Policy and Advocacy

• Coordinate closely with the Advocacy, Research, and Evidence sector on policy and advocacy work relating to Child Protection
• Lead on policy and advocacy for the sector, ensuring that Child Protection technical interventions are designed to inform relevant policy concerns. Develop policy briefs and position papers, ensuring the inclusion of technical input from the relevant project managers.
• Identify appropriate strategic partnerships for joint advocacy initiatives on related issues

Human Resource Management and Development

• Identify and support professional development and career growth opportunities for Child Protection staff from a technical point of view, and provide mentoring support where appropriate by using competency based framework
• Establish, build and nurture effective teamwork within the Child Protection technical and implementation teams and ensure a cohesive workplace environment for optimum staff retention.
• Create opportunity for staff development in coordination with HR.
• Responsibility to create and maintain a managerial environment where the Child Safeguarding Policy is effectively implemented.

Representation, Coordination and Networking

• Maintain working relationships with relevant stakeholders.
• Identify partnerships/collaborations and build strong networks with other NGOs, CSOs, donors, UN agencies and academic institutions and the private sector working on Child Protection to collaborate on programs, joint learning, analysis and advocacy initiatives
• Support the identification, selection, technical capacity strengthening and monitoring of new partners in Child Protection.
• Ensure that the country office has effective representation and provides technical leadership within national, regional and international networks and forum related to Child Protection, particularly in the Child Protection Areas of Responsibility (CP AoR) and Country Taskforce for Monitoring and Reporting (CTFMR) and that we participate in conferences/meetings that will enhance our reputation and programming
• Actively participate in technical coordination meetings to ensure synergies with other agencies in our development and humanitarian work, including sectors/clusters at national level.
• Maintain excellent relationships with donors, both in terms of strategic positioning and programme delivery, informing regularly other departments (Awards, NBD, operations, etc.) of the outcome of any discussion for internal coordination and record.

Child Safeguarding Responsibilities

• Responsibility to create and maintain a managerial and operational environment where the Child Safeguarding Policy is effectively implemented.
• Ensure that your staff is providing all beneficiaries of your programme with ongoing, age-appropriate verbal or written information in relevant languages about Save the Children’s Child Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct.

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

Accountability

• Holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
• Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• Willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity
• Always acts in the best interests of children

QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• Academic: Master’s degree in relevant field (Social Work, Psychology, Sociology, Human rights Law, Development Studies or similar, or equivalent field 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
• Strong trust building and respectful listening skills
• Excellent understanding and experience on key issues and strategies in Child Protection
• Proven capacity in programme design and reporting
• Excellent skills on process facilitation and coordination/representation at the highest level
• Strong skills in Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning in Child Protection, including assessment and research
• Demonstrated experience in humanitarian response
• Excellent inter-personal communication skills, both verbal and written
• Strong analytical capacity and proficient understanding of both qualitative and quantitative research methods
• Good presentation skills including policy briefings
• Good supportive supervision skills
• Understanding of the context in Myanmar (or demonstrated willingness to learn the context and culture of Myanmar)
• Fluency in written and spoken English

Additional job responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Child Safeguarding and Counter Fraud responsibilities

1. Promote the message of child safeguarding to colleagues in other organizations and government ministries, children in their own and beneficiary families, and community members in general.
2. Take all necessary and appropriate steps to prevent fraud, bribery, and corruption within their areas of responsibility, report and respond to all incidents and concerns and comply with the Counter-Fraud, Bribery and Corruption Policy and Procedure.

Equal Opportunities

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Child Safeguarding:

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 staff has an obligation and a responsibility to:

• Ensure they fully understand the provisions of