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For every child, the right to Justice

UNICEF Lebanon implements a comprehensive Child Protection Programme aimed at strengthening national systems to prevent and respond to violence, exploitation, abuse and neglect of children. Child justice is a core pillar of this programme, focusing on legislative reform, capacity-building of justice actors, and ensuring child-sensitive procedures for children in conflict or in contact with the law.

The Child Protection Section supports government counterparts, judiciary actors, civil society organisations and UN partners to advance child-friendly justice in line with international standards.

The incumbent will support the implementation, coordination and monitoring of child justice interventions, ensuring timely delivery of workplans, quality partner implementation, and evidence-based programming under the Child Protection Programme.

The incumbent is accountable for supporting the timely and quality implementation of child justice–related activities under the Child Protection Programme, including effective technical, coordination and logistical support to partners and stakeholders. The role is responsible for contributing to partner monitoring and quality assurance efforts, supporting risk identification and follow-up, and ensuring accurate and timely preparation of programme documentation such as meeting minutes, briefs, and draft programme documents. The IC is also accountable for supporting the organization of capacity-building activities and for contributing to data and evidence generation to strengthen evidence-based child justice programming.

How can you make a difference? 

1. Programme implementation and coordination:

• Support implementation of child justice workplans and agreements
• Coordinate with partners, municipalities and relevant justice actors
• Support inter-agency and inter-sectoral coordination on child justice

2. Monitoring, quality assurance and risk management:

• Support partner monitoring through field visits, spot checks and reviews
• Contribute to risk assessments and follow-up actions
• Support documentation of monitoring findings

3. Programme development and documentation:

• Support drafting/revision of Programme Documents (PDs), TORs and agreements
• Contribute to concept notes, proposals and technical briefs
• Prepare briefing notes and meeting minutes

4. Capacity building and events:

• Support organisation of trainings, workshops, roundtables and working groups
• Coordinate logistics and technical inputs for learning events

5. Evidence generation and reporting:

• Support data collection, analysis and evidence generation
• Contribute to reports and knowledge products to strengthen child justice programming

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

Minimum requirements:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in law or related field is required.
• Work Experience:
  • Minimum 2 years of relevant experience in child protection, child justice or human rights programming, including experience in programme implementation, coordination and partner support is required.
  • Experience in monitoring partner activities, supporting capacity-building initiatives, and contributing to programme documentation and reporting is required.
  • Experience working with government counterparts, justice actors or civil society organisations is an asset.
• Language Requirements: Fluency in Arabic and English is required. Knowledge of French or any other UN language is considered an asset.

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

The UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships

(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness

(3) Drive to achieve results for impact

(4) Innovates and embraces change

(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity

(6) Thinks and acts strategically

(7) Works collaboratively with others 

Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels.

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 a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF provides reasonable accommodation 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.

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Remarks:  

As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration in the employment of the staff is the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity.

Government employees who are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government positions before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason. 

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Humanitarian action is a cross-cutting priority within UNICEF’s Strategic Plan. UNICEF is committed to stay and deliver in humanitarian contexts. Therefore, all staff, at all levels across all functional areas, can be called upon to be deployed to support humanitarian response, contributing to both strengthening resilience of communities and capacity of national authorities.

All UNICEF positions are advertised, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. An internal candidate performing at the level of the post in the relevant functional area, or an internal/external candidate in the corresponding Talent Group, may be selected, if suitable for the post, without assessment of other candidates.

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