Actualización de Protocolos de Atención Psicosocial en Albergues y Casas Solidarias, Protección de Niños, Niñas y Adolescentes, Nicaragua, Managua, Remoto, 12 mesas, #594102

Organizational Context

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Job Purpose

UNICEF has consistently provided technical assistance to strengthen Nicaragua's child and adolescent protection system, focusing on special protection measures and rights restitution for children in alternative care, including shelters and foster homes. This cooperation involves developing and operationalizing technical frameworks—manuals, guidelines, and protocols—for prevention, early detection, psychosocial care, and case management, aligned with inter-institutional protection standards and a rights-based approach. The 2026–2027 work plan with the Ministry of Family prioritizes updating the Psychosocial Prevention and Care Protocol and Manual for children in temporary shelters and solidarity homes. This update integrates minimum standards for preparedness, response, and early recovery, including safe spaces, psychological first aid, risk identification, and protection mechanisms against violence, abuse, neglect, and family separation. The consultancy aims to update and strengthen these Psychosocial Care Protocols, ensuring alignment with international protection, mental health, and psychosocial support (MHPSS) standards, and national regulations. This will incorporate child, adolescent, gender, inclusion, disability, and safeguarding approaches, enhancing response capacity to prevent, identify, and address protection risks and psychosocial impacts, fostering safe, protective, and resilient environments for children.

Responsibilities

The consultancy involves updating the Psychosocial Prevention and Care Protocol and Active Listening Manual, ensuring alignment with international child protection standards, MHPSS in emergencies, and rights, age, gender, and diversity-based approaches. This includes incorporating operational guidelines for managing protective environments, providing psychological first aid, identifying, caring for, and referring cases, and mitigating risks of violence, abuse, neglect, and family separation. Furthermore, the consultancy will design and implement a capacity-building process for technical staff at the community level and for the network of children and adolescents (10-17 years) integrated into the Schools of Values (EVA), with a special focus on priority municipalities in Nicaragua's dry corridor. It will promote meaningful participation of adolescents as key actors in psychosocial prevention and emergency response. Additionally, a specific protocol for active listening to children will be developed, establishing ethical principles and criteria to guide psychology professionals in providing psychosocial support and specialized psychological care, ensuring safe, confidential, culturally relevant, and child-centered interventions. Overall, this consultancy seeks to consolidate technical tools and local capacities to ensure a timely, coordinated, and quality response in comprehensive child care.

Work Experience

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Skills

Protocol development and updating, Psychosocial support (MHPSS), Child protection standards, Capacity building, Training facilitation, Rights-based approach, Gender and diversity inclusion, Risk identification and mitigation, Case management, Active listening, Community engagement, Emergency response planning

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