The Save the Children Fund, commonly known as Save the Children, was established in the United Kingdom in 1919 to improve the lives of children through better education, health care, and economic opportunities, as well as providing emergency aid in natural disasters, war, and other conflicts. After passing a century, which it celebrated in 2019,[3] it is now a global movement made up of 29 national member organizations which work in 120 countries.

ROLE PURPOSE:  – 

Save the children is the world’s leading independent organization for children.  Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. Recognized for our commitment to accountability, ambition, collaboration, creativity and integrity, our work takes us into the heart of communities, where we help children and families help themselves. We work with other organizations, governments, non-profits and a variety of local partners while maintaining our own independence without political agenda or religious orientation.

The Education & Child Protection Coordinator, will be under the direct supervision of FO Education and CP PM, is responsible for the overall delivery and management of Education & CP project funded  Save Italy to address the education and protection needs of children in South Omo, Sidama, and SNNPR regional State. He/she will closely work with district education office and other Child protection actors including other sector responses of save the children like Humanitarian, health and nutrition and WASH. The position holder will create conducive working environment with line offices and support target schools through provision of learning materials. Technical training, establishment of lifesaving spaces for learning. He/she will prepare weekly, monthly updates, identify challenges and propose solutions, fill beneficiary list, feeding report, collect required data from the target schools.  The Officers will represent SC’s in cluster coordination and sector meeting including joint assessments..

SCOPE OF ROLE: 

Reports to: Hawassa FO Education &CP Program Manager

Dimensions: Building upon the previous initiatives supported by Save the Children Italy and SC Norway. It seeks to integrate child protection and education interventions in these areas to ensure the well-being and development of boys and girls.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Job Responsibility 1: Project Management

• Lead child protection assessments using SC and the Inter-agency tools. Coordinate with other SC thematic areas, Child Protection sub cluster, MCYA and/or other external sector agencies, ensuring assessment findings are documented and that all assessments include a specific, disaggregated analysis of children’s needs.
• With support from the lead Child Protection Adviser and/or other senior programme staff, develop project plans and budgets, contributing towards an overall thematic programme plan and master budget. From the strategy initiate programming in the following areas as appropriate:
  • Support to the psychosocial (physical, social, emotional) wellbeing of children and their families.
  • Emergency family tracing interventions and alternative are options for unaccompanied and separated children, utilising tools within the Inter-Agency Child Protection Information Management System
  • Prevention and response to sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) and gender-based violence (GBV)
  • Prevention and response to the main risks for children’s exposure to harm
  • Prevention and response to all forms of exploitation including harmful child labour and child trafficking due to the conflict
  • Integration of child protection in to other core sectors
• With support from the lead Education/Child Protection Adviser and/or other senior programme staff, support fundraising for child protection, including contributing to the development of high quality concept notes and proposals.
• Prepare and oversee project implementation to ensure timely delivery of project activities (for example, monitoring against log frames, individual performance management work plans).
• With support from the lead Education/Child Protection Adviser and/or other senior programme staff, prepare timely programme and donor reports on project activities in compliance with internal SC requirements and any relevant external donor requirements.
• With support from the lead Education/Child Protection Adviser and/or other senior programme staff, with the HR team, identify technical staffing needs for emergency programme, and support rapid recruitment, induction and training of new staff.
• With support from the lead Child Protection Adviser and/or other senior programme staff, identify programme supplies needs and coordinate with the logistics team to put in place a sensible phased procurement plan.
• With support from the Monitoring & Evaluation team put in place an M & E plan for the child protection project, ensuring this links to reporting requirements, and capacity build child protection field staff in carrying out the work. Where possible, use the M&E framework to build an evidence-base for child protection programming interventions.
• With support from the Accountability lead put in place accountability activities for your project, ensuring that feedback from children and their families is considered in project design.
• Ensure that the minimum standards of humanitarian relief are maintained in accordance with the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Settings, the Sphere Charter and Red Cross Code of Conduct.
• Ensure the integration and harmonization of programme team with other field office program and support staffs.
• Conduct regular project team staff meeting
• Working with CP officers and CPiE specialist prepare monthly budget forecasts, payment schedules, procurement plan and work terms of references in line with SCI working documents.
• Carry out additional tasks as required With the support and guidance of PM and education Advisor, lead the implementation of Save the Children’s education project activities within the Hudet district through provision of EiE services to the target children.
• Identify critical program gaps and vulnerabilities, and clarify roles, responsibilities and accountabilities to effectively address those gaps.
• Ensure quality in the Programme by building capacity of the education officers through trainings, and providing trainings in pedagogy, psychosocial support, life skills etc. to teachers.
• Provide guidance to field-based education team on common standards, innovative strategies and approaches which ensure a capacity to address SC Commitments for Children in Emergencies, and reflect good practice in emergency education responses.
• With the support and guidance of PM and education Advisor, lead the implementation of Save the Children’s education project activities within targeted  district through provision of education and CP services to the target children.
• Identify critical program gaps and vulnerabilities, and clarify roles, responsibilities and accountabilities to effectively address those gaps.
• Ensure quality in the program by building capacity of the education officers through trainings, and providing trainings in pedagogy, psychosocial support, life skills etc. to teachers.
• Provide guidance to field-based education team on common standards, innovative strategies and approaches which ensure a capacity to address SC Commitments for Children in Emergencies, and reflect good practice in emergency education responses.

