Reporting to the Health Specialist (Health Systems Strengthening), the incumbent will operate in a matrix management model, where s/he will support different programme pillars and report to different supervisors depending on the pillar s/he supports. Irrespective of the pillar s/he supports, s/he will always maintain a technical reporting line to the Child Protection Specialist (Systems). Those who supervise the incumbent and are not the principal supervisor will be considered as the secondary supervisor. The principal supervisor will lead the performance review process. S/he will engage with the incumbent’s secondary supervisor(s) for feedback. Ultimately, the principal supervisor will determine the final performance rating.
The Child Protection Specialist (CRVS) supports the development and preparation of Child Protection programme interventions within the Early Childhood Pillar of the Malawi Country Programme and is responsible for the management, implementation, monitoring, reporting, and evaluation of these interventions.
Specifically, the incumbent is responsible for interventions to:
- Take birth registration in health facilities to scale and support the strengthening of Malawi’s civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) system including through piloting and taking to scale innovations in CRVS/health systems.
- Incorporate information and skills development for parents and caregivers on non-violent discipline.
- Improve the capability of the frontline health and nutrition workforces to recognize and refer cases of child abuse and neglect.
The Child Protection Specialist provides technical guidance and management support throughout the programming processes. S/he facilitates the administration and achievement of concrete and sustainable contributions to national and international efforts to create a protective environment for children against all harm, and to protect their rights to survival, development and wellbeing as established under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, international treaties/frameworks and UN intergovernmental bodies. The Specialist contributes to the achievement of results according to plans, allocation, results based-management approaches and methodology (RBM), and UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, standards of performance and accountability framework.
Application deadline is 5 December 2018.