Dear Colleagues,

In order to support the government of Ukraine to fulfill its obligations 
towards the most vulnerable asylum seeking and refugee children, the 
Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is implementing a two-year project funded 
by the European Commission, which aims to develop legal and 
institutional systems, strengthen social assistance and support for 
orientation and adaptation of children into Ukrainian society, and 
develop models of temporary care for the most vulnerable asylum seeking 
children whilst their claims are being processed.

To best advise the project and its national Child Protection and Asylum 
Expert on the gaps which must be addressed in the coming years, DRC 
seeks a Child Protection Consultant to travel to Ukraine for the month 
of April 2009. The vacancy announcement with all pertinent information 
is below.

We would be grateful if you could please disseminate this information 
amongst interested persons.

Sincerely,
Krista Zongolowicz



Криста Зонголович
Директор
Датский Совет по Беженцам
Пушкинская Ул., д. 2-4/7, кв. 9
01034 Киев, Украина
тел. +380-67-1817062

Krista Zongolowicz
Country Director
Danish Refugee Council
Pushkinska Vul., 2-4/7, office 9
01034 Kyiv, Ukraine
tel.  +380-67-1817062

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Child Protection Consultant
Vacancy Announcement

Background
In order to support the government of Ukraine to fulfill its obligations 
towards the most vulnerable asylum seeking and refugee children, the 
Danish Refugee Council is implementing a two-year project funded by the 
European Commission, which aims to develop legal and institutional 
systems, strengthen social assistance and support for orientation and 
adaptation of children into Ukrainian society, and develop models of 
temporary care for the most vulnerable asylum seeking children whilst 
their claims are being processed.

The project consists of three main components:

The Legal Component will ensure that asylum seeking and refugee children 
have access to a protective system that upholds international standards 
for their legal protection. This will involve building consensus on how 
the asylum and social welfare systems should work for asylum seeking and 
refugee children, clarifying roles and responsibilities between 
government ministries and the government asylum authorities, ensuring 
that asylum procedures uphold child-specific rights to due process, and 
developing the systems and procedures necessary to effectively implement 
an improved framework.

The Social Component will ensure that existing programmes for social 
assistance, orientation and adaptation of asylum seeking and refugee 
children are more fully developed and better serve children’s needs. The 
project will work closely with national NGO partners to ensure that 
asylum seeking and refugee children benefit from social and legal 
assistance.

The Care Component will develop temporary care for asylum seeking and 
refugee children in Ukraine. This will be done by identifying existing 
state models of temporary care which may be relevant to the asylum and 
refugee context in the key locations, and piloting actions to develop 
these models for the specific needs of asylum seeking children. The most 
effective temporary care models will then be adopted and developed 
further as official models of temporary care for children whilst their 
asylum claims are processed. These will link into long-term care 
alternatives such as supported independent living and regulated 
family-based care within refugee and migrant communities.

Purpose of Deployment
A gaps analysis is to be conducted by the Child Protection Consultant at 
the start of the project in collaboration with the national Child 
Protection and Asylum Expert. The gaps analysis will act as a baseline 
for the whole project and is therefore crucial for framing, monitoring 
and evaluating the project.

The analysis will be conducted in consultation with all stakeholders and 
will involve key informant interviews as well as a literature and 
statistical review. The consultant will use participatory techniques to 
ensure that children and community members are involved and that their 
experience of the process and their ideas and opinions on how to improve 
it frame the analysis and recommendations. The consultant will produce 
an evidence-based, analytical report with detailed recommendations for 
the implementation of the project.

Deployment period
1-30 April 2009 (starting no later than 5 April 2009)

Salary
The salary will be as per standard DRC rates for consultants. In 
addition, DRC will pay for travel to/from Kiev, accommodation, any 
internal travel costs, and international health insurance.

Duty Station
Kyiv, Ukraine

Reference
The Child Protection Consultant refers to the DRC Country Director in 
Ukraine on all programmatic, technical, daily management issues and all 
personnel and employment contract related issues. Weekly co-ordination 
meetings will be held between the Country Director, the Consultant and 
the Child Protection and Asylum Expert.

Terms and tasks of the deployment
The expert will be contracted by DRC headquarters in Copenhagen, 
according to DRC rules and regulations as stipulated in the employment 
contract.

The Child Protection Consultant should have relevant experience of 
refugee law and international child rights, social work principles, 
asylum and child protection systems in transitional countries, and 
participatory child-focused research techniques, and will be engaged for 
a period of one month.

The Child Protection Consultant will work closely with the national 
Child Protection and Asylum Expert to conduct a gaps analysis which will 
focus on the following issues:

Review the legal, policy and institutional framework for asylum seeking 
children and evaluate its implementation to identify challenges. 
Recommend how to improve the functioning of the system. Assess state-run 
care models in focus areas against minimum standards for child care, 
identifying facilities that meet the particular needs of asylum seeking 
children and gaps that need to be addressed. Assess informal care and 
living arrangements amongst refugee and migrant communities, identifying 
coping strategies and weaknesses to be addressed in order to regularise 
informal care arrangements.

The Consultant’s primary work station will be at the DRC office in Kyiv, 
with significant time spent in collaboration with the DRC Child 
Protection and Asylum Expert based at the State Committee for 
Nationalities and Religions (SCNR).

Reporting
Prepare weekly reports to the DRC Country Director. Each weekly report 
will include a working plan for the next week. A final gaps analysis at 
the end of the deployment.

To apply
Please send the following to [log in to unmask], and write “Child
Protection Consultant” in the subject line:
cover letter
CV
an example of similar work
a brief outline proposing how the work would be approached


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