Child Protection Specialist - Migration Coordination

TITLE: Child Protection in Migration Coordination Specialist (Pending Donor’s Approval)

CHILD SAFEGUARDING: (select only one)

Level 3: the post 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 country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

ROLE PURPOSE:

The Child Protection in Migration Coordination Specialist will act as an expert facilitator to coordinate the IOM, SCI and UNICEF - Protection for Migrant Children Joint Program - implementation in Egypt. This program overall gaol is to strengthen the respect, protection and fulfilment of migrant children’s rights.

This role holder will be expected to map the different CP migration interventions across the three agencies and other relevant stakeholders, including services provided to migrant children and capacity building efforts; accordingly develop a comprehensive action plan to fulfil the program objective in Egypt. This role holder will be responsible to organize and co-lead on regular coordination meetings across the three agencies and with external stakeholders including governmental entities. S/he will assume budget holder responsibilities (relatively a small budget) and lead on some of the project activities to ensure that plans are inclusive and child sensitive. The Child Protection in Migration Coordination Specialist will also play a critical role in representing SCI, networking and relationship building with relevant key stakeholders at national and local levels. The role holder will be responsible to support in coordinating other migration projects under SCI program.

In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to (Solid Line): Deputy Director of Program Operation

Reports to (Dotted Line): Child Protection (CP) Technical Advisor (TA). This role is expected to be closely coordinating with the CP TA on regular basis.

Close Coordination: Child Protection in Migration Project Manager

Staff reporting to this post : 2 Staff members (Child Protection Coordinator and Project Assistant)

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Planning & Coordination:

• Serve as “Secretariat”, ensuring staff directory and contact information is up to date; and ensuring timely, organized communication to keep all partners informed at country, regional and global level.

• Map the child protection migration interventions across key agencies, including services offered to migrant children and capacity building initiatives, to develop a comprehensive action plan that addresses the joint program objectives.

• Organize and co-lead regular coordination meetings and facilitate joint planning (workplans and milestones) with focal points from the three agencies IOM, SCI and UNICEF.

• Drafting meeting agendas, and notes; reliably saving documents and communications in the joint IOM-SC-UNICEF Sharepoint site

• Actively attend the global coordination meetings, provide updates on the project's progress and ensure timely deliverables of requested actions.

• Lead on facilitating an inclusive and child-sensitive planning processes, ensuring participation of all relevant actors.

• In collaboration with the CP TA, conduct consultative workshops and technical meetings with national stakeholders, including government agencies, child protection actors, and civil society to fulfil the global program objective in Egypt;

• In collaboration with the CP TA, ccoordinate with relevant government entities the planned capacity building interventions;

• In collaboration with the CP TA, work closely with the program partners to Strengthen CP national Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), tools, and referral pathways for child protection in migration contexts;

• Work closely with the MEAL team for the generation and dissemination of evidence on good practices and costing of models where migrant children’s access to national services has improved

• Support the CP TA in developing technical terms of reference and facilitate the hiring process of technical consultants to deliver some of the project activities and follow up to ensure quality deliverables.

• Responsible for event or meetings organizations within the country

• Coordinate the consolidation of inputs from Country Team partners for the development of funding proposals aimed at scaling up programme activities in future phases

• Support SCI country office in coordinating some activities for other migration projects under SCI program.

• Conduct visits to other governorates for supporting the set up of other migration projects, and coordinate with the relevant stakeholders and data collection needed for these projects.

• Support coordination and strengthen synergies across all projects addressing refugees and migration, ensuring that all relevant Save the Children teams are regularly updated on emerging needs, gaps, trends, and risks to inform adaptive programming and interventions;

• Conduct regular field visits to targeted and non-targeted governorates and support data collection efforts in collaboration with the CP TA, other Technical Advisors, Operations, and MEAL teams.
  

Budget Responsibilities and Compliance:

• Assume budget holder responsibilities (relatively small budget).

• Manage project’s financial processes in close cooperation with the Finance team and in line with SCI finance policies and procedures and with grant agreement stipulations.

