Child Protection & Safeguarding Specialist Full-Time

The Plan International is hiring a Child Protection & Safeguarding Specialist.

The Organization

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organization that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.

We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it is girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.

We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood. And we enable children to prepare for – and respond to – crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 85 years, and are now active in more than 80 countries.

The Opportunity

Demonstrate leadership in relation to Plan International policies and practices with respect to Child Protection, Internal and External Safeguarding, overall technical leadership on Child Protection programming, policy influencing & advocacy, capacity building, people development, partnership, representation, studies and evaluations of child protection sector;

• Provide leadership and oversight in the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of all child protection project activities; assess the outputs, outcomes and impact of program interventions and activities;
• Lead and deliver quality project/programme development to compete in funding opportunities (Scanning the situations, come up with innovation and also consider sustainability and also impact of the projects and programmes);
• Supervise child protection activities within the CO with local implementing partners in the implementation of projects/ programmes, capacity building and facilitate learning among partners and stakeholders at different levels;
• Represent the organization in all relevant forums at international level concerning child protection programs;
• Involves in internal and external environment, networks, collations and alliances (Plan international regional forums, Child protection technical working groups, Mental Health psychosocial support technical working groups, GBV/ CP sub clusters, Adolescent and Youth Health Technical working groups and others).
• Lead the planning of capacity building of staff on Safeguarding and PSHEA both humanitarian and development;
• Coordinate with emergency response team the design of SG/PSHEA implementation;
• Provide support to ensure that child and young people problems are adequately addressed in all program guidelines/procedures, as well as in all levels of project cycles (design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation).

Requirements

• Education at Masters level or equivalent in the area Sociology, Social work, Psychology or equivalent;
• Relevant experience managerial position with NGOs in leading programs and projects.
• Demonstrated experience in the management of child protection programmatic areas;
• Thorough knowledge of programming processes, systems and principles, and the ability to provide leadership and support to staff working at community level;
• In-depth knowledge of child-rights programming;
• Strong knowledge and experience on Child rights, GBV, Family and Community based Psycho-Social Support, Child protection and safeguarding, child and family social work and Child protection in emergence.