Overview
The Child Protection Associate provides specialized programme and administrative support to facilitate the development, implementation and monitoring of UNICEF's programmes. The role involves data analysis, budget tracking, reporting, and coordination with stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Support overall project planning, execution, and monitoring.
- Assist in establishing and operationalizing implementing partnership management functions.
- Work with Programme Managers, Partners and relevant stakeholders in ensuring Funding Authorization and Certificate of Expenditures (FACE) requests are aligned with project workplans and processed timely.
- Monitor prompt liquidation of Direct Cash Transfer (DCTs).
- Contribute to collecting and analyzing qualitative and quantitative programme data.
- Generate regular reports, dashboards and presentations on key performance indicators and donor reporting.
- Support the application of digital and AI tools for synthesizing complex data.
- Regularly track budget allocations, expenditures and monitor grant utilization.
- Contribute to grants management, monitor their expiry, and support reprogramming or extension processes.
- Prepare periodic and ad-hoc grant management reports.
- Facilitate generating funds utilization reports.
- Contribute to the development of funding proposals and preparation of statutory reports.
- Use AI, automation tools and digital platforms to streamline repetitive tasks.
- Serve as a resource for digital platforms (e.g., SAP, Service Gateway, Power BI, Sharepoint).
- Safeguard sensitive data and ensure adherence to UNICEF’s data privacy and digital workforce guidelines.
- Draft clear and well-structured communication to share reports, briefs, and knowledge products.
- Maintain effective document repository systems and Sharepoint.
- Contribute to knowledge generation and documentation of lessons learned and good practices.
- Support onboarding of new colleagues and knowledge transfer within the team.
- Support the organization of capacity development activities, workshops and field missions.
- Assist in preparation and dissemination of background materials, track logistics, coordinate vendor engagement and liaise with participants.
- Adapt to shifting programme needs and provide support during emergency responses, surge deployments or re-prioritization events.
- Liaison with focal points and provide backup support to other programme sections.
Required Experience
- 1 month experience required.
- Relevant experience in programme development in child protection related areas, especially community-based system development related to preventing violence against women and children and child marriage, in a UN system agency or organization is considered as an asset.
- Experience in programming related to social norms change, adolescent empowerment, or community-based violence prevention is highly desirable.
- Experience working in or with coordination platforms for ending child marriage or GBV is an asset.
Qualifications
- Completion of secondary education is required.
- Professional and/or university courses related to the field of work are highly desirable.
