TA Child Protection Budgeting Specialist (Violence Against Children and Child Protection Systems Strengthening) at UNICEF

Job Number: 501351
Level: P-3
Work Type: Temporary Appointment

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.