Job Title Child Protection Position

Expected Contract Duration 6 months (extendable)

Duty Station One position based in the South of Wadi Gaza One position based in the North of Wadi Gaza

Number of vacant positions 2

Dead Line of Submission 22 December 2024

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Background:

Since the escalation of the conflict on 7 October 2023, an estimated 1.7 million people in the Gaza Strip are internally displaced (nearly 75 percent of the population), more than half of whom are children. Some 92 percent of all school buildings in Gaza are being used as shelters for internally displaced people (IDPs) and/or have sustained varying levels of damage. IDPs face acute shortages of food, water, shelter, and medicine. Children are exposed to physical risks, extreme violence, and severe psychosocial distress, exacerbated by displacement, loss, family separation, and social and economic stressors.

With state child protection services disrupted, forcibly displaced and conflict-affected children across the country are at heightened risk of family separation, exposure to violence, abuse, neglect, exploitation, and lack of access to critical social services in line with their rights and needs. These recurring traumas have profoundly affected children's mental health. The accumulative exposure to stress and lack of access to basic social services in shelters can negatively impact children’s developing brains and adversely affect their well-being and development. As many families face frequent escalations and repeated displacement, children and caregivers need access to child-sensitive information on child rights, available services, and emerging risks to mitigate issues such as family separation and unexploded ordnances.

With an estimated one million children affected by conflict and forced displacement across the Gaza Strip, we are scaling up our child protection and MHPSS programming to protect and promote the rights of children. This ensures that at-risk children and caregivers have access to emergency child protection services and community-based services aimed at preventing and responding to child protection risks while promoting psychosocial well-being.

We are urgently scaling up child protection and MHPSS interventions across the Gaza Strip. In the coming months, we plan to significantly increase the number of partnerships. Daily requests are being received to respond to emergency child protection issues and cases. Movement restrictions on staff make timely responses to these requests challenging, and there is a significant need to enhance monitoring and technical support to partners.

We are assigning one consultant for the northern area and one consultant for the middle and southern areas to drive forward the implementation of child protection and MHPSS activities. Consultants will have better access to areas of displacement and local partners to monitor and provide technical support, improving the quality and efficacy of activities.

Under the overall supervision of the Child Protection Officer, the consultant will provide technical support for the implementation of Child Protection programming during the period of assignment.

Key Activities

Assessment

• As/if needed, and in coordination with us, partners, and communities, support assessments and document emerging child protection risks and needs within assigned geographical areas. This includes but is not limited to issues related to unaccompanied and separated children, children with war-related injuries or disabilities, GBV, explosive remnants of war, and children at serious risk of harm.

Support Implementation of Child Protection Activities

• Support the identification, documentation, family tracing, and reunification of children experiencing family separation, including unaccompanied and separated children.
• Support the identification and referral of at-risk children and their caregivers to child protection partners and relevant authorities for case management, alternative care, and/or other social services.
• Collaborate with partners and relevant authorities to find solutions for children facing acute and complex protection issues.
• Coordinate with colleagues from Education, WASH, Nutrition, and Health to support integrated programming where needed.

Coordinate with Partner Focal Points

• Coordinate with child protection partners in the assigned area to build capacities and implement critical child protection and MHPSS activities.
• Provide technical and operational support to partners on program implementation in coordination with the Child Protection Officer.
• Report and address any challenges, needs, or barriers observed during partner implementation.
• Collaborate with partner focal points on the distribution of child protection and MHPSS supplies.
• Support the planning and coordination of field monitoring and missions within the assigned area.

Programmatic Monitoring

• Conduct regular programmatic and field visits to monitor planned child protection and MHPSS activities, submitting weekly reports.
• Support data collection and complete field monitoring reports after each visit.

Reporting

• Submit a weekly plan of activities in agreement with the Child Protection Officer.
• Draft reports on programmatic and field visits, monitoring child protection and MHPSS activities under active program documents.
• Report on any challenges, observations, or feedback regarding activity implementation.
• Support the documentation of human-interest stories.

Key Deliverables

1. Submission of weekly activity plans.
2. Tracking of unaccompanied, separated, and at-risk children and cases identified and referred.
3. Documentation of cases.
4. Reports on programmatic and field visits (minimum 2 per week).
5. Monthly report highlighting key activities, achievements, photos, and human-interest stories.