Overview
This consultancy will support UNICEF Centres of Excellence Child Protection and SBC teams in delivering technical assistance to Country Offices to strengthen SBC-informed parenting for VAC prevention and broader parenting outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the Centres of Excellence Child Protection and SBC teams in delivering technical assistance to Country Offices.
- Strengthen SBC-informed parenting for VAC prevention and broader parenting outcomes.
- Contribute to the documentation of good practices.
- Contribute to the development of global and regional guidance.
- Support cross country and cross regional learning.
- Strengthen practical SBC resources for adaptation across contexts.
Required Experience
- Minimum eight (8) years of progressively responsible professional experience in child protection, violence against children prevention, parenting and caregiver support, social and behaviour change, child protection systems strengthening, or related fields.
- Demonstrated experience providing technical assistance to governments, UNICEF Country Offices, UN agencies, or development partners on the design, implementation, review, and scale-up of parenting and/or child protection programmes, including support for policy development, programme design, implementation and scale-up.
- Proven experience in the development and review of strategies, policies, guidance, programme frameworks, implementation plans, and knowledge products.
- Experience supporting knowledge management, facilitation of communities of practice, documentation of good practices, and development of technical guidance materials.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree (Master's or higher) in Child Protection, Social Work, Psychology, Public Health, Sociology, International Development, Education, Social and Behaviour Change, or another relevant social science discipline.
