Regional Child Protection Advisor- Ukraine& Regional Response

Regional Child Protection Advisor – Ukraine and Regional Refugee Response

ROLE PURPOSE:

The Regional Child Protection Advisor plays a key role in ensuring high quality, timely CP technical support to technical advisors in Save the Children International’s responses to the Ukraine crisis (currently structured as the Ukraine Conflict Response in Ukraine, and the Regional Refugee Response in neighbouring countries), and in linking with MEEE regional and global work and broader initiatives.

The Regional Child Protection Advisor will provide hands on support to SCI’s Child Protection advisors and experts in Ukraine and neighbouring countries, to develop, position and implement CP programs in an ongoing humanitarian crisis. This include providing hands on technical assistance, strategic and programmatic support, capacity building (training /mentoring/coaching) and talent development. The position plays an important role in terms of ensuring quality delivery and contextual adaption of SCI’s global Common Approaches building their evidence-base in line with the regional strategic priorities. This position also includes contributions SCI’s advocacy and new business development initiatives. The Regional Child Protection TA will also work in collaboration with other regional advisors to support overarching response and regional priorities, particularly program integration.

The position may include travel to SC’s response programs in Ukraine and neighbouring countries.

ROLE SCOPE:

Reports to: Regional Senior Technical Support Manager – Ukraine and Regional Refugee Response (MEEE RO)

Staff reporting to this post: none

Budget Responsibilities: none

Role Dimensions: Key stakeholders for this position include Response Team CP Leads, RO PDQ Team, plus RO Operations, Advocacy, and Resource Mobilisation Teams; SCI’s Global One Humanitarian Team (Programs staff). In addition, the role will foster relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders including Save the Children Members and technical partners.

Context: Humanitarian.

Location: Home based, able to work in CET time zone.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Programme Strategy and Development

• Ensure quality CP inputs for the Ukraine Country Office and Regional Refugee Response teams to support the design of contextually relevant multi-sector response and recovery strategies and programme plans, in line with SCI Humanitarian deliverables, and ensuring quality programmatic approaches and maximum integration between sectors
• Support the Ukraine Country office and Regional Refugee Response teams to identify areas of shared priorities in CP and develop approaches / plans to take these forward, as needed
• Carry out the responsibilities of the role in a way which reflects Save the Children’s commitment to safe programming and safeguarding children, in accordance with our Code of Conduct and Child Safeguarding Policy

Technical Capacity Building & Mentoring

• Provide high quality technical backstopping to CP Advisors in the Ukraine Country office and Regional Refugee Response teams, and ensure the response teams are supported to meet their CP technical staffing needs (both national and international)
• Ensure that CP advisors in the Ukraine Country Office and Regional Refugee Response teams are aware of relevant global and regional thematic steers and have sufficient resources and expertise at hand to implement, build capacity, monitor, quality-assure, capture evidence and learning, and develop further in their ability to provide quality and rights-based CP interventions to children, adolescents and their caregivers.
• Provide practical technical support, tools and training on topics related children deprived of family based care
• Support technical quality and uptake of case management where feasible including support on training, IM system, and system strengthening approaches
• Identify opportunities to introduce and support implementation of SCI’s CP Common Approaches, where appropriate

Programme Quality and Development

• Ensure the Ukraine Country Office and Regional Refugee Response teams are supported to maintain the minimum standards of humanitarian relief in accordance with the CHS, CP Minimum Standards, Sphere Charter and Red Cross Code of Conduct, and SCI Humanitarian principles and global standards.
• Support in developing a regional strategy to children deprived of family-based care and promoting linkages across programmatic approaches (within the Ukraine regional response and beyond)
• Ensure the Ukraine Country office and Regional Refugee Response teams are supported to develop quality project proposals, particularly facilitating linkages for multi-country proposals
• Provide CP technical inputs to ensure the Ukraine Country Office and Regional Refugee Responses are supported to design and implement high quality REALM processes, which are effectively informing decision making
• Ensure the Ukraine Country Office and Regional Refugee Response teams are supported to build innovation in CP programs, document lessons learnt, best practice and case studies to shape in-country strategies and programme approaches, and contribute to broader sector learning.

Representation and networking

• Ensure high quality, timely technical inputs to support Regional Advocacy priorities
• Inform advocacy relating to children deprived of family care and serve as a spokesperson where needed
• Support SC engagement in humanitarian coordination structures and working groups
• Help shape broader sector strategies at the interagency level through influence of and leadership within inter-agency coordination forums, ensuring that SC is “the voice of children” and that the specific needs of children are being addressed across the humanitarian responses.

General

• Ensure effective linkages with MEEE regional and global work and broader initiatives
• Contribute to regional team collaboration, meetings and planning processes, internal initiatives and reporting requirements
• Demonstrate leadership in relation to Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child safeguarding, bullying and harassment, code of conduct, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Master’s degree in a related field – such as Social Work.

Experience and Skills:

• At least 7 years’ experience of working internationally in protection in emergency settings
• Familiar with CP programming, including CPiE and links to long term programming, including standards, policies, frameworks and relevant networks and stakeholders globally
• Demonstrable experience in gender and disability inclusion approaches in CP
• Demonstrated successful experience in capacity building, mentoring, facilitation of learning and provision of technical support
• Experience of context, capacity and policy analysis, and influencing and advocacy at regional/international level in order to hold duty bearers to account to realise children’s rights.
• Experience of promoting quality and impact through at least one cross-cutting area: gender equality and inclusion, adaptive and safer programming, mental health and psychosocial support.
• Demonstrated program design, monitoring and evaluation skills
• Experience of strategy development and planning
• Fluent in English and high level of English writing skills.

Technical Competencies:

• Use data and evidence to advocate with high level decision makers, and promote children’s healthy development through protection from violence
• Contribute to the production of a deliverable or output of a local cluster, CP Working or Coordination Group, to strengthen the CP system
• Facilitates the design of programmes, policy and guidance on responding to violence against children
• Mentor child protection staff using own expertise and evidence of best practice of alternative care programming and advocacy
• Lead the design of child protection interventions and trainings to support appropriate services for girls and boys affected by conflict