Save the Children Regional Senior Child Protection Manager Job in Kenya

Regional Senior Child Protection Manager

About Us: For over 90 years, Save the Children has been making a difference in children’s lives in more than 120 countries. We are the world’s largest independent child rights organization, underpinned by a vision in a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. 

Our mission to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.

Save the Children is an organization for talented people with different backgrounds and perspectives. We are proud that our people are representative of the children we work with and we thrive on our diversity. 

We are an equal opportunity organization dedicated to our core values of Accountability, Ambition, Collaboration, Creativity and Integrity. 

Our culture is embedded in these values, along with a strong commitment to our Child Safeguarding Protocol, ensuring that all representatives of Save the Children demonstrate the highest standards of behavior towards children both in their private and professional lives.
 

The East African Regional Office is responsible for 8 countries in East Africa, including Kenya, Somalia, Uganda, Rwanda, Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania and Ethiopia, with a current staff complement of approximately 3500 staff, and current expenditure of approximately $200 million each year.
 

Save the Children East Africa Regional Office (EARO) would like to recruit a Regional Senior Child Protection Manager for the Regional Program located in Nairobi, Kenya.
 

Role Purpose: The Child Protection Program Manager will provide leadership to the regional child protection program team to ensure effective coordination and successful implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and quality assurance of Save the Children’s protection program portfolio in East Africa that currently focuses on strengthening national child protection systems, addressing the needs of children affected by armed conflict, strengthening family based alternative care of children and eliminating physical punishment in the home. 

The regional program primarily targets strengthening systems within the African Union however works with other relevant stakeholders including Governments in the Region, Civil Society Organizations, the United Nations and Children. 

The current child protection expenditure per annum is approximately 3 million USD.

Key Areas of Accountability
 

Child protection regional priorities 

• Provide on-going technical support, mentoring and guidance to program staff and partners to ensure programming meets child protection best practices and feed into the Save the Children’s Child Protection Initiative Global Breakthrough.
• Contribute to the creation and implementation of the child protection regional strategy to meet the needs to children affected by violence including those affected by conflict.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with all relevant stakeholders in child protection including other INGOs, Civil Society Organizations, UN Agencies and relevant AU Bodies.
• Create regional platforms for shared learning, coordination and breakthroughs in addressing violence against children with governments, civil society and the African Union.
• Support the establishment of a regional reference hub to be the voice on the harmful effects of corporal/physical punishment to ensure the elimination of corporal punishment and changing social practice through positive discipline
• Support measures to enhance knowledge and expertise of staff within SC East Africa in the area of Child Protection.
• Oversee partner sub-award agreements and ensure compliance with SCI and donor conditions for effective implementation.

Monitoring, Reporting and Business Development

• Oversee monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of activities to ensure program activities are being implemented as planned and the appropriate data is being collected to measure program impact.
• Monitoring and evaluation of regional CP programs including development and submission of reports in compliance to internal and external requirements including cooperation agreements with partners and reports.
• Initiate, develop and strengthen relationships with donors, regional partners, UN agencies and international organizations on CP
• Ensure that the CP work in the region adheres to the general guidelines of the CP Global Initiative and that further and closer collaboration with the global initiative is explored
• Develop a system to track regional CP funds from donors and ensure timely narrative and financial reporting
• Manage the entire program budget and in particular oversee all budget expenditures to ensure compliance with SC’s and donor regulations; review monthly Budget vs. Actual reports and work with Finance and the Grants Coordinator to facilitate corrections.
• In collaboration with the child protection regional team, play a leading role in the development of proposals to expand Save the Children’s regional child protection portfolio in the Region.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in law, social work, social development, or development work. Post Graduate qualifications in the same field will be an added advantage.
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in child protection programming or rights-based programme development, with an international organization, preferably within a regional context
• Prior experience with SC considered an asset
• Good understanding of application of child protection systems thinking within government and community settings
• Good understanding of programme, financial and operational management processes
• Good understanding of monitoring and evaluation systems

This should be send to EA.recruitment@savethechildren.org by COB 21st March 2014.

We work with children, communities and governments all over the world and we believe in the right person for the job regardless of where you come from and how you identify yourself. 

We need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to ensuring that only those who are suitable to work with children are considered for these posts. 

All successful applicants will therefore be required to complete a Police Check and must sign onto our Child Safeguarding Policy and organizational Code of Conduct.