Child Protection & Safeguarding Specialist

THE ORGANIZATION

Plan International is a rights-based development and humanitarian organization working for better lives for all children. We are independent of government and have no political or religious affiliation. Our purpose is to strive for a just world that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We have been building powerful partnerships for children for more than 80 years, and are now active in more than 70 countries.

Our global strategy has a specific focus on girls, as they are often the most marginalized and most often left behind. We have committed ourselves to the ambitious target of reaching 100 million girls over 5 years, to ensure they can learn, lead, decide and thrive. This is our contribution to reaching the sustainable development goals, and in particular the goals on gender equality. Our organization is transforming itself to meet this enormous challenge everywhere we work.

In Mozambique we are working to eradicate early marriage and early pregnancy through projects that focus on adolescent girls in Inhambane, Zambezia, Nampula and Cabo Delgado. These projects are programmed along four strategic pillars: Girl Education, SRHR, YEE and Protection. Our work is gender transformative and includes influencing work at national and sub-regional level.

The purpose of the role is to support the implementation and realization of the PIMz’s strategy through strategically managing and leading the child protection thematic country program.

RULE PERPOSE

The post holder will report to the Director of Programs, Strategy and Implementation and provides strategic program leadership to country programme/project teams in the development and execution of country’s strategic plans to deliver high quality programmes and to ensure integration and synergies between the different teams, for them to comply with Plan’s policies and procedures on Child protection and safeguarding.

MANAGEMENT SCOPE, REPORTING LINES, KEY RELATIONSHIPS

Direct reports – N/A

Reports to- The incumbent will report to Director of Programmes, Implementation and Strategy

Key relationships

Internal

• Programme/Project Managers/Coordinators, Disaster Risk Manager, Business Development Manager, Technical Specialists, Gender & Influencing, MERL, Comms & Advocacy and partnership & Grants Compliance Specialists, PA Managers

  External

  • Implementing and Strategic Partners, Government institutions (Ministry of Gender, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health), UN-agencies, key international NGOs and CSOs working on Child rights

    LEVEL OF CONTACT WITH CHILDREN

    • Low contact: Occasional interaction with children

      PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT

      • Typical Office environment with 30% travel in Country.

        ACCOUNTABILITIES AND MAIN WORK ACTIVITIES

        • Demonstrate leadership in relation to Plan International policies and practices with respect to Child Protection, Internal and External Safeguarding, overall technical leadership on Child Protection programming, policy influencing & advocacy, capacity building, people development, partnership, representation, studies and evaluations of child protection sector;
        • Provide leadership and oversight in the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of all child protection project activities; assess the outputs, outcomes and impact of program interventions and activities;
        • Lead and deliver quality project/programme development to compete in funding opportunities (Scanning the situations, come up with innovation and also consider sustainability and also impact of the projects and programmes);
        • Present and share lessons, best practices, approaches and tested models for donors, government and other stakeholders, partners and alliances to further scaling up and reach wider beneficiaries as well as influencing and attracting more resources;
        • Manages and leads project cycle management in planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluations of projects and programme and close-out process;
        • Supervise child protection activities within the CO with local implementing partners in the implementation of projects/ programmes, capacity building and facilitate learning among partners and stakeholders at different levels;
        • Over sighting and managing overall budget of child protection country programme;
        • Provide technical and managerial support on budget planning and utilization as well as grant management;
        • Ascertain the sub grant fund is used appropriately based on stated initial plan by partners;
        • Represent the organization in all relevant forums at international level concerning child protection programs;
        • Involves in internal and external environment, networks, collations and alliances (Plan international regional forums, Child protection technical working groups, Mental Health psychosocial support technical working groups, GBV/ CP sub clusters, Adolescent and Youth Health Technical working groups and others).

          SAFEGUARDING/PSHEA

          Capacity Building