Apply for Child Protection System Strengthening Consultancy, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea 12 months (In country) Unicef Job Vacancy | Unicef Careers

UNICEF works in among the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived kids. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential. 

Across 190 nations and territories, we work for each child, in every single place, on daily basis, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means hand over. 

For each child, Child Protection

With over 850 indigenous languages and one of the crucial ethnically numerous populations, widespread poverty, and gender inequality make it onerous for many kids to appreciate their rights. In Papua New Guinea, UNICEF’s works successfully each ‘upstream’ (with governments) and ‘downstream’ (on the grassroots stage) to hold out its mission by means of a programme of cooperation collectively developed with the federal government guides our work within the nation.

 

How are you able to make a difference? 

Background

Child Protection in Papua New Guinea (PNG) stays a essential concern, presenting an pressing and complicated problem with alarmingly excessive charges of child abuse, neglect, and exploitation. Despite present authorized frameworks and companies geared toward safeguarding kids’s rights, many kids in PNG proceed to face vital obstacles when looking for safety and assist.

PNG has the best charges of intimate associate violence within the area. An estimated 26% of ever-partnered ladies and women aged 15 years and older have been subjected to bodily, sexual, or psychological

violence by a present or former intimate associate within the earlier 12 months. Systematic knowledge on violence towards kids isn’t broadly obtainable in PNG. However, current estimates recommend that 75% of youngsters expertise some type of violence throughout their childhood, usually perpetrated throughout the home atmosphere, and 43% of ladies aged 15 to 19 years have skilled bodily and/or sexual violence.[1]

In response, UNICEF designed the 2024-2028 nation programme, which incorporates the Child Protection Outcome specifying: Children and adolescents, together with essentially the most susceptible social teams and people affected by humanitarian conditions and local weather change, are protected against violence, abuse, neglect, exploitation, and dangerous social norms, and profit from a functioning child safety system that features prevention and response companies that are equity-focused and gender-responsive on the nationwide and subnational stage, by finish of 2028.

Therefore, UNICEF helps authorities and implementing companions in strengthening the child safety system and entry to justice for kids. This contains strengthening child safety social service employees, modeling child safety companies, integrating justice and welfare, and consolidating a child-friendly justice system.

To this finish, the UNICEF PNG Country Office seeks to interact a world guide to offer technical help to authorities counterparts and implementing companions in growing and implementing key interventions associated to strengthening the social service workforce, growing a service mannequin, and supporting Access to Justice for Children

Purpose of the project:

To present technical help to authorities counterparts and implementing companions in growing and implementing key interventions associated to strengthening the social service workforce, growing a service mannequin, and supporting Access to Justice for Children

Specific assist shall be underneath the framework of implementation of the UNICEF and Government of PNG Child Protection Rolling Workplan (2024-2025), in coordination and collaboration with the next counterparts:

• Government of PNG in Department of Justice and Attorney General (DJAG).
• Village Courts and Land Mediation (VCLMS)
• Magisterial Services.
• Royal PNG Constabulary (RPNGC).
• Family Sexual Violence Unit (FSVU)
• National Office of Child and Family Services (NOCFS).
• National Capital District Commission (NCDC)
• and chosen civil society organizations (CSOs)

 

Scope of Work:

1. Child Protection Social Services Workforce Strengthening and repair modeling

• Develop wants evaluation of minimal companies and develop a minimal package deal of companies for child safety and youngsters involved with the legislation, with an emphasis on prevention and early intervention programmes
• Support the event and implementation of built-in service supply fashions that enable SSWs to offer complete assist to kids and households, together with initiatives that hyperlink companies throughout sectors resembling well being, training, and social safety to create a extra holistic assist system
• Collaborate with universities, nationwide social companies coaching institutes/academies, {and professional} associations to develop/revise coaching curriculum, coaching and studying supplies for SSW for pre-service and in-service capability growth of the SSW

2. Access to Justice for kids – Services

• Modeling the coordination and referral pathway for kids entry to justice within the National Capital District with clear roles and coordination amongst companions, case administration processes for kids involved with the legislation, and referral mechanisms and finalize the conceptual framework for justice for kids companies mannequin.
• Support sufferer/survivor help by means of referral pathways by the police to social welfare companies, well being, psychosocial assist, authorized help, and justice, in collaboration with the child safety community

3. Modeling Child-Friendly Police Services

• Provide technical help to develop minimal requirements and checklists for the institution and operation of child-friendly police stations
• Support the coaching of a essential mass of law enforcement officials in two districts throughout two focus provinces in justice for kids
• Assist in modeling child-friendly police models in two (2) districts in NCD and Morobe aligned to the implementation of the JRRP (2021-2031)
• Support the institutionalization of child safety coaching for police into pre-service and in-service necessary trainings, specializing in the newly adopted Protocol on Child Victims and Witnesses of Crimes

4. Access to Birth Registration

• Conduct/facilitate coaching for implementing companions (authorities and CSOs) on Access to Justice and CRVS (Civil Registration and Vital Statistics) and start registration within the context of child rights
• Support knowledge administration for PNGCIR in amassing route start registration, together with the linkages between well being and civil registry programs within the context of CRVS and VCLMS, by means of implementation of the information strengthening pilot in three areas

As a champion for each child, {qualifications} are… 

• Advanced college Degree in Social, Science, significantly worldwide growth, human rights, psychology, sociology, worldwide legislation, social work, or one other related discipline.
• Minimum 5 years of related skilled expertise, i.e.

• Child safety, Justice for Children and/or social science
• is required.
• Demonstrated technical experience in justice for kids and
• child safety programs strengthening strategy.
• Experience growing and adapting coaching supplies,
• conducting coaching, and growing procedures and
• protocols, particularly in case administration.
• Knowledge of PNG nationwide legal guidelines, insurance policies, and protocols
• about child safety is required.
• Experience in working with authorities counterparts.
• Interpersonal abilities: cultural sensitivity, communication,
• facilitation,
• Professional expertise in growing and emergency
• nations and dealing with authorities counterparts on
• nationwide and subnational methods and capability constructing
• Proficiency in English

For each Child, you exhibit… our core values of Commitment, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability and Sustainability.

This place is a short-term project and doesn’t give rise to a long-term everlasting put up with the group.

Applicants are required to incorporate of their functions a monetary proposal which features a lumpsum quantity for consultancy charges, native transportation and different miscellaneous prices. Breakdown or particulars of the payment shall be a lot appreciated.

Individuals engaged underneath a consultancy or particular person contract is not going to be thought-about “staff members” underneath 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 (resembling depart entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their situations of service shall 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 cost of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with native or different relevant legal guidelines.

UNICEF is dedicated to variety and inclusion inside its workforce, and encourages all candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, spiritual and ethnic backgrounds, together with individuals residing with disabilities, to apply.

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. UNICEF additionally adheres to strict child safeguarding ideas. All chosen candidates shall be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas and can subsequently bear 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 offer further data to conduct a background check.

UNICEF doesn’t cost a payment at any stage of the recruitment course of (application, interview assembly, processing, or orientation). 

 

Remarks:  

Only shortlisted candidates shall be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of. 

Individuals engaged underneath a consultancy or particular person contract is not going to be thought-about “staff members” underneath 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 (resembling depart entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their situations of service shall 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 cost 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 medical health 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 fully-vaccinated standing towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which should be met previous to taking on the project. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and are usually not anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply areas or instantly work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out features for UNICEF for the period of their consultancy contracts.