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.
JOB TITLE: Project Manager –Child Protection
TEAM/PROGRAMME: Protection
LOCATION: TBC, Beijing or Kunming is preferred
Number of Positions: 1
Grade: 3
CHILD SAFEGUARDING:
Level 3: the role holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work in country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process for staff.
ROLE PURPOSE: To lead the National Child Protection Project at different locations. This includes to work closely with the national office, project staff in these areas and government and NGO partners. It requests the matrix management.
SCOPE OF ROLE:
Reports to: TBC
Direct Reports: 2-5
If this role is a budget holder, approximately how much budget is the role managing: above 1 million USD
Financial Approval: Budget Allocation on General Funds over 10 000 USD
Authorise expenditure up to 75,000 RMB
External Representation: Interpersonal contact regular and varied in both oral and written forms. Negotiation and representation with senior level representatives including government level decision makers, donors, wider SC community
Travel: Frequent (over 6 days per month)
Key accountabilities
· To lead the management of Child Protection project which includes the project activities and staff. This is not limited to, project implementation plan, regular monitoring and evaluation, partnership management, donor visiting and reporting.
· To be responsible for the overall budgeting and financial management of the project.
· Identify good programme experience that has the potential to influence policy and practice for children elsewhere in China and work with the national child protection lead to develop strategies to enable this；
· To contribute to the production of high quality, analytical reports, regular situation reports and to the communications of Save the Children in China；
· To help establish, maintain, and improve active and regular working relationships with key government partners, experts in the field, as well as local and international NGOs ;
· 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 and Save the Children China Programme.
Person specification
Skills and Experience: At least 6-8 years’ of project management experiences including at least 3 years’ of large scale project above 1 million USD in the relevant field.
Education: Degree in the relevant field, Social work, Development, Law (MBA, MD, MPH), desirable professional qualification in project management.
Communication and Technical Skills
· Excellent English communication skills, both written and verbal
· Excellent personal organisational skills, including time management, and ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure
· Willingness to travel to field offices and work in difficult environments according to travel requirements
· Knowledge and experience to work with the government
· Excellent strategic thinking and planning skills including the ability to set SMART objectives, agree priorities and evaluate the impact.
· Desirable: knowledge of Child rights programming approach
Management:
· Excellent people management skills/experience and proven ability to create an environment which encourages team-working and motivates a team across various geographical areas.
· At least 3 years of management experience (Manager and Director levels)
General:
· Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues across the organisation developing effective working relationships to deliver outstanding results for children
· Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles
· Willingness and capability to comply with all relevant Save the Children policies and procedures with respect to health and safety, security, equal opportunities and other relevant policies, including the Child Safeguarding Policy
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 29th.Jan,2019.
