vi) supporting programme design, implementation, monitoring and reporting, (vii) elaborating donors’ proposal and stories; (viii) performing as focus for the partnership with associated Implementing Partners;  (ix) technical supervising the training group within the Boa Vista Office; and (ix) technically supporting the training group working within the Venezuelan migration disaster, amongst others, and (xi) working carefully with different group members, native authorities, and companions, making certain nationwide coordination. 

In relation to Child Protection, the Officer will work with the three axis of the ZO Boa Vista, together with migration, indigenous affairs and growth and shall be accountable for:

• (i) conducting and updating the scenario evaluation and evaluation,
• (ii) offering technical help to municipal and state authorities, service suppliers and companions
• (iii) making certain efficient coordination of child safety companions,
• (iv) supporting programme design, implementation, monitoring and reporting,
• (v) elaborating donors’ proposal and stories;
• (vi) performing as focus for the partnership with associated Implementing Partners;
• (vii) coordinating with PSEA focal factors IP actions; 
• (viii) technical supervising the Child Protection group within the Boa Vista Office; and
• (ix) technically supporting the Child Protection group working within the Venezuelan migration disaster, amongst others,
• (x) promote an motion plan built-in with training. 

To qualify as an advocate for each child you should have… 

The UNICEF competencies required for this put up are… 

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships 

(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness 

(3) Drive to realize outcomes for impression 

(4) Innovates and embraces change 

(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity 

(6) Thinks and acts strategically 

(7) Works collaboratively with others  

Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its completely different ranges. 

This place has been assessed as an elevated danger position for Child Safeguarding functions as it’s both a task with direct contact with kids, a task that works straight with identifiable kids’s information, a safeguarding response position, or an assessed danger position. Additional vetting and evaluation for elevated danger roles in child safeguarding (probably together with further prison background checks) apply. 

UNICEF is dedicated to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, no matter gender, nationality, non secular or ethnic background, and individuals with disabilities, to apply to grow to be a part of the group. To create a extra inclusive office, UNICEF affords paid parental depart, breastfeeding breaks, and affordable lodging for individuals with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages using versatile working preparations. Click here to be taught extra about versatile work preparations, well-being, and advantages. 

According to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), individuals with disabilities embody those that have long-term bodily, psychological, mental, or sensory impairments which, in interplay with numerous boundaries, could hinder their full and efficient participation in society on an equal foundation with others. In its Disability Inclusion Policy and Strategy 2022-2030, UNICEF has dedicated to extend the variety of workers with disabilities by 2030. At UNICEF, we offer reasonable accommodation for work-related help necessities of candidates and workers with disabilities. Also, UNICEF has launched a Global Accessibility Helpdesk to strengthen bodily and digital accessibility. If you’re an applicant with a incapacity who wants digital accessibility help in finishing the web application, please submit your request by way of the accessibility e-mail button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF. 

UNICEF doesn’t rent candidates who’re married to kids (individuals underneath 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and aims of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination primarily based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, non secular or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all kids. All chosen candidates will, subsequently, endure rigorous reference and background checks, and shall be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. Background checks will embody the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to offer further info to conduct a background check, and chosen candidates with disabilities could also be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their incapacity confidentially. 

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Remarks: 

As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration within the employment of the workers is the need of securing the very best requirements of effectivity, competence, and integrity. 

UNICEF’s energetic dedication to variety and inclusion is important to ship one of the best outcomes for kids. For this place, eligible and appropriate afro-descendants, indigenous, and different minorities are inspired to apply. 

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