For every child, the right to protection.
How can you make a difference?
The purpose of establishing the Consultant’s Roster of Experts in Child Protection in Emergencies is to provide UNICEF Myanmar Country Office with a pool of pre-qualified, pre-vetted, and well-qualified consultants who can be contracted quickly and efficiently to provide high-quality technical advisory, strategic, and operational support on Child Protection, particularly during emergencies or when needs arise in Child Protection programmes. The roster will cover the following two specialized technical areas:
- Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS)
- Unaccompanied and Separated Children (UASC)
Applicants are requested to self-identify their field(s) and priority area(s) of expertise. Consultants may demonstrate expertise in one or more areas and may be considered for the relevant consultant profile(s) based on their qualifications, experience, and demonstrated technical expertise.
Technically suitable candidates will be included in the roster for a period of 36 months. However, inclusion in the roster does not guarantee any future contractual relationship with UNICEF.
Scope of Work
The consultant will support Child Protection Section in Myanmar CO and implementing partners to ensure timely, quality, and accountable child protection interventions in line with international standards and UNICEF policies.
Consultants may be engaged during sudden-onset emergencies, humanitarian scale-ups, and/or transition implementation period.
Specific responsibilities will depend on assignment needs and may include, but are not limited to, the following:
The specific deliverables, outputs, and timelines will be defined in the respective ToR for each assignment.
Minimum requirements
Social Work
- International Development (gender studies, peace and conflict studies)
- Human Rights (Women’s, Child rights and/or Persons with disabilities)
Psychology
- Sociology (security studies, community development)
- Public Health (mental health)
- International Relations
Law
- Related field
Experience
- Minimum 7–10 years of progressively responsible experience in child protection.
- At least 5 years of direct CPiE experience in humanitarian settings, including emergency response or surge deployment experience
- Experience supporting emergency responses, preparedness, or recovery programmes in conflict, disaster, displacement context.
- Experience working with UN agencies, NGOs, or partners.
- Experience in coordination mechanisms is desirable.
Knowledge of
- Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPMS)
- UNICFE’s Core Commitments for Children (CCC)
- Community-based protection approaches
Familiarity with
- Inter-Agency Case Management guidelines
- Protection mainstreaming through child safeguarding, PSEA and accountability to affected population
- Monitoring and evaluation of humanitarian programmes
- Results-based management
Profile 1: MHPSS in CPiE Specialist
- Experience in designing and implementing MHPSS in CPiE programming and rolling out IASC MHPSS minimum service package such as:
- Coordination: strengthen MHPSS working groups, mentor WG leads/co-leads, help realign fragmented coordination
- Assessments, analysis and information management
- Targeted expertise of MHPSS interventions: counseling, suicide prevention, integration into other sectors/service providers
- Good understanding of MHPSS M&E systems, aligned with the IASC common M&E framework
Profile 2: Unaccompanied and Separated children (UASC)
- Experience in designing and implementing and providing technical support to preventing and responding to family separation in humanitarian context, including:
- interventions related to family tracing and reunification
- best interest determination for alternative care arrangements
- family-based care options
- Good understanding of IASC guiding principles on UASC and the field handbook and toolkit on UASC
Applicants may apply for one or more consultant profiles. Candidates will be assessed against the common requirements and the profile-specific requirements for each profile for which they apply. Successful candidates may be included in the roster under one or more profiles where they demonstrate the required qualifications, experience, and technical expertise.
How to apply
Applications must be submitted through the UNICEF online recruitment portal, Talent Management System (TMS). Qualified candidates are requested to:
- Fully complete your TMS profile, including all mandatory fields and employment experience.
- Attach an updated CV.
- In your cover letter, clearly indicate which consultant profile(s) you wish to be considered for:
- Profile 1: Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) in Child Protection in Emergencies
- Profile 2: Unaccompanied and Separated Children (UASC)
Applicants may identify expertise in one or both areas.
Common requirements (max 10 points)
Meets all five common requirements: 10 points,
Meets two or less: 5 points
Common technical skills/competencies (max 20 points)
Meets all seven technical competencies: 20 points
Meets three or less: 10 points
Profile-specific requirements (max 40 points)
Meets both requirements (40 points)
Meets only one requirement (20 points)
Only candidates who score at least 60 points in the technical evaluation will have their financial proposals considered.
B) Financial Proposal: maximum of 30 points
When an assignment is confirmed, selected candidate(s) will be requested to submit a financial proposal for the services to be provided in accordance with the relevant ToR. Among technically suitable candidates, selection for a specific assignment will be based on the best value for money, taking into consideration the suitability of the candidate’s expertise and experience, the proposed financial offer, and availability.
For every Child, you demonstrate...
The UNICEF competencies required for this post are…
(1) Builds and maintains partnerships
(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness
(3) Drive to achieve results for impact
(4) Innovates and embraces change
(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity
(6) Thinks and acts strategically
(7) Works collaboratively with others
This position has been assessed as an elevated risk role for Child Safeguarding purposes as it is either a role with direct contact with children, a role that works directly with identifiable children’s data, a safeguarding response role, or an assessed risk role. Additional vetting and assessment for elevated risk roles in child safeguarding (potentially including additional criminal background checks) apply.
UNICEF is committed to promoting the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference, safeguarding and background verification checks. These checks may include verification of academic credentials and employment history, screening against relevant United Nations misconduct databases, and requests for misconduct disclosures from current and former employers, professional associations, other relevant organizations and participating organizations under inter-agency safeguarding initiatives, including the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme (MDS), where applicable.
Appointment, selection and continued engagement are subject to the satisfactory completion of all required checks. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information and consent to enable UNICEF to undertake these 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, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially
Failure to comply with such requirements, where applicable and without a duly approved medical exemption from the relevant UN authority, will result in the cancellation of the selection or may lead to other administrative measures, including separation from service
Remarks
As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration in the employment of the staff is the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity.
UNICEF is committed to fostering an inclusive, representative, and welcoming workforce. For this position, eligible and suitable candidates are encouraged to apply.
Government employees who are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government positions before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.
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.
Humanitarian action is a cross-cutting priority within UNICEF’s Strategic Plan. UNICEF is committed to stay and deliver in humanitarian contexts. Therefore, all staff, at all levels across all functional areas, can be called upon to be deployed to support humanitarian response, contributing to both strengthening resilience of communities and capacity of national authorities.
All UNICEF positions are advertised, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. An internal candidate performing at the level of the post in the relevant functional area, or an internal/external candidate in the corresponding Talent Group, may be selected, if suitable for the post, without assessment of other candidates.