Child Protection Coordinator – Gode

Save the Children is the world’s largest independent child rights development organization, making a difference to children’s lives in more than 100 countries. From emergency relief to long-term development, Save the Children secures a child’s right to development, survival, participation and protection.

We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realize the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard. We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In Ethiopia and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share.

ROLE PURPOSE: 

The Child Protection Coordinator will be responsible for the overall coordination management and implementation of child protection interventions. The Child protection Coordinator is responsible for establishing and maintaining relationship with partners including women, Children office, woreda Education office (WEO), and other strategic implementing partners to deliver program outputs according to project objectives

The Child Protection Coordinator (CPC) will report to the Child Protection and Education Program Manager and She/he will assist in the implementation of Child Protection program within save the children Korea funded and other child protection project under Gode field Office. The CPC will coordinate for adapting context relevant case management tools and standard operating procedures (SOP) to guide protection service coordination and referrals (including for social protection services); and establish and strengthen protection service coordination and referral mechanisms, with agreed on and functional standard operating procedures

a safe space for children to socialize, learn and play and case management services and increasing the community’s capacity to identify and respond to child protection concerns.

Reports to:  Program Manager

Staff directly reporting to post:  Child Protection officers

 Staff indirectly reporting to post:  Facilitators and volunteers 

Program Delivery, implementation and

• Identify the training needs of child protection actors in child protection in emergencies coordination
• Facilitate the establishment and functioning of Child Protection in Emergencies Coordination Mechanism in sub-national level in Shabelle zone Somali Region
• Conducting child protection sub-cluster coordination meeting at zonal and district levels
• Conducting community consultation and cascading training on child protection, positive parenting, child friendly space and child participation and psychosocial.
• Link the regional coordination with woreda and national coordination by sharing information, update and child protection issues.
• Facilitate effective identification, reporting and addressing of child protection cases through referral mechanism and coordination.
• Building the capacity of statutory duty bearers to children at the woreda level, and supporting the development of community based child protection mechanism (CBCPM )in villages and urban locations
• Mainstreaming of child protection program to other programmes for effective intervention, coordination and referral pathways.
• Assist in managing the implementation and development of Child Protection programing
• Coordinate to ensure strong donor compliance, monitoring and evaluation and quality control procedures are understood and entrenched in all child protection projects;
• Oversee the production and delivery of timely and quality periodic reports to PM
• Ensure child protection programming interventions are implemented in cooperation with targeted communities, and include the participation of children in their design
• Plan and conduct regular field visits, to project sites including discussions with beneficiaries, children
• Document program learning best practices and lessons learned into new strategies/activities and advocacy work
• Lead and coordinate effective distribution all the procurement materials and administrative documents required for program implementation.

Coordination  

• Conduct regular planning and review meetings with frontline workers and service coordination structures to monitor continuity and progress of activities and support to beneficiaries
• Support and work with community based structures to conduct community awareness raising campaigns and community dialogue on protection of internally displaced children and services, and to enhance social inclusion of internally displaced children and their families within the host community
• Coordinate to Conduct consultative meetings with mandated local government offices (involving the Somali regional government and durable solutions taskforce), to share key findings from the study, and to advocate for inclusion of child lens in the regional durable solutions strategy
• Ensure the rehabilitate/ strengthen inclusive and child-participatory community child friendly spaces that provide age and gender appropriate access to information and psychosocial support services for girls and boys in internally displaced and in host communities

• Provide technical leadership to field staff (Officers, Social/case workers, and Community facilitators) and share best practices and methodologies.
• Support the performance and development of indirect reports to fulfil their potential, ensuring they have clear objectives and receive meaningful feedback regularly and achieve maximum impact from program implementation.
• Create and maintain a cooperative and positive working environment where staff have clear roles and responsibilities, participate in decision making and are supported in progressing towards their objectives.

