The Child Protection in Emergencies Senior Specialist serves as the technical lead and manages program delivery of Save the Children’s child protection programs in U.S. emergency contexts, including leading Save the Children’s signature program Child-Friendly Spaces. The incumbent deploys to disaster or crisis-affected areas and is responsible for supporting the needs assessment, partner identification, program planning and implementation and ongoing technical support. The Senior Specialist monitors program data, tracks program budget and ensures partners have necessary program supplies. The incumbent is responsible for creating and contextualizing program and training content that best meets the needs of partners and program goals.
As a frontline representative of Save the Children, the position holder is required to ensure safety and protection of children and families that they come in contact with and represent the agency values of Accountability, Ambition, Collaboration, Creativity, and Integrity.
Areas of Responsibility:
Serve as Child Protection Technical Lead for U.S. Emergency Programs (20%)
- Support the development of response and recovery strategies; lead on the development of child protection goals, objectives and inputs. Provide ongoing technical assistance as needed.
- Create and strengthen program and guidance materials, tools and processes to improve program quality and impact.
- Lead community needs assessments and make recommendations on child protection programming implementation, adaptation and contextualization as needed
- Contribute to internal and external dialogue on children in emergencies through working groups, trainings and presentations as a child protection in emergencies expert
Manage Child Protection Program Planning, implementation and Monitoring (25%)
- Lead the management and delivery of Save the Children’s signature program, Child-Friendly Spaces in the U.S. context. Manage CFS teams of staff and volunteers in the field.
- Help response and recovery teams create practical child protection implementation plans that achieve realistic and ambitious goals.
- Strengthen program planning guidance and tools including cost models, logic models and best practices for implementation
- Contribute to the development of child protection program funding proposals and help oversee child protection program budgeting and spending.
- In partnership with the USPA Ops and Finance team, ensure program kits and training materials and supplies are provided to program partners and staff as needed.
- Manage child protection program data collection tools and methods including program surveys, feedback forms and evaluations. Ensure partners are following regular reporting schedules and that data is entered regularly into Save the Children’s data monitoring database.
Cultivate and Manage Child Protection Partnerships (10%)
- Develop and strengthen partnerships with national, state and local child protection organizations, agencies and universities that contribute to children’s health, wellbeing and protection and can enhance our emergency programming
- Create strong partnership agreements and guidelines for program implementation partners that help ensure quality program delivery
Develop and Deliver Child Protection Training to partners and emergency responders (20%)
- Develop and manage Child Protection in Emergencies training and facilitation content to meet programming needs based on current research and evidence-based best practices
- Deliver Child Protection in Emergencies training to various audiences including program implementation partners and Save the Children emergency responders and volunteers.
Respond to Domestic Emergencies (25%)
- Deploy to domestic responses as the Child Protection lead and or serve as a programmatic backstop.
- Work closely in partnership with the Sr. Specialist of Psychosocial Support in Emergencies to serve as backstop or backfill for each other as needed and increase technical bench strength
- Based on our business needs during a response, U.S. Emergencies employees, including the Sr. Specialist, Child Protection Programs, are expected to deploy for 3 to 6 weeks at a time.
Educational Background:
Bachelor’s degree in child protection, psychology, social work, public health, behavioral health, child development or related field.
Skills/Experience:
- Must be willing to deploy to U.S. disaster for 3-6 weeks
- Minimum 5-7 years' experience in functional area including working directly with groups of children and their caregivers.
- Strong level of technical and/ or managerial knowledge, skills, and experience to lead a program area, or provide the technical advice, guidance and direction related to various size programs and grants
- Excellent communication and presentation/facilitation skills
- Highly collaborative team player
- Organized self-starter who is detail oriented
- Skilled in Microsoft Office Suite
- Travel up to 30%
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Child Protection, Social Work, Psychology, Counseling, Public Health, Behavioral Health, Child Development or related field.
- Experience working in U.S. disaster recovery contexts
- Experience developing and delivering training to adult learners
- Experience in partnership cultivation and management
- Demonstrated knowledge understanding of U.S. and state child welfare systems, processes and networks.
- Demonstrated ability programming to adapt programming in changing or complex environments
- Fluency in Spanish
Compensation/Benefits:
- Aetna Medical and Dental insurance with a concierge service
- Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
- Vision Insurance
- Life insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Commuter Benefit Program
- Vacation and Sick leave
- Paid holidays
What makes us special!
- Generous Retirement Savings with matching company contributions of up to 8%
- Family Leave – 10 additional days of paid time off for you to use to care for your family members
- Additional Maternity and Paternity Leave – 30 days where parents can take additional paid leave (beyond short-term disability and FMLA) at the birth or adoption of a child during that critical first year!
- Critical Child Illness Leave – We hope you never have to use it, but we will provide an additional 30 days of paid leave per year should your dependent child be faced with a critical illness.
- Pet Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance, Identity Protection, Home, Auto and additional Life insurances
- Summer Fun Fridays – During the summer months, early release at 1:30 pm every other Friday!
- Volunteer Day – One paid day a year to support the causes that matter to you!
- Ergonomic Options – Every employee at our HQ offices has the option of a sitting/standing desk
- Leadership and Employee Development Training, including:
- Our remarkable in-house CORE, Senior Management Development, and Leadership Development Programs
- Language learning opportunities
- Continuous Improvement skill development programs
- Brown Bag information sharing sessions
- Work hard/Play hard! We make sure there’s ample opportunity for fun, engagement, and celebration while you work, such as networking events, March Madness, World Cup, Dodgeball Tournaments, Take Your Child to Work Day, Founder’s Day, and our annual Day of Service
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Jun 21 2019
Active Until:
Jul 21 2019
Hiring Organization:
Save the Children US
industry:
Nonprofit