Overview
Drives the national strategy, resourcing, technical quality, and overall impact of Save the Children's child protection portfolio across DRC, covering humanitarian and development contexts. Leads technical design, implementation, national advocacy, and partnership building.
Key Responsibilities
- Owns and drives the national strategy, resourcing, technical quality, and overall impact of Save the Children's child protection portfolio across DRC.
- Leads technical design and implementation of high-quality programmes.
- Drives national advocacy and influencing.
- Builds strategic partnerships to mobilize resources from diverse donors.
- Ensures all programming promotes the centrality of protection, child wellbeing, and a sustainable pathway to national ownership.
- Builds capacity and fosters agency of national organizations.
- Externally represents Save the Children on priority issues: ending violence, abuse, neglect, and exploitation of children while strengthening an effective, sustainable child protection system across DRC.
- Provides technical support across multiple, diverse geographic contexts within one country.
- Leads national-level strategy that is coherent and standardized while allowing for contextual adaptation at provincial level.
- Manages a distributed technical team (remote management across multiple field offices) with equitable support and accountability.
- Navigates advocacy at national governance structure levels.
Required Experience
- Significant professional experience, at least 3 years of working at a senior level in child protection and or SGBV for international NGOs, UN or government.
- Experience with child protection programming in humanitarian settings.
- Experience in writing donor funding proposals for large institutional grants in excess of US$1 million.
- Experience providing technical support across multiple, diverse geographic contexts within one country (e.g., simultaneous emergency, post-crisis, and stable development settings).
- Demonstrated ability to lead national-level strategy that is coherent and standardized while allowing for contextual adaptation at provincial level.
- Experience managing a distributed technical team (remote management across multiple field offices) with equitable support and accountability.
- Strong understanding of DRC's national governance structures (central ministries in Kinshasa, provincial divisions, territorial entities) and how to navigate advocacy at each level.
Qualifications
• Master’s degree in social work, law, protection or relevant field, or equivalent experience.
