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Job no: 596436
Contract type: Consultant
Duty Station: New York
Level: Consultancy
Location: United States
Categories: Programme Management

UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.

At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.

UNICEF is a place where careers are built. We offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.

Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.

For every child, the right to care.

How can you make a difference?

The Centrality of Protection (henceforth “CoP”) is fully aligned with UNICEF’s core mandate to promote, protect, respect,and defend the rights of children everywhere. The CoP, underpinned by the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and reflected in the Core Commitments to Children (CCCs), strengthens UNICEF’s ability to deliver on its core mandate. The commitment of UNICEF to CoP is reflected in its endorsement of relevant Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) policies and frameworks.

Against a backdrop of widespread violations affecting children and communities, non-compliance with international law byparties to conflict, and growing humanitarian and protection needs amid increasingly constrained resources, there is anurgent need to ensure that protection considerations are systematically integrated across all of UNICEF’s humanitarian and development efforts.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support engagement with the UNICEF Regulatory Framework Secretariat on the process required to develop Centrality of Protection (CoP) procedures;
• Support engagement with UNICEF country, regional and headquarters leadership on the CoP Conduct internal consultations to gather perspectives, identify priorities and inform the development of the CoP procedures;
• Develop a first draft of the CoP procedures for review, consultation and written feedback by relevant UNICEF divisions, offices and teams;
• Plan and facilitate a two-day consultation and validation meeting with relevant UNICEF divisions and teams to review, discuss and refine the draft CoP procedures;
• Consolidate and address feedback and inputs received through the consultation and validation process and prepare a final draft of the CoP procedures;
• Develop a one-year strategic plan for internalizing CoP within UNICEF, including short and long-term priority actions, milestones, indicators and next steps towards finalization and operationalization of the CoP procedures.

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

• Education
  :
  Master’s in International Affairs, International law, Political Science, International Development, Social Science, Anthropology or related fields
• Work Experience
  : 15 years of professional experience from humanitarian or development organizations, including in programs, training, management or coordination, including 3 years in humanitarian field locations.
• Skills
  :
  At least 5 years of humanitarian or development experience from conflict affected areas;
• At least 5 years of experience implementing protection programming/ the Centrality of Protection in conflict-affected areas;
• Excellent drafting skills in English.
• Language…