UNICEF INDONESIA Posting date: 30 March 2020

Are you ready to use your talents to make the world a better place for Children?
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. We seek dynamic
candidate for the following position:

VACANCY REFERENCE: 20-011 (To apply please click on the Job Number: 530917)
Title: National Consultant: Supporting capacity building of the Ministry of Women’s
Empowerment and Child Protection on child protection service delivery
Duty Station: Jakarta (KPPPA)
Type of Contract: Special Service Agreement
Duration: April – October 2020 (approx. 6.5 months)

BACKGROUND:
The President mandated the Ministry of Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection (MOWECP) to
prioritize the following key areas:
1. Increasing women's empowerment in entrepreneurship
2. Reducing violence against women and children
3. Reducing child labour
4. Prevent Child Marriage
5. Enhancing the Role of mothers and families in child care
To address the five key areas above, MOWECP is undertaking a new function to include direct service
delivery. This new function needs to be articulated through a comprehensive conceptual and
operational framework taking into consideration the existing mechanism undertaken by key ministries
at national level as well as to align with decentration framework.

MOWECP requested UNICEF’s to assist in the conceptualization and capacity building to undertake this
new added function.

Purpose of Activity/Assignment (Link with AWP/ MYWP or IMEP)

The purpose of this consultancy is to support the MOWECP on:
• Development of the conceptual framework to address the priority areas as mandated by the
President pertaining to child protection.
• Design capacity building framework to strengthen MOWECP staffs to undertake the new
function on service delivery. This includes development of core training modules for capacity
building.

Scope of Work:
Undertake review of existing policy framework, structure and processes on child protection at national
and sub national level. This includes interviews and consultations with key stakeholders at national and
sub national level regarding the existing norms, structure and processes relevant to child protection.

The consultancy will include field travel in selected areas around Indonesia for consultations.

Review of the policy framework will identify existing mandate on child protection, gaps and challenges.
Whereas review on the structure will identify existing strengths and capacity gaps as well as to design
capacity building framework to support implementation the service delivery function. Process review
will identify existing practices, operating procedures and mechanism in service provision for child
protection.
Results from the structure and process review will be the basis for the development of capacity building
framework.

Work Assignments & Outputs:

1. Mapping of existing policies and capacity assessment of the existing structures and processes
relevant to child protection. Output: Analysis on existing policy framework and capacity
assessment.
2. Drafting of conceptual framework on child protection priority areas. Output: Draft conceptual
framework on child protection priority areas.
3. Conduct consultations with key stakeholders at national and subnational to validate the draft
conceptual framework on child protection priority areas and capacity assessment. Output: Final
conceptual framework on child protection priority areas.
4. Develop national standard of quality for UPTD service provision. Output: National standard of
UPTD quality assurance.
5. Develop guidelines for integrated referral mechanism. Output: National guidelines for integrated
referral mechanism on violence against children and women.
6. Designing capacity building framework to strengthen MOWECP staffs’ knowledge and skills to
operate on its new function. Output: Capacity building framework.
7. Develop core modules for capacity building to support implementation of the new conceptual
framework under the new function. Output: Core module for MOWECP staffs’ capacity building.
8. Facilitate training sessions using the newly developed core modules. Output: Report on the
conduct of the training assessing relevancy and suitability of the training modules

To qualify as a champion for every child you will have…

- a postgraduate (Master’s) degree and solid background on social work with a focus on child
welfare and protection or related field with relevant experience;
- at least 10 years of working experience in the government’s service provider for children victims
of violence
- experience in coordinating and developing referral mechanism of services with multiple
stakeholders from law enforcement, ministry, local government, civil society and private sector
- extensive technical and practical development expertise- knowledge and in developing/low
middle-income countries in child protection and family welfare;
- demonstrated understanding of government functions to social work reform and child
protection; Understanding of the decentralization context is an advantage.
- excellent communication, advocacy and people skills. Ability to communicate with various
stakeholders and to express concisely and clearly ideas and concepts in written and oral form.
Excellent report writing skills are necessary

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s core values of Commitment, Diversity and Integrity and core competencies in Communication,
Working with People and Drive for Results.

View our competency framework at:

https://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/UNICEF_Competencies.pdf

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates,
irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with
disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization. This vacancy is open for Indonesian only.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the
United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of
authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected
candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to
adhere to these standards and principles.

Closing date: 10 April 2020

Disclaimer: The screening of your application will be conducted based on the information in your
profile. Before applying, we strongly suggest that you review your profile to ensure accuracy and
completeness. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the
selection process.