Technical Advisor

UNICEF is the world’s largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foun…

Technical Advisor

How can you make a difference?

The consultancy will focus on the following key areas:

Strengthening Child-Sensitive Social Protection Systems

• Support the expansion and institutionalisation of child-sensitive social protection programmes.

• Strengthen adaptive social protection systems to better protect children affected by droughts, floods, displacement, and economic shocks.

• Promote greater integration of child poverty and vulnerability considerations within social protection programmes.

Strengthening Child Protection Systems

• Support the State Department for Children Services in implementing the Children Act 2022, including the development and roll-out of regulations, guidelines, standards and operational procedures.

Integration of Social Protection and Child Protection

• Support linkages and referral pathways between cash transfer programmes and child protection services.

• Promote integrated approaches to addressing child poverty, violence, neglect, family separation and harmful practices

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

• Minimum Qualifications required: Masters in Social Policy, Public Finance, Public Policy, Economics,Development Studies, Public Administration, Child Protection, Development Economics or related field.

Years of Experience/ Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required:

Work Experience:

• Minimum of ten (10) years progressive work experience in child-sensitive social protection, child protection, social policy, public policy, public finance, development economics, poverty and vulnerability analysis, public administration, or related fields, including experience providing strategic technical advice to government institutions.

• Demonstrated experience supporting Governmentled policy, systems-strengthening and reform initiatives.

• Experience supporting the design, implementation,coordination or evaluation of social protection and/or child protection programmes.