Chief Child Protection - Lomé

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, protection

UNICEF Togo is committed to working with the Government to strengthen a protective environment where girls and boys will no longer be victims of violence, exploitation, abuse, and neglect, where communities and state services work together to promote behaviors and practices that help reduce the vulnerability of children and adolescents as well as risk factors they face while building their resilience.

The child protection component of the Togo – UNICEF programme is playing a key role to strengthen the establishment and functionality of an integrated child protection system at both the social services and community levels for improved access of children (girls and boys) to quality services for prevention and protection against violence, abuse and exploitation, justice for children, systematic registration of children at birth, promotion of positive social norms, and sector coordination and interaction with other sectors.

How can you make a difference ?

Under the supervision of the Deputy Representative, the Chief Child Protection is responsible for managing the Child protection team, establishing the plans of action and overseeing work progress to ensure the achievement of concrete and sustainable programme/project results according to plans, allocation, results based-management approaches and methodology (RBM), and UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, standards of performance, and accountability framework. She/He is also responsible for the coordination of UNICEF Togo L2 emergency responses in the related domain.

He is accountable for the following :

• Managerial leadership
• Programme development and planning
• Programme management, monitoring and quality control of results
• Advisory services and technical support
• Advocacy, networking and partnership building
• Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building

For more details, please download the job description here GJP Chief Child Protection Level 4.doc

• An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in one of the following fields is required: international development, human rights, psychology, sociology, international law, or another relevant social science field.
• A minimum of eight (8) years of professional experience in social development planning and management in child protection related areas, at the international level, is required.
• Experience working in a developing country is considered as an asset.
• Relevant experience in programme development in child protection related areas in a UN system agency or organization is considered as an asset.
• Experience in both development and humanitarian contexts is an added advantage.
• Fluency in French and English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

Competencies Required :

• Builds and maintains partnerships
• Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness
• Drive to achieve results for impact
• Innovates and embraces change
• Manages ambiguity and complexity
• Thinks and acts strategically
• Works collaboratively with others
• Nurtures, leads and manages people.

During the recruitment process, we test candidates following the competency framework.

Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels : competency framework here.