Overview
Provide overall technical leadership, coordination, and strategic oversight of the project, ensuring high-quality implementation, policy influence, and strong stakeholder engagement at district level.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead overall project planning, implementation, and project performance.
- Ensure integration across all objectives: Policy & advocacy, behaviour change, Child protection systems, and Livelihoods.
- Ensure alignment with national child labour frameworks and CP Minimum Standards.
- Lead engagement with MGLSD, National Steering Committee, Parliament, and MDAs.
- Coordinate Policy dialogues and advocacy initiatives.
- Oversee development of Policy briefs, fact sheets, and evidence products.
- Lead district budget advocacy and financing discussions.
- Manage high-level relationships with the Government at the district level, the private sector (coffee companies, cooperatives), UN agencies, CSOs, and donors.
- Represent the project in CP coordination forums, Child labour platforms, and ensure effective multi-stakeholder collaboration.
- Lead engagement with coffee value chain actors on Child Rights and Business Principles (CRBP) and Human Rights due diligence.
- Oversee the development of company commitments and MOUs, Child labour policy development within companies, and ensure integration of traceability and compliance mechanisms.
- Ensure quality implementation of Case management systems and referral pathways, and Community structures and PSW strengthening.
- Provide technical guidance on Child protection standards, Safeguarding, and risk mitigation.
- Ensure ethical programming and “do no harm” approaches.
- Supervise Project Officers and other child protection field teams.
- Provide coaching, mentoring, and performance management.
- Support capacity Building of staff and partners on Child labour, Case management, advocacy, and coordination.
- Oversee project monitoring framework and indicators.
- Ensure quality data collection, analysis, and reporting.
- Lead Learning reviews, documentation of impact, and best practices.
- Use data to inform adaptive management.
- Identify and manage programmatic and safeguarding risks.
- Ensure incident reporting and response mechanisms are functional.
- Maintain oversight of ethical concerns and compliance.
- Oversee budgets and ensure efficient resource utilization.
- Approve expenditure aligned with project objectives.
- Ensure donor compliance and reporting requirements are met.
- Adhere to the Child Protection Policy, Safeguarding policy and Code of Conduct.
- Consistently and proactively, monitor/assess the safety and security of field teams; promptly reporting concerns or incidents to the Project Manager and liaising with external parties as required to maintain/enhance the security environment for the program.
- Other duties as assigned by the project manager to enable and develop the program.
Required Experience
- At least 5 years’ experience of implementing child protection system strengthening with similar responsibilities in humanitarian or development settings.
- Good understanding of the national social welfare systems, alternative care systems, juvenile justice system and child protection mechanisms.
- Experience in capacity building, conducting trainings, on-the-job coaching, and technical supervision.
- Experience in community mobilization and conducting outreach activities, including the ability to work on supporting case management work for children at risk.
- Experience working with case files and databases and providing regular documentation.
- Ability to work individually and within a team.
- Experience or knowledge of working and living in relevant regions/contexts.
Qualifications
• At least a bachelor’s in social work, human rights, or related field preferred and diploma/certificate in Child Protection as an added advantage.
