Somalia: National Child Safeguarding Coordinator

TITLE: National Child Safeguarding Coordinator

TEAM/PROGRAM: Human Resources

LOCATION:Somalia/land

GRADE: 4

CONTRACT LENGTH:12 months

CHILD SAFEGUARDING:

Level 3: the role holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently(e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work in country programs; or are visiting country programs; ore because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff. ROLE PURPOSE:

The Child Safeguarding Coordinator will take a lead in driving our endeavours in this focussed area of work across the country office. The Coordinator will combine elements of capacity building and monitoring whilst enforcing compliance and accountability, management and investigation as well as aspects of advocacy at the National level. The post holder will also be expected to provide significant mentoring and capacity-building to staff and partners. The role holder will work in conjunction with the Country Senior Leadership Team and Child safeguarding focal persons located across the Somalia/land country office

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to:HR Director

Staff directly reporting to this post:-None

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY :

Child Safeguarding Leader and Champion across the country office

· Identify potential risks to children in all the project activities including workshops and events, plan mitigating measures and assign staff to be responsible for the implementation.

· Undertake clear, strong advocacy in line with the Child Safeguarding Policy at National levels.

· Deliver high quality, accessible and reliable support, guidance and capacity to emergency/humanitarian response and programs team

· Establish Country child safeguarding networks to champion local implementation

· Ensure that a mapping of service providers for children is completed in Save the Children’s operational areas and local procedures are developed/up to date

· Coach and support country Focal Points in order to improve Child Safeguarding practice.

Country roll-out and maintenance of training programmes

· Deliver a suite of mandatory core training workshops as to enable staff with key responsibilities to undertake their roles and mainstream safeguarding functions

· Deliver on-going refresher training and CSG inductions as appropriate

· Review and strengthen Child Safeguarding systems within the country office, planning and delivering training programs accordingly.

· Deploy resources of the Keeping Children Safe strategically to ensure that the country office, its partners and all representatives maintain Save the Children safeguarding standards.

Capacity Building

· Develop capacity building plan for staff and partners and provide on-going mentoring and support

· Serve as child safeguarding lead focal point for the field office and lead on establishment of strong child safeguarding procedures and risk assessment in all programme activities in accordance with the national strategies developed

· Build the capacity of the CSG Focal points to be deliver CSG trainings, manage & undertake investigation

· Build the capacity of the CSG focal persons especially in receiving and recording reports

· Strengthen the capacity of Focal points in delivering CSG Inductions

Child Safeguarding Standards are applied throughout the country programme

· Coordinate with the Senior Leadership Team and monitor the overall implementation of the Child safeguarding policy in the country programme.

· Conduct a review of Child Safeguarding Policy implementation throughout the country programme and implement the Child Safeguarding Policy Compliance Action Plan

· Ensure that the safeguarding mechanisms are in place and are subject to continuous monitoring/review.

· Oversee and enforce follow-up in order to ensure maximum levels of compliance and competence.

· Identify and utilise opportunities to integrate safeguarding approaches into all aspects of our work

· Apply critical analysis to ensure that we live up to our commitment to making Save the Children safe for children by ensuring child safeguarding concerns are reported effectively in line with the policy, acting as the country referral point

· Ensure that concerns are followed up safely, effectively and efficiently and to the required standards.

· Provide guidance for the National Child safeguarding Committee. Where appropriate, personally undertaking Child Safeguarding investigations, sometimes in challenging environments and to rigorous timescales and standards.

· Collaborating with key teams and processes within the country office to ensure that Child Safeguarding is integrated into all systems

Safe programming and Child Safeguarding Practice promoted across the Country and sectors

· Ensure that all programming is designed, implemented and monitored through a Child Safeguarding lens

· Support staff to take proactive steps to ensure that all programming activity identifies the potential risks and works to eliminate and mitigate those risks.

· Ensure that the tools and knowledge is made available to managers and that they know how to access support and guidance

· Support staff to identify potential risks to children in all project activities including workshops and events, plan mitigating measures and assign staff to be responsible for the implementation.

