Child Protection Consultant to Support Justice for Children
12 months
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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.
How can you make a difference?
Children interact with justice systems for many reasons, including as victims or survivors, witnesses, children alleged as or accused of an offence, parties to civil or administrative proceedings, or children requiring care, protection or other support. Children’s access to justice therefore encompasses judicial, administrative, customary, religious and quasi-judicial mechanisms, as well as alternative dispute resolution, across criminal, civil, administrative and other areas of law.
UNICEF’s Reimagine Justice for Children Agenda advances six interrelated priorities: legal empowerment; legal aid and representation; diversion from formal justice proceedings; protection from detention; access to justice for survivors of violence; and child-friendly courts and alternative dispute resolution. It also seeks to strengthen protection from deprivation of liberty in justice, migration, armed conflict, national security and institutional settings, including for children living in detention with a primary caregiver.
Additional time-bound technical capacity is required to respond to growing requests from country and regional offices; support implementation of the Reimagine Justice for Children Agenda and relevant evaluation recommendations; conduct rapid research; strengthen knowledge management and global learning; and support selected advocacy, webinar and conference activities.
Minimum requirements
• Demonstrated experience conducting high-quality legal, policy or programme research.
• Experience providing technical assistance to governments, UN agencies or development partners on justice for children or child protection.
• Proven experience contributing to the development or review of laws, policies, strategies or programmes related to justice for children.
• Experience supporting knowledge management, communities of practice, documentation of good practices and development of technical guidance.
• Sound understanding of international child rights, human rights and juvenile justice standards.
• Excellent analytical, research, writing, editing and communication skills.
• Strong facilitation, coordination and stakeholder-engagement skills.
• Ability to manage multiple assignments and work effectively in a remote, multicultural environment.
• Working proficiency in French or Spanish is highly desirable.
• Experience supporting conferences, forums, webinars or global advocacy initiatives.
• Familiarity with UNICEF’s Reimagine Justice for Children Agenda.
• Experience working across regions or UNICEF programme areas.
• Availability to collaborate across Amman, New York and Latin America and the Caribbean working hours, as required
For every Child, you demonstrate...
UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). 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 based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. 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, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially.
- An up-to-date TMS profile and curriculum vitae (CV)
- Cover letter
- Technical Proposal: Applicants should submit a concise technical proposal describing their understanding of the assignment, proposed approach and work organization, together with three relevant writing samples demonstrating experience in technical guidance, analytical products, policy documents or knowledge products.
Remarks: If the TOR or financial proposal documents are not downloadable on certain recruitment platforms, please visit our official page Vacancies | UNICEF Careers.
UNICEF does not charge a processing fee at any stage of its recruitment, selection, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and training). UNICEF will not ask for applicants’ bank account information.
All UNICEF positions are advertised, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
Additional information about working for UNICEF can be found here.