Global Child Online Protection Consultant: Consumer risks, UNICEF Global Programme Division (GPD) – Child Protection and Migration Global Practice, Amman, Jordan, 14 months (remote)

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For every child, the right to Safety.

How can you make a difference?

This assignment aims to support UNICEF’s efforts to promote child rights in the digital environment by addressing risks associated with digital technologies and strengthening rights-respecting digital governance. The consultant will contribute to initiatives focused on protecting children from online harms, including technology-facilitated violence, while advancing policies, evidence, and practices that ensure digital technologies support children’s safety, wellbeing, privacy, and participation.

If you would like to know more about this consultancy, please review the complete Terms of Reference here: TMC0006922 ToR.pdf

Minimum requirements:

• Education:
  • An advanced university degree in law, public policy, human rights, child rights, communications, marketing, business, international relations, social sciences or another relevant field.
  • A first-level university degree combined with 5 additional years of relevant professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree.
• Work Experience:
  • A minimum of 8 years of progressively responsible professional experience in one or more relevant fields, including children’s rights, responsible business conduct, digital rights, digital governance, digital marketing, advertising, consumer protection, child online protection, online safety, trust and safety, or technology policy.
• Language requirement:
  • Excellent written and spoken English, with a proven ability to produce concise, accurate and persuasive materials for senior, policy, business and public audiences.
• Skills:
  • Strong knowledge of the digital marketing and advertising ecosystem, including the respective roles of brands, advertising and media agencies, ad-tech providers, online platforms, publishers, influencers and content creators.
  • Strong facilitation and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to engage credibly with both technical and non-technical audiences and navigate differing institutional and commercial perspectives.
  • Strong organizational and project-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple deliverables, stakeholder relationships and deadlines across different workstreams.

Desirables:

• Professional experience within, or directly advising, a brand, advertising or media agency, ad-tech provider, online platform, marketing industry association or related corporate function.
• Demonstrated understanding of digital marketing practices and technologies that may affect children, including profiling and targeting, programmatic advertising, recommender systems, influencer marketing, persuasive design, gamification, commercial practices in games, AI-generated marketing content and engagement-driven business models.
• Demonstrated experience developing and implementing advocacy strategies, including stakeholder mapping, policy positioning, preparation of key messages and engagement with policymakers, regulators, companies and civil society organizations.
• Demonstrated experience providing technical support and advisory services to government counterparts.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

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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 reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. 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.

Qualified candidates are invited to submit the following documents via the online recruitment portal, TMS (Talent Management System):

• An up-to-date TMS profile and curriculum vitae (CV)
• Cover letter
• A separate financial proposal TMC0006922 Financial Proposal Template.docx

Remarks: If the TOR or financial proposal documents are not visible on certain recruitment platforms, please visit our official page Vacancies | UNICEF Careers.

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