Especialista Sistemas Locales de Protección y Prevención de Violencia

Strengthens local child-protection and violence-prevention systems in Machala and Huaquillas, Ecuador, for a UNICEF peacebuilding project. The role develops practical protection tools, improves coordination between institutions and communities, and builds capacity to prevent recruitment, criminal violence and gender-based violence affecting children and adolescents.

• Assess existing prevention and protection capacities and mechanisms in Machala and Huaquillas
• Map and document protection routes, referral mechanisms, protocols and procedures
• Develop and update practical guides, operational manuals and technical materials
• Build a prevention-and-protection toolkit using tools, methodologies and service directories
• Strengthen coordination among protection councils, local government, public institutions and community organisations
• Design and deliver capacity building on violence prevention, recruitment prevention and child protection
• Monitor implementation, prepare technical reports and support evidence-based improvements

• At least three years of professional experience in child and adolescent protection, rights protection, institutional strengthening or community development
• Experience working with local governments, rights-protection systems or public institutions
• Experience facilitating participatory processes and strengthening institutional and community capacity
• Experience designing technical guides, protocols, manuals or methodologies

• Experience preventing violence, recruitment or use of children by criminal groups, or gender-based violence
• Experience in human-mobility or border contexts
• Knowledge of Ecuador's National Decentralised System for the Comprehensive Protection of Children and Adolescents
• Experience working with Cantonal Protection Councils and Boards
• Experience in inter-institutional coordination and community-network strengthening

• Child Protection
• Violence Prevention
• Institutional Strengthening
• Community Development
• Protection Systems
• Capacity Building
• Participatory Facilitation
• Technical Writing
• Monitoring
• Data Analysis
• Interagency Coordination

• National Specialist UN Volunteer assignment
• 549-day assignment
• Frequent travel between Machala, Huaquillas and other intervention locations