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For every child, results

Background:

Over the past decade, Indonesia has made significant strides in advancing child protection legislation. Key frameworks, including the Child Protection Law and the National Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN), outline an ambitious agenda to ensure that all children have access to high-quality child protection services and to reduce violence against children. Recently, Indonesia enacted the Law on Sexual Violence Crimes, which underscores the critical role of local governments in providing accessible and quality services. Additionally, the existing Law on Local Government and the Law on Village create opportunities for decentralized child protection services.

The Child Protection Programme outcome of the Government of Indonesia (GOI) and UNICEF CPAP 2021–2025 states: “Girls and boys are increasingly empowered and protected from violence and harmful practices through effective, quality child protection systems and positive social norms at both national and subnational levels, including in humanitarian settings.” While significant progress has been made, there remains a need to accelerate efforts to strengthen integrated protection services for women and children, enhance birth registration, and ensure preparedness and response for child protection during emergencies.

The consultant will collaborate with the provincial government in Aceh to reinforce ongoing initiatives and support the development of strategies to sustain these efforts.

Scope of Work:

Under direct supervision from Chief Child Office Banda Aceh and technical guidance from Child Protection Specialists, the consultant is expected to deliver the following tasks:

1. Provide technical assistance to strengthen integrated protection services for women and children, including capacity building for the social service workforce to implement a victim-centered approach.
2. Provide technical assistance to develop mechanisms to strengthen prevention of violence against children, including establishing community-based child protection hub and referral pathways to integrated protection services for women and children at district and city levels.
3. Support the provincial government in designing programme sustainability plan and its scaling up.
4. Support the strengthening of child protection preparedness and response in emergencies.
5. Support in developing knowledge products on evidence-based and innovative approaches for child protection program implementation.
6. Collaborate and integration across key sectors that contribute to child well-being, including mental health services, the Healthy School Movement, and Islamic boarding schools. This involves embedding child protection elements within these platforms, fostering coordination with relevant sectors such as nutrition, WASH, health, and early childhood development programs to promote safe, nurturing environments.
7. Support strategies to engage community and religious leaders in promoting violence prevention and protection for children to create a holistic, multi-sectoral approach to child protection across settings where children live, learn, and grow.
8. Provide technical support in implementing child protection activities in Aceh FO, to ensure alignment with national policies and strategies. Additionally, support government partners in strengthening planning, capacity-building, and sustainable implementation of child protection programs and activities.

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

• Bachelor’s degree in social work or related field.
• At least 5 years of working experience in service delivery relevant to social welfare, child protection or related field.
• Practical experience on child protection case management, is an asset.
• Extensive technical and practical expertise on capacity building; good communication and facilitation skill an asset.
• Demonstrated understanding of government functions to social work reform and child protection and relevant legal framework.
• Extensive technical and practical expertise on capacity building including module development and training facilitation; good communication.
• Knowledge on monitoring and evaluation including information management system for child protection
• Ability to provide guidance and training to enhance the capacity of government staff
• Strong analytical and writing skills in English.
• Fluency in English and Bahasa Indonesia.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) and core competencies:

• Builds and Maintains Partnerships
• Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness
• Drive to achieve results for impact
• Innovates and embraces change
• Manages ambiguity and complexity
• Thinks and acts strategically
• Works collaboratively with others

To view our competency framework, please visit  here.

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 (if 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.

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: No requirements