POSITION
ANNOUNCEMENT
ANNOUNCEMENT
Rwanda
Country Programme, Kigali 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
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:
Rwanda Country Office seeks to hire qualified, committed and experienced National
to fill the following position:
Position: National Child
Safeguarding Coordinator
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
start date:
ASAP
CHILD
SAFEGUARDING:
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.
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:
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
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:
AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
Child
Safeguarding Leader and Champion across the country office
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
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
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
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
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
AND BEHAVIOURS
Leading
and Inspiring Others (Accomplished)
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)
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)
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)
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)
(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)
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:
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
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:
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.
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.
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.