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For every child, the right to Protection
UNICEF in the State of Palestine works to uphold the rights of children to access services and protection, from early childhood through to adolescence. Our objective is to ensure that every child in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, irrespective of background or circumstance, has an equal chance to fulfil their potential. We are working for every child and young person in the State of Palestine.
Since 2017, UNICEF has supported the Ministry of Social Development (MOSD) in reviewing and updating the Law on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The aim is to align national legislation with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and ensure full protection and inclusion of persons with disabilities.
The current Disability Law No. (4) of 1999 established important principles of equality and non-discrimination but has faced implementation challenges, mainly due to limited resources. Following Palestine’s ratification of the CRPD, the law no longer fully aligns with international standards, prompting continued advocacy from the disability movement for its revision.
With UNICEF’s support, MOSD has led broad consultations with stakeholders and developed several drafts of the revised law. Although the draft has reached the Cabinet multiple times, adoption was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, recurring conflicts, shifting priorities, and fiscal constraints.
Recently, momentum has increased to finalize the law, driven by the government’s renewed commitment to strengthening the disability legal framework and the upcoming discussion of Palestine’s first CRPD State Report. This effort has gained further traction following the issuance of Law by Decree No. 36 of 2023, which formalized the publication of the CRPD ratified by the State of Palestine in 2014.
How can you make a difference?
The purpose of this consultancy is to advance the operationalisation and institutionalisation of CRPB across government ministries and civil society organisations through targeted follow-up support, capacity building, and development of practical guidance.
The specific objectives of this assignment is to engage a consultant to:
1. Conduct Follow-Up Technical Support: Organise follow-up sessions with the government participants of the June 2025 training to provide technical assistance and facilitate the initial operationalisation of child-responsive and disability-inclusive planning and budgeting within their respective institutions.
2. Deliver Capacity-Building Workshop: Design and deliver a three-day training workshop for planning directors and managers from key government ministries, in collaboration with the MoPIC, to strengthen the systematic integration of child-responsive and inclusive planning and budgeting into national planning and budgeting processes. The workshop will be informed by evidence generated around child rights and public financing for children, including findings from the Child Deprivation Study, Budget Brief, and Sector Budget Analysis developed under the ACORN Project.
3. Provide Targeted Technical Guidance and Coaching: Facilitate targeted technical guidance and coaching sessions for selected participants and organisations, offering hands-on support in the practical application of child-responsive and disability-inclusive budgeting approaches, and in strengthening a child rights lens among UNICEF partners and in the use of evidence generated around child rights, with a particular focus on planning and budgeting cycles.
4. Develop CRPB Guidelines: Develop a focused guideline on child-responsive planning and budgeting, in collaboration with MoPIC, to support the institutionalisation of CRPB within the government’s strategic planning cycle. The guideline should align with national planning in-structions, promote inclusive planning and budgeting practices that address the needs and rights of all children, including vulnerable children and children with disabilities, and build on the tool “A Practical Guide for Civil Society Organisations on Child Rights Budget Analysis & Expenditure Tracking” developed by How to Child Rights under the ACORN Project, in part-nership with UNICEF and other stakeholders.
If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here: Child-Responsive Planning and Budgeting Consultancy.pdf
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
Minimum requirements:
Education:
Advanced university degree (master’s degree or higher) in social policy, public administration, public finance, economics, human rights, international development, or a closely related field.
Work Experience:
For every Child, you demonstrate...
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values
The UNICEF competencies required for this post are…
(1) Builds and maintains partnerships
(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness
(3) Drive to achieve results for impact
(4) Innovates and embraces change
(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity
(6) Thinks and acts strategically
(7) Works collaboratively with others
Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels.
UNICEF promotes and advocates for the protection of the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything it does and is mandated to support the realization of the rights of every child, including those most disadvantaged, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or any other status.
UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence. We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF provides reasonable accommodation throughout the recruitment process. If you require any accommodation, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF. Should you be shortlisted, please get in touch with the recruiter directly to share further details, enabling us to make the necessary arrangements in advance.
UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially.
UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station is required for IP positions and will be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments may also be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Should you be selected for a position with UNICEF, you either must be inoculated as required or receive a medical exemption from the relevant department of the UN. Otherwise, the selection will be canceled.
Remarks:
As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration in the employment of the staff is the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity.
Government employees who are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government positions before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.
UNICEF does not charge a processing fee at any stage of its recruitment, selection, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and training). UNICEF will not ask for applicants’ bank account information.
Humanitarian action is a cross-cutting priority within UNICEF’s Strategic Plan. UNICEF is committed to stay and deliver in humanitarian contexts. Therefore, all staff, at all levels across all functional areas, can be called upon to be deployed to support humanitarian response, contributing to both strengthening resilience of communities and capacity of national authorities.
All UNICEF positions are advertised, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. An internal candidate performing at the level of the post in the relevant functional area, or an internal/external candidate in the corresponding Talent Group, may be selected, if suitable for the post, without assessment of other candidates.
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