Sub-National Child Protection Area of Responsibility Coordinator, Odesa

Odessa

Organization: UNICEF - United Nations Children’s Fund
Location: Odessa
Grade: Level not specified - Level not specified
Occupational Groups:
- Children's rights (health and protection)
- Protection Officer (Refugee)
- Managerial positions
Closing Date: 2023-05-18

The Sub-national Contractor is a Cluster Coordination core team member. The overall aim of this role is to support the coordination of a timely, coherent and effective education preparedness, plan and response by mobilizing and coordinating education stakeholders to respond in a strategic manner to existing and potential emergencies at the assigned sub-national level (the East).

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Purpose of assignment:

Deliverable	# of w/days
1) Establish and maintain a CP AoR coordination mechanism at subnational level in line with the national coordination structure. Conduct regular (weekly or bi-weekly) sub-national coordination and engage partners for coordinated response. Update the partners conduct details/ mailing list. Maintain a regular communication with partners, stakeholders and child protection authorities with/for updates related to child protection service provision. Document the sub-national cluster meetings and share with partners within agreed timeframe, and keep the partners and stakeholders updated with the cluster needs and gaps. Generate evidence-based data on emerging CP issues and concerns to inform advocacy communicate with the national CP Cluster coordinator to ensure appropriate support for interagency CP activities. Expand the coordination of child protection response to heard to reach children including newly accessible areas.	22 days
2) Ensure timely and regular information-sharing, with Sub-national CPSC members, national CP SC coronation team, and other clusters/coordination forums, as appropriate. Promote Child Protection common approaches, standards, guidelines, and good practices and enforce field compliance with Child Protection policies, standards, and procedures, including identifying existing service gaps and opportunities for programming and funding. Seek complementarity and synergy with development actors and promote system-based approach. Assess the capacity of child protection actors to identify the needs in the capacity building of CPiE programming and coordination. Act as focal point for inquiries on the Child Protection AoR coordination for the assigned sub-national/region.	22 days
3) Linkages with other working groups/coordination forums.
Represent the CP AoR at sub-national coordination engagements including at Inter-Cluster Coordination Group (ICCG) meetings, OCHA General Coordination Meeting (GCM) and Area Based coordination meetings. Provide including weekly CP AoR inputs to OCHA led humanitarian coordination and dissemination. Coordinate with other clusters and AoR, working groups at subnational level to improve Inter-Cluster response to child protection. Participate in the Oblast level Inter-Cluster coordination meetings and update the national coordinators about the protection situation of children of the assigned region. Represent the interests of the Child Protection AoR in discussions at sub-national level on prioritization, resource mobilization, field consultation and advocacy. Joint advocacy and raising awareness initiatives addressing key child protection concerns such as child marriage, child labor as well as other issues affecting children. Participate in the oblast level inter-cluster coordination meetings and update the national coordinators about the child protection situation and response	24 days


4) Monitoring and reporting of the response by: On regular basis, review the progress against the state specific benchmarks and agreed results to identify gaps and find ways to address them. Promote the CP AoR situation and response (5Ws/Activity Info) monitoring tools to minimize duplication of service delivery and ensuring complementarity. Ensue all CP partners at Sub-national contribute to the CP AoR Service Mapping and referral pathways. Contribute to and widely disseminate of the CP AoR products and resources among the Sub-national CPSC members. Ensure that key child protection concerns are reflected in multisectoral assessments as well as other sectoral-specific assessments as far as possible.	23 days
5)Participate in monitoring and evaluation exercises, programme.reviews and annual sectoral reviews with the government and other counterparts and prepare minutes/reports on results for follow up action by higher management and other stakeholders. Report on issues identified to ensure timely resolution by management and stakeholders. Follow up on unresolved issues to ensure resolution. Prepare inputs for programme and donor reporting. Advocate for field mission to assess the Child Protection needs of the affected children in including newly accessible and non-government control areas.	22 days
6) Technical and operational, Strategic planning by: Undertake field visits and surveys and collect and share reports with partners and stakeholders. Based on the analysis of the situation, contribute to the development of the national CP AoR inputs to the Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO) and Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP), inclusive of analysis, objectives, indicators, activities, and funding requirements. Provision of updates, analysis and information relating to the response of child protection SC (monthly 5Ws, child protection partner presence map, child protection service mapping, web-based referral pathways dashboards, email directory). 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 child protection common approaches, standards, guidelines, and good practices strategies, processes and best practices in child protection, to support programme implementation.	23 days

7) Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building. Identify, capture, synthesize, and share lessons learned for knowledge development and to build the capacity of stakeholders. Apply innovative approaches and promote good practices to support the implementation and delivery of concrete and sustainable programme results. Research, benchmark and report on best and cutting-edge practices for development planning of knowledge products and systems. Participate as a resource person in capacity building initiatives to enhance the competencies of clients and stakeholders.	24 days
Sub-total:	160

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

Minimum requirements:	Education [specify disciplines]	Master's degree	A university degree in one of the following fields is required: international development, human rights, psychology, sociology, international law, or another relevant social science field.
	Professional experience [number of years, relevant to the assignment, other specifics]	At least 3/5 years progressively responsible humanitarian work experience with UN and/or NGO, including programme management and/or coordination in the first phase of a major emergency response relevant to the cluster.
	Language	English	Advanced [C1]
	Language	Ukrainian	Proficient/Native [C2]

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).

 To view our competency framework, please visit  here.

 Core Competencies

Understanding of the overall humanitarian sector architecture, how elements are inter-related and how to apply them to cluster coordination work.
Understands the rationale behind Humanitarian Reform, its main components and recent developments including the Transformative Agenda.
Understands, uses and adapts the tools, mechanisms and processes developed as part of Humanitarian Reform.
Demonstrates commitment to Humanitarian Principles .

Communicates, works and networks effectively with a wide range of people to reach broad consensus on a well-coordinated response, and demonstrates leadership where required.
Thinks and acts strategically and ensures that cluster activities are prioritised and aligned within an agreed strategy.
Demonstrates commitment to the cluster and independence from employing organisation.
Builds, motivates and leads information management team.

Other skills and attributes include:

Knowledge of humanitarian reform principles, international humanitarian law, inter-connectedness and reform pillars & reform updates.
Knowledge of the Cluster approach guidelines and terms of Reference (and knowledge of how to apply them).
Knowledge of cluster participants (their mandates, capacities, attitudes, limitations,) and how to integrate them into the cluster approach.

Experience of coordinating partnership work between Cluster and Wider humanitarian/Education Sector or Cluster.

Ability to mitigate and mediate conflict and disagreements among cluster partners.

Ability to use and adapt cluster coordination tools (e.g. stakeholder mapping, HRP, Flash Appeals, IM tools, Need-Capacity-Resource Mapping, Response Planning, Contingency planning.)

Understands key technical issues for the cluster sufficiently well enough to be able to: engage with cluster participants; make full use of their experience and knowledge; guide strategy and plans; communicate and advocate on important issues.

Understanding of Protection concerns for children in humanitarian situations.

Understanding the Child Protection Area of Responsibility as a whole and its priority issues; an ability to strategize how these sectoral needs are met through collective delivery

Knowledge and understanding of principles and approaches to Child Protection Programming in humanitarian situations.

Ensure that the role, responsibilities and functional linkages among the Cluster support team (where applicable) are clear and well-coordinated.

Communication, advocacy, analytical and facilitation training/mentoring skills.

Good knowledge of computer management and applications i.e. word processing, spreadsheets, databases, presentation tools, etc.

Please provide an all-inclusive financial proposal to carry out the deliverables listed above.

ⁱ Costs indicated are estimated. Final rate shall follow the “best value for money” principle, i.e., achieving the desired outcome at the lowest possible fee. Consultants will be asked to stipulate all-inclusive fees, including lump sum travel and subsistence costs, as applicable.

Payment of professional fees will be based on submission of agreed deliverables. UNICEF reserves the right to withhold payment in case the deliverables submitted are not up to the required standard or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the consultant.

 UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment.

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 be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Remarks:

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.

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