Child Safeguarding Statement for Adverts

Save the Children is committed to ensuring that all our personnel and programmes are absolutely safe for children. We undertake rigorous procedures to ensure that only people suitable to work with children are allowed to join our organisation and all candidates will be therefore be subject to this scrutiny.

CS positioning statement:

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.

TITLE: Child Protection Specialist

TEAM/PROGRAMME:
Programme Operations

LOCATION: Kunming

GRADE: 4

CONTRACT TYPE: National only

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 country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

ROLE PURPOSE:

This position primarily supports the development of high quality and innovative protection programs under the Country Strategy Planning(CSP), including child protection system strengthening, child-cetnered protectin service development, Safe online, MHPSS, and Safe Family.

Meanwhile, this position will also work closely with the Head of the Protection to support the implementation of safe online project, which is an important part of the strategic planning for protection program.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Head of Child Protection

Staff reporting to this post: No

Budget Responsibilities:Yes, According to SOD

Role Dimensions:

Staff directly interacting with this post: Protection program staff, health and education program staff; communication team; NBD team, MEAL team, and wider SC community

External interacting with this post: Universities and research Institutions, International and domestic NGOs, local civil affairs bureaus, and judicial department in project areas.

Travel:

Frequent (7-15 days per month)

Challenging working environment when travelling to the project sites.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

1. Strategic Implementing and Planning

• Support the Head of Protection to develop and implement strategy for protection theme following the Country Strategy Planning (CSP) cycle.
• According to the CSP, coordinating with all protection team members to ensure the achievement of goals and objectives while tracking progress against milestones.

2. Programme Development

• Contribute to the design of cost effective, innovative and high quality protection project proposals working closely with the Head of Protection, project managers and NBD team.
• Initiate and maintain partnership and communications with the relevant external partners to leverage resources, communicate success, and bring about policy advocacy for the program.
• Assisting the award and NBD team as needed with external representation and donor communications.

3. Programme Implementation:

• Work as the budget holder for the safe online project and hold accountable responsibility to project implementation KPIs.

• Lead the development and implementation of annual, quarterly, monthly, and weekly implementation plans (DIP, procurement plan, recruitment plan, MEAL plan, budget phasing, etc), equivalent to PRIME system management and timely review, tracking the activity progress for projects.

• Responsible for the project implementation in the project sites.

• Manage resources to meet project objectives.

• Support the Head of the Protection to maintain the networking, coordination, and management of stakeholders in safe online project at provincial and national level.

• Identify and manage risks, challenges, constrains and opportunities in national and regional level, including security issues.

• Produce high quality donor narrative and financial reports and ensure the coherence between financial and narrative donor reports.

• Plan project closure and transition.

4. Partnership Management:

• Support partners to develop capacity-strengthening plans and provide training and monitoring accordingly.

• Managing sub-awards including draw up a contract/memorandum of understanding, kick-off meeting with partner, monitor risk and financial and operational compliance, verify partner reports through monitoring visits to partners in the field and conduct contract close-out.

5. Technical Assistance and Program Quality

• Work with the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) team to provide support on project monitoring, indicator development and monitoring tools development for safe online project.
• Identify program innovation areas and support strategically important projects to experiment with the innovation (such as new intervention models), generate effective tools and experiences for application and future replication.
• Co-lead the development and alignment of key technical and training materials of protection programs.
• Apply new media, online learning and new technique in delivering capacity building initiatives.

6. Knowledge Management and Learning

• Initiate and coordinate capacity building activities for key protection program staff, including identifying internal and external training opportunities, and organizing peer learning groups and seminars.
• Document, share and present the program overall progress, strategies, learning and good practices on internal and external platforms (including, but not limited to, internal and external annual reports)
• Strengthen technical expertise by keeping up to date on the global debate, and incorporating learning from key research initiatives and regional/global trends to activities and program development.

7. Communication and Campaign

• Support the communication team for public awareness raising and campaign work.
• Support the communication team to develop information, education, and communication materials on protection.

8. Others

• An understanding of and commitment to, the aims of SC as an organization working for social change and active in the promotion of the rights of the child.
• Perform such other tasks and responsibilities as may be required from time to time in order to ensure the smooth running of the team and Save the Children China Programme.

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 degree in project management and development, social work, law, social studies & governance  or equivalent fields.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• 2 - 3 years working experiences that related to child protection, law, social work, and preferable at least 2 years’ experience in program implementation and management.
• Knowledge of project management cycle and experience in program strategy development, project design and proposal development.
• Familiar with the child protection situation in China, such as rural left-behind children, migrant children and children living in difficulties, and online protection etc.
• Strong strategic thinking and analytical skills to interpret and present the program strategy, approaches and results.
• Fluent oral and written communication skills in English and Mandarin.
• Self-motivate and self-driven and taking initiatives, being innovative.
• Strong team player with competent inter-personal, negotiation and liaison skills. Ability to share information and coordinate efforts within different stakeholders.
• Willingness and capability to comply with all relevant Save the Children policies and procedures with respect to health and safety, security, equal opportunities and other relevant policies, including the Child Safeguarding Policy.
• Willingness to travel to project fields and work in difficult environments according to travel requirements.

Desirable

• Experiences working with government and academics
• Strategic thinking and planning skills
• Strong communication and negotiation skills

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.

If you are interested in this position, please read the Child Safeguarding first, then would you please click below link to fill in your job application form in SCI Recruitment System before 2025-4-4 If you have any questions about the job application, please contact us by email: beijingoffice.china@savethechildren.org

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