Child Protection Officer Full-Time

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.

• And we never give up;
• For every child, protection, care, and freedom from violence, exploitation and abuse.

Mozambique is one of Africa’s fastest developing countries with a large population of children and young people. Together with the Government of Mozambique and our partners, UNICEF works to promote and protect the rights of children and women, especially those most at risk and facing multiple challenges. We are fully committed to guarantee the survival, development, protection and participation of Mozambican children.

We are currently supporting the strengthening of social welfare system, including the implementation of a national system for Case Management to make sure that vulnerable children and families are identified and referred to appropriate services for care and support. This includes work with social welfare system actors, as well as partner organizations and communities where these children and families live.

How can you make a difference?

You will provide professional technical, operational and administrative support to facilitate the achievement concrete and sustainable results for Child and Social Protection programmes. You will prepare, execute, manage, and implement and document a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, progress monitoring, evaluating and reporting.

This role includes regular engagement with provincial and local partners, including programmatic monitoring and technical support. You will be expected to travel to various provinces in Mozambique, up to 40% of the time, based on priorities.

Some of your tasks include:

1. Support to programme development and planning;
2. Programme management, monitoring and delivery of results;
3. Technical and operational support to programme implementation;
4. Networking and partnership building;
5. Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building;
6. Child Protection in emergencies.

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

• A university degree in one of the following fields is required: social sciences (related to community development), human rights, psychology, sociology, international law, or another relevant field. Additional licenses or professional courses is an asset;
• A minimum of two years of professional experience in community and social development in child protection related areas is required;
• Experience working with government and civil society organizations in planning, budgeting, and development of child-related policies and tools is highly desirable;
• Experience with case management and social work pertaining to child and social protection programmes is an asset;
• Relevant experience in programme development in child protection related areas in a UN system agency or organization is considered as an asset;
• Experience in both development and humanitarian contexts is an added advantage.
• Ability to work in a team and communicate with partners at all levels (national, provincial, local) is an asset;
• Fluency in Portuguese and working proficiency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language or local language is considered as an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s core values of Commitment, Diversity and Integrity and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results. View our competency framework at

http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/UNICEF_Competencies.pdf

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

Remarks:

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.