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Child Protection Officer (Harmful Practices)

Jordan

  • Organization: UNV - United Nations Volunteers
  • Location: Jordan
  • Grade: Level not specified - Level not specified
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Children's rights (health and protection)
    • Sexual and reproductive health
    • Protection Officer (Refugee)
  • Closing Date: Closed

Details

Mission and objectives

UNICEF MENARO is a part of the UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage which focuses on girls’ empowerment, supports households with positive social norms change, strengthens systems that deliver services to adolescent girls; ensure that laws and policies protect and promote the rights of adolescent girls, and develop robust data to inform policies and programmes to end child marriage. The Regional Office is also a part of the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation. In the MENA region, four countries- Djibouti, Egypt, Sudan and Yemen are working to eliminate the practice through various approaches on prevention, access to services, and social and behaviour change related to the practice and empowerment of girls and boys.

Context

The UN Volunteer will be working with the Child Protection section in the Regional Office. UNICEF Child Protection has a clear mandate to contribute to the realization of the SDGs, in particular Goals 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 (gender equality, violence against children, harmful practices), 8.7 (child labour, trafficking) and 16.2 (access to justice). Across the region, we are working closely with governments, civil society partners, research institutions, private sector and other UN agencies to build strong child protection systems to prevent and mitigate harm for children and to ensure that if and when they are harmed, they get the needed care and protection to recover. The UN Volunteer will specifically support UNICEF RO in implementation of programmes for addressing harmful practices in the MENA region. The UN Volunteer will also have regular interactions with UNICEF Country Offices (CO’s), UNFPA Arab States Regional Office (ASRO) & CO’s and civil society organisations that are members of the Regional Action Forum to End Child Marriage in the Arab States/MENA region (RAF).

Task description

Under the direct supervision of Indrani Sarkar, Child Protection Specialist (Harmful Practices, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks: • Support in regular coordination with CO’s implementing child marriage and FGM prevention and response programmes; • Support RO in strengthening RAF coordination and regular communication: - Support RO to organize periodic RAF members’ meetings. Ideate on key meeting (virtual or in-person) themes for RAF meetings; - Coordinate with members for updates; - Develop periodic newsletters and other communication materials; - Coordinate with RAF members on work plan updates; - Promote activities and initiatives undertaken by the RAF; - Update and share calendar of events, advocacy and research initiatives; - Knowledge management for materials learning and knowledge materials for RAF. • Provide technical and logistical support to RO CP team in organizing regional advocacy events/meetings on addressing harmful practices; • Support CP Harmful Practices team in documentation, annual reporting and knowledge management.

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