Child Rights Governance Project Officer

The Organization 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 realise 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.

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.

TITLE: Child Rights Governance Project Officer TEAM/PROGRAMME: OPERATIONS LOCATION: Magwi GRADE: 4 CONTRACT LENGTH: 10 MONTHS

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 for a country program; or are visiting country programs.

ROLE PURPOSE:

The Child Rights Governance Project Officer will be responsible for the day-to-day coordination, planning, implementation, and reporting of CRG activities under the Radio Aids in Magwi. He/she will be in charge of the implementation and the delivery of child rights governance objectives in line with the approved program result framework, annual plan, and budget. He/she will collaborate with respective line Country Departments such as the Social workers and Civil Society Organizations in the delivery of program and ensuring the sustainability of program efforts.

In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Education Programme Manager

Staff reporting to this post: none

Direct:

Indirect: Education team

Budget Responsibilities: None

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY :

Programme Management

• Coordinate and take the lead in the implementation of activities in the child rights governance Radio Aids program.
• Provide support and guidance to the education team to strengthen their joint planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting systems on child rights governance.
• Monitor partner project progress by engaging in monitoring visits and producing monthly/quarterly monitoring reports.
• Identify capacity needs and report to technical managers, education Programme Manager & Area Manager for support.
• Support program management through consulting with the implementing team on annual plans & budget phasing, monthly forecasts
• Facilitate joint planning meetings & visits with the Education Coordinator & MEAL team to ensure integration of program activities and efforts.
• Support monthly updating of the IPTT and Output tracker by MEAL team through liaising with education officers for information.
• Ensure financial compliance of activities in CRG with approval of the respective technical CRG Education PM and Area Manager.
• Participate in budget monitoring by reviewing monthly BVAs and providing feedback for reclassifications, recoding and or other amendments.
• Establish and ensure strong and positive relationships with the respective program-related line Departments and CSOs within the State to ensure smooth delivery and sustainability of program activities.
• Producing quality monthly narrative reports and providing the technical manager and Education Programme Manager with information for the compilation of biannual and annual CRG program report to Member and/or Donor.
• Liaise with other Project Officers from education to achieve maximum child-centered social accountability integration
• Anticipate the supply needs of the projects and submit timely order requests for all project supplies needed so that procurement can be initiated and supplies delivered on time.

Representational role & Advocacy

• Represent Save the Children at State/ Payam & community level child rights forums/ meetings to ensure maintenance of good flow of information and knowledge on the project.
• To attend, participate and contribute in relevant state and county forums as assigned by the line manager.
• Take lead in advocacy issues about child-centred social accountability by engaging with relevant local authority, CSOs, and other influential persons on child rights issues.

Documentation

• Document key project proceses, lessons learnt and significant change stories to inform internal and external stakeholders on impact made by the project.

Child Safeguarding

• Ensure that staff provide programme beneficiaries with ongoing, age-appropriate verbal or written information in relevant languages about the behaviour they can expect of staff and representatives, in line with the Child Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct; and how to raise concerns
• Ensure children and their communities are aware of conduct to expect of SC staff and how to raise concerns.

• Any other duties as assigned by the line manager.

  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

  QUALIFICATIONS

• Qualification in the field of Social work, or Diploma in social workers, community development, or equivalent.

• A minimum of 3 years relevant work experience in an environment dealing with child rights & child participation issues and the ability to work with a diverse team.
• Knowledgeable of integrated programming.
• Good interpersonal and advocacy skills
• Excellent report writing and documentation skills
• Computer literacy

• Fluency in written and spoken English

  EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

Ability to converse in both English and Arabic

Higher knowledge of Save the Children’s way of working

Desirable

Experience of working with children and the community

Knowledge and experience of working in the area of Child Protection & Child Rights Governance

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.

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.

Health and Safety

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.