Lebanon: Child Protection Programme Manager
Country: Lebanon
Closing date: 17 Sep 2013
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Role:
The Child Protection Programme Manager will be responsible for ensuring that child protection quality programmes are implemented in the Zahle area of Lebanon. The Child Protection Programme manager is expected to lead on sectorial needs assessments and in child protection programmes implementation including recruitment, programmes monitoring, financial and procurement follow up in coordination with the relevant departments. He/she will also be expected to mentor and/or capacity build existing Child Protection country programme staff in the Zahle area. The role will be based in Zahle and for 6 months. Key areas of accountability:
Lead child protection assessments in Zahle as required, in coordination with the Child Protection Working Group for the South and/or other external sector agencies, ensuring assessment findings a re documented and that all assessments include a specific, disaggregated analysis of children’s needs.
With support from the lead Child Protection Advisor and/or other senior programme staff, lead the implementation of child protection programmes as appropriate, including:
* Programme activities supporting the psychosocial (physical, social, emotional) wellbeing of children and their families, and skills building on positive parenting, in coordination with health and education sectors.
* Programme activities for at risk adolescents and youth in cooperation with other sectors, particularly health and livelihoods.
* Lead community mobilization efforts, including the setup of child protection committees and adolescent engagement activities, in cooperation with other sectors.
* Set up of outreach and referral mechanisms for vulnerable families to access basic services, in cooperation with other sectors.
* Strengthen the child prot ection case management activities and capacity of the team.
* Feed into the work of the national Child Protection Working Group on the development of case management systems, tools related to Separated and Unaccompanied Children and Capacity building on Psychosocial Support.
* Ensure that child protection interventions are informed by and integrated with other core sectors of education, health, nutrition, food security and livelihoods.
* With support from the lead Child Protection Advisor and/or other senior programme staff, support fundraising for child protection, including contributing to the development of high quality concept notes and proposals.
* With support from the lead Child Protection Advisor and/or other senior programme staff, with the HR team, identify technical staffing needs for emergency programmes, and support rapid recruitment, induction and training of new staff, including recruitment of permanent child protection p rogramme manager for the North.
* With support from the lead Child Protection Advisor and/or other senior programme staff, identify programme supplies needs and coordinate with the logistics team to put in place a sensible phased procurement plan.
* With support from the Monitoring & Evaluation team put in place an M & E plan for the child protection project, ensuring this links to reporting requirements, and capacity build child protection field staff in carrying out the work. Where possible, use the M&E framework to build an evidence-base for child protection programming interventions.
* With support from the Accountability lead put in place accountability activities for your project, ensuring that feedback from children and their families is considered in project design.
* Prepare and oversee project implementation to ensure timely delivery of project activities (for example, monitoring against logframes, individual performance management workplans).
* With support from the lead Child Protection Advisor and/or other senior programme staff, prepare timely programme and donor reports on project activities in compliance with internal SC requirements and any relevant external donor requirements.
* Ensure that the minimum standards of humanitarian relief are maintained in accordance with the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Settings, the Sphere Charter and Red Cross Code of Conduct.
Capacity Building:
* Identify learning and training opportunities for project staff and work as a mentor and role model for less experienced staff.
Representation & Advocacy & Organisational Learning:
* Ensure that Save the Children's work is coordinated with efforts of other agencies and Government, and support Interagency Coordination forums including the Child Protection Working Group, advocating for the specific needs of children. This may involve supporting the coordination of working groups and sub-working groups.
* Support coordination with other sectors and clusters on program design and messaging to ensure appropriate response is agreed and implement throughout the response.
* With support from the Lead Child Protection Advisor and/or other senior programme staff, assist in advocacy activities that target decision-makers in-country.
* In collaboration with the Child Protection team, feed in learning, experiences and evidence to relevant global advocacy objectives.
* Contribute to communications and media work as required.
General:
* Deliver high quality results in line with the terms of reference agreed in advance – do this in a way which maintains the reputation of the Humanitarian Department.
* Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child protection, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opport unities and other relevant policies and procedures.
* Help be responsible for the security of all staff. Ensure that the security, health and well being of staff are ensured and staff management and other processes and policies and systems reflect SC UK's principles of equity and fairness.
* Perform such other responsibilities as agreed with your line management.
Qualifications and Experience:
* Minimum of 2 years’ experience of working internationally in humanitarian child protection programmes.
* Education to BSc/BA/BEng level in Social Work, Human rights Law, International Relations, Development Studies r or equivalent field experience.
* Experience in designing, managing, monitoring and evaluating child protection programmes in emergency, transition and development contexts.
* Ability to identify the main gaps in child protection in the given context to inform a h olistic response for children.
* Knowledge of established inter-agency standards and guidelines in child protection, such as the Inter-agency Guidelines on Separated and Unaccompanied Children, the Paris Principles, MRM, SC Child Friendly Spaces Handbook, and the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Settings.
* Experience in capacity building and in strengthening various duty bearers understanding of and response to child protection.
* Experience of and commitment to working through systems of community participation and accountability.
* Knowledge of monitoring and evaluation within child protection.
* Experience of training and capacity building staff on child protection issues.
* Knowledge of institutional donors and experience of developing proposals.
* Ability to write clear and well-argued assessment and project reports.
* Excellent communication skills.
* Strong influencing skills.
* Politic ally and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and diplomacy.
* A high level of written and spoken English.
* The capacity and willingness to be extremely flexible and accommodating in difficult and sometimes insecure working circumstances.
* Commitment to and understanding of child rights, the aims and principles of SC UK, and humanitarian standards such as the Sphere Charter and the Code of Conduct. In particular, a good understanding of the SC UK mandate and child focus and an ability to ensure this continues to underpin our support.
Desirable:
* Language skills in French, and/or Arabic.
* Good working knowledge of the Inter-Agency Child Protection Information Management System.
* Experience or knowledge of working and living in relevant regions/contexts.
* Knowledge of interagency working.
We need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
Please apply in English using your CV and covering letter as a single document, including your salary expectations for this role.
How to apply:
Please apply with a covering letter and up-to-date CV to: jobs.65828.3830@savethechildrenint.aplitrak.com
