Senior Child Protection Consultant (Support to MEHE), 118 days, Beirut - Lebanon
Beirut
- Organization: UNICEF - United Nations Children’s Fund
- Location: Beirut
- Grade: Consultancy - Consultant - Contractors Agreement
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Occupational Groups:
- Children's rights (health and protection)
- Protection Officer (Refugee)
- Closing Date: Closed
UNICEF is looking for a child protection consultant to work on the Capacity building on Child Protection Prevention and Response for the Department for Orientation and Pedagogical Team (DOPS) within the Ministry of Education and Higher Education Department.
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Purpose of Activity/Assignment:
Capacity building on Child Protection Prevention and Response for the Department for Orientation and
Pedagogical Team (DOPS) within the Ministry of Education and Higher Education Department.
Scope of Work:
With support from UNICEF's Child Protection (CP) Programme, MEHE was able to advance in integrating child protection principles and programming within the Education Sector. A new "Policy for the Protection of Students in the Educational Environment" has been finalized with MEHE and launched in May 2018 by the Ministry of Education and Higher Education. The Policy has been instrumental in defining the role of the Ministry of Education in creating a protective environment for children in school settings, preventing and mitigating risks of violence and defined key roles and responsibilities of ministry staff including the teaching body in responding to incidences of violence identified in the school setting. In 2017, the roll-out process of the CP policy was launched and included capacity building of second shift public school counselors, DOPS coaches, sensitization of school directors, supervisors and other relevant staff in 20 pilot schools. Capacity building and refreshers to the DOPS team continues in addition to the second shift counselors and to the identified focal points from schools.
In this regard, and to support the ongoing capacity building component, the consultant will support the Department for Orientation and Pedagogical Support (DOPS) implement its capacity building plan under the 2019-2020 UNICEF-MEHE Annual Work-Plan (AWP). The consultancy will consist of designing, planning, facilitating, evaluating and reporting on capacity building workshops at Beirut level. The consultant will train a team of trainers within DOPS and MEHE that will then train other MEHE or school staff.
At the national level, DOPS consists of a national coordinator and 3 team members who oversee the implementation of MEHE's Child Protection Policy in the school and build the capacity building of the regional and local team as well as other stakeholders at MEHE. At regional level, DOPS has a team of 57 Roving Psycho-Social Support (PSS) Counsellors who offer direct CP prevention and response services in am-shift public schools and provide technical support and guidance to 550 Fixed PSS Counsellors in 300 pm-shift schools. In addition, Roving Counsellors also provide capacity building to 600 school focal points and school directors on the policy.
A series of training within the 2019-2020 Annual work plan is planned as follow: Act. 2 SEP W2 to OCT W1 | 60 Roving PSS Counsellors | 8 days Act. 2 OCT (TBC) | 60 Health Counsellors | 8 days Act. 3 TBC| 550 Fixed PSS Counsellors | 6 coaching days Act. 8.1 SEP or OCT (TBC) | 27+ Regional / Other Investigators | 6 days on Investigating Institutional Violence
For each workshop, a workshop report should be submitted, with pre-/post-tests assessing knowledge acquisition, feedback from participants, observations and recommendations for future workshops.
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Based on the findings of the workshop reports, a final report updating the existing Capacity Needs Matrix on priority technical needs and gaps in CP within MEHE.
Work Assignment Overview |
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A 6-day workshop with 27+ Regional Investigators on Investigating Institutional Violence (Direct Facilitation):
/3 days pre-post-prep. + 3 days co-facilitating |
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6 days
Sept.or OCT (TBC) |
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An 8 Day Workshop with 60 Roving PSS Counsellors (Direct Facilitation) on Positive Discipline/Classroom Management & on CP Risk Assessment, Planning and Follow-up:
/5 days pre-post-prep. + 8 days (x4 groups) co-facilitating |
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37 days
Sept. W2 – Oct. W1 |
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A 2 days refresher workshop to 300 CP School Focal Points (ToT) on Basic skills and concepts for CP Prevention and Response:
/3 days pre-post-prep. |
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3 days
Oct. W1-2 |
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An 8 day workshop with 60 School Health Counsellors (Direct Facilitation) on Basic skills and concepts for CP Prevention and Response:
/4 days pre-post-prep. + 8 days (x4 groups) co-facilitating |
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36 days
Oct. (TBC) |
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A 1 Day workshop with 300 School Directors on MEHE's CP Response Mechanism (ToT):
/2 days pre-post-prep. |
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2 days Oct. W1-W2 & Nov. W1 – Dec. W3 |
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A 5-day workshop with 300 new CP School Focal Points (ToT) on Basic skills and concepts for CP Prevention and Response:
/3 days pre-post-prep. |
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3 days Nov. W1-Dec. W3 |
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A 6-day workshop with 550 Fixed School Counsellors (ToT) on Positive Discipline/Classroom Management & on CP Risk Assessment, Planning and Follow-up:
/4 days pre-post-prep. |
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4 days
TBC |
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Inception and coordination: - Coordination 1 days per week with different entities (UNICEF, MEHE¦.) (Total of 24 days) - 3 days coordination and inception report. |
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27 days
Oct - Feb |
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118 Days |
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To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have:
- Bachelor's degree in education, psychology, social sciences or relevant fields.
- Master's Degree in the relevant fields an advantage
- Minimum 5 years professional experience in child protection capacity building to diverse target groups
- Substantial experience designing, delivering and evaluating CP workshops to both CP and non-CP actors
- Experience in Lebanon's public sector (particularly MEHE or MoSA) highly desirable
- Fluency in English and Arabic
- Excellent capacity building needs analysis, communication and facilitation skills
- Expertise in Child Protection prevention and response
- Excellent relationship management skills
- Solid knowledge of Lebanons National CP SOPs and MEHEs Child Protection Policy
- Solid knowledge of Child Protection mainstreaming in Education
- Good M&E skills and experience evaluating knowledge acquisition and learning from workshops
For every Child, you demonstrate¦
UNICEFs core values of Commitment, Diversity and Integrity and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.
The competencies required for this post are¦.
View our competency framework at
http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/UNICEF_Competencies.pdf
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.
Remarks:
Applicants are requested to submit their financial quotation, indicating their daily fees.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
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