[Hiring] Consultant @AGORA

Role Description

As the leading UN organizations working for refugees and for children, UNHCR and UNICEF have established a Strategic Collaboration Framework to promote the inclusion of refugees in national child protection systems of host countries and to bring about transformational change for refugee children and their families. By prioritizing inclusiveness, this collaboration intends to supplement the ongoing humanitarian efforts with a robust focus on ensuring refugee children's welfare and rights within host countries.

The collaboration has set objectives to establish leadership in child protection, including:

• Technical support on high impact interventions towards refugee children inclusion and strengthening specific elements of national child protection systems.
• Strategic policy advocacy initiatives to advance South to South learning, promoting experience sharing amongst key governments and civil society stakeholders.
• Learning products, guidance, and synthesized evidence to accelerate inclusion through investments in key programmatic priorities identified as inclusion accelerators.

This approach is supported by PROSPECTS, a groundbreaking multi-year programme financed by the Government of the Netherlands. PROSPECTS aims to shift the paradigm from a humanitarian to a development approach in responding to forced displacement crises.

To advance this collaboration, UNICEF seeks to hire a consultant to work jointly with UNHCR and UNICEF to ensure the effective coordination of the child protection implementation of the global PROSPECTS initiative.

Qualifications

• Masters degree in Social work, forced displacement, migration, law, social development, international development, social science, or other related disciplines.
• A minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible professional experience in child protection, migration, forced displacement, humanitarian and development programming.
• Demonstrated expertise in national child protection systems strengthening, including (refugee) inclusion programming.
• Proven experience providing technical assistance and strategic support to multi-country and multi-stakeholder initiatives.
• Extensive experience in programme planning, monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL).
• Demonstrated experience supporting resource mobilization efforts and development of technical proposals.
• Proven experience organizing and facilitating regional or global workshops and learning events.
• Proficiency in English; knowledge of another UN language/s is highly desirable.

Requirements

• Excellent analytical, writing, editing, and synthesis skills.
• Strong understanding of refugee-inclusive child protection systems strengthening.
• Sound knowledge of UNICEF and UNHCR child protection frameworks.
• Strong presentation, facilitation, and public-speaking skills.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and relationship-management skills.
• Demonstrated experience in inter-agency coordination and partnership management.

Benefits

• Diverse opportunities for professional and personal development.
• Attractive compensation and benefits package.