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United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children.
United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential. Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
1). Child Protection Specialist, P3
Job no: 578293
Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Contract type: Temporary Appointment
Level: P-3
Categories: Child Protection
Overall Objective
- The overall objective of the post is to ensure quality assurance and promote the creation of a protective environment for children including prevention of child recruitment and use by armed groups, and other grave violations against children and women.
- The incumbent will also provide technical guidance and leadership in strengthening of a community-based reintegration of children and women exiting armed groups as well as those being released from the military administrative custody.
- The role will also contribute in strengthening the partnership between the military and the UN system in the implementation of the HOP that will assist in handling of children encountered by the military in the course of their engagement with the armed groups.
- This will include extensive mass awareness sessions that will empower the community in developing safety measures and improve their ability to monitor, document and report on grave child rights violations as well as in promoting prevention of these violations especially on recruitment and use of children and forced marriage of girls by the armed groups.
How can you make a difference?
- Major tasks and responsibilities to be accomplished: Under the direct supervision of the Child Protection Program Manager and under the overall guidance of the Chief Child Protection, the Child Protection Specialist will be responsible for the provision of quality oversight on the following.
Provide support to the implementation of a community-based reintegration programme:
- Support the Child Protection Manager in drafting donor proposals and concept notes to raise funds for child Protection Section.
- Provide capacity building, awareness raising and advocacy on prevention and promotion of protection of children through creation of a protective environment in the community.
- Technical support to the government and partners in including quality assurance on the implementation of the skill training program for children enrolled in vocational training centers in the three BAY States.
- Conduct regular monitoring to tracks the progress of community recovery plans, assesses the impact of multi-sectoral interventions in the community, and inform ongoing release of children from armed groups and administrative custody, their reunification and reintegration back into the community.
- Ensuring children in humanitarian situations have timely and sustained access to quality preventive and responsive child protection services at the community level such as rehabilitation, reunification and reintegration including those released or escaped from armed groups as a preventive measure to being victims of grave child rights violations.
- Provide technical guidance and operational support to government counterparts, NGO partners, UN system partners on strengthening community-based structures that support vocational and skills training for children released from armed groups as a way of equipping them with skills training that would help them rebuild their lives as a way of keeping them from joining armed groups.
- Participate in child protection program meetings including program development and contingency planning discussions on emergency preparedness in Northeast region to provide technical and operational information, advice and support as appropriate.
- Capacity building to the community on their role in identifying and addressing the needs relating to their children and how best they can foster peace and unity within their community especially with those who have been reintegrated back into the community from armed groups.
- Supporting the coordination and implementation of an inter-sectoral social norms change strategy to end violence against children including child marriage, FGM/C and other harmful traditional practices in the community and promote creating of protective environment for children against these harmful practices.
Strengthen coordination and Networking:
- Strengthen collaboration with other Programs to ensure synergies and linkages between reintegration activities and other sectors including education, health etc.
- Participate in strategic program discussion on the planning of child protection programs/projects including provision of quality inputs in the formulation of project activities and workplans.
- Build and sustain effective close working partnerships with relevant government counterparts, State level stakeholders through active networking, advocacy, and effective communication to build capacity, exchange knowledge/expertise and to reinforce cooperation to achieve sustainable and broad results in child protection.
- Ensure exchange of information, experience, identify new strategies and course of action to accelerate/improve relevant data collection, reporting and analysis.
- Conduct field visits to monitor programs and collect information as appropriate.
- Conduct periodic program reviews with the Military, Government counterparts and other partners.
- Provide technical guidance and operational support to government counterparts, NGO partners, UN system partners and country office partners/donors on the interpretation, application and understanding of UNICEF various guidelines on children affected by armed conflict.
- Collaborate in the preparation of communication and information materials to support efforts to prevent grave child right violations against children.
Provide oversight of the handover protocol and other instruments for the release of children formerly associated with armed groups and those in detention:
- Provide technical support in stakeholder consultation session with relevant military, government and child protection stakeholders to orient them on the HOP implementation activities.
- Strengthening legislative and institutional frameworks to protect vulnerable children exposed to violence, abuse and exploitation including children under the administrative custody of the military and advocate for their rehabilitation, reunification and reintegration.
- Strengthening capacities of the military, government and key stakeholders, including social welfare and justice services that prevent and respond to violence against children especially affected by the armed conflict including those in administrative custody of the military.
