Child Protection Associate, Youth & PROSPECTS, Kassala, Sudan

General

Description of assignment title: Child ProtectionAssociate, Youth & PROSPECTS

Assignment country: Sudan

Duty stations: Kassala

Work location: On UN premises

Expected start date: 08/01/2026

Expected end date: 12/31/2027Long-term benefits andallowances

Sustainable Development Goal: 10. Reducedinequalities

Host entity: UNICEF

Modality: Onsite

Type: National

Volunteer category: Associate UCoS from Apr2026

Work schedule: Full-time

Number of Assignments: 1

Details

Mission and objectives:

• UNICEF is a leading humanitarian and development agency workingglobally for the rights of every child. Child rights begin withsafe shelter, nutrition, protection from disaster and conflict andtraverse the life cycle: pre-natal care for healthy births, cleanwater and sanitation, health care and education. UNICEF has spentnearly 70 years working to improve the lives of children and theirfamilies.

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• Working with and for children through adolescence and intoadulthood requires a global presence whose goal is to produceresults and monitor their effects. UNICEF also lobbies and partnerswith leaders, thinkers and policy makers to help all childrenrealize their rights—especially the most disadvantaged.

Context:

• Sudan is experiencing one of the most severe Protection andhumanitarian crises globally, driven by the ongoing armed conflictthat erupted in April 2023, compounded by economic collapse,widespread poverty, destruction of social services andinfrastructure, famine and recurrent epidemics. The violence hasspread across multiple states, currently active in Darfur region,and the Kordofan, resulting in massive displacement, familyseparation, and disruption of essential services.
• As of December 2025, more than 5 million children are on themove, out of over 10 million people forcibly displaced, bothinternally and across borders into neighboring countries such asChad, South Sudan, and Egypt—making Sudan the largest childdisplacement crisis in the world. In total, over 33.74 millionpeople—more than half the population— requirehumanitarian assistance in 2026. In this context child protectionservices as well as youth meaningful engagement are critical forprotection risks prevention and response as well as supportingskills development and youth and adolescents' girls' protection andempowerment.
• Kassala is one of PROSPECTS Sudan's target states under thePROSPECTS Partnership Programme, a multi-year initiativeimplemented in collaboration with UNHCR and ILO, aimed at improvingprotection, learning and livelihoods opportunities for refugees,migrants, IDPs and host communities. UNICEF leads child protectionand education interventions, working closely with local governmentpartners, communities, and UN agencies. The Youth on the MoveVolunteer will support the Child Protection Specialist, alsoPROSPECTS Coordinator, and field colleagues in monitoring PROSPECTSactivities, particularly on Child Protection and Youth engagement,collecting information from partners, and contributing to theinnovative documentation of results, good practices, successstories and lessons learned. This assignment offers the volunteeran opportunity to gain experience in programme follow up, evidencegeneration and youth meaningful engagement within a complexhumanitarian context.

Task description:

• Under the direct supervision of the Child Protection Specialist(UASC) & PROSPECTS Coordinator the UN Volunteer will undertakethe following tasks:
• Participates in child protection and youth engagementactivities and contributes to strengthening meaningful youthparticipation in PROSPECTS-related initiatives.
• Supports the follow up of PROSPECTS activities in Kassala (andWhite Nile) by gathering information from partners, participatingin field monitoring visits, contributing to documenting progress,challenges, and implementation updates, preparing shortcontributions to donor reporting under the guidance of thesupervisor and in collaboration with field colleagues.
• Assists in collecting qualitative and quantitative data fromimplementing partners, children, youth, and community members tocontribute to evidence-based documentation of PROSPECTSinterventions. Supports liaison with community structures and localauthorities.
• Contributes to the development of human-interest stories, casestudies, success stories, lessons learned, and good practice notes,using youth friendly and innovative documentation approaches (e.g.,short interviews, testimonies, simple visual materials, basicphoto/video content for social media).
• Contributes to meetings, workshops, and learning sessions bysharing reflections, observations from the field, and insights as ayoung person with lived experience of migration, displacement, ormobility.
• Engages in on the job learning opportunities related toprogramming, monitoring, documentation, communication, and UNICEFprocedures, and applies new skills in day-to-day tasks.
• Supports a positive, collaborative, and inclusive teamenvironment, upholding UNICEF values and promoting volunteerismwithin the office and the community.

Eligibility criteria

Age: 18 - 80

Required experience: 1 month

Nationality: Candidate must be a national, legal residentor hold refugee status in the country of assignment.

Assignment requirements

Relevant experience:

• 1 year

Languages:

• English, Level: Fluent, Required
• Arabic, Level: Fair, Desirable

Required education level:

• Secondary education

Competencies and values:

• Adaptability and Flexibility
• Building Trust
• Commitment and Motivation
• Commitment to Continuous Learning
• Communication
• Creativity
• Ethics and Values
• Integrity
• Planning and Organizing
• Respect for Diversity
• Technological Awareness
• Vision
• Working in Teams

Skills and experience:

• Excellent interpersonal skills; culturally and sociallysensitive; ability to work inclusively and collaboratively with arange of partners, including grassroots community members,religious and youth organizations.
• Self-motivation and ability to adapt professionally in achallenging environment and work effectively in a multiculturalteam of international and national personnel.
• Proficient digital skills to deliver the assignment, includingproficiency in Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word, amongothers), email, and internet.
• Demonstrate UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust,Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS).
• Young people aged 20-32 will be prioritized
• Refugees, asylum seekers, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)and migrants
• In their motivation statement, applicants can demonstrate theyface learning to earning barriers
• Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply
• Hosting offices are encouraged to ensure application processesare accessible to youth on the move with disabilities
• "Qualified candidates with refugee, internally displaced person(IDP), returnee, or migrant backgrounds are strongly encouraged toapply. Lived experience of displacement and migration is consideredan asset for this assignment. Applicants with such backgrounds areencouraged to briefly describe their displacement or migrationexperience in the motivational statement section of theirapplication."

Area(s) of expertise:

• Communication, advocacy, public information, Communitydevelopment, Disability, other social inclusion aspects

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