Country: Niger
Closing date: 11 Aug 2017
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SUMMARY
In the context of the ongoing Level 2 Emergency in Diffa region, Niger, UNICEF’s Child protection Section is recruiting an experienced Coordinator, to lead the national and regional sub cluster.
For every Child,an advocate
The Niger continues to face multiple humanitarian crisis, including conflict and displacement, food insecurity and malnutrition, floods, and epidemic outbreaks. The Diffa region (South East) is particularly hit by several crises, but mostly by the Lake Chad Basin conflict. As of end of November 2016 it was estimated that the region was hosting 241,065 displaced people, including 121,320 internally displaced people, 105,386 refugees and 14,359 Nigerians returnees, scattered over 97 spontaneous sites.
A number of humanitarian actors, mostly international NGO’s, as well as government child protection services, have been implementing a wide range of interventions to address protection issues. These include: Child Friendly Spaces where children participate in socio-recreational activities which help them reduce stress in an environment which provides a sense of normalcy, and where children with special needs are identified and referred to psychosocial support or other services as needed; identification, documentation, temporary care, family tracing and reunification of unaccompanied and separated children; services for children victims of any form of violence – sexual, physical or emotional abuse, early/forced marriage, worst forms of labour, trafficking, recruitment into armed groups, etc.; establishment of community-based child protection mechanisms which includes volunteers and youth peer educators committees which role is to raise awareness about prevention and response to child protection issues, as well as to detect and report child protection cases; awareness-raising through community radios.
In order to avoid duplication and to ensure adequate geographic and thematic coverage, a full-time person is needed to coordinate interventions. This person is assisted by an Information Management Officer in charge of collecting, processing and analyzing data on the situation of children and on interventions carried out by all child protection actors in the area.
This position is part of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Cluster approach, led by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance (OCHA), which is the primary mechanism for inter-agency coordination of humanitarian assistance.
This person will provide technical support to the two coordination mechanisms of the Child Protection Sub-Cluster of the Protection Cluster. In the capital city, Niamey, the Child Protection Working Group is led by UNICEF and co-led by the Ministry in charge of Child Protection, and comprises all CPiE country office representatives of INGOs working in the area of CPiE in Diffa. In Diffa, it is led by the Regional Child Protection Directorate and co-led by UNICEF, and comprises all CPiE field actors, all of which are international NGO’s. The former focuses on strategic coordination and the latter on operational coordination on the ground.
How can you make a difference?
On behalf of UNICEF, the Country Lead Agency for the Child Protection Area of Responsibility (AoR), and in support of the Government, the purpose of this position is to provide leadership and to facilitate processes at national as well as field level (in Diffa), that will ensure a well-coordinated, strategic, adequate, coherent, and effective response by participants in the Child Protection Working Group.
This will involve:
Collaboration with Protection Cluster, SGBV Sub-Cluster and other actors
Strategic Planning
Assessment
Capacity Building
Monitoring and Evaluation
Management and Representation
Fund Raising
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Duration: 364 days
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How to apply:
UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified female and male candidates from all national, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of our organization. To apply, click on the following link http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/?job=506210