Research Officer, East Jerusalem

Job no: 596153 Contract type: Fixed Term Appointment Duty Station: East Jerusalem Location: State of Palestine (SoP)
Categories: Research, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation

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.

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For every child, the right to an Advocate

How can you make a difference?

The State of Palestine is one of UNICEF's most complex operating environments, encompassing humanitarian response, recovery, resilience, and development programming across Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem.

The Child Protection Research Officer (CAAC) (NO-2) is based in the State of Palestine Country Office and reports to the Child Protection Manager (P-4) based in the Child Protection Section.

You will provide professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for child protection programmes/projects within the Country Programme from development planning to delivery of results. You will prepare, execute, manage, and implement a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, evaluating and reporting.

In particular, you will contribute to results of the Child Protection Section in UNICEF State of Palestine related to implementing the UN Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) agenda and the Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism (MRM) on grave child rights violations, and UNICEF child protection programming to prevent and mitigate the impact of grave violations on children. You will be responsible for monitoring, verification, information and data management, producing high-quality reports and analysis, and internal and external coordination to ensure documentation and responses to affected children.

You will contribute substantively to UNICEF’s Core Commitment to Children in Humanitarian Action for Child Protection (2.3.5), particularly Child Protection Commitments #5 and #6, and UNICEF’s accountability for the implementation of the UN MRM.

You will facilitate the administration and achievement of concrete and sustainable contributions to national and international efforts to create a protective environment for children against all harm, and to protect their rights to survival, development and well-being as established under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, international treaties/frameworks and UN intergovernmental bodies.

Summary of key functions/accountabilities:

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Support to programme development and planning

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Programme management, monitoring and delivery of results

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Technical and operational support to programme implementation

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Networking and partnership building

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Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building

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

• Education A university degree in one of the following fields is required: international development, psychology, sociology, international law, human rights, international…