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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 by fulfilling its obligations to the community and through programme implementation carried out by the organization for safeguarding children and improve their living standards of the child.

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Position: Child Protection and CRG Advisor

Location: Aden 

Contract Length: 

ROLE PURPOSE: 

As a member of the Programme Development & Quality (PDQ) Team and Under the general direction and guidance of the Director of Programme Development and Quality and working closely with the CP CRG Advisor and the other Technical Advisors (TAs), the CPMHPSS Specialist will be responsible for developing and articulating a full spectrum Child Protection and MHPSS strategy. In close coordination with the program operations team, the CPMHPSS Specialist will provide technical guidance and oversight in the development, implementation, monitoring and reporting of all MHPSS activities across CP and other sectors, education, Health and other sectors as applicable -, ensuring implementation in a high quality and timely manner reflective of gender, inclusion and other key cross-cutting considerations. This includes mainstreaming MHPSS approaches across programmes, as well as stand-alone CP CRG programming. This includes developing and implementing technical capacity building plans for SCI and partners staff. -. The CPMHPSS Specialist will be a technical lead on developing high quality concept notes and proposals in close coordination with awards, partner organizations and the field teams, aimed at Expanding the MHPSS portfolio.

CPMHPSS Specialist will develop and maintain strong relationships with Government, UN, INGOs and local partners. In addition to ensuring program development and quality, S/he will represent SCI and actively participate on Child Protection Sub-cluster, protection cluster /working groups, be an active participant in the regional MHPSS community of practice, and closely collaborates with SCI advocacy and communications team.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

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.

Programme Quality

• Provides technical leadership relevant to CP CRG MHPSS. This includes the development of Yemen technical programming guidance, in line with global and regional technical guidance and evidence base; input into country program strategies, and specific project technical inputs and support in line with SCYemen theories of change and pathways
• Offer a roving support to the Child Protection teams through our field offices and partners supporting programme quality of Save the Children’s child protection programming.
• Offer a roving support to the other sectors teams through our field offices and partners supporting programme quality related to MHPSS activities in their respective projects.
• Support the start-up of CP and MHPSS projects/programmes including multi-location projects/programmes by organising kick-off meetings, ensuring completion of the required documentation.

Work collaboratively with other sectors on ways to integrate child protection, MHPSS Adolescents and youth with other programmes, where relevant, in order to maximize impact for

• children, adolescents and youth;
• Oversee the MHPSS WG to generate tools and guidelines helping teams across sectors .
• Working with the other TA’s , Programme Managers and Awards Management Unit, support preparation of high quality donor reports and ensure that there is alignment between the narrative and financial
• Develop and review national proposals and reports for donors and members to ensure that proposed MHPSS activities are aligned with local needs, best practice guidelines and donor priorities.
• Advise on staffing structure and allocation of resources to ensure the quality and safety of MHPSS programs.
• Lead on MHPSS sections and CP of country-level needs assessments and liaise with donor and member office representatives on an ongoing basis to ensure that expectations for MHPSS programming are consistent with operational considerations and capacity in the field.
• Programme Design & development
• Participate in developing the CSP for SCI Yemen in addition to the position statements, methodologies, and frameworks related to CP, MHPSS and Adolescents and youth theories of change and relevant technical subject matter
• Coordinate programme design and development processes in the field with beneficiaries, CP and other sectoral staffs and local authorities to build consensus on the needs, interventions, target locations and ensure that required information is shared for programme design and development;
• Work with colleagues from other sectors to coordinate on and integrate programing to ensure children adolescents, and youth’s CP and MHPSS needs are met in a holistic manner during programme implementation;
• Ensure lessons learnt inform the design and implementation of new projects/programmes.

