UNICEF Child Protection Specialist Jobs 2024 – Ethiopia NGO Jobs.
UNICEF Ethiopia looking for “Child Protection Specialist “.
Applicants with a Master’s Degree may apply on or before 16th April, 2024.
UNICEF is a Christian international relief and development agency working globally to end poverty and injuries and to restore hope in some of the world’s poorest communities. UNICEF have the vision to see 50 million people released from material and spiritual poverty through a worldwide network of 100,000 local churches. We operate in more than fifty countries around the world.
UNICEF Child Protection Specialist Jobs 2024
The UNICEF has published a job vacancy announcement on 03rd April, 2024 for qualified Ethiopians to fill in the vacant post of Child Protection Specialist to be based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
| Recruiter | United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) |
| Position | Child Protection Specialist |
| Location | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
| Country | Ethiopia |
| Total Vacant Post | N/A |
| Qualification | Master’s Degree |
| Experience Required | Minimum Five (05) year’s |
| Application Deadline | 16th April, 2024 |
UNICEF Job Vacancy 2024
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Support strengthening coordination internally within UNICEF between Child Protection, Education and Health sections and externally strengthen coordination and collaboration between ministries of Education, Health, Women and Social Affairs, Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) for system strengthening and among other key UN and NGO including through MHPSS Technical Working Group. The incumbent will also support coordination between UNICEF CO, regional office, and headquarters on MHPSS.
- Support capacity development of professional including through institutionalizing MHPSS training curriculum for workforce in social welfare, health, and education sectors.
- Support the Rapid Deployment Model, which includes a roster of MHPSS professionals assigned to work in emergency areas or other locations with critical MHPSS service gaps.
- Support strengthening of MHPSS in emergencies to meet UNICEF’s core commitments for children, including quality assurance of MHPSS material used by partners.
- Support ensuring a cross-sectoral approach to case management. This includes review and inputs to the sector-specific capacity-building materials/sector and identifies strategies to help ensure linkages between MHPSS and case management in health, education, and child protection.
- Identify target groups and existing evidence from across the three sectors and counterparts to develop a strategy to roll out focused advocacy messages on MHPSS to (a) raise awareness on mental health and psychosocial well-being across education, child protection and health sectors; (b) to strengthen self-care and childcare, and care-seeking behaviours of the target audience, and (c) reduce stigma for people with mental health conditions.
- Strengthen knowledge management and development and improvement of monitoring and evaluation systems to better measure the impact of our MHPSS interventions.
- Any other MHPSS strengthening activities related to advancing MHPSS across child protection, health, nutrition, and education systems in the above activities in consultation with the concerned supervisor, Chiefs, and technical specialists.
- Programme management, monitoring and quality control of results.
- Contribute to planning and reporting functions of the Child Protection Team, including development and monitoring of annual workplans.
- Contribute to drafting of funding allocations, ensure timely fund disbursement to partners and proper utilization as per plans, reporting and liquidation of resources.
- Monitor programs/projects to assess progress, identify bottlenecks and potential problems and take timely decisions to resolve issues and/or refer to relevant officials for timely resolution.
- Serves as section focal point on MHPSS issues for children including in respect of legal reform for child protection, and migration.
Position in Organization:
- Position Title: Child Protection Specialist
- Job no: 570859
- Contract type: Temporary Appointment
- Duty Station: Addis Ababa
- Level: P-3
- Location: Ethiopia
- Categories: Child Protection
- Advertised: 02 Apr 2024 E. Africa Standard Time
- Deadline: 16 Apr 2024 E. Africa Standard Time
Minimum Requirement:
Education:
- Master’s degree in social sciences, psychology, international development, public health, or similar relevant discipline. Two additional years of relevant work experience may be accepted in lieu of a master’s degree.
Work Experience:
- At least 5 years of MHPSS programming, including in humanitarian contexts.
- Solid knowledge and experience in child protection programming, including in humanitarian contexts.
Language requirements:
- Fluency in English both oral and written is required.
- Excellent analytical, communication, writing and editorial skills in English.
- Proficiency in an additional official United Nations language is an asset.
How to Apply UNICEF Child Protection Specialist Jobs 2024
Note: Before you apply, please download (link is given below) the full advertisement and read it carefully.
Then to apply, go to https://jobs.unicef.org/cw/en-us/job/570859
The Closing Date: 16th April, 2024.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.
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| Official Website | www.unicef.org |
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