Consultancy - Develop Legal Atlas on the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility and Age of Majority, PG Child Protection, Amman,12 Months (Remote)

Overview

The consultancy will support the development of a global Legal Atlas covering the statutory age of majority and minimum age of criminal responsibility, including exceptions and relevant implementation provisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop an inception report, research protocol, legal taxonomy, data fields, source hierarchy and quality-assurance methodology.
• Identify, review and extract information from constitutions, criminal and juvenile justice legislation, civil codes and other authoritative legal sources for all countries and territories covered.
• Record citations, links, dates of enactment or amendment, legal exceptions and explanatory notes in a structured, editable dataset.
• Analyse each jurisdiction against the relevant international standards, clearly distinguishing verified law from interpretation and flagging information gaps.
• Prepare country profiles and validation packages; coordinate review by UNICEF country and COEs; maintain a comments and resolution log.
• Incorporate validated comments and finalize the global legal dataset and accompanying narrative content.
• Develop the information architecture, user journeys, wireframes and visual design for the Legal Atlas in line with UNICEF branding, accessibility and usability requirements.
• Configure and populate the online database, including search, filter, comparison, download and update functions, and provide administrator guidance.
• Conduct quality assurance and user testing, correct identified issues and prepare the final launch-ready package.
• Provide additional research, editing, coordination and knowledge-management support related to justice for children, as requested in writing by the contract manager.

Required Experience

• Minimum six (6) years of progressively responsible professional experience in justice for children, child protection, human rights, legal reform or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience conducting high-quality comparative legal, policy or programme research across multiple jurisdictions.
• Proven experience analysing or contributing to laws, policies, strategies, guidance or programmes related to justice for children.

Qualifications

Masters university degree in law, human rights, international development, public policy, social sciences or another field relevant to justice for children and child protection.

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