Senior Humanitarian Advisor, Child Protection at Save the Children

ROLE PURPOSE: 

This role is an exciting opportunity for a Humanitarian Child Protection professional to provide technical support to our child protection work with children in humanitarian responses. The postholder will work closely with the Humanitarian Child Protection (HCP) Response Lead to define funding needs and support the development of partnerships and new business opportunities. S/he will also represent Save the Children in relevant inter-agency fora.

Specifically, the post holder will be accountable for (1) provision of child protection technical expertise to support country offices (CO) in the development and implementation of high-quality, integrated programming in humanitarian crises, including throught deployment; (2) support the Humanitarian Child Protection (HCP) Response Lead with new business development to address strategic priorities and response-level funding gaps; (3) contribution to internal technical approaches and tools and inter-agency evidence generation and standard setting.

In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• Extensive experience in delivering high quality humanitarian programmes and providing technical support to child protection.
• Strong understanding of principles, practices and policy priorities related to child protection.
• Strong experience of capacity building and mentoring on child protection approaches.
• Knowledge of policy, research and evidence-based methodologies with regards to child protection, and other relevant child focused programming.
• Professional qualification in or closely related sphere, such as social work, international law, psychology etc.
• Ability to undertake significant and regular international travel up to 30% of time.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation and coaching.
• Commitment to building and supporting a diverse and inclusive technical team.
• Fluent spoken and written English