- Conduct regular engagement with the key government entities including the military and Ministry of Women Affairs to ensure children released from military administrative custody receive relevant support in timely manner for a smooth transition into being successfully reintegrated back into the community.
- Provide regular analysis assessing trends and measure outcomes relating to the achievement of project targets to help in address identified gaps in the HOP implementation.
- Ensure overall planning and management of the child release and reintegration programme, including prevention of child recruitment and implementation of Action Plans with armed groups; ▪ Support the handover of children and women associated with non-state armed groups to state entities and to ensure their safe, supported safe return and reintegration and recovery from their experiences.
- In collaboration with the military, identify and conduct training of trainers (TOT) to the master trainers who will be providing the training in various military institutions including the military academy in Maiduguri on the operationalization and implementation of the HOP and other child protection related topics.
Strengthening of the MEAL framework for programme monitoring and accountability:
- Provide regular monitoring and analysis assessing trends and measure outcomes relating to achievement of project targets to help in address identified gaps in the trend analysis.
- Support the section in responding to periodic reporting requirements from CO, RO and HQ as needed.
- Collaborate with MEAL team of UNICEF and the CP team in Maiduguri and CO to establish monitoring benchmarks, performance indicators and other UNICEF/UN system indicators and measurement to assess/strengthen performance accountability, coherence, and delivery of concrete and sustainable results for the assigned sector in child protection programs.
- Participate in monitoring and evaluation exercises, program reviews and annual reviews with government and other counterparts to assess progress and to determine required action/interventions to achieve results.
- Conduct regular field monitoring visits, surveys and/or exchange of information with partners/stakeholders to monitor implementation of the HOP activities to assess progress, identify bottlenecks and potential problems and take timely decisions to resolve issues and/or refer to relevant officials for timely resolution.
- In collaboration with the Information Management Officer, produce quarterly info graphs capturing numbers (disaggregated by sex) of children and women released from administrative custody who are benefiting from rehabilitation and reintegration support.
- The incumbent will have a contractual obligation to ensure the confidentiality of all the data and contributes to the achievement of results according to plans, allocation, results-based management approaches and methodology (RBM), and UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, standards of performance and accountability framework.
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have
Minimum requirements:
Education:
- An advanced University Degree in Conflict Management, International Law / Human Rights Law, Protection is preferred or a University Degree in Social Work, Development Studies or any other related field (with at least two additional years of work experience)
Work Experience:
- A minimum of 5 years experience with the UN and/or NGOs, with a significant portion in child protection is required; specific experience in working with the military (preferable) or in a conflict environment is preferred.
- Knowledge of national and international Child Rights legislation, frameworks and standards relating to Nigeria.
- Work experience within the context of conflict or emergency setting will be an added advantage.
- Good technical understanding and familiarity with children and armed conflict.
- Demonstrable training and capacity building skills for a range of stakeholders.
Language Requirements:
- Strong communication skills – both oral and written in English.
- Working knowledge of the local languages is an asset.
Desirables:
- Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency.
Application Closing Date
20th January, 2025; West Central Africa Standard Time.
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2). International Consultant – Data and Analytics
Job no: 578167
Location: Abuja
Contract type: Consultant
Level: Consultancy
Categories: Health
Scope of Work
Major Tasks to be accomplished during this consultancy include:
- Support the ongoing SWAp initiative of the FMOH as it relates to data optimization
- Support the national and 36+1 state RMNCAH scorecard alignment with SWAp indicators down to facility level. This includes capacity building of DHPRS and mentoring support to planning officers towards institutionalizing this work.
- Support the PHC Leadership Challenge PHC system performance framework linked with the annual operational plans, the M&E Plan of the National Strategic Health Development Plan II and initiatives like the MSDAT. This includes work with the IVA to better understand state level performance and support documentation efforts.
- Support data quality and other aspects on data initiatives in the Health Section including the different accountability frameworks under the programme.
- Support the data for evidence and documentation of successes in the eight (8) GAVI PHC MoU states
- Support the review of DHIS2 indicators/data elements and NHMIS report forms and registers including the extension of scorecard related products, such as with program score cards (e.g. nutrition)
- Support the linkages between community scorecards or facility profiles and GIS based catchment population estimates and visualizations.
- Support optimization of data for decision making in the three (3) SARAH states
- Support Decentralized Digitalization of HIS and introduction of Automated data use apps.
- Support in HSS section in its efforts to develop a targeted strategy for strengthening of health information system.
