Child Protection & Safeguarding Coordinator at World Vision International Rwanda: (Deadline 20 May 2024)

% Time

Major Activities

45%

Strengthening Child Protection prevention, reporting and response mechanisms

• Manage implementation, budget, and quality of the CP Technical program interventions;
• Supports and integrates appropriate, safe, and meaningful participation of children throughout the project lifecycle and decision-making opportunities inside and outside of WV processes at the programme level
• Strengthen WVR-established complaints & feedback mechanisms
• Build capacity of local CP&A group to understand CP issues and root causes, CP systems strengthening, and prioritization of CP issues to address
• Facilitate CP&A group development of shared action plan to address violence against children’s issues
• With support from the Region and GC child protection focal points, coordinate and support training in project model or CP intervention implementation for CP&A group members, CP staff, local implementing partners involved in CP project implementation.
• Promote effective partnerships with Technical Working Groups (TWGs), local CP stakeholders, networks, coalitions, government representatives to understand the functionality of the CP System and to form/strengthen the local CP&A group
• Promote effective working relationships with faith leaders and communities on child protection initiatives, positive parenting techniques to address violence against children’s issues

35%

Promoting Child & Adult Safeguarding

• Support Leadership to promote safeguarding culture at all levels
• Lead a working group to contextualize WV’s Child and Adult Safeguarding Policy for national and local operating context, including policy roll-out
• With the support of East Africa Regional Safeguarding focal point, establish a functioning safeguarding training and capacity building system
• Develop/Review Safeguarding Incident Preparedness Plan (SIPP) and train staff on their respective roles;
• Ensure proper implementation of the office’s Safeguarding Incident Preparedness Plans at all levels
• Train local partners or volunteers who work directly with programme participants on WVR Child & Adult Safeguarding policies, procedures, behaviours, and reporting protocols
• Establish and lead a working group to conduct a Safeguarding Risk Assessment and create a risk management plan, ensuring safeguarding risk is documented in the FO’s Risk Register
• Document Leadership decisions and rationale related to safeguarding risk management, ensuring WVR Risk Register is updated accordingly
• Contextualise safeguarding and PSEA orientation and training materials for staff, interns, volunteers, contractors and visitors and socialise with relevant department heads
• Participate in partner due diligence, capacity assessment and spearhead safeguarding partner assessment and capacity building plans components of the assessment
• Ensure partners either receive safeguarding training and capacity building from WV or their own organisations
• Develop or contextualise child-friendly and accessible safeguarding/PSEA awareness raising materials for communities, including information on expected behaviour (per safeguarding behavioural protocols) and how to report violations (leveraging interagency PSEA resources as appropriate)
• Coordinate and contribute to sector-wide safeguarding through the PSEA Network and/or other national or local safeguarding coordination bodies
• In liaison with WVI safeguarding team, provide support and lead WVR team in incidents management, investigations and response
• Present to the Senior Leadership Team on safeguarding compliance gaps, incident trends, and emerging risk
• Advise P&C, Communications, Sponsorship, Marketing, Procurement, Integrated Programming, and other relevant teams on their safeguarding responsibilities in alignment with the Child and Adult Safeguarding Policy (ie. Criminal background checks, visitor preparations, prevention of harm in communications, minimum requirements for contractors, complaints mechanisms, reviewing correspondence, etc.)

5%

Resource mobilization

• Contribute on resource mobilization and developing proposals to secure funding for child protection & safeguarding related projects;
• Ensure integration of CP and safeguarding policy in different proposals.
• Develop fundable concept notes and share them with GAM team for marketing.

15%

Meet minimum quality standards and support improvement, reflection, learning and innovation

• Complete the annual safeguarding self-assessment (i.e. Safeguarding Update Report) by leading a working group to generate responses and updating leadership on a regular basis, based on results and feedback from the Safeguarding Update Report process, develop and monitor safeguarding action plan in order to continually improve WVR safeguarding system; hold staff accountable to completing the action plan with regular check-in’s during the year
• Analyse progress on safeguarding compliance and quality safeguarding implementation and use learning to continue good practices, fill gaps and improve quality safeguarding implementation
• Promote the development of innovations in PSEA and safeguarding by building on learnings and evidence of good practice, informed by the unique challenges and needs of the context
• Actively monitor output indicators of reach and coverage and provide recommendations for improvement to reach desired CP outcomes
• Assess project activities to ensure they are within scope, time, and budget; assess the quality of implementation for CP interventions
• Quality monitoring data is produced to adjust programming to achieve desired outcomes; quality evaluation reports are produced demonstrating lessons learned, impact to vulnerable children, and recommendations for future programming.
• Monitor CP&A group functioning, implementation, and organizational capacity

Required Education,

training, license,

registration, and

certification

• University degree in Law or equivalent in the fields of child protection, social work, community development, international development, child development, or a related field.
• 3-5 years’ experience in child protection, child development, or community development
• Experience working in an NGO or international development context
• Experience leading workshops, trainings, and capacity-building sessions
• Experience in project design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and reporting
• Extremely strong planning and project management skills
• Strong group facilitation, training, coaching, and capacity-building skills
• Strong inter-personal communication and collaboration skills
• Strong partnering, conflict management, and consensus building skills
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Knowledge of common local child protection issues and violations
• Compassion and commitment to ending violence against the most vulnerable children

Preferred Knowledge

and Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Law or its equivalent is an added value