Individual Consultant on Child Protection in Emergencies (CPiE) and Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) in Emergencies

UNICEF Viet Nam seeks qualified individual consultants to provide specialized technical support on Child Protection in Emergencies (CPiE) and Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) in Emergencies. Consultants will support emergency preparedness, coordination, planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting in provinces affected by natural disasters such as storms and floods.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support to rapid assessment processes by reviewing and synthesizing information on child protection risks, psychosocial needs, service availability, vulnerabilities and response gaps in emergency settings.
• Analyse data and provide technical recommendations to inform CPiE and/or MHPSS preparedness, planning and response priorities.
• Support identification of priority interventions, target groups and service delivery approaches based on assessed needs and operational context.
• Support national and sub-national authorities, service providers and partners to develop, update and prioritize CPiE and/or MHPSS preparedness and response plans.
• Facilitate coordination among government counterparts, UNICEF-supported partners, service providers and relevant sectors to strengthen coherence, complementarity and quality of interventions.
• Support alignment of interventions with national systems, UNICEF guidance, the CCCs, and relevant inter-agency CPiE and/or MHPSS standards and guidance.
• Contribute technical inputs to response planning, prioritization and resource allocation based on identified needs, risks and service gaps.
• Design, adapt and facilitate rapid orientation, training, coaching and technical support for government counterparts, social workers, frontline workers, service providers and implementing partners.
• Provide technical support on CPiE, child protection case management, referral pathways, Psychological First Aid (PFA), community- and school-based MHPSS, psychosocial support, child safeguarding, PSEA and AAP.
• Develop or adapt practical tools, guidance, standard operating procedures, training materials and job aids to support emergency preparedness and response.
• Provide technical guidance to counterparts and implementing partners to support timely and quality implementation of CPiE and/or MHPSS interventions.
• Support implementation of key interventions including child protection case management, referral services, awareness-raising activities, community-based support mechanisms, psychosocial support services and other agreed response activities.
• Support quality assurance, adherence to standards, and identification of implementation challenges and practical solutions.
• Advise counterparts and partners on supervision, mentoring and quality improvement approaches in line with national systems and established technical standards, without assuming direct supervisory responsibilities.
• Support monitoring, reporting and consolidation of information related to CPiE and/or MHPSS interventions from counterparts and implementing partners.
• Contribute technical inputs to situation reports, donor reports, lessons learned exercises, evaluations, case studies and technical documentation.
• Support collection and analysis of information to inform programme adaptation, learning and continuous improvement.
• Ensure compliance with safeguarding, ethical and data protection standards in all monitoring, documentation and reporting activities.

Requirements

• Advanced degree in Social Work, Child Protection, Psychology, Psychiatry, Mental Health, Public Health, Emergency Management, Education, Social Sciences, or a closely related field relevant to CPiE and/or MHPSS.
• Demonstrated expertise in CPiE and/or MHPSS in emergency and humanitarian settings.
• Knowledge of emergency preparedness and response, child protection systems, case management, referral pathways, psychosocial support, coordination and capacity strengthening.
• Familiarity with UNICEF Core Commitments for Children in Humanitarian Action (CCCs), CPiE and MHPSS standards, child safeguarding, PSEA and data protection principles.
• Strong analytical, facilitation, communication and report-writing skills.
• Minimum 7 years of progressively responsible experience in child protection and/or social work, psychology, mental health, emergency response, humanitarian programming, or related fields.
• Demonstrated experience providing technical support in CPiE and/or MHPSS programming, including preparedness, planning, implementation support, capacity strengthening, monitoring, reporting, and quality assurance.
• Proven experience developing and delivering technical guidance, training packages, tools, standard operating procedures, and other capacity-strengthening initiatives.
• Experience supporting emergency preparedness, response and recovery programmes is highly desirable.
• Experience working with UNICEF, UN agencies, government counterparts, or NGOs is desirable.
• Fluency in Vietnamese required; working proficiency in English is highly desirable for technical reporting and coordination.
• Submission of a cover letter explaining motivation and relevance of qualifications and skills.
• Updated Curriculum Vitae (CV).
• Two work samples related to case management operational plans or emergency response plans and training materials on CPiE or case management in emergencies.
• Two recommendation letters and/or performance evaluation reports on similar work.
• A financial proposal including consultancy fee, travel and other costs for the assignment.
• Completion of BSAFE course on https://agora.unicef.org/?autologin=unicef if travel fees are included in the LTA.

Skills

• Child Protection in Emergencies
• Mental Health and Psychosocial Support
• Emergency Preparedness
• Emergency Response
• Case Management
• Referral Pathways Development
• Psychosocial Support
• Coordination
• Capacity Strengthening
• UNICEF Core Commitments
• CPiE Minimum Standards
• IRC MHPSS Standards
• Child Safeguarding
• Protection from Sexual Exploitation
• Data Protection Principles
• Technical Support in CPiE
• Programme Planning
• Project Implementation Support
• Monitoring and Reporting
• Quality Assurance
• Training Development
• Training Delivery
• Standard Operating Procedures Implementation
• Humanitarian Programming
• Social Work
• Psychology
• Mental Health
• Emergency Management
• MHPSS Technical Support

Languages

Vietnamese, English