- Support Analytic/Visualistic tools on Health Supply chain
- Support analysis of data from the UNICEF supported level-2 newborn units
- Any other related work with score cards and accountability mechanisms
Tasks / Milestone
- Quarterly reporting on RMNCAH+N Scorecards used and updated in all 36 States and FCT, the national level, and LGA-Facility scorecards, along with extensions of scorecard methods and approaches as part of overall Health Information System reforms.
Deliverable/Output:
- Score cards reports of all 36 states and the FCT reported on the rmncah.org
- Support the GAVI Funded PHC MoU states in the development and operationalization of the Data Quality Improvement Plans working with State Counterparts and other partners.
Deliverable/Output:
- Quality data improvement plans for the 8 PHC MoU states developed and adopted for utilization
- Lead in HMIS support to FMOH and NPHCDA as well as the overall digital health program of the FMOH the Nigeria Health Sector Renewal Initiative and SWAp Agenda of the FMOH.
Deliverable/Output:
- Report of the assessment and the priority recommendation for action.
- Support the PHC Leadership Challenge PHC system performance framework linked with the Nigeria Health Sector Renewal Initiative and SWAp Agenda of the FMOH.
Deliverable/Output:
- State by state health services performance report of all 36 state and the FCT (part of PHC LC PMF)
- Support provided to the Independent Verification Agent
- Report of the analysis and evaluation of the IVA activities,
- Quarterly reporting on RMNCAH+N Scorecards used and updated in all 36 States and FCT, the national level, and LGA-Facility scorecards, along with extensions of scorecard methods and approaches as part of overall Health Information System reforms
Deliverable/Output:
- Score cards reports of all 36 states and the FCT reported on the rmncah.org
- Support in provision of optimized data analysis of the UNICEF supported level-2 newborn units across states with emphasis on the SARA supported states.
Deliverable/Output:
- Enhanced data reporting systems produced for the states.
- Lead in HMIS support to FMOH and NPHCDA as well as the overall digital health program of the FMOH the Nigeria Health Sector Renewal Initiative and SWAp Agenda of the FMOH.
Deliverable/Output:
- Report of the assessment and the priority recommendation for action
- Support Analytic/Visualistic tools on Health Supply chain
Deliverable/Output:
- Health supply chain visual tools developed.
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have
- An advanced university degree in public health or any related discipline.
- At least eight years or more experience working in MNCAH programs and/or health projects.
- Prior experience with HSS programming is an added advantage.
- Demonstrated ability to produce high quality data and programmatic materials
- Experience in writing for UN agencies (human interest stories, reports etc) UNICEF specific experience will be a strong asset
- Fluency in oral and written English is required.
- Computer skills, including internet navigation and various office applications.
- Demonstrated ability to work in a multi-cultural environment and establish harmonious and effective working relationships, both within and outside the organization.
Application Closing Date
7th January, 2025; West Central Africa Standard Time.
Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
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3). Emergency Manager P4
Job no: 578175
Location: Abuja
Contract type: Fixed Term Appointment
Level: P-4
Categories: Emergency
Purpose of the Job
Key End Results:
- Emergency preparedness is effectively arranged together with establishment of country contingency plans and early warning mechanisms.
- Emergency preparedness and response plans addresses gender issues that may be expected to intensify during emergencies.
- Emergency plans of action are developed, and compliance and coordination of all sectors with the plans are implemented.
- Policy advice on emergencies and programme guidance related to implementation of emergency preparedness measures are effectively provided.
- Coordination and management of emergency preparedness and response and a consistent flow of information of the humanitarian situation are effectively maintained within the office.
- Significant improvements are made in the emergency preparedness and response capability of UNICEF staff and implementing partners through conduct of effective training activities.
- In the event of an emergency, UNICEF’s presence is promptly established and the initial emergency operational tasks are effectively executed, including provision of support for information communication technology, telecommunications facility and all staff security related assistance in the country office.
- Needs assessment is effectively conducted to determine priorities and an appropriate intervention by UNICEF based on the local emergency situation affecting children and their families and community.
- Effective assistance is provided to the (Deputy) Representative in emergency operations oversight and program management with clear accountabilities.
- Emergency appeals and project proposals are prepared, and concerted efforts are put forward to mobilize donor response and recovery/rehabilitation-related funding.
- Longer-term requirements of the emergency operation/interventions are determined to develop a regular operational and staffing structure.
