Senior Child Protection Officer at Save the Children

TEAM/PROGRAMME: Child Protection programme      LOCATION:  Dadaab
GRADE:  3    POST TYPE: National (12 months)
Child Safeguarding: 
Level 3 - the responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to have regular contact with or access to children or young people

SCOPE OF ROLE: 
The role will primarily focus on overseeing child protection program and providing technical assistance to the CP team and ensuring accurate planning of CP activities, timely expenditure of activity budget and effective coordination within the team and across other humanitarian actors in Dadaab. The role holder will also be charged with developing quality and timely donor reports and contributing to the proposal and budget development for the CP sector.
Reports to:  Program Manager

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
PROGRAM DELIVERY

• Performance management and supervision of all CP staff
  1. Lead and motivate the CP team to ensure effective project implementation. 
  2. Ensure key problems are brought to the attention of the Program Manager and other relevant senior staff for discussion and review. 
  3. Ensure that all relevant staff receives appropriate induction and training.
  4. Make regular support visits to camps.
  5. Develop and implement an integrated reintegration strategy for vulnerable children returning to their communities with a particular emphasis on education and livelihoods strategies. 
• Monitoring and evaluation of programme activities:
  1. Develop and undertake training in aspects of child protection for programme and project staff as well as children, partners and community-based child protection networks.  
  2. Mentor the relevant staff to facilitate the continued development of his project, budget and personnel management capacity. 
  3. Work with the field Officer to oversee the management of the Separated Children’s Database as a tool for information storage and analysis, and case management. 
  4. Continue to develop understanding on children’s meaningful participation throughout the programme, and work with child protection staff on strategies to enable children to identify and address the issues of concern to them and promote their voices in local, regional and national.  
• Monitoring , Evaluation and Reporting
  1. Work with the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) team for monitoring and evaluation of programme activities including taking corrective action where necessary; preparation of Counselling reports, documentation of lessons learnt.
  2. Document milestones and success stories in the community-based child protection initiatives.
  3. Document programme learning and ensuring it contributes to organizational advocacy.
  4. Maintain an up to date information pack of various aspects affecting the beneficiaries in liaison with the other program teams and do analysis of the reports  -.
  5. Ensure timely implementation of budgeted activities in addition to budget tracking and control and ensure clarity of reports on the various advocacy aspects in the camps.
• Partnerships and coordination.
  1. Ensure close coordination of outreach activities with other agencies in the three camps to ensure complementarity and synergy.
  2. Build partnerships to enhance community participation, ownership and sustainability of programmes. 
  3. Collaborate and coordinate with other child protection agencies, governmental institutions, host community partners and community level structures in order to promote community ownership and sustainability of CP initiatives.
  4. Represent Save the Children and the CP program in interagency working groups and camp coordination meetings and build from the strategies developed through the Child Protection Working Group.
  5. Represent the CP programme and advocate with community, partners as well as other external visitors.  Liaise closely with other actors in the child protection sector on issues related to vulnerable children.  Ensure that consideration is given to their particular needs within general child protection strategies.  
  6. Work with appropriate partners within the child protection sector to ensure the mainstreaming of child protection and those children’s rights are considered in the process of legislation formation and institution building.
  7. Where necessary, represent the Child protection Manager and Coordinators in meetings, both internal and external and engage with the Host Community partner. 
• Implementation of activities and Accountability.
  1. Coordinate with finance and awards team to ensure effective budget monitoring for the project in line with donor requirements and contractual obligations, including Grant opening, mid-term and closing meetings.
  2. Timely implementation and strict adherence to the DIP
  3. Coordinate the timely implementation of all grants and ensure sound and accurate expenditure.
  4. Proposal development - continuously analyze needs and develops concept notes, outlining clear areas of sensitization and awareness raising.
  5. Oversee project activities budget expenditures and ensure they are allowable and allocable according to SCI and donor regulations; review monthly Budget vs. Actual and expenditure sheets and collaborate with the finance department to ensure accurate expenditures and reporting.
  6. Ensure timely production of activity/events reports as well as monthly reports as per the agreed timelines.

Working Contacts

• External 
  • The job holder is required to have regular contact with other similar organization, children, community, and government organization. The role is expected to sustain the strong and cordial relationship with UNHCR colleagues in the protection unit.
• Internal
  • The job requires the job holder to have direct relationship with all staff and field management at all levels in ensuring the organizational policies and procedures.

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

• Accountability:
  1. holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
  2. 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:
  1. 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
  2. widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
  3. future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.
• Collaboration:
  1. builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
  2. values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
  3. approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.
• Creativity:
  1. develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
  2. willing to take disciplined risks.
• Integrity:
  1. honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

1. At least Degree social work/social sciences or equivalent. 
2. At least three (3) years relevant experience in similar settings.
3. Prior experience in child protection and best interest determination process in refugee set ups in essential.
4. Substantial management and leadership experience, preferably in emergency programmes
5. Demonstrable competence in proposal and report writing 
6. Experience of financial planning and expenditure monitoring 
7. Experience of community participation, ownership and empowerment
8. Competent in using email and computer packages such as Word and Excel
9. Commitment to Save the Children's child safeguarding Policy
10. Has high-level communication skills’, including engaging and informative formal public speaking.
11. Fluent in English and Kiswahili (both spoken and written). Working knowledge of local language strongly preferred
12. Able to work effectively in a multi-cultural environment
13. Sets high standards for quality and consistently achieves project goals.
14. Maintains and extends an effective network of individuals within the organisation and with government and development partners
15. Negotiates effectively by exploring a range of possibilities.
16. Demonstrates and shares detailed technical knowledge and expertise.
17. Proven ability to work as a team.

Additional job responsibilities

1. 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.
2. Equal Opportunities 
3. The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.
4. Child Safeguarding:
5. 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.
6. Health and Safety
7. The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.