Pakistan Job Openings

Save the Children

Technical Advisor - Child Protection & Child Rights Governance

Islamabad

FULL TIME

August 27, 2024

Posted date

27th August, 2024

Last date to apply

4th September, 2024

Country

Pakistan

Locations

Islamabad

Category

Child Protection

Type

Full Time

Position

Experience

8 years

CHILD SAFEGUARDING:
Level 2: the post holder will have access to personal data about children and/or young people as part of their work; the post holder will be working in a ‘regulated’ position; therefore a police check will be required (at ‘standard’ level in the UK or equivalent in other countries).

ROLE PURPOSE:
The Technical Advisor Child Protection (CP) & Child Rights Governance (CRG) will use their in-depth contextual understanding, technical expertise, and relationship building skills to define and deliver our strategic ambition for CP & CRG in Pakistan. The role will lead strategy development and the technical design and implementation of high quality programmes that deliver change for children in both emergency and development programming. The role supports national advocacy and influencing, while driving strategic partnerships for new business development. It supports the design and implementation of monitoring and evaluation systems to demonstrate impact, while sharing learning across our programmes, teams and partners. The role will work closely operations colleagues and with partners in the Pakistan CO, building their capacity and building ownership of local organisations. This role includes a focus on internal & external representation on priority issues including ending all forms of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of children in all settings, the strengthening of an effective and sustainable child protection system, empowering children to claim their political and civil rights, promoting civil society voice and space, public financial management and how it impacts public investment in children, monitoring and reporting on child rights and national development planning processes (e.g. on the SDGs).
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: Director Program, Quality, Evidence, and Impact (PQEI)
Staff reporting to this post: no direct reports but expected to provide coaching and mentoring support to operational and other technical colleagues and local partners
Budget Responsibilities: None
Role Dimensions: The role is expected to foster relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders including Save the Children members, the Country Office Programme Development & Quality team, advocacy colleagues, Regional Advisors, technical counterparts in other organisation, donors, academia etc. The role is also expected to engage with internal technical working groups and communities of practice.
Primary Technical area: Child Protection and Child Rights Governance
Primary Sub technical area: Prevention and Response to Violence against children, empowering children, monitoring and reporting on child rights.
Secondary Sub technical area: Child Protection Systems and promoting civil society voice

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY :
Technical Leadership:

Provide technical leadership for CP/CRG for the Country Office, and set the strategic approach in relation to the wider country strategy.

Build capacity of national staff and partners in key technical approaches related to CP/CRG.

Ensuring Programme Quality (Design & Implementation):

Work closely with new business development colleagues to identify and pursue funding opportunities that allow for both integration into broader programmes and standalone CP/CRG projects; engage with technical partners, donors and colleagues across Save the Children.

Lead the technical scoping, planning, and design and proposal writing during new programme development, and ensure that we design and deliver high quality integrated CP/CRG programmes for children, building on global best practice. Ensure that gender, disability and resilience considerations are reflected in our programme design and implementation.

Work with CO team across the board to ensure that a rights based approach is reflected in our programme design and implementation (in line with our child rights programming approach), with a strong focus on child participation.

Promote a Systems Strengthening approach as the overarching framework that supports working in collaboration and partnership with governments and local partners and working towards impact, scale and sustainability.

Provide oversight and guidance to the programme implementation teams to ensure that thematic programme components are technically sound, implementation methods are consistent with national and global strategies, acknowledged good practice (e.g. Save the Children Common Approaches); and are likely to achieve scale, as well as equitable and sustainable results.

Promote and monitor integrated programming in a way that increases overall impact of child protection programmes at the community level.

Work with Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) teams to carry out gender and power analysis, and conduct quality monitoring against international standards through participatory methodologies that promote gender equality and social justice (including child-friendly and gender sensitive/transformative methodologies).

Contribute towards the creation of an organisational learning culture that promotes the use of disaggregated data, evidence and analysis (including gender and power analysis) and understands its link to quality and accountable programming; Contribute to strengthening the use of equality-focused programme principles and good practice across themes and sectors.

Undertake field visits to project sites; work with implementation teams to understand impacts, operational challenges, and continuously identify opportunities for learning and improvement.

Contribute to organisational learning on child protection, ensuring that learning from our programmes is shared across the Country Office and our partners, as well as with colleagues in the wider regional and global child protection community in Save the Children. Contribute to strengthening the use of Child Protection competencies within training and learning initiatives in the sector.

Provide technical guidance and support for all Mental Health Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) activities.

Coordinate with regional and global MHPSS technical expert and partners in the provision and referral of services and ensure a close collaborative relationship with other MHPSS, Protection and Health actors.

