Overview
Provides strategic technical leadership to Myanmar Country Child Protection Programmes, including quality programme oversight, programme design, and identifying and pursuing strategic partnerships. Plays a senior representational and advocacy role with key stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Take lead role in developing, monitoring and reporting on Child Protection Strategic Goals.
- Identify needs and opportunities for Child Protection programmes.
- Encourage and facilitate implementation of a Strategic Learning Agenda for Child Protection.
- Work with other teams to develop funding strategies and proposals.
- Identify and pursue opportunities for synergistic, inter-sectoral programmes.
- Ensure programme quality of SC’s Child Protection programming.
- Identify internal and external capacity building opportunities.
- Update and adapt capacity development programs.
- Integrate programme learning across sectors.
- Develop strategies to ensure gender equity, social and disability inclusion, child participation and beneficiary accountability.
- Ensure effective MEAL practices and robust data management systems.
- Ensure monitoring and accountability systems provide timely information for decision making.
- Develop quality benchmarks for key interventions.
- Provide technical leadership in undertaking research.
- Share CO’s experience and organizational learning.
- Coordinate with Advocacy, Research, and Evidence sector on policy and advocacy work.
- Lead on policy and advocacy for the sector.
- Identify appropriate strategic partnerships for joint advocacy initiatives.
- Identify and support professional development and career growth opportunities for Child Protection staff.
- Establish, build and nurture effective teamwork.
- Create opportunity for staff development.
- Maintain working relationships with relevant stakeholders.
- Identify partnerships/collaborations and build strong networks.
- Support the identification, selection, technical capacity strengthening and monitoring of new partners.
- Ensure effective representation and technical leadership within networks and forums.
- Actively participate in technical coordination meetings.
- Maintain excellent relationships with donors.
- Ensure Child Safeguarding Policy is effectively implemented.
- Ensure staff provide beneficiaries with age-appropriate information about Child Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct.
- Promote the message of child safeguarding.
- Take steps to prevent fraud, bribery, and corruption.
Required Experience
At least 5 years of working experience in relevant field, ideally in both development and humanitarian settings. Hands on experience in child protection systems strengthening, case management, family strengthening, community level child protection. MHPSS, and CAAC. Demonstrated experience in humanitarian response. Understanding of the context in Myanmar (or demonstrated willingness to learn the context and culture of Myanmar).
Qualifications
Master’s degree in relevant field (Social Work, Psychology, Sociology, Human rights Law, Development Studies or similar, or equivalent field experience.)
