Child Protection Technical Lead

Programme & Policy

Overview

Provide strategic technical leadership to Child Protection Programmes in Myanmar.

You have:

• Master's degree in relevant field (Social Work, Psychology, Sociology, Human rights Law, Development Studies or similar, or equivalent field experience)
• At least 5 years of working experience in relevant field, ideally in both development and humanitarian settings
• Hands on experience in child protection systems strengthening, case management, family strengthening, community level child protection, MHPSS, and CAAC
• Strong trust building and respectful listening skills
• Excellent understanding and experience on key issues and strategies in Child Protection
• Proven capacity in programme design and reporting
• Strong skills in Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning in Child Protection, including assessment and research
• Fluency in written and spoken English
• Understanding of the context in Myanmar (or demonstrated willingness to learn the context and culture of Myanmar)

VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT ROLE PROFILE TITLE: Child Protection Technical Lead (FOR MYANMAR NATIONAL ONLY) TEAM/PROGRAMME: SPQI LOCATION: Yangon, Head Office Number of Position: 1 GRADE: NAT-1 CONTRACT LENGTH: Fixed Term

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 vetting process staff.

ROLE PURPOSE:

The Child Protection Technical Lead provides strategic technical leadership to Myanmar Country Child Protection Programmes, including quality programme oversight, programme design, and identifying and pursing strategic partnerships. S/he plays a senior representational and advocacy role with key national, regional and international stakeholders as appropriate in the current country context, including Save the Children members and internal stakeholders, to maximize programme impact. The CP Technical Lead also ensures that programme learning, research and evaluation findings are channeled towards advocacy, continuous improvements, innovation and new programme design. SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Director of Strategy, Program Quality and Influence

Staff directly reporting to this post: Child Protection Advisors (2)

Dimensions: Works in close collaboration with the Child Protection SPM, project staff, MEAL and other Thematic Leads

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY :

Strategic Direction, Programme Design and Development • Take lead role in developing, monitoring and repoting on on the Child Protection Strategic Goals in our Country Strategy Plan. • Identify needs and opportunities for Child Protection programmes, in particular in response to the current humanitarian needs, through situation analyses/feasibility studies, networking, participation in cluster coordination, and leveraging research and evaluation findings from both internal and external sources. • Encourage and facilitate implementation of a Strategic Learning Agenda for Child Protection in Myanmar for systematic and a coordinated approach to evidence generation and learning. • Work with other teams (NBD, Ops, Awards, PIU) to develop funding strategies and proposals to expand and adapt the Child Protection portfolio in line with strategic priorities, technical best practice, and research/learnings from current/past programming. This will involve continuously developing concepts and innovations and packaging them for a range of donors, both for proactive and reactive fundraising efforts. • Identify and pursue opportunities for synergistic, inter-sectoral programmes to address the holistic needs of children, especially the most deprived.

Programme Quality: • Overall responsibility to ensure programme quality of SC’s Child Protection programming in Myanmar • Identify internal and external capacity building opportunities and resources to provide high quality technical assistance to Child Protection projects, supporting technical staff, partner agencies and others to build knowledge and technical competence. • Update and adapt capacity development programs on key approaches including MHPSS, community led child protection, case management, and Children and Armed Conflict, with relevant technical advisors and deliver high quality training programs and ongoing coaching and supervision in a way to ensure consistency across different states/regions. • Integrate programme learning across the sectors, ensuring coherence of technical approaches across programmes, identifying best practice, and ensuring inter-sectoral complementarity. • Develop strategies to ensure gender equity, social and disability inclusion, child participation and beneficiary accountability in all programmes. • Ensure that all programs have effective Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning (MEAL) practices and robust data management system, particularly for case management and Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism, throughout the program cycle. • Ensure that monitoring and accountability systems (i.e IPTT and FRM) provide information in the appropriate form and at the right time (in different levels) to allow for effective decision making and risk mitigation • Ensure that quality benchmarks are developed for key interventions, as well as all new projects; ensure that ongoing analysis of QBs is used for adaptive management and programme quality improvement • Provide technical leadership in undertaking research in line with the learning agenda agreed by the team. • Share CO’s experience and organizational learning with COs as well as with relevant organizations over the globe.

