Child Protection Budgeting Specialist at The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

Employment Nigeria 16-Dec-2016 ABUJA , NGO

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - 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, foundations and governments.

POSITION : TA Child Protection Budgeting Specialist (Violence Against Children and Child Protection Systems Strengthening)

Purpose of the Position
In order to support generating information for planning the scale up of child protection services, and ensuring that the required budgets are integrated into the medium term expenditure framework, UNICEF is seeking to hire an international TA to lead the programe planning, recruitment of expert consultancy firm or individual consultants, programme monitoring and implementation of activities including the financial programme management for the completion of the analysis of the budget allocation, costing of the services and economic burden of child abuse and the development of budgetary guidelines.

Specific Project Objectives to Which the Position is Related:

Output 36: By 2017, the capacity of key institutions and civil society is strengthened to monitor and report violence against children especially in humanitarian context and implement gender and age-appropriate prevention and response measures in at least three states.
Output 39: By 2017, the capacity to plan and manage social welfare workforce, finance and gender-/age-appropriate services of child protection systems to prevent and respond to violence, abuse, exploitation and neglect strengthened at Federal, State and Local Government Area level

Major Tasks to Be Accomplished

Analysis of current budget allocation to child protection conducted by expert consultancy firm/individual consultants validated and launched
Costing of the child protection services conducted by expert consultancy firm/individual consultants validated and launched
Analysis of the economic burden of violence against children conducted by expert consultancy firm/individual consultants validated and launched
Budgetary guidelines developed by the consultancy firm/individual consultants to fund the child protection services validated and launched
DCTs and direct payments to partners timely submitted, processed and liquidated
Payments to the consultancy firm/individual expert consultants timely processed
7th Learning Group Meeting on Budgeting and funding the child protection system organized
2016 advocacy strategy developed and key high level advocacy meetings conducted
Draft child protection budget lines available for 2018s state budget allocation

Qualifications or Specialization Knowledge/Experience Required
Essential:

Advanced university Degree in Social Science, Economic Sciences, Public Finances or related field (Masters or equivalent level)
First university degree with additional two-years of relevant work experience is acceptable in lieu of an advanced university degree.
A minimum of five years of relevant professional work experience with projects related to programme management
Understanding of the international framework for child protection
Excellent organizational and planning skills
Strong advocacy skills
Strong written skills
Fluency in English

Desirable:

Experience in the field of child protection programming advocating for increased budgeting and financing an asset
Abreast with latest development in the field of public finances and budgeting an asset
Experience with UNICEF is desirable
Experience working with government desirable

Note

The successful candidate for this emergency recruitment MUST be available to commence work within 31 days of receiving an offer.
The position is based in Abuja, with regular travel to the focus States
Employment is conditional upon receipt of medical clearance, any clearance required, the grant of a visa, and completion of any other pre-employment criteria that UNICEF may establish.
Candidates may not be further considered or offers of employment may be withdrawn if these conditions are unlikely to be met before the date for commencement of service.

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Child Protection Budgeting Specialist at The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

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