• Lead on capacity building of staff through coaching, mentoring and training, including facilitating the Child Safeguarding Training for staff.
• Provide technical support for Human Resource in ensuring that the SC Ethiopia Child Safeguarding Policy is understood by all SC child protection staff, facilitators, volunteers, partners and ensure that it is integrated into all aspects of SC Ethiopia programs
• Ensure optimal use of human resources, including promotion of team work and team spirit, securing adequate training of staff and promotion of talented staff.
• Ensure the safety of staff and that safe work methods are practiced at all times
• Report to the Programme Manager Development any violations of SC personnel policies and Code of Conduct. 
• Contribute to the development of project proposals, concept notes, logframes and DIP to strategically relevant donors throughout the year.
•  Projects are monitored, variances identified, discussed and documented, for timely submission to the PM and child protection specialist as required
• Coordinate that all CP training sessions and workshops are successfully conducted with all relevant parties in attendance and within designated timeframes
• The job duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the Post holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience
• Provide on-the-job coaching to Child Protection officers regarding the implementation of standard operating procedure to government staffs and other protection service providers involved in case management
• Build strong relationships with relevant government bodies,  I/NGOs, the UN, CSOs, SCI members and any other key stakeholders relevant to the protection sector.
• Represent SC Gode field office Child Protection Program at all levels (excluding media) from time to time and advocate Save the Children’s position and learning to influence policy and practice of government, donors, I/NGOs, the UN and other civil society organizations in relation to protection
• Guide the CP program team in research and documentation efforts (evaluation design, documenting best practices, generating materials useful for representation, advocacy) particularly with regard to strategic value/direction, in the field of child protection

• In collaboration with the Project Manager, maintain strong supervision and monitoring system to measure achievement and progress toward the project objectives and expected outcomes and impacts
• Conduct monitoring and supervision of the planned project activities implementation and provide technical support to CPO and intervention site to improve activities implementation quality
• Strengthen participatory and collaborative supervision and monitoring system including active participation of children
• Ensure that the required appropriate technical support is provided for directors, teachers, supervisors, and students on time and strengthen team spirit and collaborative work.

SKILLS AND BEHAVIORS OUR 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

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 

QUALIFICATION

• Masters/Bachelor’s degree in Social Science and humanities, Sociology, Psychology, Law or other related fields
• Minimum 5 years’ experience for BA Holds and 3 years’ Experience for MA Holds  of coordinating and implementing child protection or other humanitarian project in Somali region
• Excellent written and spoken English language and Somali language
• Experience in working in IDPs camps and drought affected in the area of child protection
• Willingness to work in hardship area and to work extra hours (when needed).
• Qualified female candidates are highly encouraged to apply
• Demonstrated skills in program planning, implementation and monitoring.
• Demonstrated skills in peer group training, Training of Trainers and development of training materials.
• Strong computer (Microsoft skills), all and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a team environment

EXPERIENCE

• Previous working experience in child protection in general and community based child protection mechanism and in particular child resilience, community mobilization and psychosocial support is preferable.
• Understanding of and experience with community and parent/guardian mobilization for education programming. Experience tackling implementation challenges and adapting activities to diverse low-resource settings an asset.
• Experience with developing technical guidance or activity packages (manuals, learning materials, etc) for adults and children. Experience with Learning through Play or similar pedagogical approaches an asset.
• Theoretical and practical knowledge of how gender attitudes and power dynamics form learning and parenting, and how education can contribute to gender equality

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITY 

• Position holder must have good interpersonal skills & excellent team player
• Knowledge of the local language (Somali language)

Scope & complexity of decision making (choose the appropriate description and delete the rest)

• Able to work in line with strict adherence of specific policies and supervisor’s order.
• Able to solve problems by selecting the most suitable procedure or method within guidelines and precedents; direction sought when solutions not within established guidelines or precedents
• Able to make decisions using creativity and some independent judgement within realm of current scope of work; Decisions typically made in order to resolve and adapt current solutions or introduce new procedures and practices

COMPETENCIES (To meet the value system, the post holder is expected to demonstrate the following Competencies on ongoing bases)

• Leading and Inspiring Others: Demonstrate leadership in all our work, role models our values and articulates a compiling vision to inspire to achieve our goals for children
• Delivering result: Takes personal responsibility and holds others to account to deliver our ambitious goals for children, continually improving own performance or thatof the team/ organisation.
• Developing Self and Others: Invest time and energy to actively develop self and others to help realize their full potential and to build the organization capability for the further.
• Applying technical and professional expertise: Applies the required technical and professional expertise to the highest standards; promotes and shares best practice within and outside the organisation.

Application Information:

Please apply using a cover letter and up-to-date CV as a single document. Please also include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations. A copy of the full role profile can be found at www.savethechildren.net/jobs We need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

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