Under the overall supervision of the Child Protection Specialist (GBViE) (P4) and working closely with the Health Manager (HSTP), the Child Protection Specialist (GBViE) (P3) will provide oversight for quality assurance and coherence with UNICEF’s global level GBViE Operational Guidance and Resource Pack, other global standards and guidelines, UNICEF Core Commitment for Children in Humanitarian Action, Strategic Plan and Gender Action Plan. The Child Protection Specialist (GBViE) Specialist will support the development, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of UNICEF’s GBV-related prevention, and mitigation in South Sudan ensuring overall efficiency, effectiveness, and delivery of results by national and international standards including UNICEF’s and IASC technical guidelines. The Specialist will be responsible for providing strategic direction, high quality technical guidance, and assistance for the design, planning, and expansion of GBV-related health services within the HSTP.
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Provide technical support to UNICEF South Sudan to improve GBV-related health services.
Work with the Ministry of Health, UNICEF Health section, and implementing partners to strengthen GBV service delivery in health facilities by enhancing the capacity of healthcare providers to deliver quality care to survivors through training, support, and supervision, including GBV prevention and response, CMR, and IPV.
Implement a detailed capacity building plan to ensure healthcare providers are trained to provide:
Survivor-centred care and PFA to all GBV survivors.
CMR includes history taking, the physical and genito-anal exam, treatment, follow-up and referral for specialist services, and legal reporting requirements (Form 8)
Care to survivors of IPV and care for child survivors adapted to their needs and capacities.
Develop approaches to improve coordination and development of functional referral pathway systems between health and GBV service providers at the national, state, and county levels through training, materials, and other support.
Support implementing partners conduct facility-based assessments to assess the readiness of health facilities to provide GBV services and safety audits to identify GBV risks in and around health facilities. This will include country-wide facility assessment and safety audits, consultations, and training for assessment. Based on findings from safety audits and assessments, develop mitigation measures to address GBV risks identified within and around health facilities.
Provide technical support to expand and strengthen UNICEF GBViE programming.
In collaboration with the Child Protection Specialist (GBViE) (P4) and Child Protection section, provide technical support and guidance on the formulation, design, planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of GBViE programmes to ensure overall efficiency and effectiveness of programme management, delivery and accomplishment of programme goals and objectives.
Work with the UNICEF field offices to design, plan, and coordinate the scale-up of GBViE interventions for priority locations.
Support the planning, design, and development of partnerships with women-led organisations to enhance GBV service delivery and their leadership in humanitarian responses in South Sudan.
Develop detailed capacity-building plans to strengthen GBV service delivery in line with global standards adapted to the needs of UNICEF implementing partners and government counterparts.
Provide technical support on the development and/or implementation of relevant UNICEF programming strategy documents, policy documents, and advocacy to address GBV.
Prepare updates and briefings on GBViE for senior management levels to ensure understanding and prioritisation of programming to address GBVIE.
Work with UNICEF sectors and clusters and inter-agency partners to ensure GBV prevention, risk mitigation, and response are adequately integrated across sectors and actions to reduce risks of GBV are implemented.
Actively engage in and provide technical support to the GBV and Child Protection Area of Responsibility (AoR) to ensure a comprehensive plan of action to better address GBV including:
To support capacity building initiatives to strengthen GBV case management practices in line with minimum standards (integrated with child protection whenever appropriate);
To support safe information sharing practices including through interagency information management systems.
In collaboration with UNICEF Child Protection Specialist (GBViE) (P4), work closely with priority UNICEF sectors and clusters to develop plans to integrate GBV risk mitigation measures across programming in line with the Interagency Minimum Standards and the IASC GBV Guidelines.
Engage with UNICEF Nutrition section to improve GBV risk mitigation measures are in place to improve women and girls’ safer access to Nutrition facilities and increase nutrition outcomes for children.
Support programme knowledge acquisition and monitoring through systematic collection of country experience and the provision of GBVIE-related technical support.
Plan and/or collaborate with internal and external partners to establish monitoring benchmarks, performance indicators, and other UNICEF/UN system indicators and measurements to assess/strengthen performance accountability, coherence, and delivery of concrete and sustainable results.
Participate in monitoring and evaluation exercises, program reviews, and annual reviews with government and other counterparts to assess progress and to determine required action/interventions to achieve results.
Document lessons learned and good practices from UNICEF’s partnerships with new and existing women-led organisations.
Contribute to UNICEF South Sudan’s capacity for improved participatory monitoring and evaluation, learning exchanges, and forums on GBV interventions. This may also include representation at national and regional forums both internally and externally and ensuring linkages with other countries.
Actively monitor financial and human resource capacity to ensure sufficient resources are in place to effectively achieve the goals noted above.
Ensure allocation and management of sufficient financial and human resource capacity to effectively achieve UNICEF GBViE commitments.
Facilitate the inclusion of GBV into humanitarian appeal processes and documents. As needed, support reporting and writing funding proposals.
Prepare programme reports for management as required.
Minimum requirements:
Education:
Advanced university degree or equivalent in public health, the social sciences or other relevant field related to GBViE in emergency programming.
Work Experience:
A minimum of 5 years of GBViE programming experience with either the UN and/or NGO in emergency settings.
Proven experience working on GBV integration in health services desired.
Skills:
Strong understanding of health responses to GBV including clinical management of rape and demonstrated expertise with GBV case management systems, GBV programming approaches, practices, and applications i.e. on Adolescent Girl Programming, GBViE Minimum Standards, GBVIMS, IASC GBV guidelines.
Proven experience of planning and facilitating training, workshops, and other capacity building modalities.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to effectively liaise with people in a wide range of functions in a multi-cultural environment.
Experience in collecting, collating, and analysing data effectively with strong report writing skills.
Demonstrates, applies, and shares expert technical knowledge across the organisation.
Strong planning, project management and budget skills required.
Ability to work independently and productively, with multiple stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.
Language Requirements:
Fluency in English is required (excellent analytical, communication, writing and editorial skills in English). Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.
Desirables:
Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency.
