Senior Child Protection Technical Advisor (TE Protection) - El Salvador

Senior Child Protection Technical Advisor (TE Protection)

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 El Salvador.  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 El Salvador, 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.   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.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

        A.     Technical Leadership:

1. Provide technical leadership for Child Protection for the Country Office, and set the strategic approach in relation to the wider country strategy
2. Build capacity of national staff and partners in key technical approaches related to Child Protection.  

       B.      Ensuring Programme Quality (Design & Implementation):

1.  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 
2. Lead the technical scoping, planning, design and  write proposal writing 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.
3.  Ensure that the child protection approach is reflected in the Country Strategic Plan
4. Maintain updated information on the situation of children in the country, through the updating of current situation analysis.
5. Write project reports, particularly in the area of child protection.
6. 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
7.  Promote a Child Protection 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.
8. 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.
9. Promote and monitor integrated programming in a way that increases overall impact of child protection programmes at the community level.
10.   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);. 
11. 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.
12. Undertake field visits to project sites; work with implementation teams to understand impacts, operational challenges, and continuously identify opportunities for learning and improvement.
13. 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. 
14. 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
15. Monitor trends in order to ensure early action; and lead technical design and implementation and technical coordination of humanitarian responses. 

Networking & External Engagement:

1. 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.  
2. 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.
3. 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.
4.  Represent the program to National and Local government representatives, donors, partner agencies, etc. as required. 
5. 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.
6. 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. 

QUALIFICATIONS

• Master’s degree in social sciences, Education, Social Work, Child Protection or related field, or equivalent experience. Desirable
• Bachelor of Laws, bachelor´s in Social Work, Bachelor in Sociology, bachelor’s in education.

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 El Salvador
• 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.
• Experience of strategy development and planning
• Skilled at networking, representation and partnership development in order promote learning, strengthen civil society and mobilise resources.
• Significant experience in training, capacity building, and mentoring
• Fluent in English and high level of English writing skills.

APLICATION INFORMATION

Please apply:

1.      Sending a cover letter. Please try to answer these questions.

a.       Why do you want to work at Save the Children?

b.       Why do you think we should choose you for this position?

2.      Sending your up-to-date CV as a single document.

3.      Please also include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations. 

You can apply until JULY 30^TH. You can send your documents to THE LINK OF THIS POST.

Doubts or queries write to: reclutamientoscisv@savethechildren.org

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. 

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