Review and contribute to regional and global level MHPSS strategy and policy documents

• Monitoring and Evaluation Accountability and Learning
• * Document lessons learned, best practices and case studies to shape in-country strategies and programme approaches, and contribute to learning in other sectors.
• Support knowledge sharing across the Child Protection teams, and in coordination with other sectors, and ensure that monitoring and evaluation results are understood and used to improve programmes in the field
• Establish robust Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEAL) mechanisms for MHPSS at the national level, in line with regional and global guidance, working with MEAL colleagues to identify appropriate validated psychometric tools and/or develop robust qualitative tools to assess relevance, effectiveness and quality of the interventions offered, and to improve programme implementation and reporting.
• Support production and consolidation of programme/project reports from the field and share these with the awards;
• Work with the Child Protection advisor to develop programme quality assurance tools for CP , such as needs assessment tools, programme level indicators, quality checklists for use in spot checks; and develop programme quality assurance tools for adolescents and youth and MHPSS
• Conduct regular visit to project sites to ensure that teams are appropriately supported to implement quality programmes;
• Participate and support CP sector programme reviews at field office levels including joint Field Office reviews for multi-location grants.

Capacity building & Team work

• Conduct capacity gaps assessment to identify staff, partners and stakeholders CP and MHPSS training needs;
• Support CP and MHPSS capacity building activities for staff, partners, beneficiaries, as well as civil society and government actors;

Provide on-going technical support to staff, partners and other CP and MHPSS actors to improve quality of our interventions;

Support staff and partners to understand and perform their roles in CP Adolescents Youth and

• MHPSS programme design, implementation, reporting and management;
• Support the CP Adolescents and youth and MHPSS recruitment processes and training of staff as well as their professional development;
• Facilitate the development and implementation of detailed annual work plans and key quarterly deliverables for CP and MHPSS projects or project components by field teams;
• Actively support team cohesion and a positive work environment for CP teams.

External Relations

• Cultivates relationships with major gift donors and foundations to advocate for increased funding for MHPSS and child protection.
• Represent and advocate for Save the Children in clusters and other interagency fora to ensure Save the Children is seen as the lead international agency in terms of innovation and quality of implementation in Child Protection and MHPSS;
• As assigned by the CP CRG Advisor, represent Save the Children and actively engage in the Protection Cluster, Sub-clusters & Working Groups ensuring that Save the Children’s contribution is highlighted and acknowledged;
• Participate in the development & review of protection SOPs, protocols, tools and Minimum standards for Child Protection at an inter-agency level;
• Work with the CP advisor to clearly articulate the child protection advocacy messages for the Yemen Country Office. And other TA’s on adolescents and youth advocacy messages.
• Engage in national and regional MHPSS discussion fora to ensure that SCI -Yemen accesses opportunities to engage in innovative MHPSS programming initiatives, training initiatives, and funding streams.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE AND ATTRIBUTES

• A child protection professional with a Bachelors’ degree in child protection,Psychology, law, social work or relevant field, or equivalent qualification.
• Significant professional experience of at least 3 years, including experience working at a management or technical level in child protection MHPSS for international NGOs.
• At least 3 years professional experience working with MHPSS, in child protection and/or other thematic areas, in humanitarian/conflict contexts
• Experience with participatory approaches when working with adolescents and youth
• Excellent understanding of the child protection sector, particularly issues related to child protection in emergencies, case management, family separation, and mental health and psychosocial support.
• Clear understanding of the intersection of child protection and MHPSS with other thematic areas.
• Proven representation skills.
• Strong commitment to capacity building of staff and partners with willingness to adopt participatory and consultative approaches.
• Experience with child protection programming in humanitarian settings absolutely required.
• Experience writing donor funding proposals for large institutional grants in excess of US$1 million.
• Ability to compile narrative sections and thematic budgets for proposals; ability to edit/write narrative reports, with reference to financial reporting
• Highly developed interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate and negotiate clearly and effectively at all levels, taking into account cultural and language considerations.
• Highly developed oral and written communication skills including influencing, negotiation and coaching
• Highly developed cultural awareness and ability to work well with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures.
• Strong results orientation, with the ability to challenge existing mind-sets.
• Experience solving complex issues through analysis, definition of a clear way forward and ensuring buy in.
• Ability and willingness to dramatically change work practices and hours, and work with incoming surge teams, in the event of emergencies.
• Fluency in English, verbal and written, required.
• Commitment to Save the Children values, including willingness to abide by and enforce the Child Safeguarding policy.