Save The Children
International Programs
ROLE PROFILE
TITLE: Child Protection ManagerTEAM/PROGRAMME:
Child Protection/Emergency response / LOCATION:
Duhoke KRG, IRAQ
GRADE: TBC / CONTRACT LENGTH: 6 months
CHILD SAFEGUARDING:
Level 3: the role 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 in country programs; or are visiting country programs; ore because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.
ROLE PURPOSE:
The Child Protection manager will act as the technical lead on all child protection-related programming for the Save the Children emergency response in Dohuk Governorate. The Child Protection manager will be expected, with limited support, to lead on child protection-related assessments, programme design and implementation and coordination with stakeholders in collaboration with colleagues in Erbil and Duhoke Governorates. In addition, she/he will oversee the monitoring & evaluation of child protection activities and assist on relevant donor reporting. The Child protection program manager will also be expected to play a leadership role within a response team, supporting and building the capacity of colleagues.
In addition the role holder will also support partners to develop their programmes and build their capacity to respond as well as taking responsibility for mainstreaming child protection across other sector of interventions. They will also have a lead role in the development and implementation of safe programme in line with Save the Children Child Safeguarding policy.
SCOPE OF ROLE:
Reports to: Field Office Manager, Duhoke
Number of direct reports: National Child Protection Staff
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
Programme Support:
· Responsible for management of Child Protection program implementation in Duhoke ensuring that proposed results are achieved on time, within budget and in compliance with donor regulations.
· Manage program budgets including monthly budget forecasting and quarterly budget revisions.
· Provide technical leadership on program implementation methodologies in line with good practice and in collaboration with the child protection technical advisor.
· Ensure that programs are implemented in ways that are responsive to communities and children, in line with Save the Children principles, values and strategic plan and compliant with Save the Children’s procedures.
· Work with relevant government and non-government partners to strengthen capacity on child protection programming and advocate for improved child protection systems and policies.
· Manage program partnerships including partner capacity building, follow-up and reporting.
· In close coordination with the child protection technical advisor, participate in proposal development processes related to child protection programming.
· Work to develop timely and high quality progress and final reports for external and internal use. These should be results-based and demonstrate progress against agreed indicators.
· Ensure appropriate, timely and accurate data collection against agreed indicators to enable both internal and external reporting.
Partner management
· Work with the Partnership team to identify appropriate partners for implementation of the Child Protection response.
· Work with partners to develop their programme design and proposals.
· Ensure regular review of partner progress against the budget and work plan, and support partners to alter activities/strategies in light of context changes or operational challenges.
· Review partner narrative and financial reporting as well as Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning data, in line with Country Office internal deadlines for Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning.
· Undertake the Child Protection technical aspect of the initial partner capacity assessment, and develop and resource the capacity building plan for partner, providing direct capacity building input where possible.
Monitoring, Evaluation and Accountability
· Develop Monitoring & Evaluation and indicator tracking plans for all grants, developing additional Monitoring & Evaluation tools as necessary to monitor project progress, with support of Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning team.
· Ensure appropriate, timely and accurate data collection against agreed indicators to enable both internal and external reporting.
· Ensure that ongoing programme monitoring/learning feeds into alterations into programme design.
· Work with Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning team to identify and incorporate project suitable accountability mechanisms.
· Lead on child protection assessments as required, ensuring assessment findings are documented and that all assessments include a disaggregated analysis of children’s needs.
Staff Management, Mentorship, and Development
· Ensure appropriate staffing within the Child Protection team.
· Support the Field Manager to ensure that all Child Protection staff understand and are able to perform their role.
· Support the Field Manager to establish performance management of all Child Protection staff through effective use of the Performance Management System including the establishment of clear, measureable objectives, on-going feedback, periodic reviews and fair and unbiased evaluations.
Fundraising and Advocacy:
· Working closely with Child Protection TA, senior staff, support fundraising for child protection, including development of high quality concept notes and proposals.
· Ensure that Save the Children's work is coordinated with efforts of other agencies and Government, and take a leadership role within Interagency Coordination forums, ensuring the specific needs of children are being addressed. This may involve taking the lead in the Child Protection Working Group and/or sub-groups.
Capacity Building:
· Identify learning and training opportunities for Save the Children staff and partners and support and build the capacity of less experienced staff.
· Save the Children is a dual mandate organisation and as such the Child Protection Manager is also expected to support the ongoing development work of the Iraq Country office as the workload and needs allow.
SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)
Accountability:
· Holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving results together with children 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
· Creates a managerial environment in-country to lead, enable and maintain our culture of child safeguarding
Ambition:
· Sets ambitious and challenging goals for self and team, takes responsibility for own personal development and encourages team to do the same
· Widely shares personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
· Future oriented, thinks strategically and on a global scale
Collaboration:
· Builds and maintains effective relationships, with own team, colleagues, members, donors and partners
· 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
· Always acts in the best interests of children
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Essential:
· Five years of experience working in an emergency response context or in fragile states
· Proven experience in Child protection
· Ability to identify the main gaps in child protection in the given context to inform a holistic response for children.
· Previous experience of managing a team and of project management
· Experience of and commitment to working through systems of community participation and accountability
· Experience in monitoring and evaluating child protection programmes in emergency, transition and development contexts
· Ability to work both in an advisory and a hands on implementation capacity
· Experience in capacity building and in strengthening various duty bearers understanding of and response to child protection.
· Experience of representation and ability to represent Save the Children effectively in external forums.
· Excellent communication skills with a high level of written and spoken English
· Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and diplomacy
· The capacity and willingness to be extremely flexible and accommodating in difficult and sometimes insecure working circumstances.
· Commitment to and understanding of child rights, the aims and principles of Save the Children, and humanitarian standards such as the Sphere Charter and the Code of Conduct. In particular, a good understanding of Save the Children mandate and child focus and an ability to ensure this continues to underpin our support
Desirable:
· Experience of urban programming
· Language skills in Arabic and/or Kurdish
· Knowledge of Save the Children systems and ways of working
Date of issue: December 2014 Author: Shahzad Ali Nasir
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