Child Protection Case management and Information Management Consultant, LAC, Remote with possible travel funded by CO, for 8 months, # 594235

Contract Duration - 8 months

Working arrangement: remote

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TERMS OF REFERENCE

Primero is UNICEF’s Child Protection flagship product for case management and incident monitoring and is a key component of system strengthening and ensures we do-no-harm, coordinate responses for the populations we serve and steward the fit-for-purpose digital public good. To date, the Primero community has brought together over 350 partners, including governments, United Nations agencies and civil society organizations, who rely on Primero for their frontline protection workers who need a safe, user-friendly solution for data management. In 2025, more than 2 million children and survivors of violence received digitally enabled services through Primero, making Primero one the largest and most reliable administrative data sources in the child protection sector. Leveraging a robust rollout process which ensures a strong case management foundation, Primero went live in 18 new programming contexts (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cote d’Ivoire, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gaza, Grenada, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Liberia, Mali, Mexico, Niger, Panama, Sudan and Turkiye), representing a 20 per cent increase over 2024. At year-end there were 100 live implementations across 75 countries and territories and more than 20,000 active users, with another 20+ implementations under way in various stages of roll-out. Primero delivers meaningful progress for Child Protection and the social services workforce. It continues to be a guardian of public interest and continues to be in demand globally.

In 2026, UNICEF's Centres of Excellence (CoEs) represented a strategic evolution in Programme Technical Assistance, with a dual mandate of delivering high-quality support to Country Offices, Regional Offices, and government partners while exercising global normative leadership and partnership stewardship. They complement Country Office capacity by stewarding adaptive standards, methodologies, evidence, and guidance.

The Child Protection COE team has the second largest number of technical assistance requests at UNICEF, and specifically the team Violence Prevention and Response Systems (VPRS), in which this consultant would sit, has the highest number of technical assistance requests within Child Protection COE. Currently, the VPRS team is comprised of regional focal points to manage this volume of support for CPIMS+ and Primero. Specifically, for LAC, there has been an increase in demand in the region in 2026 due to the TA request process that has yet to be met, including a planned scale up of CPIMS+ in Jamaica, Honduras, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, Mexico, Panama and support for partner implementations in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Colombia.

If you would like to know more about this consultancy, please review the complete Terms of Reference here: ToRTMC0004007.pdf

Minimum requirements:

• Education: Masters in Public Health, Child Protection, Business Administration, Computer Science, Social Work, Gender-Based Violence
• Work Experience: 8 years
• Skills: Strong understanding of case management best practices; data protection and privacy protocols that do no harm and are based on need to know principles; experience with Primero/CPIMS+ implementation, training and in-country support; experience with implementing CPIMS+ in a LAC country; patience and empathy required when working with social workers training the CPIMS+ and improving digital literacy; government collaboration experience; ability to communicate effectively to government partners on technical concepts; strong understanding of local hosting infrastructure
• Language Requirements: Spanish language skills is a must.
• Desirables: Experience with T4Ds and TeamOne

For every Child, you demonstrate...

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• An up-to-date TMS profile and curriculum vitae (CV)
• Cover letter
• A separate financial proposal (only acceptable in the format of the linked template) Financial proposal TMC0004007.docx

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