PSEA Capacity Building Consultant (Remote/Work from home) - Ref#577060

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, hope.

 

Consultancy Title: PSEA Capacity Building Consultant

Section/Division/Duty Station: Programme Group, Child Protection Section, UNICEF NYHQ

Duration: 01 December 2024 to 30 June 2025

Home/ Office Based: NYHQ / Remote

 

About UNICEF

If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you. For 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children's survival, protection and development. 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. UNICEF has over 12,000 staff in more than 145 countries.

BACKGROUND

Purpose of Activity/ Assignment:

UNICEF is committed to accelerating protection from sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA) across all humanitarian settings.  PSEA is an organization-wide accountability, and UNICEF Child Protection leads and is a key contributor to this work. UNICEF’s Child Protection strategy prioritizes the prevention of violence, which includes prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse.  The UNICEF’s Strategic Plan 2022-2025 includes core commitments on PSEA, including within Goal Area 3: Every child is protected from all forms of violence, exploitation, abuse, and harmful practices. The Strategic Plan also includes a strategic enabler on the establishment and strengthening of PSEA systems at country-level, for which Child Protection holds a leading role. In addition, UNICEF’s Child Protection Programme Team serves as the designated lead for the roll-out of PSEA within the Core Commitments for Children and the Emergency Procedures. UNICEF’s PSEA strategy aims to ensure that women and children are protected from SEA and have access to safe and confidential complaints and reporting mechanisms and response systems, including quality survivor assistance and safe and timely investigations.

As a leader in child protection globally and as an agency mandated to strengthen the protection of children and women, UNICEF is also committed to advancing best practice and evidence-based approaches to support the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) in delivering on the shared PSEA framework commitments. UNICEF actively leads and contributes to PSEA acceleration within the IASC and UN systems, including providing critical support to Humanitarian and UN Country Teams to fulfill their PSEA responsibilities.  UNICEF also leads several key initiatives aligned with these shared priorities, which are led by UNICEF’s Child Protection team, whose leadership has been central to advancing PSEA across UNICEF and the IASC.

UNICEF is leading the global rollout of the UN Victim Assistance Protocol on behalf of the UN system and the IASC, to strengthen the system-wide approach to provision of victim assistance and ensure quality and timely support for survivors of sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA). As part of this effort, UNICEF has developed a Victim Assistance Technical Note and related training materials and has provided technical support and trainings for RCs/HCs, UNCTs/HCTs and interagency structures in over 15 countries and over 1,800 practitioners received either a briefing or training on the protocol and technical note. To further accelerate the protocol rollout and strengthen victim assistance, UNICEF is supporting the IASC in adopting the technical note for NGOs and is undertaking the review of the protocol’s implementation to date.

Additionally, UNICEF is providing support to the Office of the Special Coordinator (OSC) and the Victims’ Rights Advocate (OVRA) on strengthening the UN response to SEA, including co-leading a working group focused on developing a broader strategy, policies, and SOPs for managing SEA risks during the peace operations and mission transitions.

UNICEF has also played a key role in developing a joint UN-Government Framework for PSEA, which was includes a model PSEA clause that will be inserted in the UN Sustainable Development Coo