Job Responsibility 2: Human Resource Management

• Line management of the education project staff.
• Prepare performance objectives together with program staffs and give the necessary feedback, follow up and support to improve staff performance.
• Ensure the integration and harmonization of EiE team with other field office program and support staff.

Job Responsibility 3: Financial Management 

• Ensure that project resources are efficiently utilized through continuous update on the DIP.
• Working with the PM prepare monthly budget forecasts, field payment schedules, procurement plan and work terms of references in line with SCI working documents.
• In close collaboration with PM review and analyse monthly budget versus actual reports and share feedbacks as required.
• Contribute Award Implementation Review (AIR) and align with budget lines

Job Responsibility 4: Coordination and networking

• Working closely with the PM and EiE Education Advisor, develop partnerships to leverage resources, ensure adequate coverage in the emergency response and early recovery phases, and ensure adequate funding consistent with SC resource mobilization strategy and emergency response plans
• Advocate for, and support, the development of sustainable, child-friendly and hazard-resistant standards and designs for learning centers, the integration of life skills into both formal and non-formal education, with a particular focus on Disaster Risk Reduction( DRR)
• Represent SC programme in the coordination at zonal and district levels; represent SC through Education cluster members as well as other thematic sector partners so as to ensure integrated responses.

Job Responsibility 6: Monitoring and Supervision   

• Contribute to the development of appropriate and effective program monitoring systems to enable assessment of both the emergency response process and impact and to ensure delivery of results for children.
• Prepare implementation reports, weekly, monthly or other periodical reports for SCI and funding partners.
• Reporting on progress and documentation of best practices.
• Support in development of communication materials, case studies and blogs.
• Ensure that all EiE officers adhere with project milestones and periodically update DIP and other essential working documents.

Job Responsibility 7: Problem solving/conflict management 

• Regularly scan environment and plan and  address issues in timely manner
• Ensure effective communication and facilitate discussion among  team members
• Timely communicate issues that need the attention of Satellite office managers, PM, HR and POM.

Job Responsibility #8:  Perform other duties as assigned

MINIMUM QUALIFICATION, EXPERIENCE, COMPETENCIES 

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Minimum of BA degree in Educational planning & Management or other field of education from a recognized university with five years’ experience preferably out of which three years working in international non-governmental organization.
• Previous experience working in INGO education programmes implemented in pastoral communities.
• Have basic training  and proven experience on project cycle management  including but not limited to skills in  program  and financial planning, M&E skills,  education/ teaching-learning process  technical skills, documentation and report writing,
• Must have strong coordination skill, partnership building skill,  team building and conflict management skill, financial management (budget preparation and monitoring)
• Experience to manage big team especially in hardship environment and preferably experience of managing more than one million USD is annually.
• Dynamic,  Self-starter and able to deliver on organizational goals with good communication and interpersonal skills
• Excellent understanding and prior work experience with the pastoralist communities is advantageous
• Proficient in the use of MS Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint,  Outlook, and other relevant software;
• Must have excellent strong writing with excellent spoken and written English; Knowledge of regional language is favourable.

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (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 others to do the same
• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• Future orientated, thinks strategically

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
• Strong training skill
• Willingness and ability to dramatically change work practices, flexibility in working long hours and ability to work with incoming surge teams;
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills;
• Fluency in written and spoken English;
• Commitment to Save the Children values
• Teams, in the event of emergencies