UPDATE - ROSTER of INTERNATIONAL & NATIONAL Consultants in CHILD PROTECTION area, Romania, REMOTE, Req: 582254

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential. 

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone. 

And we never give up. 

For every child, PROTECTION 

UNICEF is looking for additional Child Protection technical expertise from Consultants in the following areas:

1. Violence against children.
2. Child Guarantee and localization.
3. Social assistance, with focus on
   • Strengthening quality and access to social services and
   • Strengthening quality and support of the social services workforce.
4. Alternative care, with focus on
   • Foster care and
   • Care leavers.
5. Justice for children.
6. Child protection in emergencies, with focus on the transition from humanitarian response to strengthened and resilient systems.

How can you make a difference? 

The selected consultants, when there is the need to deliver specific deliverables, will work closely with UNICEF Romania’s Child Protection team. When necessary, a close collaboration and interaction with state authorities and Civil Society Organizations will be required. Collaboration with state authorities implies working together with the National Authority for the Protection of Children's Rights and Adoption; Ministry of Family, Youth and Equal Opportunities; Ministry of Labor and Social Solidarity; Ministry of Justice and other national level institutions as well as the county and local governments. The consultants may also be requested to work closely with development partners and humanitarian agencies, including the World Bank, United Nations agencies and other international organizations.

The selected consultants may be required to travel across the country to gather evidence and to collaborate with local actors, for which they are expected to make their own arrangements for travel and lodging. Required travel will be specified in the TOR for each assignment and consultants will have to include all travel expenses (considering the expected travels) in their quotations.

The selected consultants are required to use their own equipment necessary for undertaking the assignments.

The details of the specific deliverables will be outlined in a separate ToR at the time of contracting for the given assignment and may include, but are not limited to, the following functional work and scope of work:

1. Violence against children:
   1. Research and Evaluation:
      1. Legal framework analysis;
      2. Quantitative and qualitative social research;
      3. Monitoring and evaluation system development including indicator development.
   2. Policy and legal framework development (evidence-based roadmap development for strengthen response to VAC, including specific sectoral and cross-sectoral strategies guidelines and methodologies).
   3. Technical assistance and capacity building (design of capacity building programmes and tools to support to government and other counterparts).
   4. Public Finance Management (social services financing mechanisms).
   5. Management information systems (digital tools for data collection and visualization, eLearning, etc.).
   6. Knowledge management (EU and national best practices’ mapping and documentation, and report writing for policy advocacy).
2. Child Guarantee and localization:
   1. Research and Evaluation
      1. Legal analysis – national and EU framework relevant for policy implementation and EU funding;
      2. Monitoring and evaluation system development including indicator development.
   2. Policy and legal framework development (including theory of change, and concept design for modelling, development of guidance, manuals and similar documents).
   3. Technical assistance and capacity building (technical advice and capacity building support to various national and regional/EU counterparts and partners).
   4. Public Finance Management (with focus on EU funding – budget planning and expenditures; financing mechanisms).
   5. Management information systems (digital tools for data collection and visualization/dashboard).
   6. Knowledge management (development and organization of strategic meetings and experts’ forum - meetings/forums/roundtable, documentation of best practices and lessons learnt, report writing for policy advocacy).
3. Social assistance:
   1. Policy and legal framework development (with special focus on quality and access to social services at local level, including theory of change, and concept design for modelling for an incentivized packa