Save the Children, National Child Safeguarding Coordinator Jobs Vacancy

POSITION
ANNOUNCEMENT
Rwanda
Country Programme, Kigali Rwanda
BACKGROUND:
Save
the Children is the world’s leading independent organisation for children. We
work in 120 countries. We work together, with partners, to inspire
breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to a

chieve immediate and
lasting change in their lives. Save the Children works in thirteen districts in
Rwanda with a current staff complement of approximately 183 staff.

SC
Rwanda Country Office seeks to hire qualified, committed and experienced National
to fill the following position: 
Position: National Child
Safeguarding Coordinator
Place
of Work:
 Kigali
with frequent field visits
Reports
to:
Staff
directly reporting to this
post:
Time
frame:                                
                                     
 HR,
Admin & IT Director
 None,
but directly in charge of Field Focal Point Persons
 Open
Ended
Tentative
start date:
 
                             ASAP
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.
PURPOSE
OF POSITION:
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 Save the Children’s
staff, volunteers, suppliers, consultants, associates and partners. The role
holder will work in conjunction with the Country Senior Leadership Team and
Child safeguarding focal persons located across the Rwanda country office
KEY
AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
Child
Safeguarding Leader and Champion across the country office
  • Work
    with programme development and programme operations teams to identify
    potential risks to children in all projects 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 programmes team
  • Establish
    Country child safeguarding networks to champion local implementation
  • Work
    with CP colleagues to 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 Field Focal Points in order to improve Child Safeguarding
    practice.
Safe
programming and Child Safeguarding Practice promoted across the Country and
sectors
  • Work
    with programme development team to ensure that all programming is designed,
    implemented and monitored through a Child Safeguarding lens, including
    supporting all new proposals
  • Ensure
    that support for child safeguarding is adequately resourced in all new
    project budgets
  • 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 are made available to managers
    and that they know how to access support and guidance
  • 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
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 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
  • Work
    with the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) team
    to ensure that child safeguarding and reporting are central to our
    accountability system for all projects
  • 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
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
SKILLS
AND BEHAVIOURS (our 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
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
QUALIFICATIONS
AND EXPERIENCE:
  • A
    Child Protection or Child Rights Governance professional with a degree in
    child protection, governance, law, social work.
  • 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
  • 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.
CHILD
SAFEGUARING POLICY
:
Any
employee, consultant, contractor or the supplier undertaking an activity on
behalf of SCI must sign the Child Safeguarding – Declaration of
Acceptance  Form
] and comply with the SCIs Child Safeguarding
Policy which is a statement of SCI’s commitment to preventing abuse and
protecting children with whom it comes into contact. 
  • This
    extends not only to children with whom SCI and its partners work directly,
    but also includes children whom staff are responsible for.  SCI
    believes that the situation of children must be improved through the
    promotion of their rights supported and demonstrated by all members of
    staff. Save the Children International’s Code of Conduct sets out the
    standards which all staff members must adhere to.
Interested
candidates should send an application letter plus updated Curriculum Vitae in
English, including 3 names of professional referees to: HR-Rwanda@savethechildren.org.The deadline for
receiving applications is 29th October 2017.
            
Please mention National Child Safeguarding Coordinator as subject of
your mail.
                                 
*Note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
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