Program Officer – Child Protection – Beledweyne, Somalia

JOB TITLE: Program Officer-Child Protection

TEAM/PROGRAMME:  CP/CRG

LOCATION:  Beledweyne

GRADE: 4                

TYPE OF CONTRACT:  National

CHILD SAFEGUARDING: Level 3 – the role holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a month or less) because they work in country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

ROLE PURPOSE: The child protection Programme officer’s role will be supporting the implementation of the ECHO EIE project aimed to respond to acute needs in education and child protection stemming from the protracted crisis in Federal Somalia.

He/she will work closely with the ECHO project teams and CP/CRG Coordinator so that the project objectives are met and that the target beneficiaries benefit the most from the project. This should be done according to the guidelines of Save the Children International which aim to strengthen Adolescents as key social players and human beings. The Programme officer will sometimes travel to Baidoa for project implementation.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: CP/CRG Coordinator

Dimensions: Save the Children operates across all zones in Somalia and currently has three main area offices and additional 11 field offices. Programmatically Somalia is a large Country Office with more than $110million annual budget and staff over 650 staff.

Staff directly reporting to this post:  None.

Program Implementation and Monitoring and Evaluation

• Implement project activities and producing timely reports for internal use on the status of on-going programming.
• Support the CP/RCG Coordinator conduct trainings for community structures and as well as individual coaching and on-the-job training.
• Coordinating with Child Protection Staff and education to ensure quality based CP/CRG interventions.
• Work with partners to ensure that adequate policies and procedures are in place, including policies on child safeguarding.
• Monitoring and reporting budget/expenditures based on the work plan; and analysing Budget-versus-Actual (BVA) reports to assess and report any discrepancies
• Working with the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) focal point
• Conducting and/or assisting project launching session with relevant stakeholders
• Liaising with Support Departments on a regular basis (including Finance, Logistics, and Administration) to ensure effective and efficient project delivery.

·         Contributing to advocacy work.

·         Promoting accountability and transparency with all the implementing activities.

·         Complying with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child protection, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)

Accountability:

·         Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values

·         Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved

·         Creates a managerial environment to lead, enable and maintain our culture of child safeguarding

Ambition:

·         Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same

·         Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale

Collaboration:

·         Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to; builds and maintains effective relationships with colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters

·         Values diversity and different people’s perspectives, able to work cross-culturally.

·         Ability to take direction.

·         Ability to work in a team environment.

·         Having Communication Skills

Creativity:

·         Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions

·         Cuts away bureaucracy and encourages an entrepreneurial approach

Integrity:

·         Honest, encourages openness and transparency, builds trust and confidence

·         Displays consistent excellent judgement