Child Protection Officer (GBV),
Erbil, Iraq
UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund
Closing date: Monday, 23 July 2018
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UNICEF Iraq works with government and partners to strengthen the protective environment for the most vulnerable children and women, and to improve children’s access to education, safe water, sanitation, and health services. In 2017, UNICEF, along with partners, reached more than 1.4 million displaced people with life-saving water and hygiene services, helped to keep more than 25,000 displaced children learning, delivered psychosocial support services to nearly 200,000 children, and supported vaccination of more than 5.5 million children against polio.
There is still much to be done. We are working against a backdrop of violence and political instability, and mass displacement has affected millions of children and families. By the start of 2017 an estimated 11 million people were in need of humanitarian assistance, around half of them children.
Join our team and help us make sure every child has a champion.
How can you make a difference?
The Child Protection Officer (Gender Based Violence) provides professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for child protection programs/projects within the Country Program. Key functions/accountabilities include:
- Support to program development and planning
- Assist to conduct/update situation analysis for the GBV sector for development, design and management of effective child protection / GBV related programs/projects.
- Conduct research, review and report on development trends and GBV service delivery data for use in program development, management, monitoring, evaluation and delivery of results.
- Contribute to the development/establishment of sectoral program goals, objectives and strategies and results-based planning through research and analysis of child protection, GBV and other related information for planning and priority and goal setting.
- Provide technical assistance and support on programming for GBV prevention and response (development /revision of proposal/partnership agreements submitted by partners), and prepare required program documentations/materials/data to facilitate the program review and approval process.
- Program management, monitoring and delivery of results.
- Work collaboratively with internal and external colleagues and partners to discuss operational and implementation issues, provide solutions, recommendations and/or alert appropriate officials and stakeholders for higher-level intervention and/or decision.
- Keep record of reports and assessments for easy reference and/or to capture and institutionalize lessons learned.
- Participate in monitoring and evaluation exercises, program reviews and annual reviews with various partners, including NGOs, government, and other counterparts, to assess programs/projects.
- Monitor and report on the use of Child Protection program resources (financial, administrative and other assets), verify compliance with approved allocation/goals, organizational rules, regulations/procedures and donor commitments, standards of accountability and integrity.
- Carry out report-based and field-based monitoring of GBV activities, including monitoring local conditions and risks, project status and progress towards targets, to all geographical areas within Iraq and Kurdistan Region of Iraq where UNICEF's GBV programming takes place.
- Prepare regular sectoral program/project reports for management, donors and partners to keep them informed of program progress.
- Technical and operational support to program implementation
- Conduct regular program field visits and partnership review meetings to help identify any performance gaps and ways to address them, and provide technical and operational support/take appropriate action to resolve issues and/or refer to relevant staff for resolution.
- Report on critical issues/findings, bottlenecks and required actions for timely resolution to achieve results.
- Provide technical support to government counterparts, NGO, UN system partners and other country office partners/donors on the application and understanding of UNICEF policies, strategies, processes and best practices on child protection and GBV in Emergencies related issues to support program implementation, operations and delivery of results.
- Provide technical support to UNICEF Child Protection field teams and other UNICEF programmes such as WASH, Health, Education, Nutrition, etc., to ensure that GBV risk mitigation is adequately addressed as a cross-cutting issue and is integrated into all programmes.
- Networking and partnership building
- Build and sustain effective close working partnerships with NGO partners, government counterparts, GBV and CP sub-clusters, and other stakeholders for effective coordination to achieve and sustain results on child protection.
- Contribute to drafting communication and information materials for CO program advocacy to promote awareness, and support resource mobilization and partnership development for child protection/GBV programs.
- Participate in relevant inter-agency meetings/events on Child Protection and GBV programming, coordination, and planning and to integrate and harmonize UNICEF position and strategies with other development and planning process.
- Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building
- Identify, capture, synthesize and share lessons learned for knowledge development and to build the capacity of partners and stakeholders on GBV prevention and response programming.
- Participate as resource person in capacity building initiatives to enhance the GBV core competencies of partners /stakeholders for survivor-centered approach
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
- A University Degree in international development, human rights, psychology, sociology, international law or other social science field.
- A minimum of 2 years of professional experience in social development planning and management in gender based violence programming area is required. Relevant experience in other child protection areas such as case management, justice, and program/project development and management in a UN system agency or organization is an asset. Experience in both development and humanitarian contexts is an added advantage.
- Fluency in English, Arabic, and Kurdish is required.