Child Protection Consultant to Support Parenting for Violence Prevention Programming, Amman, Jordan, UNICEF GPD, Child Protection Section,12.5 months (remote) #594542

Contract Duration: 12.5 months Working arrangement: remote UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence. At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling. UNICEF is a place where careers are built. We offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package. Visit [our website](https://www.unicef.org/) to learn more about what we do at UNICEF. **TERMS OF REFERENCE** Violence against children (VAC) remains a pervasive global challenge, with significant and often overlapping intersections with violence against women (VAW). Parenting support is recognized as one of the three breakthrough solutions for preventing VAC, alongside safe and enabling school environments and accessible response and support services. Strengthening parenting interventions offers a critical entry point to address these intersecting forms of violence by promoting positive caregiving, reducing violent discipline, and fostering safer, more protective family environments. Demands for technical assistance from the Centres of Excellence (CoE) from UNICEF Country Offices and Governments are growing. These requests span the full continuum—from the development and review of strategic and policy frameworks to the design, adaptation, and scale-up of integrated parenting programmes within national systems, as well as the development of Social Behaviour Change (SBC)-informed parenting strategies and interventions to address harmful social and gender norms are also recurrent. This consultancy will support the Centres of Excellence Child Protection and SBC teams in delivering technical assistance to Country Offices to strengthen SBC-informed parenting for VAC prevention, and broader parenting outcomes across the life course, while also contributing to the documentation of good practices, development of global and regional guidance, supporting cross country and cross regional learning, and strengthening of practical SBC resources for adaptation across contexts. If you would like to know more about this consultancy, please review the complete Terms of Reference here: ***[TMC0004465 ToR.pdf](https://secure.dc7.pageuppeople.com/apply/TransferRichTextFile.ashx?sData=UFUtVjMtO4WgGA3LBhiSy6vpxCbSPnuKxdfUu6b-Ew2sX4qzpz9ZDgO0q5L4xR4KJAjsZuYyBF7KHhMlqWpk270KcVXDImuJHYadoAcaYSKHytSEgCFMHYO9847CpUlMa_zmrlyvsf2Y3lCSjUG7Iyb2a5Mrqg%7e%7e)*** **Minimum requirements:** - Education: - Advanced university degree (Master's or higher) in Child Protection, Social Work, Psychology, Public Health, Sociology, International Development, Education, Social and Behaviour Change, or another relevant social science discipline. - Work Experience: - Minimum eight (8) years of progressively responsible professional experience in child protection, violence against children prevention, parenting and caregiver support, social and behaviour change, child protection systems strengthening, or related fields. - Demonstrated experience providing technical assistance to governments, UNICEF Country Offices, UN agencies, or development partners on the design, implementation, review, and scale-up of parenting and/or child protection programmes, including support for policy development, programme design, implementation and scale-up. - Proven experience in the development and review of strategies, policies, guidance, programme frameworks, implementation plans, and knowledge products. - Experience supporting knowledge management, facilitation of communities of practice, documentation of good practices…