Save the Children Nigeria Senior Child Protection Technical Advisor Jobs
Save the Children Nigeria Senior Child Protection Technical Advisor Jobs
Role Purpose The Senior Child Protection Technical Advisor will use their in-depth contextual understanding, technical expertise, and relationship building skills to define and deliver our strategic ambition for Child Protection in Nigeria.
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 Nigeria, building their capacity and building ownership and agency of local organisations.
This role includes a focus on external representation on priority issues including ending all forms of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of children in all settings, and the strengthening of an effective and sustainable child protection system.
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.
Key Areas of Accountability
Technical Leadership:
Provide technical leadership for Child Protection 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 Child Protection.
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 child protection projects; engage with technical partners, donors and colleagues across Save the Children
Lead the technical scoping, planning, and design and proposal writing for child protection during new programme development, and ensure that we design and deliver high quality integrated child protection 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 Child Rights Governance colleagues 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
Support Humanitarian colleagues 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.
Monitor trends in order to ensure early action; and lead technical design and implementation and technical coordination of humanitarian responses.
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.
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, programme implementation and communications colleagues as needed.
Behaviours (Values in Practice)
Accountability:
Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the
Children values
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
Creativity:
Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
Willing to take disciplined risks.
Integrity:
Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity
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.
Qualifications
Master's degree in Social Work, Child Protection or related field, or equivalent experience
Social Work, Child Protection, Child Welfare or related qualification
Experience and Skills
At least 5 years’ experience of leading the design and implementation of humanitarian and development programmes in Child Protection
Understanding of the Child Protection sector in Nigeria
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. Track record in successful business development / fundraising.
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
How to Apply
For more information and job application details, see; Save the Children Nigeria Senior Child Protection Technical Advisor Jobs
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