Call for Interest: International Child Protection Systems Strengthening, Policy Development and Facilitation Consultants – ROSTER

Overview

UNICEF Philippines is seeking to establish a roster of senior international Child Protection specialists to provide high-level technical assistance for child protection systems strengthening, policy development, strategic planning, institutional reforms, and capacity development initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strategic advice on child protection systems strengthening initiatives.
• Support development, review, and refinement of national and sub-national CPSS strategies and implementation plans.
• Conduct systems assessments, benchmarking exercises, and institutional reviews.
• Support development of governance, coordination, financing, workforce development, and accountability mechanisms.
• Support drafting and review of child protection laws, policies, strategies, frameworks, standards, and guidelines.
• Conduct comparative analyses of international policies, standards, and practices.
• Develop policy recommendations informed by international evidence and lessons learned.
• Support alignment of national policies with international child rights standards.
• Provide technical advisory services to UNICEF, government counterparts, and partners.
• Design and facilitate high-level consultations, workshops, strategic planning sessions, and learning events.
• Develop training curricula, capacity development frameworks, and learning materials.
• Mentor and coach government counterparts and technical working groups.
• Conduct reviews, studies, assessments, and evaluations.
• Document international good practices and lessons learned.
• Produce technical reports, policy briefs, discussion papers, and knowledge products.
• Support dissemination and utilization of evidence for policy and programme development.

Required Experience

• At least 10 years of progressively responsible international experience in child protection, social welfare, human rights, public policy, governance, or related sectors.
• Demonstrated expertise in child protection systems strengthening.
• Proven experience supporting national policy, legislative, or institutional reform processes.
• Demonstrated experience developing strategies, frameworks, guidelines, standards, and implementation tools.
• Experience facilitating high-level consultations and multi-stakeholder processes.
• Familiarity with international child rights standards and global child protection frameworks.
• Demonstrated knowledge of child safeguarding principles and ethical standards for engagement with children.

Qualifications

Advanced university degree in Social Work, Sociology, Development Studies, Public Administration, Public Policy, Human Rights, Law, Psychology, Education, International Development, or related field.

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