Project Coordinator, Child Labour at Investing in Children and their Societies (ICS-SP)

Roles and responsibilities

• Project coordination and implementation: Lead the implementation of project activities in with criteria of timeliness, quality and effectiveness, ensuring the achievement of planned results in the time frame and within budget, in accordance with project requirements
• Capacity development: Raise child labour awareness and build the capacity of project beneficiaries, government agencies, line ministries/departments, and private sector players to implement appropriate child labour prevention solutions
• Monitoring and reporting : Conduct first line evaluation of project effectiveness and recommend and/or take appropriate action, draft/finalize inputs into project documents and reports, share good practices, lessons learned and ensure a regular flow of information on the status of the activities planned and implemented between the ICS SP and TdH NL.
• Networking and partnerships:*** Develop and maintain productive relationships with key individuals in relevant government ministries, civil society, private sector stakeholders, and local authorities and committees. Represent the project and organization in meetings, conferences and networks as assigned
• Financial management and reporting: Prepare project budgets, ensure that project funds are utilized well and work with the finance team to coordinate the preparation and timely submission of the financial reports to management, stakeholders and partners
• Human resource management: Foster positive working relationships and provide day-to-day supervision and technical support to project officer, including overseeing their annual performance reviews.
• Technical support: provide technical inputs for child labour analyses, strategies and solutions and contribute to the development, dissemination and uptake of child labour knowledge products, capacity development materials and advocacy and information materials.
• Resource mobilization: Support the mobilisation of additional resources for implementation of the project’s activities

Requirements

• Minimum of basic degree in social sciences /development studies/ community development or related disciplines
• At least 6 years proven experience in child protection programming (with at least 2 years in child labour projects)
• In-depth knowledge of child protection and child labour laws and sector nationally, and locally
• Extensive experience in raising awareness on child protection/labour issues and building capacity of local stakeholders and committees to implement/provide comprehensive and professional child protection services
• Strong project management and administration experience
• Solid understanding on planning, budgeting and project reporting
• Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
• Able to manage self and, guide and lead project officers and community change agents to ensure appropriate project management processes are being used
• ICS SP absolute priority is protecting children, vulnerable communities and our own staff. We have zero tolerance of incidents of violence or abuse against children and other people in the communities we serve, either committed by our staff or others connected to our work. Successful applicants will be required to sign and adhere to our safeguarding, child protection and prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA) code of conduct and policies.