Save the Children - US
Staff whose work requires or potentially could require any in-person interaction with Save the Children colleagues, partners, or beneficiaries must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 unless otherwise required by law. Save the Children complies with federal, state, and local laws with regard to accommodations related to this policy.
Summary
The Child Protection (CP) Senior Advisor position will provide leadership and direction to Save the Children (SC)’s growing Child Protection portfolio. You will revive and reinvigorate our portfolio by growing our focus on Child Labor, family strengthening, and work with orphans and vulnerable children (OVC). You will be responsible for internal departmental capacity development in focus areas, to ensure the incorporation of CP into all Department of Education and Child Protection (DECP) activities, as well as a continued focus on standalone CP programming, building global CP leadership, increasing our presence, and ensuring wide dissemination of our lessons learned and best practices.
What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)
Public and Private Resource Mobilization—50%
- Analyze strategic priorities and available resources in order to determine key CP funding opportunities to pursue
- Provide technical leadership to proposals for CP funding from US government, corporate, foundation, and individual donors
- Work closely with colleagues in Resource Development to manage critical donor relationships and develop donor funding strategies
- Liaise with donors and program staff to ensure quality reporting and donor satisfaction
- Network and maintain communications with potential donors and partners
- Lead on the growth of the CP team in alignment with portfolio needs and priorities, including recruitment and onboarding
Global Program Strategy and Market Positioning—25%
- Lead on the finalization of the new SCUS CP strategy, which will include measures for integration across sectors and strong focuses on child labor, family strengthening, and OVCs
- Contribute to strategic and operational planning at country level and global level
- Represent SCUS and CP at internal and external forums
- Support the dissemination of CP-related learning at internal and external forums
- Lead the development of CP strategies
- Collaborate with global partners to ensure development of new evidence and state of the art approaches for CP
- Liaise with internal and external stakeholders to ensure CP integration across basic education and early childhood initiatives.
Program Learning and Innovation—15%
- Identify evidence gaps and priorities for research and documentation, especially in the areas of child labor, family strengthening, and OVCs
- Compile, analyze, document, and disseminate evidence and lessons learned from CP programs across the globe
- Work with CP team members in working groups and other forums to develop CP frameworks, tools, and guidance to be used in Save the Children’s global programs, particularly in the areas of child labor, family strengthening, and OVCs
Technical Leadership and Quality Programming—10%
- Apply in-depth knowledge of best practices in CP programming to ensure that implementation teams across the globe are engaging in quality programming
- Support CO and RO teams to analyze implementation, identify best practices and lessons learned, and generate sound evidence
- Support implementing teams’ professional development in technical areas, especially child labor, family strengthening, and OVCs, and relevant learning
- Analyze and revise deliverables in collaboration with implementing teams
Required Qualifications
- Minimum of a Bachelor Degree or equivalent experience, plus at least 7 years of relevant experience
- Demonstrated experience in Child Protection, including Child Labor
- Proven experience providing technical leadership to US government proposals
- Established professional networks in the field of Child Protection, including practitioners and members of the donor community
- Demonstrated technical expertise that enables strategic development and high level guidance to programming and portfolio development
- Demonstrated experience providing technical assistance and program guidance
- Demonstrated program management and organizational skills
- Professional proficiency in MS Office suite
- Professional proficiency in spoken and written English
- Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with diverse individuals and teams, both internally and externally
- Demonstrated commitment to fostering and maintaining and environment of diversity, inclusion, and belonging.
- Able and willing to travel internationally, approximately 20% of the time
Preferred Qualifications
- Professional proficiency in Spanish, French, or Arabic
- Experience writing proposals for private donors
- Experience advising, mentoring and training program staff
- Qualitative and quantitative program monitoring and evaluation skills.
Compensation:
Save the Children is offering the following salary ranges for this position, dependent on candidate location in the United States:
Geo 1-NY Metro, DC, and other locations with labor costs significantly above national average: Up to $128,000/ year
Geo 2-Locations around the US National Labor Cost Average: Up to $116,000/ year
Geo 3-Locations significantly below the US National Labor Cost Average: Up to $104,000/year
Applicants from outside of the United States may be considered for this opportunity, but are subject to local compensation ranges, benefits and work eligibility.
Why you should join the Save the Children Team…
Save the Children US offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, pet insurance, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, 403(b), generous vacation, personal sick leave, family leave, parental/adoption leave, commuter benefits, dress for your day, and much more.
Click here to learn more about how Save the Children US will invest in YOU!
About Save the Children
No matter your role when you join Save the Children, each and every day you will challenge yourself to devote your skills, talent and expertise to changing the world for kids. It’s an ambitious goal, and a meaningful one no matter how you see yourself professionally: an accountant, a writer, a data analyst, a teacher, a driver, a designer, or any one of the hundreds of dozens of roles we’re looking to fill every day.
You see, Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share.
Our work for children and their families requires that we commit—at every opportunity—to work together to identify and dismantle persistent systemic and structural racism, inequality, and any other forms of discrimination in this country and beyond. As an anti-racist organization, Save the Children will not tolerate discrimination in any form—in our employment practices, amongst our staff, in our leadership or toward the people we serve. We stand in solidarity with all people to fight for equal rights, justice, inclusion, and belonging.
We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, age, handicap, disability, marital status, or status as a veteran. Save the Children complies with all applicable laws.
Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom we are in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse. In addition, it is Save the Children’s policy to create and proactively maintain an environment that aims to prevent and deter any actions and omissions, whether deliberate or inadvertent, that place children at the risk of any kind of child abuse. All our representatives are expected to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with this commitment and obligation.
Save the Children is committed to minimizing safety and security risks for our valued employees, ensuring all are given training, support and information to reduce their risk exposure while maximizing the impact of our programs for children and families. Our shared duty, both agency and individual, is to seek and maintain safe working conditions for all.