Child Protection Officer

The Child Protection Officer (Child Online Protection and Digital Rights) will provide technical and operational assistance for the development, implementation, monitoring, evaluating and reporting for the child online protection and digital rights programme. Particularly, this position will provide support to the government partners in the execution of the ASEAN ICT Forum to be held in Malaysia in 2025, with a specific focus on child online protection.

While, the majority of the work will entail programming around child online protection, due to UNICEF Malaysia’s contribution to the agenda of Digital Rights that goes beyond Child Online Protection, this position will ensure coordination and alignment with the broader digital inclusion and digital transformation agendas. This would entail making sure that those left behind in terms of access to inclusive, affordable and appropriate digital products and services and related opportunities are targeted in UNICEF’s approaches.

Overall, this will involve a strong in-office collaboration for mobilizing business accountability for mitigating online risks and harms, including through safety by design, well-being by design, child rights due diligence, and compliance to minimum standards.

The position will be supervised by UNICEF Child Protection Specialist and overall guidance of the Chief of Child Protection, with a managerial line to Chief Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (PME) as well under which Child Rights and Business (CRB) falls, and working with other sections such as Technology for Development (T4D) and Communications to work holistically towards the digital rights agenda.

Key accountabilities:

• Support to children’s digital rights programme development and planning
• Programme management, monitoring and delivery of results
• Technical and operational support to programme implementation
• Networking and partnership building
• Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Minimum requirements:

• Education: A university degree in one of the following fields is required: international development, human rights, sociology, law, international law, or another relevant social science field.
• Work Experience: A minimum of (2) two years of professional work experience in child protection policies, programmes or services including relevant experience from the online protection lens.
• Experience in programme design and management and policy advocacy is required.
• Experience working in upper middle income countries / contexts is considered as a strong asset.
• Background and/or familiarity with private sector, technology sector is considered as a strong asset.

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in English and Malay is required. Knowledge of another official UN language or a local language is considered as an asset

Source: https://jobs.unicef.org/cw/en-us/job/578590