Consortium Safer Partnership Coordinator

Programme & Policy

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: Consortium Safer Partnership Coordinator TEAM/PROGRAMME: Partnership/Safeguarding LOCATION: Kabul (50% travel to field) GRADE: 3 CONTRACT LENGTH: Permanent 0

Fixed Term 1 CHILD SAFEGUARDING: (select only one) 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 police checking/vetting process staff.

ROLE PURPOSE: The Consortium Safer Partnership Coordinator is responsible for the coordination of the roll-out of the Safer Partnership approach across SCI Afghanistan Country Office and field offices. The Safer Partnership initiative aims to ensure that all SCI awarded projects with partner organisations are safe for children, adult beneficiaries and staff. Coordinator will specifically be responsible for the rollout of Safer Partnership COSA and Rollout of Annual Action plan for each partner organisation including evaluation and monitoring, to engage experts from different functions under the technical guidance of Head of Safeguarding, reroute queries from the partner organisations and field offices.

As part of the roll-out, the coordinator is responsible to make the existing safeguarding tools and documents easily accessible for the partner organisation and Country office including field offices, to assess potential gaps and develop a tool development roadmap as needed.

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: GPE PMU Award Manager/Technically to Head of Safeguarding Staff reporting to this post: TBC Budget Responsibilities: n/a

Role Dimensions: This is a demanding role that requires excellent project management skills; an ability to design clear and focused plans and drive their implementation; strong written and verbal communications skills; and an ability to work to deadlines and manage multiple priorities. The post holder will need to work in a dispersed project structure that includes a core presence in Kabul, but with stakeholders and team members working within Save the Children field offices across the country.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY: 1. Organise the Training and capacity building periodic workshops on Safer partnership to onboard country office and field office NNGOS relevant teams to help identify role and responsibilities of each. • Organise the kick-off and onboarding webinars for Co and field offices per quarter • Liaise with field offices and partner organisations to ensure that they appoint a lead from each office. Deliver part of the webinars, and organise trained focal points to deliver remaining sessions and support in rollout of Safer partnership COSA.

2. Support program implementation teams in Country Office/field office and at partner organsitaion with the roll-out and implementation • Be the first point of contact for queries, both on safeguarding and practical questions • Where needed, re-route queries to the technical Safeguarding teams including Head of Safeguarding.

3. Evaluate and monitor performance of the roll-out • Ensure that Afghanistan Country Office completes Safeguarding self-assessments together with their partners • Collect and analyse the results of the assessment, escalate problems and risks to line manager • Regularly check-in with the project leads in country to ensure progress and identify early warnings for delay in milestones • Report on progress to line manager, prepare documentation to inform stakeholders and propose interventions where needed • Adjust approach and way of working where needed to ensure a successful roll-out

4. Make existing Safer Partnership tools and documents easily accessible and ensure that the tools are kept up to date • Ensure that the partnership tools and documents are easily accessible to all • Maintain a user friendly OneNet page (SCI’s intranet) for Safer Partnerships • Ensure that the partnership tools and documents are kept up to date • Ensure that any feedback on the tools from field offices and partner organisation is captured • Flag if there is the need to update tools or develop new tools, and develop a development plan together with Head of safeguarding • Create Dashboard of Progress to be shared with Head of Safeguarding and DCD Ops on Quarterly basis.

5. Ad hoc / unexpected activities required for successful implementation of the Safer Partnership approach and or delivery of the above areas of accountability. 6. Build NNGOs partners capacity on fraud risk management. 7. Travel to partner field office and engaging field teams. 8. Any other assigned duty by Head of Safeguarding to strengthen Safer Partnership Rollout , implementation and due diligence processes.

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 • Bachelor’s degree in Social science or any other related field. EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS Essential • 5 (Five) years of experience in the area of child safeguarding with international organizations. • Project management skills and experience related to multi-stakeholder projects for complex, international organisations and involving cross-functional teams • A track record of delivering results • Facilitation skills • Ability to organise own work efficiently, prioritise, and deliver multiple tasks to tight deadlines • Strong organizational skills • Fluency in English • Excellent networking / relationship building capabilities • Basic Excel skills to capture, organise and consolidate data • Safeguarding experience

Desirable • Experience in analysing and presenting data • Experience of working within hostile and challenging environments. • Experience of work related travel in challenging environments. 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. 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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