• Responsible for financial management of the project’s budget; forecasting, planning, tracking of expenditures, and burn rates.

• Ensure expenditures are approved and in accordance with the budget lines.

• Ensure that SCI regulations are communicated to all staff and that all activities meet SCI’s requirements financially and technically.
  

Documentation and reporting

• Coordinate quantitative and qualitative reporting for the Country Team - in coordination with other Country Team Coordinators, regional and global offices, collate and share inputs to the final report for the donor.

• Produce and compile monthly briefs and quarterly reports about SCI interventions

• Responsible for the completion of timely reports from the three agencies to be submitted to the global team (as per agreement);

• Strengthen program learning and documentation, in collaboration with the MEAL team; document good practice and lessons learnt throughout the project implementation.

• Shares best practices and lessons learned and more broadly assist with research design, implementation, evaluation and dissemination of best practices internally and externally.
  

External networking:

• Maintain good relationships with partners, government authorities, INGOs, UN agencies, networks and other actors to ensure linkages and alignment for SCI migration programming

• Actively represent SCI in relevant working groups platforms.
  

In case of Emergency:

• Promote children's rights, contributing to their well-being and protection in times of emergencies, guided by humanitarian principles and code of conduct;

• During emergencies, he/she should act in a way that facilitates SCI’s response to emergencies, giving priority to all assigned; and

• Be prepared to support SCI interventions in response to emergencies and show needed flexibility
  

General:

• Demonstrate leadership in relation to Save the Children policies and practice with respect to safeguarding, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures;

• Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to safeguarding policy, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.

• Embed counter-fraud and ethical controls in all operational processes, ensuring compliance with donor and legal requirements, while collaborating with Finance and Counter-Fraud teams to mitigate risks and conduct assessments for high-value programs;

• Ensure adherence to the Do No Harm principle across all coordination, planning, and implementation activities;

• Proactively identify, map, and assess contextual, operational, and safeguarding risks related to child protection in migration programming; and

• Support the development, implementation, and regular review of robust risk mitigation measures to prevent harm to children and affected populations, in coordination with programme teams and partners.
  

BEHAVIOURS (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 their team to do the same

• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others

• Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

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; demonstrates highest levels of integrity
  

QUALIFICATIONS

• Relevant master’s degree preferably in migration, social studies, gender etc is required.

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in migration child protection context.
• Professional expertise in Child Protection is a must.
• Strong understanding of national child protection systems and referral mechanisms in Egypt.
• Experience working with government stakeholders.
• Strong result-based management experience.
• Budget management experience including institutional donors.
• Demonstrable experience of MEAL and beneficiary accountability.
• Strong experience in dealing with government officials at both strategic and operational levels.
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, advocacy, negotiation and coaching.
• Strong results orientation, with the ability to challenge existing mind-sets.
• Experience working through/with sub grants and partners is a requirement.
• Experience with capacity building of local partners and communities.
• Fluency in English and Arabic with strong written and oral communication skills.
• The capacity and willingness to be flexible and accommodating in difficult working circumstances.
Commitment to the aims and principles of SC. In particular, a good understanding of the SC mandate and child focus and an ability to ensure this continues to underpin our support

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• Professional expertise in Child Protection in migration context is a must
• Strong understanding of national child protection systems and referral mechanisms in Egypt.
• Strong experience in dealing with government officials at both strategic and operational levels.
• Budget management experience.
• Demonstrable experience of MEAL and beneficiary accountability.
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, advocacy, negotiation and coaching.
• Previous experience in inter-agency coordination is preferable.
• Experience with child protection capacity building of national partners is essential.
• Fluency in English and Arabic with strong written and oral communication skills.
• The capacity and willingness to be flexible and accommodating in difficult working circumstances.
Commitment to the aims and principles of SC. In particular, a good understanding of the SC mandate and child focus and an ability to ensure this continues to underpin our support

Additional job responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Equal Opportunities

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Child Safeguarding:

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.

Safeguarding our Staff:

The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI anti-harassment policy

Health and Safety

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.