· Make appropriate use of external opportunities to develop the Child Safeguarding Policy and practice them across the country office, drawing on these experiences to inform and refresh internal policy to ensure that country office maintains its position and standard.

· Act as an ambassador for Child Safeguarding at all times

· Role model high levels of professional safeguarding behaviour and maintain the standards required by the Child Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct

COMPETENCIES AND BEHAVIOURS

Leading and Inspiring Others (Accomplished)

· Communicates our vision, values and strategy and encourages others to share them

· Influences others positively to achieve team goals

· Recognises and celebrates the contribution and success of individuals and the team

· Takes a flexible and positive leadership style, adapting to the situation or needs of the team

· Demonstrates humility in leadership of others

· Values, and articulates a compelling vision to inspire others to achieve our goals for children.

Innovating and Adapting (Accomplished)

· Openly talks about doing things differently, pushing the boundaries and ways of working to drive improvements

· Demonstrates flexibility in following processes and procedures, while remaining true to the organisation’s values

· Anticipates change and adapts their (and team’s) plans and priorities accordingly

· Builds the confidence of others in their own ability to develop new ideas and embrace change

· Generates learning for the organisation and evidence for the impact and quality of our work

Applying Technical & Professional Expertise (Accomplished)

· Makes decisions based on professional expertise and experience without deferring unnecessarily to others

· Shares knowledge and best practice on technical solutions so that others can make best use of that expertise

· Actively seeks new ways to develop the application of technical and professional standards within the team

Communicating with Impact (Accomplished)

· Conveys complex issues with clarity, brevity and confidence

· Promotes dialogue with key stakeholders through active listening and effective questioning

· Adapts communication style to maximise support and engagement

· Advises others on different approaches to influence key stakeholders

· Seeks out new methodologies for communication to engage new audiences

Networking (Accomplished)

· Builds trust with contacts through openness and honesty

· Participates effectively in sensitive, complex and/or high impact relationships and networks

· Builds strong relationships with a broad range of stakeholders

· Spots opportunities to bring together partnerships/ working alliances that have not been used before

Demonstrates SCI Values: Accountability, Ambition, Collaboration, Creativity, and Integrity. QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Essential

· Experience in child protection/child safeguarding practice in humanitarian setting

· Leadership experience within an INGO or similar other organisation working with vulnerable communities and children or with similar experience within Save the Children.

· Experience of managing as well as undertaking complex child protection/safeguarding investigations and or disciplinary investigations

· Multi-disciplinary experience of working successfully with senior managers in other parts of own/partner’s organisation to deliver major operational change with a track record of delivering results to high standards

· Experience of a lead role in national advocacy or policy work either in the field of Child Protection/Safeguarding or Human Resource to achieve policy change

· Experience of building personal internal and external networks.

· Experience of planning and undertaking training programmes/workshops in child protection/safeguarding at a range of levels (e.g. field workers, managers, senior managers and decision makers)

· Excellent verbal communication and report writing skills in English and Somali language

· Excellent presentation skills

· Demonstrable commitment to Children’s Rights

· Ability to manage and maximise the benefits of cultural diversity

· Self-sufficient, proactive self-motivating work styles

· Ability to prioritise and deal with competing demands

· Ability to provide long distance support and establish supportive relationships and networks

· Ability to deliver results against demanding timetables and in the face of competing demands

· Ability to travel and work within challenging environments

· Awareness of own strengths and weaknesses and evidence of commitment to self-managed personal development

Desirable

· Evidence of professional expertise, personal development and learning in the field of child care

· Experience of working within hostile and challenging environments

· Experience of work related travel in challenging environments Additional job responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities set out above are not exhaustive and the post holder may be required to carry out additional duties from time to time which are reasonable in relation to their level of skills and experience.

Interested candidates are required to submit a CV and mandatory cover letter quoting the Job Title and Vacancy Announcement No. SCI/SOM/32/15 on the subject line.The file name of the CV and attachments must be the applicants name and sent to Somalia.vacancies@savethechildren.org. For more information please visit www.somaliangoconsortium.org

Applications close on 17^th November 2015.