Child Protection Community Mobilization Assistant

ROLE PURPOSE:

Save the Children International (SCI) Yemen Country Programme has an annual budget of around USD 70 million and growing, working mainly on the humanitarian response to the ongoing conflict and its impact including more recently on the cholera outbreak. The SCI Yemen has over 700 staff and 1500 volunteers and works in nine governorates in the north and south of the country through seven field offices and two sub-offices in addition to the main office in Sana’a

The CP Community Mobilization assistant will be responsible for preparing, implementing the community mobilization events on the different activities of Child Protection, Education, Health and WASH programs 

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Community Mobilization and PSS officer

Staff reporting to this post: N/A

Budget Responsibilities: None

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Program Support:

General

• Comply 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.

Specific

• Under supervision of the community mobilization and PSS officer, work with children, parents and caregivers to form and activate the protection committees and community-based networks.
• Train the community networks and mobile teams on mobilization, and child protection related training in coordination with the CP teams.
• Work closely in the field with stakeholders and community leaders to obtain community profiles of targeted communities, assign volunteers per geographic location and supervise the volunteers to disseminate basic key messages on child protection, MHPSS, Hygiene & education issues; and facilitate community and child led campaigns which may include Organise cultural or sports festivals and other extracurricular events targeting children from all segments of the community
• Supervise the community volunteers to plan all community mobilization activities jointly with the CBPNs – Community Based Networks and compile all field reports to be analysed by the community mobilization and PSS officer.
• Hold community sessions and meetings to orient the community regarding CP and Education projects, services offered as well as the election mechanism in the targeted areas at both the facility and community level.
• Conduct regular refresher sessions on the CPC and parent-teacher association Terms of Reference (TOR) to ensure clarity in regards of roles and responsibilities.
• Actively support baseline/end line or other surveys for MEAL (monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning) purposes.
• Support the rest of the child protection team Education WASH and Health to implement the required activities when it’s related to protection and community mobilization.
• Ensure that communities are regularly involved in all phases of the programming
• Other duties as assigned by the supervisor to enable and develop SCI programmes.

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (SCI 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 across the Region 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.

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

QUALIFICATIONS 

Bachelor degree in Social Science, or Education or any related field.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• At least 2 years’ experience in a similar post in CP/Education.
• Child Protection / community development experience.
• Have sound facilitation and training skills.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to represent Save the Children at meetings with government officials
• Computer skills in word, excel, PowerPoint.
• Commitment to Save the Children Code of Conduct, Child Safeguarding Policy and values

Desired:

• Previous work experience with SCI.
• Background in Emergency programming is an asset.
• Strong verbal and written Arabic skills
• Good verbal and written English skills

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.

Health and Safety

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

The Organisation

We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard. 

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children.  We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

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.

Save the Children International seeks to always be a child safe organization through fulfilling its obligations to the community and through programme implementation carried out by the organization for safeguarding children and to improve the living standards of the child.

“Save the Children is an equal opportunity employer. Women are strongly encouraged to apply”

Application Information:

Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application, and include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations.  A copy of the full role profile can be found at www.savethechildren.net/careers/apply. 

All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our global anti-harassment policy.

Deadline for submitting applications: 22 Dec 2022

Location : Aden

Employee Status: Fixed Term

Closing Date: Dec 22, 2022