Save the Children
Child Safeguarding Statement for Adverts
Save the Children is committed to ensuring that all our personnel and programmes are absolutely safe for children.
We undertake rigorous procedures to ensure that only people suitable to work with children are allowed to join our organisation and all candidates will be therefore be subject to this scrutiny.
CS positioning statement:
We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
TITLE: Senior Project Officer
LOCATION: Guangzhou
TEAM/PROGRAMME: ASST
CONTRACT LENGTH: 3 years
POST STATUS: Unaccompanied
CHILD SAFEGUARDING:
√Level 1: the post holder will not have contact with children and/or young people, or access to personal data about children or young people, as part of their work; therefore a police check will not be mandatory for this post unless the content of the post changes, in which case the Child Safeguarding level should be reviewed.
ROLE PURPOSE:
The senior project officer will be responsible for managing the ASST project and making strategy planning in Guangdong.
SCOPE OF ROLE:
Reports to: Senior Project Officer
Staff reporting to this post: N/A
Budget Responsibilities: 120,000 GBP per year
Role Dimensions: complexity
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY :
· To take lead on the management of ASST project in Guangzhou and Shenzhen, contributing to design, planning, budgeting, monitoring and evaluation;
· To take lead on high quality donor reports and funding proposals;
· To take lead on preparation of project budgets, financial reports and forecasts and in monitoring and strengthening financial accountability at project management level;
· Develop and maintain relationships with different local stakeholders, including government, civil society organization, local corporates and media. In order to strengthen ASST work and to share both technical and financial resources in the interests of greater efficiency and effectiveness;
· Provide technical support and work with partners on implementing the project, and strengthen partners’ capacity to enable sustainability into the future when Save the Children hands over the project;
· Ensuring monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning is effectively incorporated into the project design and planning;
· To comply with the requirements of Save the Children’s child safeguarding and other policies;
To perform such other tasks and responsibilities as may be required from time to time in order to ensure the smooth running of the team.
BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)
Accountability:
· holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
· holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.
Ambition:
· sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
· widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
· future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.
Collaboration:
· builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
· values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
· approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.
Creativity:
· develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
· willing to take disciplined risks.
Integrity:
honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity
QUALIFICATIONS
A professional qualification at least bachelor degree or equivalent in a related subject such as education, social work, psychology，sociology, communication, advertising and or other related subject.
EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
A minimum of three years’ working or service experience with migrant youth and corporates.
Knowledge of project planning and the project management cycle.
Strong communication, analytical and negotiation skills, and be willing to communicate with people of different backgrounds.
An energetic and proactive approach with the ability to work both independently and co-operatively within a team setting.
A flexible approach to work with good time management skills and the ability to priorities work and meet deadlines.
Willing and be able to travel extensively and regularly.
Additional job responsibilities
The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.
Equal Opportunities
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.
Child Safeguarding:
We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
Health and Safety
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.
SCI values are indicated below and we expect all candidates to align with such values.
Accountability/Ambition/Collaboration/Creativity/Integrity
If you are interested in this position, please read the Child Safeguarding first, fill in the Application Form and send it back to beijingoffice.china@savethechildren.org before 18 June, 2018
