CHILD SAFEGUARDING:
Level 3: the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.
ROLE PURPOSE:
The post holder will be responsible for implementation of Child Protection project. The position holder will coordinate with the filed team to ensure that all agreed activities are carried out as per Save the Children quality benchmarks. The Child Protection Officer will provide day to day supervision, guidance and on the job training to field staff. He / she will also be responsible for assisting in tracking progress of projects and keep a regular follow-up with projects teams to ensure that technical and financial progress of projects is on track.
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:•
- Supervises the implementation of Child Protection activities at the district level ensuring appropriate coordination with all stakeholders.
- Supervise and provide technical support to Community Mobilizers/ CFS Facilitators by visiting Child Friendly Spaces and filed locations on a regular basis, ensuring that activities are implemented in an appropriate manner
- Establish and oversee the whole referral mechanism (Identification, registration, referral and case closure) of children cases Family Tracking and Reunification.
- Guide CFS facilitators in working with children to develop new, creative activities as appropriate
- Ensures that safeguarding standards are understood and met and ensures a safe and child-friendly atmosphere in the Child Friendly Space.
- Ensures that health and safety regulations are understood and followed and that health and safety incidents are logged
- Generate and disseminate detailed daily / weekly information regarding activities (children attendance with breakdown by gender and age, activities carried out, issues affecting Programme delivery, material needs etc.) to the supervisor.
- Support field team including Social Mobilizer in conducting parents’ and community meetings.
- Ensures that equipment inventories are up to date and that replacement needs are highlighted.
- Ensures the participation of all groups of children, especially children who are the most vulnerable.
- Perform any other project related tasks assigned by supervisor.
BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)
Accountability:
- holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
- Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.
Ambition:
- Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
- Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
- Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.
Collaboration:
- Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
- Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
- Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.
Creativity:
- Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
- Willing to take disciplined risks.
Integrity:
- honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor degree in relevant field.
- Working knowledge of child rights is preferred
- Good communication skills with fluency in written and spoken English
- Knowledge of community-based child protection approaches, preferably including experience in participatory approaches (PRA/PLA) and child participation methodologies.
- Demonstrable ability to adapt to changing programme priorities and emergency priorities that may arise
- Strong self-starter, able to take initiative and adapt to changing circumstances and priorities
- Positive attitude towards community work with an emphasis on the ability to learn from communities and support innovative approaches to problem-solving
- Commitment to Save the Children’s Child Protection Policy.
EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:
- Minimum 3 years relevant work experience in working with children in difficult situations or at similar position.
- Proven technical knowledge and skills in the field of CP
- Experience in communicating and working with a wide range of people including people of culturally diverse backgrounds.
- Good communication, interpersonal and organizational skills.
- Good team working skills.
- Ability to draft clearly and concisely.
- Demonstrated gender awareness and gender sensitivity.
- Ability to work effectively and harmoniously with colleagues from varied cultures and professional backgrounds.
- Demonstrated creativity, ability to apply innovative thinking and problem solving skills.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Personal commitment, efficiency, flexibility and drive for results.
- Proficiency in Office applications, including Word, Excel, Power Point, Explorer.
Additional job responsibilities
The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.
Equal Opportunities
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.
Child Safeguarding:
We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
Safeguarding our Staff:
The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI anti-harassment policy.
Health and Safety
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.