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Role Description

This role involves facilitating UNICEF sectoral technical leadership and coordination on Case Management and Information Management for Case Management in humanitarian settings.

• Provide technical assistance and backstopping to priority countries (L3, L2, refugee and mixed migration settings).
• Generate evidence to improve planning, programming, advocacy, and resource mobilization.
• Convene interagency coordination on information management for case management (IM4CM) and the Child Protection Information Management System (CPIMS+) in humanitarian settings.
• Arrange dissemination, socialization, adaptation, and strengthening capacities on interagency policy guidance on child protection case management.
• Support individual cases for the most vulnerable children using a case management approach.
• Deploy the CPIMS+ efficiently and effectively, ensuring appropriate IM4CM processes are in place.
• Foster streamlined governance for case management, supervision, and information management.
• Promote the use of a standard interagency CPIMS+ as support to case management programming.
• Facilitate cooperation on systems interoperability between CPIMS+ and UNHCR ProGres.
• Support capacity building packages on case management and information management for case management.
• Facilitate UNICEF and sectoral evidence building on child protection case management.
• Support the roll-out and dissemination of revised interagency case management guidelines and tools.
• Assist in technical assistance to priority countries in humanitarian settings.
• Facilitate stock-taking and experience sharing with countries using CPIMS+.
• Support in-country and global interoperability initiatives between interagency systems.

Qualifications

• Advanced University Degree (Masters) in Social Work, International Relations, Law, Child Psychology, or another relevant field.
• 5-8 years of experience in child protection case management and information management systems at a global level.
• Good technical understanding of information management for case management work.
• Track record of using the IA CP IMS and CPIMS+, PRIMERO.
• Advanced proficiency in information technology with practical experience applying IT tools and systems.
• Proven partnership, training, and capacity building skills with a range of stakeholders.
• Strong communication, organizational, inter-personal, and leadership skills.
• Ability to be flexible and work well under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrable ability to work independently and take initiative.

Requirements

• Completed profile in UNICEF's e-Recruitment system.
• Upload copy of academic credentials.
• Financial proposal reflecting costs per deliverable and total lump-sum for the assignment.
• Travel costs and daily subsistence allowance, if applicable.
• Indicate your availability.
• Any emergent/unforeseen duty travel and related expenses will be covered by UNICEF.
• At the time the contract is awarded, the selected candidate must have current health insurance coverage.
• Payment of professional fees will be based on submission of agreed satisfactory deliverables.

Benefits

• Reasonable accommodation for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities.
• UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF.