Technical Assistance Consultant for Child Protection in Human Mobility, La Paz

About the role

This consultancy supports UNICEF’s child protection programme in Bolivia, focusing on children and families in transit and border contexts. The consultant will enhance data quality, integrate protection safeguards, and improve coordination between Bolivia and Chile.

Key responsibilities

• Strengthen the quality, consistency and use of the programme’s monitoring system, ensuring timely tracking of results, products and coverage.
• Integrate Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP), Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA), safeguarding, gender, age and diversity approaches into monitoring, feedback and continuous improvement mechanisms.
• Develop and implement technical tools and binational coordination mechanisms for safe case management across the Bolivia‑Chile border.
• Standardise identification, registration, follow‑up and referral processes, ensuring disaggregated data by sex, age and other relevant variables.
• Produce a work plan, initial diagnostic, gap analysis and methodological proposals to improve data quality and analysis.

Required profile

• Relevant experience in child protection, humanitarian response or migration contexts.
• Demonstrated ability to work with partners, analyse data and produce actionable recommendations.
• Strong understanding of AAP, PSEA, safeguarding and gender‑sensitive approaches.

Required skills

What we offer

• 190‑day consultancy contract based in La Paz.
• Opportunity to influence cross‑border protection strategies.