[Hiring] Child Protection Consultant to Support Parenting for Violence Prevention Programming @AGORA

Role Description

This consultancy will support the Centres of Excellence Child Protection and SBC teams in delivering technical assistance to Country Offices to strengthen SBC-informed parenting for VAC prevention, and broader parenting outcomes across the life course, while also contributing to the documentation of good practices, development of global and regional guidance, supporting cross country and cross regional learning, and strengthening of practical SBC resources for adaptation across contexts.

Qualifications

• Advanced university degree (Master's or higher) in Child Protection, Social Work, Psychology, Public Health, Sociology, International Development, Education, Social and Behaviour Change, or another relevant social science discipline.

Requirements

• Minimum eight (8) years of progressively responsible professional experience in child protection, violence against children prevention, parenting and caregiver support, social and behaviour change, child protection systems strengthening, or related fields.
• Demonstrated experience providing technical assistance to governments, UNICEF Country Offices, UN agencies, or development partners on the design, implementation, review, and scale-up of parenting and/or child protection programmes, including support for policy development, programme design, implementation and scale-up.
• Proven experience in the development and review of strategies, policies, guidance, programme frameworks, implementation plans, and knowledge products.
• Experience supporting knowledge management, facilitation of communities of practice, documentation of good practices, and development of technical guidance materials.
• Fluency in English (written and spoken) is required.
• Working proficiency in Spanish (written and spoken) is desirable.
• Strong technical expertise in parenting interventions and violence prevention.
• Strong understanding of child protection systems strengthening and integrated service delivery models.
• Knowledge of the intersections between violence against children (VAC) and violence against women (VAW).
• Strong understanding of social and behaviour change (SBC) approaches and their application to parenting and violence prevention.
• Familiarity with global frameworks and evidence, including INSPIRE, parenting support approaches, and child protection systems strengthening.
• Excellent analytical, writing, editing, and communication skills.
• Strong facilitation and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to manage multiple technical assistance requests simultaneously and work effectively in a remote, multicultural environment.

Desirables

• Experience contributing to global or regional guidance and normative products.
• Experience supporting ministerial conferences, regional forums, or global advocacy initiatives.
• Familiarity with UNICEF's Parenting for Child Protection agenda and Communities of Practice.
• Experience working across Child Protection and Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) programmes.
• Ability to work in LACR time zone.

Benefits

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