Save the Children,Child Protection Manager Jobs in Rwanda

hirteen districts in
Rwanda with a current staff complement of approximately 94 staff. SC is
implementing an emergency response programme to support the Burundi refugees in
Mahama Refugee Camp.

• Responsible
  for management of Child Protection and SGBV including the community
  service protection program implementation in Mahama  ensuring
  that proposed results are achieved on time, within budget and in
  compliance with donor regulations.
• Manage
  program budgets including monthly budget forecasting and quarterly budget
  revisions.
• Provide
  technical leadership on program implementation methodologies in line with
  good practice and in collaboration with the child protection technical
  advisor.
• Ensure
  that programs are implemented in ways that are responsive to communities
  and children, in line with Save the Children principles, values and
  strategic plan and compliant with Save the Children’s procedures.
• Work
  with relevant government and non-government partners to strengthen
  capacity on child protection, community service  programming and
  advocate for improved child protection systems and policies.
• Manage
  program partnerships including partner capacity building, follow-up and
  reporting.
• In
  close coordination with the child protection technical advisor,
  participate in proposal development processes related to child protection
  programming.
• Work
  to develop timely and high quality progress and final reports for external
  and internal use. These should be results-based and demonstrate progress
  against agreed indicators.
• Ensure
  appropriate, timely and accurate data collection against agreed indicators
  to enable both internal and external reporting.

• Work
  with the Partnership team to identify appropriate partners, community
  stakeholders for implementation of the Child Protection response.
• Work
  with partners to develop their programme design and proposals.
• Ensure
  regular review of partner progress against the budget and work plan, and
  support partners to alter activities/strategies in light of context
  changes or operational challenges.
• Review
  partner narrative and financial reporting as well as Monitoring,
  Evaluation, Accountability and Learning data, in line with Country Office
  internal deadlines for Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and
  Learning.
• Participate
  in (or influencing the development of) key working groups, especially
  those associated with current emergency responses, through close liaison
  with MIDIMAR, UNICEF and other UN NGO partners.
•  Participate
  in and strengthen interagency coordination on protection,  guiding
  the agenda and ensuring that the critical protection needs of children are
  profiled.

• Develop
  Monitoring & Evaluation and indicator tracking plans for all grants,
  developing additional Monitoring & Evaluation tools as necessary to
  monitor project progress, with support of Monitoring, Evaluation,
  Accountability and Learning team.
• Ensure
  appropriate, timely and accurate data collection against agreed indicators
  to enable both internal and external reporting.
• Ensure
  that ongoing programme monitoring/learning feeds into alterations into
  programme design.
• Work
  with Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning team to identify
  and incorporate project suitable accountability mechanisms.

• Lead
  on child protection assessments as required, ensuring assessment findings
  are documented and that all assessments include a disaggregated analysis
  of children’s needs.

• Ensure
  appropriate staffing within the Child Protection, SGBV  and community
  service team.
• Support
  the Field Manager to ensure that all Child Protection staff, SGBV and
  community service understand and are able to perform their role.
• Support
  the Field Manager to establish performance management of all Child Protection
  and Community Service staff through effective use of the Performance
  Management System including the establishment of clear, measureable
  objectives, on-going feedback, periodic reviews and fair and unbiased
  evaluations.

• Working
  closely with Child Protection TA, senior staff, support fundraising for
  child protection, including development of high quality concept notes and
  proposals.
• Ensure
  that Save the Children’s work is coordinated with efforts of other
  agencies and Government, and take a leadership role within Interagency
  Coordination forums, ensuring the specific needs of children are being
  addressed. This may involve taking the lead in the Child Protection
  Working Group and/or sub-groups.

• Identify
  learning and training opportunities for Save the Children staff and
  partners and support and build the capacity of less experienced staff.

• Holds
  self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently,
  achieving results together with children 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 in-country to lead, enable and maintain our
  culture of child safeguarding

• Sets
  ambitious and challenging goals for self and team, takes responsibility
  for own personal development and encourages team to do the same

• Widely
  shares personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• Future
  oriented, thinks strategically and on a global scale

• Builds
  and maintains effective relationships, with own team, colleagues, members,
  donors and partners
• Values
  diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
• Approachable,
  good listener, easy to talk to

• Develops
  and encourages new and innovative solutions
• Willing
  to take disciplined risks

• Honest,
  encourages openness and transparency
• Always
  acts in the best interests of children

• Six
  years of experience working in an emergency response context or in fragile
  states
• Proven
  experience in Child protection including SGBV  
• Ability
  to identify the main gaps in child protection in the given context to
  inform a holistic response for children.
• Previous
  experience of managing a team and of project management
• Experience
  of and commitment to working through systems of community participation
  and accountability
• Experience
  in monitoring and evaluating child protection programmes in emergency,
  transition and development contexts
• Ability
  to work both in an advisory and a hands on implementation capacity
• Experience
  in capacity building and in strengthening various duty bearers
  understanding of and response to child protection.
• Experience
  of representation and ability to represent Save the Children effectively
  in external forums.
• Excellent
  communication skills with a high level of written and spoken English
• Politically
  and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and diplomacy
• The
  capacity and willingness to be extremely flexible and accommodating in
  difficult and sometimes insecure working circumstances.
• Commitment
  to and understanding of child rights, the aims and principles of Save the
  Children, and humanitarian standards such as the Sphere Charter and the
  Code of Conduct. In particular, a good understanding of Save the Children
  mandate and child focus and an ability to ensure this continues to
  underpin our support

• Experience
  of urban programming
• Language
  skills in kenyanruwanda
• Knowledge
  of Save the Children systems and ways of working