Regional Child Rights Governance (CRG) Advisor, Asia

The Opportunity

Regional Child Rights Governance (CRG)Technical Advisor will use their in-depth contextual understanding, technical expertise, and relationship building skills to provide a critical link between the Save the Children’s global and country level technical work, strengthening our technical offer at the regional level. The role will contribute to building capacity and fostering networks across country office technical experts. The role supports regional advocacy and influencing, and contributes to strategic partnerships for new business development. It provides input into the design and implementation of monitoring and evaluation systems to demonstrate impact, while sharing learning across country offices, and ensuring quality of our programmes. The role provides support to the sourcing of technical assistance for country office in both emergency and development programming. This role includes a strong focus on internal coordination and external representation on priority issues including empowering children to claim their political and civil rights, promoting civil society voice and space, public financial management and how it impacts public investment in children,

This role will provide technical advice to the Regional SIDA CSO, which focuses on partnerships with local civil society organisations, especially child-led organizations. The program will seek to build a strong civil society that demands and supports the fulfilment of children’s rights – holding states to account and mobilizing and empowering children and their communities through a regional and integrated approach.

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.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy & Leadership:

• Provide overall thought leadership of Child Rights Governance work in APAC region
• Develop and monitor the implementation of a Regional Child Rights Governance Strategy in consultation with other thematic TAs across the region in both country and member offices.

Programme Quality in Design & Implementation:

• Oversee the design, implementation & monitoring of regional CRG programmes, including the Regional SIDA CSO – Civil Society Strengthening Programme.
• Contribute to child centred design of regional/multi-country programmes and integration of CRG components into other thematic or advocacy programmes where appropriate. This includes supporting the Regional Office and Country Offices with:

1) Donor engagement and development of concepts that can be ‘pitched’ to donors.

2) Proposal development and intervention design

• Ensure that child participation, gender, disability and resilience considerations are reflected in our programme design and implementation.
• Promote a Systems Strengthening approach as the overarching framework, that supports working in collaboration and partnership with governments and regional bodies, working towards impact, scale and sustainability.
• Explore innovative opportunities and trends which could be applied in CRG (or integrated) programming in the region and support country offices to pilot, and document, new or updated tools and guidance, especially with a focus on gender, disability, and resilience.
• Respond to requests for technical expertise from Country Offices in the region where possible/appropriate through Save the Children’s flexible Technical Expertise systems (e.g. Global Humanitarian Surge Platform; TE Request platform), and identify support from others for key regional technical needs.

Evidence & Organisational Learning

• Ensure that COs have access to and use internal and external best practice and evidence in the design of new programs, including through common approaches.
• Support Country Offices in their implementation and monitoring of key strategic programmes, to ensure high-quality delivery, monitoring and evaluation.
• Drive oversight of participation in technical working groups & communities of practice on behalf of movement, leading regional groups where appropriate, promoting innovation and collaboration.
• Drive regional and multi-country child rights research agendas; drawing together evidence of impact and facilitating cross-CO learning, including common approach research and learning agendas.
• Work with the Regional Research and Evaluation Unit to fill child rights research agenda gaps.
• Ensure that CO and regional lessons and operational realities contribute to global level technical thought leadership, advocacy, Common Approaches & standard setting.

Technical Capacity Building & Mentoring

• Capacity build, mentor and build networks across Country Office CRG technical experts in the region; identify top talents, capacity gaps and facilitate opportunities and systems for learning.
• Facilitate cross-Country Office learning between CRG technical experts in the region; identify creative ways to build capacity, share learning, best practices and collectively address challenges
• Bridge the Global-County divide by supporting technical experts to understand and contextualise global guidance, learning and evidence and ensure that learning from the region informs our global evidence and strategic direction in CRG.
• Support the recruitment, talent management and retention of CO CRG technical staff.

External Engagement:

• In collaboration with regional New Business Development, contribute to regional strategic partnerships; identify partners and donors to strengthen our CRG portfolio in the region and maintain an overview of the CRG area.
• In collaboration with Advocacy and Child Rights Governance colleagues, influence key regional stakeholders and policy-makers to ensure they reflect the needs of children in the countries where we work. Through collaborative regional partnerships and regional programmes, including representation on regional child rights associations and organisations, working groups and technical fora.

The Organisation

We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

Application Information

Please apply using a cover letter and up-to-date CV as a single document. Please also include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations. A copy of the full role profile can be found at www.savethechildren.net/careers

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.

All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our global anti-harassment policy.