Overview
To support the quality design, delivery, and representation of Child Protection (CP) programming in Sierra Leone, upholding the organisation's mission to create a positive and lasting impact for hard-to-reach children. The role provides strategic leadership for the growth, development, and implementation of the Child Protection portfolio, ensuring quality assurance and innovation.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the operationalisation of the Child Protection strategic goal and ensure quality programme implementation.
- Provide oversight and guidance to programme implementation teams.
- Keep abreast of and disseminate new national policies, strategies, and developments relating to Child Protection.
- Advise and support implementation teams to take corrective actions in programme activities.
- Provide capacity building and technical support to CP staff, partners, and government authorities.
- Analyse and inform donor priorities and shape senior management decisions on strategic CP priorities.
- Lead technical scoping, planning, design, and proposal writing for new programme development.
- Ensure broader intersecting social justice, disability, and resilience considerations are reflected in programme design and implementation.
- Maintain professional contacts with strategic and potential donors and key technical agencies.
- Help identify fundraising and mobilization opportunities and develop proposals for Child Protection and Gender Equality programmes.
- Contribute to the development of tools and frameworks for monitoring and evaluation of program quality.
- Work with MEAL teams to carry out gender and power analysis and conduct quality monitoring.
- Contribute to relevant programme reports prior to submission to donors.
- Lead the recruitment and support management of external consultants for technical support or monitoring and evaluation.
- Support the MEAL department in monitoring Quality Benchmarks and analysing IPPTs.
- Ensure an avenue for children’s voice through accountability mechanisms.
- Support teams and partner organizations to strengthen child participation tools.
- Play a leading role in introducing innovations in CP programmes.
- Facilitate dissemination of research findings and learning.
- Engage in strategic positioning with donors, partners, and government.
- Represent the organisation at national level CP and external meetings, and Technical Working Group meetings.
- Liaise and maintain good relationships with Ministry of Gender and Children’s Affairs and other line ministries.
- Strengthen civil society engagement in national dialogues and policy processes.
Required Experience
- Significant (at least 8 years) professional experience of working at a senior advisory level in CP, Child Rights, and/or Gender Equality in international NGOs in complex settings.
- Specific experience in sub-sector specializations of Child Protection is highly valued.
- Progressive, professional-level experience at the management level with background in Child Protection and/or Gender Equality.
- Ability to conceptually link CP with Education, Livelihoods, Child Rights, Health and Nutrition interventions within the context of an integrated programme approach.
- Proven experience of living and working in insecure environments, able to follow security guidelines.
Qualifications
• Master’s degree in a relevant Humanities Field