- Continuous, effective and strategic coordination, communication, consultation and liaison are maintained with Government, UN agencies, NGOs, donors and allies in support of the special needs of children and women affected by emergency situations within the framework of the cluster approach and based on the Core Commitment for Children.
- Management is kept informed of humanitarian developments in relevant policies, situation developments, potential threats and opportunities/issues in the country
Key Accountabilities / Duties & Tasks
- Within the delegated authority and under the given organizational set-up, the incumbent may be assigned the primary, shared, or contributory accountabilities for all or part of the following areas of major duties and key end-results.
Emergency Preparedness:
- Ensures that adequate emergency preparedness measures are taken through the development and updating of country contingency plans and establishment of early warning mechanisms, which leads to more effective preparedness and response to specific emergencies.
- Participates in the formulation and development of plans of action in preparation and response to emergencies, and monitors compliance of all sectors with emergency plans of action, including financial resources. Ensures coordination of the management of emergency preparedness and response.
- Provides policy and program advice related to emergencies, including on management related issues. Provides direction and guidance to the country office in the implementation of emergency preparedness measures, which strengthens preparedness and response mechanisms in the country faced with impending emergencies.
- Develops and maintains databases on country/regional information and ensures the flow of information and communication crucial for the planning and implementation of emergencies. Identifies availability of resources in emergency prone areas and establishes logistics plans to be implemented during an emergency operation, to ensure a timely and effective emergency response.
- Assists in developing and conducting emergency training courses specifically designed for regional standby Emergency Response Teams; participates in these courses with the Team and participates in other emergency training workshops in the region, leading to build-up in the emergency preparedness and response capability of UNICEF staff and implementing partners. Plans, organizes and conducts training for the office’s staff capacity building in emergencies preparedness and response.
Emergency Response:
- In the event of an emergency, takes prompt action as Team Leader or member of the Emergency Response Team which is deployed immediately to establish UNICEF’s presence and implement the initial operational tasks relating to emergency assistance. Ensures that the office is provided with effective telecommunications facility and security assistance for the staff in an emergency, as necessary. In coordination with the programme and operations groups, establishes contact with all UNICEF staff and their dependents and visitors to ensure their safety and whereabouts, and informs OPSCEN and the Regional Director of their status.
- Assesses local conditions resulting from the emergency situation affecting children and their families in the country. Leads and/or participates in needs assessment missions in conjunction with the Regional Office, the HQ Divisions, and field staff, in order to determine priorities and an appropriate intervention by UNICEF. Participates in UN Country team emergency response and contributes to assessing the crisis and humanitarian situation in the country with special regard to the survival, protection and wellbeing of children, adolescents and women.
- Assists the (Deputy) Representative in emergency operations oversight and program management to ensure that the funding, budget, management, reporting, and field presence coordination are managed efficiently and effectively with clear accountabilities.
Emergency Project:
- Prepares inputs for appeals and updates related to emergencies as well as project proposals for emergency. Works with program sections and senior management to mobilize donor response and recovery/rehabilitation-related funding, including annual or multi-annual humanitarian appeals and documents.
- Establishes longer-term requirements of the emergency operation/interventions. Plans and develops a more regular operational and staffing structure to take over from the Emergency Response Team.
- Maintains continuous, effective and strategic coordination, communication, consultation and liaison with Government, UN agencies, NGOs, donors and allies to appeal for aid for children and women with the special needs resulting from emergency situations requiring effective emergency responses in all sectors. Identifies implementing/operational partners and establishes implementing arrangements. Ensures that the UNICEF support is effectively provided to the government with respect to sectoral coordination within the framework of the cluster approach and based on the Core Commitment for Children.
- Represents UNICEF in all humanitarian and recovery related forum at the strategic level and keeps management informed of all humanitarian developments in the country in terms of policies, strategy, situation developments, potential threats and opportunities/issues in partnership.
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have
Minimum requirements:
Education:
- An advanced university degree in one the following fields: social sciences, public administration, law, public health, nutrition, international relations, business administration or other related disciplines.
Work Experience:
- Eight years of progressively responsible professional work experience at the national and international levels in programme/project development, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and administration.
- Developing country work experience (for IP) or field work experience (for NO).
- Specialized training/experience in emergency response management highly desirable.
Application Closing Date
8th January, 2025; West Central Africa Standard Time.
How to Apply: Interested and qualified candidates should use the links below to apply: