Child Protection Specialist (Gender-Based Violence in Emergencies (GBViE))

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United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF)

  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Humanitarian or Development: Humanitarian
  • Experience level: 5-10 years
  • Organisation type: Inter-governmental
  • Remote option: No
  • Right to work requirements: International contract
  • Remuneration: $77,884 USD-$102,090 USD / yearly
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 31/07/2024
  • Location: South Sudan
Child protection/ Children’s rights Gender-based violence (GBV)


MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Provide technical support to UNICEF South Sudan to improve GBV-related health services. 
  • Work with the Ministry of Health, UNICEF Health section, and implementing partners to strengthen GBV service delivery in health facilities by enhancing the capacity of healthcare providers to deliver quality care to survivors through training, support, and supervision, including GBV prevention and response, CMR, and IPV.
  • Support implementing partners conduct facility-based assessments to assess the readiness of health facilities to provide GBV services and safety audits to identify GBV risks in and around health facilities. This will include country-wide facility assessment and safety audits, consultations, and training for assessment. Based on findings from safety audits and assessments, develop mitigation measures to address GBV risks identified within and around health facilities.

Provide technical support to expand and strengthen UNICEF GBViE programming.
  • In collaboration with the Child Protection Specialist (GBViE) (P4) and Child Protection section, provide technical support and guidance on the formulation, design, planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of GBViE programmes to ensure overall efficiency and effectiveness of programme management, delivery and accomplishment of programme goals and objectives.

Work with UNICEF sectors and clusters and inter-agency partners to ensure GBV prevention, risk mitigation, and response are adequately integrated across sectors and actions to reduce risks of GBV are implemented.
  • Actively engage in and provide technical support to the GBV and Child Protection Area of Responsibility (AoR) to ensure a comprehensive plan of action to better address GBV

Support programme knowledge acquisition and monitoring through systematic collection of country experience and the provision of GBVIE-related technical support.
  • Plan and/or collaborate with internal and external partners to establish monitoring benchmarks, performance indicators, and other UNICEF/UN system indicators and measurements to assess/strengthen performance accountability, coherence, and delivery of concrete and sustainable results.

Actively monitor financial and human resource capacity to ensure sufficient resources are in place to effectively achieve the goals noted above.
  • Ensure allocation and management of sufficient financial and human resource capacity to effectively achieve UNICEF GBViE commitments.


To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
Advanced university degree or equivalent in public health, the social sciences or other relevant field related to GBViE in emergency programming.
  • A minimum of 5 years of GBViE programming experience with either the UN and/or NGO in emergency settings.
  • Proven experience working on GBV integration in health services desired.
  • Strong understanding of health responses to GBV including clinical management of rape and demonstrated expertise with GBV case management systems, GBV programming approaches, practices, and applications i.e. on Adolescent Girl Programming, GBViE Minimum Standards, GBVIMS, IASC GBV guidelines.
  • Fluency in English is required (excellent analytical, communication, writing and editorial skills in English).
  • Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency. 

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