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11 Oct 2021

Safeguarding and Gender Coordinator at Save the Children

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Job Description


The Save the Children in Ethiopia Country Office (CO), in support of the Government of Ethiopia (GoE), has continued to contribute to the well-being of Ethiopian children in development and humanitarian contexts. We work to provide immediate humanitarian relief and long-term sustainable development.

INTRODUCTION

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.

ROLE PURPOSE:

Under the direct supervision of area office HR Manager, the post holder is expected to meet the safeguarding and Gender standard practices in the field area.

She/he will be responsible to 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.

This role demands roving support for project offices at different locations under the field office for both humanitarian and development programs.

 KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
SAFEGUARDING

  • Organizing and facilitate safeguarding (Child, Adult and Harassment) awareness for functions, project staff, partners, volunteers, beneficiaries and other representatives (consultants, construction team, rental derivers, venders) for both humanitarian response and development programs.
  • Facilitate/ coordinate safeguarding induction for new joiners with significant focus of humanitarian response team and conduct ongoing refreshment training for staff, partner’s focal points on child safeguarding and PSEA.
  •  Ensure all projects are risk assessed, develop mitigation strategies and recorded, monitor and update the tracker on regular basis in collaboration with program managers and focal points at field level.
  • Identify project level contact person for beneficiaries and ensure local safeguarding reporting procedure is updated and displayed in project implementation areas
  • Ensure safeguarding concept and reporting procedure is well understood by beneficiaries, staff, volunteers, partners and representatives and ensure safeguarding messages are displayed in local language at project level.
  • Conduct periodical assessment/survey on understanding and practice of safeguarding by beneficiaries, staff, volunteers, partners and representatives and the effectiveness of existing reporting procedures
  • 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 effective reporting procedure in collaboration with MEAL colligues.
  • 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, make sure the procedures are followed in collaboration with event organizer.
  • Compile and submit monthly report on safeguarding activities to safeguarding manager at country office
  • Support local partners on training, risk assessment and other technical support as identified by the partner
  • 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 and update periodically as relevant
  • Participate on the kick off meetings, other relevant workshops/trainings facilitated at field office and represent safeguarding appropriately this include regional PSEA network as available. Participate in proposal development on safeguarding aspects whenever demands.
  • Organize learning forum based on the identified risks, challenges and best practices
  • Attend in house safeguarding and other relevant online and face to face trainings, webinars, meetings, workshop and put other relevant training/mentoring/couching demand on development plan as appropriate.
  • Take additional assignment when the demand arises by supervisor including external representation

Gender

  • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Conduct gender capacity assessment and build staff capacity through trainings and providing job embedded support (coaching, mentoring, experience sharing etc.)
  • Assess, identify and address the gender biases affecting women, girls, boys and men differently to have safe and equitable participation and benefit in collaboration with project staff
  • develop agree on actions to address priority gaps on gender with the field managers, and sector thematic experts, support and follow up implementation
  • Coordinate and involve in facilitating advocacy and campaigning events organized to address gender inequalities and discriminatory perceptions, attitudes and practices
  • Identify, adopt community based behavioural change and positive gender norm development interventions and promote strategies/ approaches ensure men and boys engagement in child safeguarding
  • Assess periodically the progress towards gender integration and transformative result, communicate with project leads
  • Provide leadership in planning, implementation and monitoring of gender focused strategies and interventions
  • Lead the collection, analysis and utilization of information from a broad range of sources to ensure effective integration of gender concerns document best practices of the project in implementing gender and youth components for learning with partners and relevant staff
  • Facilitate establishment / strengthening of existing gender networks/plat forums for joint and sustained promotion of gender equality
  • Assist and involve in design and production of Gender SBCC manual (picture flip-books),
  • audio and video spot messages to be used for advocacy community dialogue/awareness session on behavioural change
  • Participate actively in designing and conducting gender specific and sectoral surveys, assessments, formative and researches to ensure consideration of gender dimensions, collection of sex and age disaggregated data, gender responsive data analysis and reporting
  • Support in organizing and facilitating and project level knowledge sharing events
  • Prepare monthly gender related activity report and share to area office manager and HR manager.

General:
• Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child protection, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.

In order to be successful you will bring/have:

  • Minimum of Bachelor Degree in social sciences and three years proven experience on child protection, education, social work. child safeguarding, gender and other related field.
  • 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 written and spoken English

Desirable

  • Experience on child safeguarding and PSEA
  • Experience on gender mainstreaming, GBV case management
  • Experience on humanitarian response programs
  • Skill on illustration design and publication
  • Good understanding on national laws and procedures
  • Speaking and writing of the local language

We offer a competitive package in the context of the sector. The duty station of the position holder will be in Bahir Dar. This role is offered on the basis of national terms and conditions only.

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 realize 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 environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.





Method of Application

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Closing Date : 20 October. 2021





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