Humanitarian Child Protection Manager at Save the Children Nigeria

Save the Children is the leading independent organization for children in need, with programs in over 120 countries. We save children’s lives. We fight for their rights. We help them fulfil their potential. Save the Children is working in Nigeria because one in five children in Nigeria dies before their fifth birthday. About 40% of children miss out on school and have to work to survive while nearly 2 million children have lost one or both parents to an AIDS-related disease.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Humanitarian Child Protection Manager

Job Identification 5928
Location:  Maiduguri, Borno
Team / Programme:  Humanitarian Response  
Grade: Grade 2
Post Type: National

Role Purpose

• The Child Protection (CP) Manager will be based in Borno State and is the sectoral manager of all child protection implementations in the humanitarian response in NE Nigeria.  
• CP Manager is to ensure CP interventions are in line with Save the Children and donor guidelines; including assessment, design and managing staff to initiate quality interventions to address violations of children’s rights to protection from abuse, exploitation, violence and neglect.  
• The post holder is responsible for ensuring that quality programmes are implemented and capacities developed to provide these kinds of protection to children in a range of Save the Children’s emergency responses in the Northeast.  
• The post holder is expected to also support the proposal writing and is responsible for programme reporting, programme design and capacity building of staff and partners.  
• The incumbent will support the development of the sector strategy and will represent Save the Children in coordination groups and support fundraising, recruitment and procurement.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead on child protection assessments and implementation using Save the Children assessment processes and tools and the Inter-agency Child Protection Assessment Resource Toolkit adapting the tools as necessary. 
• Integrate quality child protection programming throughout the response and across sectors in the NE. Including in the areas of: 
  • emergency family tracing interventions and alternative options for unaccompanied and sepa-rated children, utilizing tools within the  Inter-Agency Child Protection Information Man-agement System;
  • prevention and response to child recruitment including advocacy and disarmament, demobi-lization and reintegration initiatives;
  • prevention and response to sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) and gender-based violence (GBV);
  • prevention and response to the main risks for children’s exposure to physical harm;
  • prevention and response to all forms of exploitation including harmful child labour and child trafficking; and
• Ensure quality delivery of child protection programme activities in the field, monitor the progress against log frames and report on the BvA.
• Preparation of timely programme and donor reports for child protection project activities in compli-ance with internal and external requirements.
• Working closely with the human resources team, identify child protection staffing needs for the emergency programmes, and facilitate rapid recruitment, induction and training of new staff.
• Identify child protection programme supply needs and work with logistics team to put in place a sensibly phased procurement plan.
• Ensure quality and comprehensive case management systems are in place to support UASC and at risk children.
• Anchor the development of contextual manuals for foster care placement, case management tools, child friendly spaces, child protection committees, for use on the field.
• Ensure the coordination of case management and Child Protection Information Management System (CPIMS) database activities for quality reporting.
• Ensure that the concept of confidentiality and do no harm are integrated into programming.
• Working closely with the Monitoring & Evaluation team to put in place a child protection M & E plan, ensuring this links to reporting requirements, and capacity build child protection.
• Put in place accountability activities for child protection, ensuring that feedback from all relevant stakeholders is considered in programme design.
• Ensure the child protection response complies with the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Settings, the Sphere Charter and Red Cross Code of Conduct.

Capacity Building:

• Identify learning and training opportunities for child protection staff and partners and work as a mentor and role model.
• Build capacities of government and ministries staff, local partners’ staff, and other core sectors for fluid integration.

Representation & Advocacy & Organisational Learning:

• Ensure that Save the Children's work is coordinated with other agencies and the government; take a leadership role in the Interagency Coordination forums to ensure children needs of children are ad-dressed. This may involve taking the lead in the Child Protection Working Group, cluster and/or sub-groups.
• Take steps to document lessons learned for wider dissemination.
• In collaboration with senior programme staff, play a lead role in child protection advocacy activities targeting decision-makers.
• In collaboration with Save the Children colleagues feed in learning experiences and evidence to rele-vant global child protection advocacy objectives.
• Identify opportunities and material to contribute to external communications and media work, act-ing as a spokesperson when required.

General:

• Demonstrate leadership concerning Save the Children policies and practices with respect to child protection, code of conduct, health and safety, etc.
• Deliver high-quality results and develop effective relationships across SCI offices for quality delivery of CP programs.

Qualifications and Experience
Required:

• Holds a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Social Work, Human Rights Law, International Relations, Development Studies or similar, or equivalent field experience.
• Management experience (of at least 5 years) working in emergency response contexts or fragile states in the area of child protection.
• Good knowledge of and experience in using established inter-agency standards and guidelines in child protection, such as the Inter-agency Guidelines on Separated and Unaccompanied Children, the Paris Principles, MRM, SC Child Friendly Spaces Handbook, and the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Settings.
• Experience in monitoring and evaluating child protection programmes in emergency, transition and development contexts. 
• Experience in capacity building and in strengthening various duty bearers understanding of and re-sponse to child protection.
• Experience of representation and ability to represent SC effectively in external forums.
• Experience of budget management and reporting across multiple awards
• Excellent communication skills, high level of written and spoken English.

Desirable:

• Good working knowledge of the Inter-Agency Child Protection Information Management System
• Specific experience of managing FCDO, USAID/BHA/PRM, NORAD, GAC-IHA, ECHO, EU and other major donor-funded projects
• Understanding of Localisation, promoting partnership management with local civil society organizations and advancing advocacy on CP issues and overall Child Rights Governance using local networks.
• Build effective relations with government counterparts and effective engagement of stakeholders in SCI programme management and implementation.

Other:

• Other duties as assigned by the Head of Programme Implementation.

Application Closing Date
14th February, 2024 - 01:00 AM.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online