Child Protection Officer

4 weeks ago

Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines United Nations Children's Fund Full time


Job Description

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The Child Protection Officer provides 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. The Child Protection Officer prepares, executes, manages, and implements a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, evaluating, and reporting.

Under the supervision of the Child Protection Specialist, the post shall undertake the following tasks:

Support to programme development and planning:

Research and analyze regional and national political, protection, social and economic development trends. Collect, analyze, verify, and synthesize information to facilitate programme development, design, and preparation.Prepare technical reports and inputs for programme preparation and documentation, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and relevancy of information.Facilitate the development and establishment of sectoral programme goals, objectives, strategies, and results-based planning through research, collection, analysis and reporting of child protection programmes and other related information for development planning and priority and goal setting.Provide technical and administrative support throughout all stages of programming processes by executing and administering a variety of technical programme transactions, preparing materials and documentations, and complying with organizational processes and management systems, to support programme planning, results-based planning (RBM) and monitoring and evaluation of results.Prepare required documentations and materials to facilitate the programme review and approval process.

Programme management, monitoring and delivery of results:

Work closely and collaboratively with colleagues and partners to collect, analyze and share information on implementation issues, suggest solutions on routine programme implementation and to submit reports to alert appropriate officials and stakeholders for higher-level intervention and/or decisions. Keep record of reports and assessments for easy reference and/or to capture and institutionalize lessons learned.Participate in monitoring and evaluation exercises, programme reviews and annual sectoral reviews with the government and other counterparts and prepare minutes/reports on results for follow up action by higher management and other stakeholders.Monitor and report on the use of sectoral programme resources (financial, administrative and other assets), verifying compliance with approved allocation, goals, organizational rules, regulations, procedures, donor commitments, and standards of accountability and integrity.Report on issues identified to ensure timely resolution by management and stakeholders. Follow up on unresolved issues to ensure resolution.Prepare inputs for programme and donor reporting.

Technical and operational support to programme implementation:

Undertake field visits and surveys and collect and share reports with partners and stakeholders.Assess progress and provide technical support and/or refer to relevant officials for resolution.Report on critical issues, bottlenecks, and potential problems for timely action to achieve results.Provide technical and operational support to government counterparts, NGO partners, UN system partners and other country office partners/donors on the application and understanding of UNICEF policies, strategies, processes, and best practices in child protection, to support programme implementation.

Networking and partnership building:

Build and sustain close working partnerships with government counterparts and national stakeholders through active sharing of information and knowledge to facilitate programme implementation and build capacity of stakeholders to achieve and sustain results on child protection.Participate in inter-agency meetings/events on programming to collaborate with interagency partners/colleagues on UNDAF operational planning and preparation of child protection programmes/projects, and to integrate and harmonize UNICEF's position and strategies with UNDAF development and planning processes.Research information on potential donors and prepare resource mobilization materials and briefs for fund raising and partnership development purposes.Draft communication and information materials for CO programme advocacy to promote awareness, establish partnership/alliances and support fund raising for child protection programmes.

Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building:

Identify, capture, synthesize, and share lessons learned for knowledge development and to build the capacity of stakeholders.Apply innovative approaches and promote good practices to support the implementation and delivery of concrete and sustainable programme results.Research, benchmark, and report on best and cutting-edge practices for development planning of knowledge products and systems.Participate as a resource person in capacity building initiatives to enhance the competencies of clients and stakeholders.

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The following minimum requirements:

Education:

A first university degree (equivalent to a Bachelor's) / an advanced university degree (equivalent to a Master's) from an accredited institution is required in international development, human rights, psychology, sociology, international law, or another relevant social science field.A first University Degree in a relevant field combined with 2 additional years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an Advanced University Degree.

Work Experience:

At least One (1) year of relevant work experience in social development planning and management in child protection related areas is required.

Language Requirements

Fluency in English and Pilipino (oral and written) is required.

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