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 their living standards of the child.

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Position: CP Assistant (PSS and Community)

Location: Hodiedah

Grade: 5

Contract Length: As per the budget

The Opportunity:

1. Child Protection Assistant is responsible for assisting and supervising community level MHPSS activities and volunteers (facilitators) in each setting, to ensure that activities are conducted in accordance applicable CP and MHPSS principles and standards.
2. Child Protection Assistant will guide the implementation of Psychosocial and community mobilization activities, and make sure that child, adolescent and committees are dealt in a participatory way to empower and enhance children and community participation to present issues that concern children's survival, safety and well-being. 

Key Areas of Responsibilities: 

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

Key Areas of Responsibilities: 

• Program Implementation: Assist in executing high-quality program activities that are aligned with program strategies, grant agreements, and Save the Children (SCI) technical requirements.
• Reporting and Monitoring: Prepare timely and high-quality progress reports with statistical and narrative information on progress of community interventions, which informs management decisions. Monitor weekly activity schedules and ensure child participation in activity design and selection.

Community mobilization : 

Mobilise and engage whole communities or sections of it on CP and MHPSS issues as per project aims and objectives.

• Facilitation: Facilitate Child Protection Committee meetings to identify critical issues, establish action plans, and provide guidance.
• Community Engagement: Ensure community participation in child protection issues and the appropriateness of interventions to children's rights and needs Awareness Raising: Lead awareness campaigns on preventive and response messages for context-specific protection of children (girls and boys). Support child-led campaigns and advocacy plans, facilitating children's engagement and peer-to-peer information sharing/training.
• Referral: Build mechanisms at community level for referral of children with protection concerns and their caregivers to appropriate service providers.
• Information Sharing: Provide information to community members on referring to services for better child protection.

Training and Capacity Building:

• Content Development: Collaborate with children, committees, community leaders, and colleagues to develop key messages on child protection.
• Dissemination and Implementation: Facilitate action plan development for disseminating messages within child protection committees, student councils, and children's clubs.
• Training Delivery: Train children, families, teachers, and community members on key CP issues.

MHPSS Support:

• Supervision: Supervise Community level MHPSS activities and facilitators - ensuring activities are conducted in a child-friendly manner that empowers children to organize, express themselves creatively, and lead.
• Support for Children's Activities: Support and guide children to organize/participate in events or festivals to promote child protection messages they find important. Encourage creative presentation and gender-equity topics.
• Availability: Be available to support MHPSS, mobile team facilitators, and CPC members for guidance outside of regular activities.
• Reporting: Work as a point of contact, reporting identified child protection cases as soon as informed. Refer children needing case management to Social Workers.

Additional Duties: Carry out any other duties assigned to you as appropriate. 

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.

Ambition:

• sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, take responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
• widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• Future-orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

• builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
• values diversity, and 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; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• At least 2 years experience in a humanitarian work context
• Computer literate
• Familiarity with CP and MHPSS interventions. 
• Willingness and ability to dramatically change work practices and hours in the event of emergencies
• Ability to analyze information, evaluate options, and follow the strategic directions as guided
• An in-depth understanding of national development issues in particular as relates to children
• Previous  experience working with a multicultural team and adaptability to varied team dynamics
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
• Fluency in written & spoken Arabic; able to communicate and write in English is considered an asset
• Good negotiation and communication skills.

Commitment to Save the Children values and policies including but not limited to Code of Conduct, Child Safeguarding Policy and Humanitarian principles of impartiality, neutrality and humanity.

ABOUT US

The Organization

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.