Child Protection Officer (Juvenile Justice) (NO-2)

Child Protection Officer (Juvenile Justice) (NO-2)

UNICEF Maldives is looking for a dedicated Child Protection Officer reporting to the Child Protection Specialist. The Child Protection Officer supports UNICEF's efforts to ensure that every child is protected from violence, abuse, neglect, and exploitation, and has access to child-friendly justice systems. The incumbent provides technical, operational, and administrative support across all stages of the programme cycle, contributing to the design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting of child protection programmes. Through a particular focus on violence against children and justice for children, the Child Protection Officer helps drive quality programme implementation and the achievement of sustainable results that improve the lives of children and adolescents.

Key Accountabilities :

Under the supervision and guidance of the Child Protection Specialist, the Child Protection Officer contributes to the effective implementation of UNICEF Maldives’ child protection programme, helping to create a safer and more protective environment for children. This role is ideal for a motivated professional seeking to make a tangible impact by supporting the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of programmes that address violence against children and strengthen child-friendly justice systems, ultimately improving the lives of children and their families across the Maldives.

The key accountabilities are:

• Support to programme development and planning
• Programme management, monitoring and delivery of results
• Technical and operational support to programme implementation
• Networking and partnership building
• Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building

If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here: Child Protection Officer Level 2.pdf

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

• Education: A university degree in one of the following fields is required: international development, human rights, psychology, sociology, international law, or another relevant social science field.
• Work

Experience

• At least 2 years of relevant work experience in Child Protection and in social development planning and management in child protection related areas or any other related field is required.
• Skills: Experience in Child Protection Programming, Experience in Applying technical expertise, Planning, and Organizing is required.
• Language

Requirements

• Proficiency in English and Dhivehi is required.

Desirables:

• Language: Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) is an asset.

• Experience in child safeguarding, supporting government, development and humanitarian contexts, analyzing, learning and researching, justice for children, prevention of violence against children, social services, programme management, systems strengthening is an asset.

• Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.

• 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 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.

• This position has been assessed as an elevated risk role for Child Safeguarding purposes as it is either a role with direct contact with children, a role that works directly with identifiable children's data, a safeguarding response role, or an assessed risk role. Additional vetting and assessment for elevated risk roles in child safeguarding (potentially including additional criminal background checks) apply.

• 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, discrimination, fraud, corruption and other forms of serious misconduct. UNICEF is committed to promoting the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference, safeguarding and background verification checks. These checks may include verification of academic credentials and employment history, screening against relevant United Nations misconduct databases, and requests for misconduct disclosures from current and former employers, professional associations, other relevant organizations.