Overview
The Child Protection Technical Advisor leads in shaping child protection technical strategies in Egypt, ensuring interventions follow global approaches and standards. The role is accountable for the quality of child protection programming and contributes to project development, proposal writing, and capacity building.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the development and rollout of the CP strategy for Save the Children in Egypt.
- Provide CP technical input to country office strategic plan, annual plans, PDQI plans, area plans, response and emergency preparedness plans, sector strategies and other planning documents.
- Review and update child protection technical strategies.
- Contribute to SCI country program planning and reporting on child protection thematic priorities.
- Identify research opportunities and gather evidence to develop innovative programs.
- Ensure appropriate, timely and accurate data collection against CP and program that feed into high quality reports.
- Review programme and donor reports on child protection project activities.
- Develop budgets for CP programs and proposals.
- Provide strategic direction and advice to project managers and teams.
- Provide advice, guidance and oversight to the CP Manager and program team.
- Conduct monthly follow up meetings with different CP programs and projects and provide technical supervision.
- Conduct technical reviews of all CP activities and conduct quality assessments.
- Supervise the Case Management (CM) Specialist.
- Supervise the CM Specialist in conducting monthly internal coordination meetings.
- Provide technical support on complex and emergency CP case management cases.
- Collaborate with other sectors to promote Centrality of Protection.
- Ensure recognized international good practice, SCI policies and global approaches are applied.
- Strengthen program learning and documentation on child protection.
- Work closely with the HR team, lead on recruitment and induction of Child Protection key staff.
- Support the identification of appropriate local partners and community based organizations.
- Coordinate and cooperate with regional and global technical advisors and surge teams during emergencies.
- Establish strong relationships with Child Protection Global Theme, Save the Children members, government ministries, national councils, donors, UN agencies, and Civil Society Organizations.
- Represent Save the children in CP coordination platforms.
- Provide technical expertise in the development of sector strategies within Inter-agency coordination forums.
- Establish positive, productive relationships with relevant government authorities.
- Establish and maintain positive, productive relations with UN organizations, donors, partners and communities.
- Work with high-level decision makers from the government, influence strategic and technical discussions.
- Support strengthening capacity of Save the Children staff, access to training and opportunities for learning.
- Follow up on SCI Child Protection staff learning needs assessment and capacity building plans.
- Coach and mentor SCI Child Protection staff, local partner staff and national level counterparts.
- Proactively lead and promote the CP advocacy strategy.
- Contribute to fundraising, proposal and budget development.
- Build strong relationships with relevant NGOs, government bodies and donors to mobilize resources/funding.
- Promote children's rights, contributing to their well-being and protection in times of emergencies.
- Support SCI’s response to emergencies.
- Be prepared to support SCI interventions in response to emergencies and show needed flexibility.
Required Experience
- Minimum 10 years’ experience in a child protection programming in a humanitarian and development program context.
- Minimum 3-5 years’ experience in child protection programming in a senior management/advisory position.
- Highly familiar with the refugees and migrant’s context in Egypt, is a must.
- Experience in child protection and case management programming is a must.
- Proven history of project implementation including budgeting, monitoring and evaluation administration; is a must.
- Solid understanding of the context in Egypt related to migration of Egyptian and non-Egyptians on the move.
- Experience of preparing successful proposals for donors.
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation and coaching.
- Experience with partner coordination, including government, non-governmental partners and donor relations.
- Excellent analytical and creative abilities with strong results orientation.
- Previous experience leading a project funded by the European Union, is preferable.
- Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of adaptability, patience, tact and diplomacy.
Qualifications
• Graduate Degree in Social Work, Human rights Law, International Relations, Development Studies or similar, or equivalent field experience.
