Child Protection Consultants Needed At Alight Talent Community

Job Overview

Job Type: Full-Time

Company: Alight

Location: Fully Remote

Salary:$61K – $77.2K a year

About the company

Alight formerly American Refugee Committee provide health care and clean water, shelter, protection, and economic opportunity to more than 3.5 million people in 17 countries

Job Description

• Assist in overseeing the development, start-up and strengthening of CP programming components as part of the Alight emergency response.
• Understanding the context, actors and landscape on the ground and what the critical child protection needs and priorities are in terms of strengthening the response around child protection.
• Strengthen  current child protection responses through providing needs-based capacity strengthening to CPiE staff and partners to standardize the CP response
• Work closely with Alight’s other emergency consultants, staff and partner organizations on developing a multi-sectoral approach to child services.
• Leading the development of a multi-sector assessment and interagency rapid assessment as relevant, including methodology, training, accompaniment and analysis focusing on areas related to the needs of and services for children and adolescents.
  Offering technical assistance (such as training, practice mentoring, develop guidelines) to ALIGHT staff, partners and other actors, based on needs assessment and context priorities.
• Initiating and strengthening the harmonization of programming in urgent areas of child safety including but not limited to case management child friendly spaces, community based child protection among others.
  Ensuring needs and priorities for programming and advocacy are in line with the context, needs, and gaps on the ground.

Job Specification

• Master’s Degree in a child or youth related field, (eg. education, social work, community work) preferred.
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of international child protection and youth policy and practice issues.
• Experience developing and delivering successful and safe Child Protection projects or programs.
• Experience in effectively dealing with staff, as well as donor agencies, government officials, and other NGO’s; ability to work with a broad spectrum of people.
• Proven proficiency in budget management, grants management and reporting.
• Excellent professional record of accomplishment with at least three years of international management level experience within NGO leadership working in child protection in emergency / humanitarian program implementation in conflict or immediate post conflict environments.
• Strong writing and analytical skills, including ability to communicate technical matters to a range of audiences.
• At least 3 years of staff management experience, including staff capacity development and team building experience.
• Strong coordination and project management skills.
• Proven experience supervising and providing case management services and support.

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