Policy and Advocacy: • Coordinate closely with the Advocacy, Research, and Evidence sector on policy and advocacy work relating to Child Protection • Lead on policy and advocacy for the sector, ensuring that Child Protection technical interventions are designed to inform relevant policy concerns. Develop policy briefs and position papers, ensuring the inclusion of technical input from the relevant project managers. • Identify appropriate strategic partnerships for joint advocacy initiatives on related issues

Human Resource Management and Development • Identify and support professional development and career growth opportunities for Child Protection staff from a technical point of view, and provide mentoring support where appropriate by using competency based framework • Establish, build and nurture effective teamwork within the Child Protection technical and implementation teams and ensure a cohesive workplace environment for optimum staff retention. • Create opportunity for staff development in coordination with HR. • Responsibility to create and maintain a managerial environment where the Child Safeguarding Policy is effectively implemented.

Representation, Coordination and Networking: • Maintain working relationships with relevant stakeholders. • Identify partnerships/collaborations and build strong networks with other NGOs, CSOs, donors, UN agencies and academic institutions and the private sector working on Child Protection to collaborate on programs, joint learning, analysis and advocacy initiatives • Support the identification, selection, technical capacity strengthening and monitoring of new partners in Child Protection. • Ensure that the country office has effective representation and provides technical leadership within national, regional and international networks and forum related to Child Protection, particularly in the Child Protection Areas of Responsibility (CP AoR) and Country Taskforce for Monitoring and Reporting (CTFMR) and that we participate in conferences/meetings that will enhance our reputation and programming • Actively participate in technical coordination meetings to ensure synergies with other agencies in our development and humanitarian work, including sectors/clusters at national level. • Maintain excellent relationships with donors, both in terms of strategic positioning and programme delivery, informing regularly other departments (Awards, NBD, operations, etc.) of the outcome of any discussion for internal coordination and record.

Child Safeguarding Responsibilities • Responsibility to create and maintain a managerial and operational environment where the Child Safeguarding Policy is effectively implemented. • Ensure that your staff is providing all beneficiaries of your programme with ongoing, age-appropriate verbal or written information in relevant languages about Save the Children’s Child Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct.

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 • Always acts in the best interests of children QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• Academic: Master’s degree in relevant field (Social Work, Psychology, Sociology, Human rights Law, Development Studies or similar, or equivalent field experience.) • At least 5 years of working experience in relevant field, ideally in both development and humanitarian settings. • Hands on experience in child protection systems strengthening, case management, family strengthening, community level child protection. MHPSS, and CAAC • Strong trust building and respectful listening skills • Excellent understanding and experience on key issues and strategies in Child Protection • Proven capacity in programme design and reporting • Excellent skills on process facilitation and coordination/representation at the highest level • Strong skills in Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning in Child Protection, including assessment and research • Demonstrated experience in humanitarian response • Excellent inter-personal communication skills, both verbal and written • Strong analytical capacity and proficient understanding of both qualitative and quantitative research methods • Good presentation skills including policy briefings • Good supportive supervision skills • Understanding of the context in Myanmar (or demonstrated willingness to learn the context and culture of Myanmar) • Fluency in written and spoken English 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.

Child Safeguarding and Counter Fraud responsibilities 1. Promote the message of child safeguarding to colleagues in other organizations and government ministries, children in their own and beneficiary families, and community members in general.

2. Take all necessary and appropriate steps to prevent fraud, bribery, and corruption within their areas of responsibility, report and respond to all incidents and concerns and comply with the Counter-Fraud, Bribery and Corruption Policy and Procedure.

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.

All staff has an obligation and a responsibility to: • Ensure they fully understand the provisions of the Child Safeguarding Policy, the Code of Conduct and Local/Country Procedures. • Conduct themselves in accordance with the rules of the Child Safeguarding Policy, in their personal and professional lives – which includes reporting suspicions of child abuse. • Ensure the way they are carrying out their work is not putting children at risk (or further risk) – this means constantly scrutinizing their work through a child safeguarding lens and talking to children about possible design/implementation “flaws”. • Promote the message of child safeguarding to colleagues in other organizations and government ministries, children in their own and beneficiary families, and community members in general. • Be vigilant about observing possible child abuse/harm in their personal and professional lives.

All managers have the above responsibilities as well as ensuring • Their staff are doing the above. • That child safeguarding is integrated and given a “voice” in all management processes including recruitment, induction, performance management, team meetings, annual planning processes, field level monitoring, etc.

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.

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