Child Protection Consultant to Support Justice for Children

PG, Child Protection and Migration Practice, Violence Prevention and Response Solutions, CoE Amman, Jordan & Remote / No assigned duty station, no travel

12 months

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UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.

At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.

UNICEF is a place where careers are built. We offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.

Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.

For every child, the right to protection

How can you make a difference?

Children interact with justice systems for many reasons, including as victims or survivors, witnesses, children alleged as or accused of an offence, parties to civil or administrative proceedings, or children requiring care, protection or other support. Children’s access to justice therefore encompasses judicial, administrative, customary, religious and quasi-judicial mechanisms, as well as alternative dispute resolution, across criminal, civil, administrative and other areas of law.

UNICEF’s Reimagine Justice for Children Agenda advances six interrelated priorities: legal empowerment; legal aid and representation; diversion from formal justice proceedings; protection from detention; access to justice for survivors of violence; and child-friendly courts and alternative dispute resolution. It also seeks to strengthen protection from deprivation of liberty in justice, migration, armed conflict, national security and institutional settings, including for children living in detention with a primary caregiver.

Additional time-bound technical capacity is required to respond to growing requests from country and regional offices; support implementation of the Reimagine Justice for Children Agenda and relevant evaluation recommendations; conduct rapid research; strengthen knowledge management and global learning; and support selected advocacy, webinar and conference activities.

If you would like to know more about this consultancy, please review the complete Terms of Reference here:  ToRTMC0006105.pdf

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

Minimum requirements:

• Education: An advanced university degree in law, human rights, international development, public policy, social sciences or another field relevant to justice for children and child protection

• Work Experience:  Minimum eight (8) years of progressively responsible professional experience in justice for children, child protection, human rights or a related field.
  • Demonstrated experience conducting high-quality legal, policy or programme research.
  • Experience providing technical assistance to governments, UN agencies or development partners on justice for children or child protection.
  • Proven experience contributing to the development or review of laws, policies, strategies or programmes related to justice for children.
  • Experience supporting knowledge management, communities of practice, documentation of good practices and development of technical guidance.
• Skills: • Strong technical expertise in justice for children and child protection systems strengthening.
  • Sound understanding of international child rights, human rights and juvenile justice standards.
  • Excellent analytical, research, writing, editing and communication skills.
  • Strong facilitation, coordination and stakeholder-engagement skills.
  • Ability to manage multiple assignments and work effectively in a remote, multicultural environment.
• Language Requirements: Fluency in written and spoken English is required.
  • Working proficiency in French or Spanish is highly desirable.
• Desirables: Experience contributing to global or regional guidance and normative products.
  • Experience supporting conferences, forums, webinars or global advocacy initiatives.
  • Familiarity with UNICEF’s Reimagine Justice for Children Agenda.
  • Experience working across regions or UNICEF programme areas.
  • Availability to collaborate across Amman, New York and Latin America and the Caribbean working hours, as required

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

UNICEF promotes and advocates for the protection of the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything it does and is mandated to support the realization of the rights of every child, including those most disadvantaged, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or any other status.

UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence. We offer reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. throughout the recruitment process. If you require any accommodation, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF. Should you be shortlisted, please get in touch with the recruiter directly to share further details, enabling us to make the necessary arrangements in advance.

UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially.

Qualified candidates are invited to submit the following documents via the online recruitment portal, TMS (Talent Management System):

• An up-to-date TMS profile and curriculum vitae (CV)
• Cover letter
• A separate financial proposal (only acceptable in the format of the linked template)  Financial proposal TMC0006105.docx
• Technical Proposal: Applicants should submit a concise technical proposal describing their understanding of the assignment, proposed approach and work organization, together with three relevant writing samples demonstrating experience in technical guidance, analytical products, policy documents or knowledge products.