Country: Senegal
Closing date: 05 Jan 2016
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Contract length: 10 days
The role
Besides child protection needs and opportunities, there is a general lack of funding and support to child protection programs across West Central Africa. In order to plan ahead, SCI RO has scheduled a document outlining the strategic intent for our child protection programming and advocacy in line with our global Ambition 2030 and strategy 2016-2018 and our Africa-wide Appropriate Care Strategy 2015.
This strategic intent document will provide the basis for focusing investment and resources on selected critical actions and interventions that are likely to have the highest potential for scaling up and accelerating the delivery of equitable results for the protection of children from violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation in West Central Africa. It will also enable us to 'market' and communicate better Save the Children's child protection work across the organization, with our donors and the public in the countries we work and internationally.
In order to produce this strategic intent for child protection in West Central Africa we will reach out to country offices, child protection technical advisers from other sectors (education, health, nutrition..etc..), members and the Child Protection Global Initiative to gather the information necessary to produce an analysis which can profile Save the Children's child protection work and provide the strategic direction. This will include existing promising practices that can be built on or replicated as well as areas of work in which we can test and invest.
SCI Regional Office (RO) for West and Central Africa will work in collaboration with the Child Protection Initiative to produce this strategic intent document and provide a tool for the RO to raise the visibility and profile of child protection, promote this critical area of work more effectively across Save the Children and engage leadership, members, donors and partners around our strategic intent.
Qualifications and experience
- Advanced university degree in Social Science (Sociology, Anthropology, law etc.,), International development,
- At least 6 years of professional work on social development or Child Rights issues
- Proven experience in designing methodologies for research, writing short analytical papers on social issues, doing situation analysis or other types of research
- Ability to work in a team and good communications skills
- Good knowledge on legal instruments regarding Child Rights, child protection and other SC's thematic issues
- Fluency in written English
- Knowledge of and experience in West African context preferred
We need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
To see a full a job description, please visit our website at www.savethechildren.net/jobs
Please apply in English or French using your CV and covering letter as a single document, including your salary expectations for this role.
How to apply:
Application Email: Please apply with a covering letter and up-to-date CV to: 'Fsy.33155.3830@savethechildrenint.aplitrak.com'