Introduction
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Internal and external candidates will be considered for this vacancy. For the purposes of this vacancy, internal candidates are defined as staff members holding a regular, fixed-term or short-term graded or ungraded contract, including Junior Professional Officers (JPOs), staff on Special Leave Without Pay (SLWOP), UN Volunteers with at least twelve (12) months of continuous service in IOM, and staff members on secondment/loan released by the Organization, unless otherwise specified in their contract. Staff members holding a regular, fixed-term or short-term graded contract will not retain their contract type if appointed to an ungraded position.
Organizational Context and Scope
Under the direct supervision of the Head of Office, the successful candidate will support the planning, coordination, implementation, monitoring and reporting of activities under the ISF/BBA Plusz project “Comprehensive programme for the return, reintegration and prevention of human trafficking victims”.
The project includes awareness raising, prevention and capacity building activities as well as comprehensive return and reintegration assistance to victims of trafficking. Within this broader framework, the incumbent will focus primarily on prevention activities involving children and adolescents, local coordination mechanisms, stakeholder trainings and child safeguarding quality assurance.
The incumbent will serve as the project-level technical lead on prevention and child safeguarding for all activities involving direct or indirect interaction with minors, including activities implemented by IOM, the consortium partner, cooperating partners, vendors and external service providers.
This includes supporting safe and age-appropriate prevention activities for children and adolescents living in state-provided childcare institutions and disadvantaged settlements, contributing to presentations and group activities, reviewing methodologies such as drama pedagogy, art-based/group methods and Escape Truck activities, and ensuring that child safeguarding, referral, confidentiality, informed participation and “do no harm” considerations are integrated throughout implementation.
The incumbent will also contribute to the project’s awareness-raising campaign, regional counter-trafficking coordination mechanisms, trainings for local and international stakeholders, and documentation required for donor reporting and project monitoring.
• Support the planning, coordination, implementation and monitoring of ISF/BBA Plusz project activities related to prevention, child safeguarding, awareness raising, regional coordination mechanisms and stakeholder trainings, in line with the project workplan, donor requirements and IOM rules and procedures.
• Act as the project-level technical lead on child safeguarding for all project activities involving direct or indirect contact with children and adolescents, including activities implemented by IOM, the consortium partner, cooperating partners, vendors and external service providers.
• Review and provide technical input to prevention methodologies, session plans, presentations, group activities, training materials, campaign content and other tools involving minors, ensuring that they are age-appropriate, trauma-informed, inclusive, non-stigmatizing and aligned with child safeguarding and protection principles.
• Support safeguarding risk identification and mitigation for activities involving minors, including practical arrangements for informed participation, safe facilitation, supervision, referral pathways, confidentiality, documentation, communications and safe behaviour by staff, partners, facilitators and vendors.
• Contribute directly to prevention activities by preparing, delivering or co-facilitating presentations, group activities, awareness-raising sessions and structured engagements with children, adolescents, caregivers, frontline professionals and community stakeholders.
• Coordinate with the consortium partner, cooperating partners, service providers and vendors involved in prevention activities, including the Escape Truck and other direct engagement activities, to support safe planning, implementation, follow-up, monitoring and documentation.
• Support the development and implementation of the media and awareness-raising campaign by reviewing messages and materials from a child safeguarding, protection, survivor-sensitive and non-stigmatizing communication perspective.
• Support the establishment and functioning of Regional Counter-Trafficking Coordination Mechanisms in selected counties, including stakeholder mapping, outreach, meeting preparation, facilitation support, follow-up, and contribution to local referral and cooperation pathways.
• Design, adapt and deliver trainings and capacity-building activities for a wide range of stakeholders, including child protection actors, social workers, educators, health professionals, labour inspectors, law enforcement, justice-sector actors, consular staff, NGOs, local authorities and other relevant service providers.
• Contribute to research, needs assessment and technical analysis relevant to prevention and child safeguarding, including the identification of locations, target groups, risks, referral needs and lessons learned, while ensuring respect for data protection and ethical considerations.
• Support monitoring, evaluation, accountability and reporting by collecting and consolidating activity data, attendance sheets, training evaluations, feedback, safeguarding-related observations, campaign evidence, meeting notes and other documentation required for donor and internal reporting.
• Identify operational challenges, safeguarding risks, delivery shortfalls and implementation bottlenecks; bring them to the supervisor’s attention in a timely manner and propose practical corrective measures.
• Draft correspondence, meeting minutes, briefing notes, technical inputs, activity reports, training summaries, donor-reporting inputs and other project documentation related to prevention, child safeguarding and stakeholder coordination.
• Perform any other duties as assigned.
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