Support Humanitarian colleagues (as needed) to develop emergency preparedness plans, and conduct sectoral assessments (including gender analysis and disability situation analysis using SC assessment processes and tools) and to design and deliver emergency response and recovery programmes. Ensure synergies between humanitarian Child Protection teams, data and programme design.

Networking & External Engagement:

In alignment with Country Office strategy and leadership, engage in strategic positioning with donors, partners and government in-country, and ensure that Save the Children is a partner of choice in Child Protection and Child Rights Governance.

Ensure that Save the Children is influencing and learning from others through national technical coordination and networking bodies such as child protection clusters and working groups.

Strengthen civil society engagement in national dialogues and policy processes to end violence against children through working closely with advocacy and child rights governance colleagues. Ensure that the diverse voices of children, girls and boys are equitably heard and represented in our child protection work.

Represent the program to National and Local government representatives, donors, partner agencies, etc. as required.

Ensure the quality, clarity and consistency of technical components of internal and external reports (e.g. programme reports, sit-reps, internal updates), working closely with awards, and programme implementation and communications colleagues as needed.

Leverage and liaise with technical colleagues from across Save the Children, including technical working groups and centres of excellence, ensuring that learning from the Country Office is shared with others and global lessons brought back.

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)
Accountability:

holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
holds their team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in accordance with the context, 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 professional development and encourages their team to do the same
widely shares Save the Children’s vision, and engages and motivates others
future orientated, thinks strategically and on a national and global scale.

Collaboration:

builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, technical advisors and working groups, 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

The post holder must commit to work in an international agency that promotes diversity, equity and inclusion and fights racism, gender inequality and discrimination in all forms; and to model positive behaviours that demonstrate a commitment to equality and respect to all colleagues, partners and communities.

QUALIFICATIONS

Masters degree in Social Work, Child Protection or related field, or equivalent experience
Social Work, Child Protection, Child Welfare, MHPSS or related qualification

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Total expereince of 8 years with at least 5 years’ experience of leading the design and implementation of humanitarian and development programmes in Child Protection and Child Rights Governance.
Understanding of the Child Protection sector in Pakistan.
Familiar with child protection systems, social work with children and families, case management, positive parenting, community level child protection and integration of child protection with education and other sectors.
Familiar with some or all of the following tools: political economy analyses, gender analyses, child rights situation analyses, and participatory research methodologies. Also familiar with human rights led approaches to programming (and particularly child rights programming approaches). As well as one or all of the Child Rights and Business Principles or ‘doing development differently’.
Track record in successful business development/fundraising such as OAK Foundation, Optimus, SIDA, DANIDA, NORAD, USAID, UN, USAID/Do S, UK-FCDO, Irish Aid, Global Affairs Canada, EU Instrument contributing to Stability & Peace, EU EIDHR, EU CSO, Ford Foundation, Open Society Institute.
Demonstrated program design, monitoring and evaluation skills, including designing pathways to sustainable impact at scale.
Experience of strategy development and planning.
Experience of context, capacity and policy analysis, and influencing and advocacy at regional/international level in order to hold duty bearers to account to realise children’s rights.
Skilled at networking, representation and partnership development in order promote learning, strengthen civil society and mobilise resources.
Able to generate and use data and evidence to innovate, deliver, learn and share what works and what doesn’t work for children.
Experience of promoting quality and impact through at least one cross-cutting area: gender equality and inclusion, adaptive and safer programming; child rights; disability; migration and displacement.
Experience of supporting humanitarian preparedness, response and recovery.
Significant experience in training, capacity building, and mentoring.
Fluent in English and high level of English writing skills.

KEY COMPETENCIES
Technical competencies:

Promotes optimum levels of child development
Works to strengthen the components and linkages within the child protection system
Prevents violence abuse exploitation and neglect of children
Responds effectively and appropriately to violence, abuse, exploitation and neglect of children

Generic Competencies

Being the Voice of Children: Promotes evidence-based policy and public engagement that includes the voices of children and their communities
Advancing Equality & Inclusion: Displays a commitment to ensuring everything we do considers the most deprived and marginalised children
Building & Strengthening Partnerships: Promotes working with diverse partners as critical to delivery
Child Rights: Promotes the rights of children in own work and in work with colleagues and peers

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.

Save the Children holds its Safeguarding principles and policies with high importance and commits to rigorous procedures to ensure all our personnel and programs are safe, particularly for children. All candidates will, therefore, be subject to strict background checks. Qualified candidates from minorities, indigenous groups, women and people with disabilities from local level are highly encouraged to apply.

Interviews will be conducted on rolling bases and only short-listed candidates will be called for the interview.

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