JOB TITLE: Senior Child Protection and Migration Advisor

TEAM/PROGRAMME: Program Quality and Development (PDQ)

LOCATION: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

GRADE: TBD (Competitive Package)

TYPE OF CONTRACT: Ethiopian national

Child Safeguarding:

Level 2: 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; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

ROLE PURPOSE:

The Senior CP and Migration and Migration Advisor will use her/his in-depth contextual understanding, technical expertise, and relationship building skills to define and deliver our strategic ambition for CP and Migration in Ethiopia. The role will lead 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; producing and utilizing high quality and well-articulated project evidence and research work for learning, for advocacy and for the continued development of the CP AND MIGRATION and migration program portfolio; while sharing learning across our programmes, teams and partners. The role will work closely with programme operations colleagues and with partners in Ethiopia, building their capacity and building ownership and agency of local organizations. The Advisor is also responsible for developing strong external relations government and other strategic partners; and represent Save the Children Ethiopia Country office by taking active part in relevant networks, meetings and forums in Ethiopia. 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, on areas of protection of children in migration and displacement and the strengthening of an effective and sustainable CP and Migration system in all settings. 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.

SCOPE OF ROLE

Reports to: Thematic Director of CP and Migration and Migration

Staff directly reporting to this post: no direct reports but expected to provide coaching and mentoring support to operational and other technical advisors and local partners

Budget Responsibilities: None

Dimensions: The role is expected to foster relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders including Save the Children members, the Country Office Programme Development & Quality and programme operations team, advocacy colleagues, Regional Advisors, technical counterparts in other organization, donors, academia etc. The role is also expected to engage with internal technical working groups and communities of practice.

Context: Development and Humanitarian

Scope: The role be based at the country office and will demand frequent travels to the field. Save the Children works in all regions in Ethiopia, and Addis Ababa and Diredawa City Administrations. We work in humanitarian and development contexts to meet needs of children, and 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 travel to the field and vary working hours accordingly.

Primary Technical area: CP and Migration

Primary Sub technical area: CP and Migration Systems (including for protection of children in migration and displacement)

Secondary Sub technical areas: Prevention and Response to Violence against children

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY

The key areas of accountability apply to the Save the Children’s work in emergencies and in development settings.

Technical Leadership, Policy Advocacy and Engagement

• Proactive technical engagement for the CP and Migration (CP AND MIGRATION) and migration strategy development, and in setting the strategic approach in relation to the wider country strategy
• Build capacity of national staff and partners in key technical approaches related to CP and Migration and migration
• Leading the development of strategic plans and the portfolio of projects, research and initiatives required for achievement of strategic objectives and outcomes.
• Document and communicate programme achievements against agreed strategic objectives and milestones for a wide range of internal and external audiences. Ensure the key strategic documents related to CP and migration are understood and internalized by those who are either contributing to the evidence base or responsible for representation of organizational objectives at district, regional or national level.
• Serve as focal point for CP and migration program of the country office, for coordination with relevant stakeholders including clusters and national taskforces; regular liaison and communication with relevant staff at the Regional Office, Save the Children members; and the CP and Migration Global Initiative.
• Provide technical support to the development, implementation and evaluation of Save the Children’s evidence-based advocacy strategies related to CP and migration to ensure that the voices of children guide advocacy and policy changes and related activities; jointly plan and implement advocacy/policy engagement activities
• Develop policy papers and advocacy asks (or related material) based on research evidence, technical learning from projects, policy gaps’ analysis, and the development of good practices.
• Develop and strengthen strategic relations, bilaterally and in network, with key influencing stakeholders in the sector, particularly government departments, UN agencies and private and institutional donors in country.
• Identify key influencing moments and Engage in CP and migration related technical discussions and represent the Organization in technical meetings and roundtables to ensure that children’s specific needs and vulnerabilities are included.
• Planning for the development and/or roll out of the policy and related action plans.

Ensuring Programme Quality (Design & Implementation):

• Work closely with programme development colleagues to identify and pursue funding opportunities that allow for both integrations into broader programmes and standalone CP and Migration projects; engage with technical partners, donors and colleagues across Save the Children
• Lead the technical scoping, planning, and design and proposal writing during new programme development, and ensure that we design and deliver high quality integrated CP and Migration programmes for children, building on global best practice. Ensure that gender, disability, and resilience considerations are reflected in our programme design and implementation.
• 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
• Promote a CP 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.
• 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.
• Promote and monitor integrated programming in a way that increases overall impact of CP and migration programmes at the community level.
• 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
• Contribute towards the creation of an organizational 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.
• Ensure that each proposal and annual implementation plan contains a (funded) research and policy dimension to it that directly feeds into the agreed Thematic Advocacy Plan and lead the implementation of research necessary for evidence based advocacy.
• As necessary, accompany and facilitate donor visits and provide relevant background materials in collaboration with the program operations team.
• Identify technical support requirements, inclusive of field visits, as and when necessary, and ensure adequate support is provided and recommendations are followed up.
• Undertake field visits to project sites; work with implementation teams to understand impacts, operational challenges, and continuously identify opportunities for learning and improvement.
• Contribute to organizational learning on CP and migration programming, 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 CP and Migration community in Save the Children.
• Contribute to strengthening the use of CP and Migration competencies within training and learning initiatives in the sector.
• Support Humanitarian colleagues (as needed) to develop emergency preparedness plans, and conduct sectoral assessments (including gender analysis, displacement and disability situation analysis using SC assessment processes and tools) and to design and deliver emergency response and recovery programmes. Ensure synergies between humanitarian CP and Migration teams, data and programme design.
• Support and closely work with humanitarian colleagues (as needed) to monitor trends in order to ensure early action; and lead technical design and implementation and technical coordination of humanitarian CP responses

Networking & External Engagement:

• 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 CP and Migration.
• Ensure that Save the Children is influencing and learning from others through national technical coordination and networking bodies such as CP and Migration clusters and working groups.
• Strengthen civil society engagement in national dialogues and policy processes to end violence against children (including protection of children in migration and displacement) 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 CP and migration work.
• Represent the program to National and Local government representatives, donors, partner agencies, etc. as required.
• 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.
• 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.

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• Holds him/herself accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modeling 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

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves (and their team), takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages others to do the same
• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• Future orientated, thinks strategically

Collaboration:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, members and external partners and supporters
• Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to

Creativity:

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• Willing to take disciplined risks

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency

MINIMUM QUALFICATION, EXPEREINCE, COMPETENCIES

QUALIFICATION

• Master’s degree in social work, child protection and Migration or related field, or equivalent experience
• Social Work, Migration, Child Protection and Child Welfare or related qualification

EXPEREINCE

• 8 years relevant experience with at least 5 years’ experience of leading the design and implementation of humanitarian and development programmes in CP and Migration
• Excellent understanding of the CP and Migration sector in Ethiopia, including rights and protection of children in migration and displacement
• Familiar with CP and Migration systems, social work with children and families, case management, positive parenting, community level CP and Migration and integration of CP and Migration with other multi-sectors programmes.
• Track record in successful proposal development/fundraising with key donors, including such as EU, FCDO, SIDA, USAID, the US Bureau of Population Refugees and Migration
• Demonstrated program design, monitoring and evaluation skills, including designing pathways to sustainable impact at scale.
• Experience of strategy development and planning
• Experience of context, capacity and policy analysis, and influencing and advocacy at regional/international level in order to hold duty bearers to account to realize children’s rights.
• Skilled at networking, representation and partnership development in order promote learning, strengthen civil society and mobilize resources.
• Significant experience in providing expert advice for effective implementation of projects
• Experience in working with government counterparts and other partners at various levels – federal to district. This includes technical support, capacity-building and coordination.
• Able to generate and use data and evidence to innovate, deliver, learn and share what works and what doesn’t work for children
• Experience of promoting quality and impact through one or more cross-cutting area: migration and displacement; gender equality and inclusion, adaptive and safer programming; child rights; disability
• Experience of supporting humanitarian preparedness, response and recovery
• Significant experience in training, capacity building, and mentoring
• Fluent in English and high level of English writing skills.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITY

• Excellent understanding of child protection and migration issues in Ethiopia at both field and policy levels.
• Substantial knowledge of CP and migration related national, regional and global policies, strategies and other initiatives affecting children.
• Excellent working knowledge of government, public policy making and implementation to engage with policy makers, decision makers and opinion formers on child protection and migration related issues that can change the lives of children and young people affected by or at risk of protection concerns.
• Practical understanding of the challenges and opportunities in realizing children’s rights in Ethiopia, in relation to thematic area.
• Strong analysis of CP and migration related data and ability to summarize and communicate this to a range of audiences.
• Proven advocacy and representation skills
• Ability to develop strong professional relationships and collaborations externally with stakeholders, and internally across functions, projects, and teams
• Understanding and experience in monitoring and evaluation
• Good presentation, training and facilitation skills
• Proven conceptual skills and an ability to think and plan strategically
• Good communication and interpersonal skills and an ability to train and mentor staff
• Ability to work effectively in a complex, fast-paced, matrixed, and multi-cultural environment
• Proven ability to manage a complex and demanding workload
• Strong organizational skills
• Willingness to travel to remote field locations including refugee camps
• Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles including rights-based approaches
• Good spoken and written English, fluency in Amharic

Scope & complexity of decision making

• Able to make decisions within a range of established alternatives

PERCENTAGE OF TRAVEL (Out of duty station if applicable).

• Estimated 50% travel to the field including some difficult locations, including in disaster and conflict affected humanitarian response areas

KEY COMPETENCIES

Technical competencies:

• Promotes optimum levels of child development
• Works to strengthen the components and linkages within the CP and Migration system
• Prevents violence abuse exploitation and neglect of children
• Responds effectively and appropriately to violence, abuse, exploitation and neglect of children

Generic Competencies

• Being the Voice of Children: Promotes evidence-based policy and public engagement that includes the voices of children and their communities
• Advancing Equality & Inclusion: Displays a commitment to ensuring everything we do considers the most deprived and marginalized children
• Building & Strengthening Partnerships: Promotes working with diverse partners as critical to delivery
• Child Rights: Promotes the rights of children in own work and in work with colleagues and peers

Additional job responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Equal Opportunities

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures

Child Safeguarding:

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.

Safeguarding our Staff:

The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI anti-harassment policy

Health and Safety

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures