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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: Senor Project Officer - Family Protection

TEAM/PROGRAMME: Programme Implementation

LOCATION: Guangzhou

GRADE: 4

CONTRACT TYPE: National only

CONTRACT LENGTH: fix-term

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; ore because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

ROLE PURPOSE:

To assist Head of Programme on planning, implementation, and monitoring of the Family Protection programme in China.

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.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Head of Programme-Family Protection

Staff reporting to this post: 0

Budget Responsibilities:0

Role Dimensions: complexity

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

·          To be responsible for the management of Family Protection projects in China, contributing to design, planning, budgeting, monitoring and evaluation;

·          To be responsible for high quality donor reports and funding proposals;

·          To develop and maintain relationships with different local stakeholders, including government, civil society organizations, local corporates and media in order to strengthen family protection work and to share both technical and financial resources in the interests of greater efficiency and effectiveness;

·          To be responsible for creating and executing social media campaigns, both online and offline, that aim to change harmful social norms like violence and gender inequality.

·          To be responsible for planning and creating publications that effectively communicate the impact of our program to stakeholders.

·          To provide technical support and work with partners on implementing the project, and strengthen partners’ capacity to enable sustainability into future when Save the Children hands over the project;

·          To ensure monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning is effectively incorporate into the project design and planning;

·          To support internal communications across SCI;

·          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 master’s degree or equivalent in a related subject such as management, development, communications, sociology, education, psychology and or other related subject.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

•          A minimum of five years’ work experience in parent/adult education, communication, campaign, child development or related fields, preferably in NGOs;

•          Knowledge of the project planning and the project management cycle;

•          Strong communication, analytical and negotiation skills, and be willing to communicate with people of different backgrounds;

•          Fluent in English and Mandarin, both spoken and written with good proposal writing skills;

•          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;

•          Open-minded to learning from practice and other people, and be innovative in solutions;

•          Willing and be able to travel extensively and regularly;

•          An understanding of and commitment to, the aims of SC as an organization working for social change and active in the promotion of the rights of the child

•          Able to carry out all appointed work in a non-political and non-discriminatory manner

•          A commitment to support for cross-organizational initiatives and to team working and understanding of how to contribute to this.

•          Ability to operate within a predominantly administratively self-servicing environment.

Desirable

•          Experience in project planning and the project management;

•          Strategic thinking and planning skills.

*** If a candidate does not meet all the experience and skills required for the Senior Project Officer position but shows exceptional potential, they may be offered the position of Project Officer.

Additional job responsibilities

The job duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the post holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Equal Opportunities

The post 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.

Safeguarding our staff:

The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI anti-harassment policy.

Health and Safety

The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.

If you are interested in this position, please read the Child Safeguarding first, then would you please click below link to fill in your job application form in SCI Recruitment System before 2023-8-7 If you have any questions about the job application, please contact us by email: beijingoffice.china@savethechildren.org 

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