Program Coordinator– Child Protection (CP)

at Plan International
Location Juba, Sudan
Date Posted March 9, 2020
Category Administration
Job Type Full-time
Currency SDG

Description

Background:

About Us:

“We strive for a just world that advances children’s rights and equality for girls”

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organization that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.

Working together with children and young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.

We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood. And we enable children to prepare for – and respond to – crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 80 years, and are now active in more than 72 countries.  In Sudan, we have been active for over 40 years, and currently maintaining an operational presence in four states - Kassala, White Nile, North Kordofan and North Darfur.

This footprint is augmented by partner led emergency responses in East and West Darfur, South Kordofan and the Red Sea.

Plan International core values are:

  • We strive for lasting impact
  • We are open and accountable
  • We work well together
  • We are inclusive and empowering

 

 Duties and responsibilities:
  1. Design and develop programs strategies and implement activities to end child abuse and violence against children ensure safe environment for children
  2. Provide advocacy, knowledge management and communication on child protection and rights.
  3. Ensuring that Plan International is a child and youth safe organization
  4. Ensuring the integration of child protection in each project activity from design to implementation, and monitoring that program areas comply with minimum requirements.
  5. Ensuring that Community Based Child Protection and Mechanisms (CBCPM) are functional, through identification of the main gaps, challenges, needs and support required for making them active and responsive to child protection concerns.
  6. Support, manage and facilitate implementation of the child protection component of the SPAD project.

Accountabilities

  1. Design and develop program strategies and implement activities to end child abuse and violence against children ensure safe environment for children
  2. Design and formulate project activities, initiatives & proposals.
  3. Draft inputs to country strategy documents, briefs, policy dialogues and other documents related to child protection.
  4. Technical implementation of the SPAD project activities ensuring synergy with other teams;
  5. Provide technical advice and guidance and capacity building to implementing partners and manage the submission of financial and narrative reports;
  6. Provide advocacy, knowledge management and communication on child protection and rights.
  7. Identify best practices and lessons learned to guide program improvement and strategy planning;

 

Ensuring that Plan International is a child and youth safe organization

  1. Undertake clear and strong advocacy on the SCYPP at the field office acting as an ambassador and role model for SCYPP implementation at all times benefiting from internal platforms and events such as staff meetings, inductions etc…
  2. Provide high quality and accessible advice, support and guidance to PAM and staff ensuring that adequate SCYPP measures are integrated into office operations, processes and programmes as outlined in the 13 CPP implementation standards and other core SCYPP documents.
  3. Collaborate with and provide advice to key teams and/or departments within the offices to ensure that risk identification/assessment and management strategies of all processes, procedures and activities includes assessment of CP risks and appropriate mitigating actions are developed.
  4. Deliver mandatory SCYPP briefings, refresher training (each 6 month), inductions and/or workshops to staff, associates, children and communities ensuring all are aware of what the SCYPP means for them where possible.
  5. Share the annual CPP implementation standards self-assessment and incident reporting with the Child protection program lead as per agreed timelines.
  6. Implement SCYPP action plan shared by the CO and clearly outline gaps in implementation and how these can be addressed.
  7. Submit timely incident reports on child protection allegations and respond effectively in line with local procedures, and act as field office referral point.
  8. Ensure newly recruited staff completed the Plan Academy safeguarding introductory online course based on staff categories and number (staff, interns, partners, associates, or volunteers)
  9. Support the development of SCYPP communication materials and disseminated among Plan office, partners, associates and communities.

 

Ensuring integration of CP in each project activity:

  1. Support the thematic leaders for designing and gender sensitive concept notes across the project proposal and activities according to Plan’s Gender Transformative Programming and Influencing guidelines.
  2. Conduct regular field visits with different project managers to ensure integration of child protection in each project activity
  3. monitoring that program areas comply with minimum requirements.

Work with M&E for monitoring the child protection projects to ensure implementations comply with minimum requirements.

 Minimum Qualification, Skills and Experience Required:
  • At least 3 -4 years of experience working in related field in an INGO or UN agencies.
  • Bachelor’s Degree in relevant subject, (Law, Social Sciences or other related fields)
  • A high level of written and spoken English
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Proven ability of mentoring, coaching and training on Child Protection related topics.
  • Experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook.
  • Female candidates have advantage and Credibility

•       Presentation skills

a.     Negotiation skills

b.     Analytical and logical skills

•       Communication skills

a.     Good command of written and spoken English and Arabic languages.

b.     Good skills in spread sheet and word processing computer application

c.     Good skills in computer information and communication.

d.     Excellent skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills.

e.     Ability to document progress and trend reports.

f.      Ability to think creatively to understand including risks associated to internet

g.        Strong interpersonal skills to cope up with stress and managing work effectively.

Salary and Benefits:

Plan offers a very competitive salary and benefits package to its employees. The employee shall receive a gross salaryof (974) in USD. We are also known as a learning institute that builds up staff career development and provides comprehensive Talent Management Programs.

Applying Instructions

The closing date for the applications is 19/03/2020. Please use the title: Program Coordinator– Child Protection”in your application.  Please attach your CV and relevant certificates, a motivational letter explaining how your skills and experiences meet the requirements of the job, your contact details including phone and email in addition to the names and contact details of two references who know you professionally. Please note that one of the references must be your current/most recent line manager.  The complete application should be submitted via Sudanjob.net Please note :

  • Only short listed candidates will be contacted
  • Females are strongly encouraged to apply “competitive offers are waiting for them!”

 

Child Protection Policy:

References checks will be carried out in conformity with Plan’s Child Protection Policy for the successful candidate before confirming the offer. Plan will also request for Police Clearance report before confirming the offer.  Plan is committed to implementing its equal opportunities policy, actively encourages diversity, and welcomes applications from all areas of the national community.

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