Consultant: Social Welfare Coordinator (6 months)

The consultancy will support the Child Protection sector in its linkages and programmatic work on social welfare systems strengthening, parenting and birth registration. Intra-UNICEF coordination will also be supported, particularly the CP involvement in the First 1,000 days Programming and the rationalization of multiple parenting programmes across sector.

If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization we would like to hear from you.

For 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children's survival, protection and development. The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments.

Major Tasks

• Assist government and NGO counterparts to plan and organize Child Protection related training programmes, particularly for the integrated First One Thousand Days (F1KD).
• Participate in inter-sectoral collaboration with other programme sections and relevant sister UN agencies, particularly coordinating with UNHCR counterparts working on initiatives on Birth Registration and of the Coalition on Every Child's Right to a Nationality, with UNHRC.
• Provide technical assistance and coordination support to ongoing initiatives related to protection of children through the systems based approach, particularly the UP Sikhay Project undertaken with the Department of Social Welfare and Development on social services workforce.
• Support coordination to ensure facilitated implementation of project activities at the national level as well as in the designated UNICEF areas related to social welfare systems strengthening.  Undertake field visits to coordinate with partners, identify implementation issues and constraints, and propose remedial measures and/or alternative courses of action to improve results-based programme management, and service delivery linking with UNICEF programme specialists for mitigation and programmatic decisions, particularly in the ongoing programme on parenting with Ateneo De Manila University on Masayang Pamilya.
• Support CP programme specialists in liaising with partners and other UNICEF sectors for the preparation of project progress reports and funding proposals required by office, as well as for donors, for purposes of budget review, programme analysis, fund raising, annual reports and others. Embedded in this is support for Missions and joint advocacy activities.
• Provide coordination support for Social Welfare specialist and Child Protection and UNICEF officers working on social welfare and SW-related programmes (i.e. parenting, F1KD, case management) to ensure facilitated implementation of ongoing Programme Cooperation Agreements and Rolling Workplans.
• Provide technical assistance on social welfare systems strengthening and related areas.

Deliverables

• Reports, training design and schedule, process documentation
• Reports, process documentation on implementation report of UNICEF-UNHCR Strategy Paper on Birth Registration
• Reports, strategy paper on SW strengthening
• Reports, expanded parenting module for teens
• Meeting and technical Reports
• Meeting Reports
• Technical presentations and reports

Qualifications and Competencies of Successful Consultant

• Advanced degree (Master’s or higher) in social work, community development, psychology, family life or other fields related to social welfare and development work, child development, child protection and humanitarian work.
• At least 5-years of solid experience in multi sectoral parenting support interventions including experience with child protection, family life, health and nutrition, WASH, and ECCD.
• Excellent knowledge on social welfare systems and workforce.
• Excellent knowledge of parenting support interventions with experience in field implementation.
• Solid experience on coordination with Government and NGOs working on child protection area.
• Understanding of Philippine socio-political context with knowledge of work related to parenting support interventions in East Asia Pacific regions, child protection and health systems, ECCD framework, knowledge of child rights/child protection, planning monitoring and evaluation is essential.
• Sensitivity towards ethics with regards to socio cultural issues,  local customs, religious beliefs and practices, personal interaction and gender roles, disability, age and ethnicity.
• Strong analytical and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work closely with national and international actors with tight deadlines.
• Comprehensive experience in coordination work and networking.
• Willing to conduct field visits and attend meetings.
• Fluent in English and knowledge of Filipino languages an asset.
• High level of writing, analysis, communication and computer skills.
• Dynamic, independent, self-motivated and well organized.

HOW TO APPLY

Qualified candidates are requested to complete an online candidate profile in http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/ by 15 July 2018.  Only applications sent through the e-recruitment portal under Job Number: 514363  will be considered.

All candidates are requested to submit a cover letter and the duly filled P 11 form which can be downloaded from our website at http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/P11.doc indicating three (3) previous supervisors. Please indicate your ability, availability and daily/monthly rate to undertake the terms of reference above.  Applications submitted without a daily/monthly rate will not be considered.

Only shortlisted consultants will be contacted.

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UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified female and male candidates from all national, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of our organization.