Iraq: Child Protection Officer - NOB Temporary Appointment (Nationals only)

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up,

For every child. 

Inline with Goal 3 of the UNICEF Strategic Plan 2022-25, and ultimately, towards the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals the focus of Child Protection Programme is that children, adolescents and women, especially the most vulnerable, are protected from violence, exploitation, abuse and neglect, in accordance with international standards. Under the Output 3 of the Child Protection Workplan, the priority areas for this assignment is to ensure children affected by armed conflict benefit from a strengthened system for monitoring, reporting and responding to violations of child rights in armed conflict, including prevention, rehabilitation and reintegration into the community

This assignment is established to provide information management support to the children affected by armed conflict agenda within the Child Protection Programme with UNICEF Iraq Country Office.

The Child Protection Officer reports to the Child Protection Specialist in Baghdad for supervision. The Child Protection Officer provides professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for child protection programmes/projects within the Country Programme from development planning to delivery of results. H/She prepares, executes, manages, and implements a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, evaluating and reporting

How can you make a difference?

Key activities and results for the period of the stretch include but are not limited to:

Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism (MRM):

• Support the Iraq CO and Syria CO MRM with documenting child rights violations.
• Update and input the Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism information management system (MRMIMS) -currently a spreadsheet.
• Produce infographics/ presentations to support quarterly (and ad hoc) meetings related to MRM including: the monitoring and reporting mechanism technical working group (MRMTWG), country task force on the monitoring and reporting mechanism (CTFMR), and ad hoc CAAC briefings/ donor presentations.
• Ensure MRM IMS data is cleaned, concise and reliable to input into quarterly global horizontal notes (GHNs) and SG Annual Report on CAAC.
• Support coordination of meetings including MRMTWG, drafting meeting minutes, reviewing workplan, maintaining contact lists, circulating minutes.

Action Plan:

• Support information management to document implementation of the Action Plan, meeting minutes, ensuring data protection protocols observed.

Reintegration:

• Support the Child Protection Section with Reintegration Programming, especially organization of monthly meetings, workshops and support with related programme/grant monitoring visits.
• Manage reintegration information management system in coordination with IOM counterparts. This includes ensuring data on children tracked to capture their individual journey and continuum of care, including reintegration services received.
• Ensure children released from detention in need of reintegration services also captured in above IMS.
• Produce infographics on return data (individuals and areas of return). Ensure this is updated systematically.
• Produce visuals/infographics to map UNICEF reintegration programming (partners, donors, geographic locations, number of children reached).
• Support FOs in indicator tracking, ensuring alignment with AWP targets, and proposal targets.

Explosive Ordnance Risk Education:

• Ensure information management of explosive ordnance incidents recorded in MRM IMS, including response to children affected by EO.

Foreign Caseload:

• Maintain foreign caseload information management system (currently a spreadsheet). Ensure information updated and cleaned subsequent to each repatriation.
• Ensure limited spreadsheet linked to the foreign caseload dashboard, and ongoing functioning of this dashboard

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Education:

• A first level university degree in one of the following fields is required: social work, or another relevant field including international development, human rights, psychology, sociology, international law, information management.

Experience:

• A minimum of 2 years of solid professional work experience at the national level child protection development and emergency programming in developing countries.
• Experience managing data, databases and in developing dash boards and information sharing platforms.
• Emergency field experience working in humanitarian situations, including deployment missions (with UN-Govt-NGOs) is an asset.

Language:

• Fluency in English and Arabic (written and verbal) is required.

How to Apply: 

Application link: Vacancies | UNICEF Careers