Key Area 1:
Technical leadership and support:
• Provide ongoing high quality technical support, guidance and leadership to managers and staff working on child protection programs.
• Lead on development and application of innovative approaches to child protection.
• Support project teams in producing high quality and timely reports to donors and SC members.
• Promote and support the appropriate implementation of organization’s child protection common program approaches
• Develop and implement strategies to ensure gender equity, child participation and beneficiary accountability in all child protection programs.
• In collaboration with humanitarian colleagues, respond to emergency situations, ensuring timely and quality responses to humanitarian crises in line with international standards and technical best practice.
• Collaborate closely with relevant organization members, technical working groups and other relevant stakeholders to ensure technical excellence as per latest technical discussions and approaches, and keep organization in Vietnam team abreast of technical updates and discussions.
Key Area 2:
Program Development:
• Work with organization staff to develop a clear funding strategy for child protection in Vietnam
• Develop concept notes and proposals to expand the child protection portfolio in line with strategic priorities and technical best practices for a wide range of donors
• Establish good networks and strategic partnerships with institutional and private donors.
Key Area 3:
Program Quality:
• Build the capacity of staff in organization’s Child Protection technical competencies ensuring complementarity with other programs related to Child Rights Governance, Education, Disaster Risk Reduction and Emergency Response, etc.
• Identify internal and external capacity building opportunities and resources for technical staff to build knowledge and technical competence, enabling the team to provide high quality CP technical assistance to organization’s partners
• Conduct internal workshops and contribute to other fora to disseminate learning, best practices and ensure that a high level of technical capacity is maintained.
• Integrate program learning across the child protection projects, ensuring coherence of technical approach across programs, identifying best practice, and cross-sectoral complementarity.
• Ensure that regular project review meetings take place and are attended by the relevant project manager, and include technical support and capacity building needs of project staff.
• Work with child protection and campaign colleagues to identify priority policy and advocacy objectives and develop an effective advocacy strategy to achieve these.
• Ensure evidence of impact of interventions is rigorously maintained, documented and disseminated internally and externally as appropriate.
Key Area 4:
Representation, Networking, Communications and Advocacy:
• Support the programme team to carry out child protection related policy analysis and advocacy.
• Develop advocacy plan for child protection programming in Vietnam, aiming for sustainability and the achievement of results at scale.
• Promote effective child protection representation on national, regional and international networks and fora, and participate in conferences/meetings that will enhance our reputation and programming in child protection
• Build strong networks with other NGOs, CSOs, UN agencies and academic institutions, as well as donors, working on child protection to collaborate on joint learning, analysis and advocacy initiatives
• Actively participate in technical coordination meetings to ensure synergies with other agencies in our emergency responses and development work
• Maintain excellent relationships with donors and government agencies.
Other tasks
The job duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the post holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience, including adjustment on job description.
BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)
Accountability
• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving results together with children and role modelling SCI values.
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities in protecting children. Provide the necessary technical support to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.
• Creates a managerial environment in-country to lead, enable and maintain our culture of child safeguarding.
Ambition
• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for self and team, takes responsibility for own professional development and encourages team to do the same.
• Widely shares an ambitious but realistic vision for child protection and organization in Vietnam, to engage and motivate others.
• Future oriented, thinks strategically and on a country as well as broader scale.
Collaboration
• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with own team, colleagues, members, donors and partners.
• 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
• Always acts in the best interests of children
