NGO JOBS

Save the Children is the world’s leading independent organisation for children. We work in 120 countries. We save children’s lives; we fight for their rights; we help them fulfill their potential.

We work together, with our partners, to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.

We have over two million supporters worldwide and raised 1.6 billion dollars last year to reach more children than ever before, through programmes in health, nutrition, education, protection and child rights, also in times of humanitarian crises.

There are 30 national Save the Children organisations around the world. By the end of 2012 all our international programmes will be delivered through a merged operation with 14 000 staff, managed through seven regional hubs and reporting to a relatively small, central office. We’re changing to become more efficient, mor e aligned, a better partner, a stronger advocate, a magnet for world-class people and relevant for the 21st century

The role
Save the Children is a leading international non-governmental organization, working with and for children to realize their rights. Save the Children has worked in Sierra Leone continuously since 1999, to promote and protect the rights of all children. Currently, Save the Children in Sierra Leone is working in four thematic areas: Child Protection, Education, Newborn and Child Survival (Health) and Child Rights Governance.

Child Rights Governance (CRG) is one of the thematic program areas included in Save the Children’s Global Strategy 2010-15 and the Sierra Leone country strategic plan for 2011-14. CRG work focuses on creating and/or strengthening the governance infrastructure that needs to be in place to effectively make children’s rights a reality.

Within Save the Children, CRG programmes have three key focus areas:
1) Strengthening the National Child Rights Infrastructure. This is also known as the General Measures of Implementation (GMI), which are the concrete steps set out by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child for the state to take in order to establish the systems and mechanisms that are necessary to ensure that all rights in the Convention on the Rights of the Child are realized for all children.
2) Key governance issues that are crucial for child rights outcomes. These include work on children’s citizenship, work on political rights and freedoms of children, and work on economic governance focusing on accountability and transparency in public income and expenditure for child rights, economic justice and redistribution including tax advocacy and social protection.
3) Engagement with actors such as the private sector, media, state, civil society and children themselves to strengthen the quality of interaction between these actors to improve child outcomes.

When applying please include details of your current salary in covering letter
We need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
Please note that the closing date for applications is 23 October 2012
How to apply: Please apply with a covering letter and up-to-date CV to the link provided