International consultant for Development of Guidelines and training package for support to child victims and protection of child witnesses in Bhutan
Thimphu
- Organization: UNICEF - United Nations Children’s Fund
- Location: Thimphu
- Grade: Consultancy - Consultant - Contractors Agreement
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Occupational Groups:
- Legal - Broad
- Education, Learning and Training
- Children's rights (health and protection)
- Closing Date: Closed
Development of Guidelines and training package to support child Victims and protection child Witnesses in Bhutan
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 have Equal Rights
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Work Assignments Overview
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Deliverables/Outputs | Delivery Timeline |
1.Review of existing provisions, procedures and documents on child protection and justice for children that has relevance in developing the guidelines, training package and relevant tools.
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Inception report containing desk review information. | 30 August 2024 |
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Interview, consult and hold focus group discussions with key stakeholders to assess gaps, needs, challenges and opportunities to strengthen the current services available, capacities of service providers to meet the needs of child victims and witnesses including the current referral and case management system;
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Report of completion of meetings and stakeholder’s consultations interviews, and stakeholder’s meetings organized with SITAN and recommendations | 13 Sept.2024 |
Developing guidelines and Designing training package.
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Develop draft guidelines and design a comprehensive training package on protection of child victims and child witnesses that covers key topics such as child rights, trauma-informed care, interview techniques, courtroom procedures, and confidentiality with relevant tools and assessment forms. | 4th October 2024 |
Presentation and submission of guideline and training package
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Presentation of guidelines and training package during a stakeholder consultation | 11 oct. 2024 |
Submission of final guidelines and Delivering ToT to relevant stakeholders | Submit final guideline and deliver ToT | 18 Oct. 2024 |
Final adjustments to training package and relevant tools | Following the ToT and based on feedback from participants and testing the package final adjustments are incorporated | 8 Nov. 2024 2024 |
Travel: Round trip Economic airfare and DSA should included in the lumpsum quotation. Estimated total number of days in Bhutan 15 days.
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
- Master's degree in law.
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Demonstrated specialist knowledge in the fields of child justice and child protection.
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Experience working in the field of child justice with solid knowledge and demonstrated experience working on child victims and witness protection.
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Ability to conduct needs assessments, research, and analysis to inform the development of training packages.
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Demonstrated experience in developing guidelines, training materials and capacity building programs related to child protection, child rights and relevant fields.
- Excellent presentation and Communication skills in English.
For clarification: Technical contact :Kuenzang Dolma, Child Protection Officer @ kdolma@unicef.org
Interested candidates needs to upload following documents:
1. Motivation letter
2. Latest CV
3. Approaches and methodology for the assignment
4. Sample of similar work done in the past
5. Lumpsum professional fees based on 35 working days and travel as per the duration mentioned above
For every Child, you demonstrate…
UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).
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UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.
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Remarks:
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.
The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.