The Save the Children Fund, commonly known as Save the Children, is an international non-governmental organisation that promotes children’s rights, provides relief and helps support children in developing countries.

Role Purpose

Under the direct supervision of the field office HR coordinator, the post holder is expected to meet the quality standards of safeguarding (child safeguarding and PSEA) at the respective field offices.

She/he will be responsible to rove to field offices to ensure and assist projects/programs/ and field offices to ensure compliance are meet through community awareness, capacity building training, conduct project risk assessment and facilitate on the development of friendly materials. She/he will also responsible on assisting to implement safe program activities, establishing local reporting procedures, reporting, data management and share learnings.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: HR coordinator

Dimensions: Save the Children works in all regions of Ethiopia with a current staff complement of approximately 1900 and current expenditure of approximately $190090+ million each year.

Staff directly reporting to this post: NA

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

• Organizing and facilitate child safeguarding and PSEA awareness for volunteers, beneficiaries and other representatives for humanitarian response and development programs
• Identify high risk programs, conduct risk assessment, identified mitigation strategies and recorded, monitor and update the status on the identified risk in collaboration with program managers and focal points at field level
• Establish child friendly compliant and feedback mechanism in collaboration with MEAL
• Develop bi-annual learning based on the identified risks and challenges
• Ensure child safeguarding and PSEA messages are displayed in local language at project level
• Identify project level contact person for beneficiaries and ensure local child safeguarding reporting procedure is updated and displayed in project implementation areas
• Follow up on volunteer recruitment process of projects and ensure the proper documentation are kept in the data base/record in collaboration with HR and project manager
• Conduct focus group discussion with children and adult beneficiaries on safe programing and reporting
• Report safeguarding incidents in DATIX system timely and coordinate with the national safeguarding team for the follow up, preliminary data collection, participation on investigation as relevant, coordinate referral mechanism as relevant
• Assess the child participation events and make sure the procedures are followed
• Compile and submit monthly report on safeguarding activities to safeguarding collogues at country office
• Support local partners on training, risk assessment and other technical support as identified by the partner
• Participate in PSEA network meetings at the response areas as applicable
• Provide orientation for water track drivers, rental drivers, construction workers and consultants
• Facilitate translation of materials, editing and disseminate messages for various groups and monitor the understanding
• Mapping of service providers at project areas to ensure reported cases are referred to relevant stakeholders
• Participate on the kick off meetings conducted at field level
• Take additional assignment when the demand supervisor including external representation
• Lead incentive staff induction, and mange IWs file documentation and payroll update.
• Provides Safeguarding information for management and staff based on data analysis and interpretations.
• In consultation with Child Protection department and other IPs, and provide the referral pathway, direction and guidance to survivors and/or witnesses of CSG issues and GBV by outlining the types of abuses, neglect, and exploitation reported by CSG focal persons in each camp

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

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Minimum of Bachelor Degree in social sciences and two years proven experience on child protection, education, social work. child safeguarding and other related filed.
• Experience on facilitation and coordination of training and workshops
• Experience in conducting assessment, monitoring and report writing
• Practical experience on child participation on the intervention of program activities.
• Strong computer skills, including the use of email, internet and Microsoft office
• Fluency in spoken Nuer and/or Agnuak is mandatory

Desirable

• Experience on child safeguarding and PSEA
• Experience on humanitarian response programs
• Skill on illustration design and publication