Child Protection Officer (Social Norms), NO-A, Jakarta, Indonesia, Post #108632 (for Indonesian only)

UNICEF Indonesia is seeking a Child Protection Officer who will provide professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for child protection (bullying, positive discipline, child marriage, parenting, and family violence prevention) programs/projects within the Country Program from development planning to delivery of results, preparing, executing, managing and implementing a variety of technical and administrative program tasks to facilitate program development, implementation, program progress monitoring, evaluating and reporting.

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, Protection

A steadily growing economy isn't benefiting all. Half the population still lives in poverty and children's changes can vary dramatically depending on their families’ wealth or where they live.

For more information, visit the UNICEF Indonesia Country Office website: https://www.unicef.org/indonesia/

How can you make a difference?

1. Support to program development and planning

• Research and analyse global and national trends on parenting, bullying, positive discipline, child marriage and family violence prevention and other social norms issues to facilitate program development
• Support in designing pilot interventions on social norms, including review and finalization of modules, contributing to finalization of partnership documents, etc.
• Contribute to coordination of office-wide objective on child marriage, including development and review of strategic planning documents such as advocacy strategy and Theory of Change.

2. Program management, monitoring and delivery of results

• Work closely and collaboratively with internal and external colleagues and partners to collect/analyze/share information on implementation issues, suggest solutions on routine program implementation and submit reports to alert appropriate officials and stakeholders for higher-level intervention and/or decisions. 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 sectoral reviews with government and other counterparts and prepare minutes/reports on results for follow up action by higher management and other stakeholders.
• Monitor and report on the use of sectoral 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.
• Report on issues identified to ensure timely resolution by management/stakeholders. Follow up on unresolved issues to ensure resolution.
• Provide inputs for the development of reports for management, donors and partners

3. Technical and operational support to program implementation

• Undertake field visits and surveys and/or collect/share information with partners/stakeholders to assess progress and provide technical support and/or refer to relevant officials for resolution. Report on critical issues, bottlenecks and potential problems for timely action to achieve results.
• Provide technical and operational support to government counterparts, NGO partners, UN system partners and other country office partners/donors on the application and understanding of UNICEF policies, strategies, processes and best practices on social norms and related issues to support program implementation, operations and delivery of results.

4. Networking and partnership building

• Map and regularly update key stakeholders in relevant social norms areas including child marriage, and prevention of violence against children
• Organize or participate on regular meetings with partners and key stakeholders working on social norms and produce minutes, including acting as liaison for Indonesia Adolescent Girls Network and other relevant networks, as requested.
• Build and sustain effective close working partnerships with government counterparts and national stakeholders through active sharing of information and knowledge to facilitate program implementation and build capacity of stakeholders to achieve and sustain results on child protection.
• Draft communication and information materials such as briefing notes, concept notes and other background materials for meetings with donors, media and policy makers

5. Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building

• Identify, capture, synthesize and promote lessons learned for knowledge development and to build the capacity of stakeholders in the form of policy briefs, good practices, case studies, etc.
• Serve as focal point for U-report and social media on social norms issues
• Participate as resource person in capacity building initiatives to enhance the competencies of stakeholders.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• Advanced University degree*) in one of the disciplines relevant to the following areas: international development, human rights, psychology, sociology, international law or other social science field
• Minimum of 2 years of professional work experience.
• Fluency in English and Bahasa Indonesia. 

(*First level university degree in combination with 4 years of experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s core values of Commitment, Diversity and Integrity and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.

Disclaimer: The screening of your application will be conducted based on the information in your profile. Before applying, we strongly suggest that you review your profile to ensure completeness, especially the education and experience sections. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.