Child Protection Information Management Officer

UNICEF's core mission is to promote the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything the organization does: in programs; in advocacy; and in operations. The equity strategy, which focuses on the most disadvantaged and excluded children and families, translates this commitment into action for children's rights. For UNICEF, equity means that all children have the opportunity to survive, develop and reach their full potential, without discrimination, bias or favoritism. To the extent that a child has unequal opportunities in life in its social, political, economic, civic and cultural dimensions - his or her rights are violated.

The Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism (MRM) was established in Mali in 2013, following the listing of three armed groups in the UN Secretary-General’s 12th Annual Report on Children and Armed Conflict, for the recruitment and use of children and for rape or other forms of grave sexual violence against children. As required by Security Council Resolution 1612, the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) and UNICEF jointly established the Country Task Force on Monitoring and Reporting (CTFMR) of grave child rights violations committed by parties to the conflict in Mali to implement and coordinate all aspects of the MRM, including the monitoring and documentation of six grave violations committed against children by parties to the conflict, drafting and submission of reports such as the Global Horizontal Note (GHN), the Secretary-General Annual Report on Children and Armed Conflict and other specific country reports. In addition, the CTFMR conducts high-level advocacy on matters related to children affected by armed conflict. With the adoption of Security Council Resolutions 1882 (2009), 1998 (2011), 2225 (2005) and 2427 (2018), the Country Task Force increased its focus on documenting, preventing and responding to sexual violence, killing and maiming, abduction and attacks against schools hospitals, and reinforcing its cooperation with other CTFMR members including the protection and education clusters as well as the child protection sub-cluster.
On 30 June 2023, the UN Security Council voted the resolution 2023S/RES/2690, which terminated the mandate of MINUSMA and demanded the immediate transfer of its tasks as of 01 July 2023, and the complete drawdown of its operations by 31 December. Following the departure of the Mission, UNICEF is scaling up its response regarding MRM identification, verification, documentation and reporting, as well as its protection response to victims of one of the six grave violations against children, including children associated and with armed groups and/or armed forces and other conflict affected-children.

Within the delegated authority and under the supervision of the Child Protection Specialist (MRM) or his/her designated mandated representative(s), the UN Volunteer Child Protection Information
The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme is administered by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). 2
Management Officer will ensure the rolling out of Information Management services for the Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism on the six grave violations against children:
• Support the data collection and information management for the CTFMR and MRM programmes by producing relevant data visualization and analytical documents.
• Ensure capacity building and support to the team and implementing partners for data collection and information management mechanisms.
•Support the management and update of MRM data base
•Support the MRM IMS+ deployment and roll out in Mali including capacity building and refresher trainings for staff and partners on the system;
• Ensure continuous coaching and technical support of MRM IMS+ users
• Liaise with UNICEF MRM team and Primero team in New-York concerning potential issues on the systems
• Support the monitoring, evaluation, and reporting for MRM (including quarterly, annual and biannual reports) and CPiE child protection programmes, as required and in coordination with the dedicated Child Protection Specialists.
• Support documentation of best practices and lessons learnt linked to regional and country program results and activities.
• Support other programme activities related to child protection and integrated initiatives as required by the supervisor.