Consultancy for Child Protection Programmes

Provide national technical support to UNICEF China’s Integrated Child Protection Model as it expands services across nine western provinces. The consultant will align child-protection standards and policies, strengthen continuing learning for case workers, analyse monitoring data for adaptive management and create an online course on the fundamentals of child-protection case management.

• Review and align subnational child-protection standards and policies
• Strengthen continuing professional learning for child-protection case workers through an online community of practice
• Consolidate and analyse project-monitoring data for programme oversight and adaptive management
• Develop a structured online course on child-protection case management
• Support implementation of the four-tier child-protection service system across participating provinces

• Master's degree in social work, child psychology, public policy, law or a related field
• At least five years of professional experience in child protection, social work case management or child-welfare policy development
• Ability to review and align technical manuals, standards and public policies
• Experience operating professional online communities or networks
• Strong Chinese and English writing skills

• Frontline child-protection practice experience
• Direct casework experience
• Child-protection programme or project implementation and management experience

• Child protection case management
• Policy analysis
• Knowledge management
• Programme monitoring
• Data analysis

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