Overall Purpose of the Role: 

Child Protection community facilitator will coordinate and manage over all Ethiopian Migration Program /Project activities implementation, monitoring and reporting from assigned intervention areas in Gubalafto, Habru, and Raya Kobo districts of North Wollo zone. The child protection community facilitator will lead and coordinate community level volunteers, partners, stakeholders and service providers to ensure proper and timely beneficiary identification, operational planning, implementation, monitoring, assessments and will provide progress updates on monthly, quarterly and annual basis. Child protection community facilitator will also involve in community structure capacity building activities. Facilitate community level dialogue, discussion sessions, events, resilience building sessions, awareness creation, review meetings, learning sessions and like

Child protection community facilitator will work on case stories, success stories, documentation and assess progress on regularly. He/she will provide project progress reports as per the organization, government and donor requirement. He /she will have supervisory role to community volunteers to implement all EMP intervention activities at the community level.

Child protection community facilitator will closely work with community level women and Children affairs, Labor and social Affairs, other relevant government offices and stakeholders to jointly implement, monitor and support coordination.

Child protection community facilitator will represent SCI at external forums/meetings at field/community level as required in consultation with the line manager to position the achievements of the project that he/she is responsible for.

KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Community Training and Empowerment 

• Mobilize community to protect unsafe & irregular migration through and from Ethiopia.
• Provide protection services in collaboration with government officials and community organizations: CBOs, FBOs, clubs and associations.
• Ensure gender equality and equity
• Organize/facilitate the registration, verification, mobilization of project beneficiaries, and engage on youth resilience programs.
• Facilitates community meetings and community action plan preparation and ensure that the participation of each beneficiary and community groups in the plan for their respective Kebele’s .
• Facilitates and ensure that the participation of each beneficiary and community groups in implementation, monitoring and evaluation
• In collaboration with his/her supervisor, support in training need identification and provides effective trainings to target group members as per the project document.
• Work with community leaders, elders and government staff and acts as a catalyst
• in initiating action and generating enthusiasm for change in communities by performing demonstrations and organizing and leading training sessions;
• Prepares final action plan of their respective Kebele’s by breaking down in to quarters and months and submit it to her/his supervisor

Facilitate implementation of project activities and monitoring

• Facilitate all child protection project activities (capacity building, community mobilization, youth resilience program and protection services) in the intervention area in accordance with the contract objectives, work plan and allocated budget
• Facilitates youth target groups selection and targeting along with partners and responsible body from the Keeble’s; based on selection criteria
• Provides technical assistance to beneficiaries’ youth, families, youth groups and community members;
• Supports regular capacity assessment activities conducted for youth and families  
• Closely works with government counterparts and links the activities of the community with the relevant bureaus/bodies;
• Develop partnership at grass root level stakeholders for the sustainability of activities
• Ensure up to date recording of beneficiary data and timely reporting at Keeble level

Technical Support and Facilitation

• Provides technical assistance on child protection and community dialogues.
• Integrates child protection interventions with youth livelihood activities.
• Ensures beneficiaries have access to all required and necessary services 
• Planning, Reporting and Learning
• Collects basic information from the community, document the information and practices, local practices that are best performing to the local conditions.
• Prepares weekly, monthly and quarterly plans on her/his activities and submit to her/his supervisor;
• ·Prepare weekly, monthly and quarterly reports and submit it to her/his supervisor
• Support and facilitates community experience sharing sessions and lessons.

Job Requirements

• A minimum of College Diploma and above in a related field of Health’s and Social Science or equivalent
• Recommended a minimum of 2 years’ experience in a corporate or NGO environment, with experience in community based child protection project implementation experience
• Experience, Knowledge and understanding of community based child protection mechanisms, national protection systems, migration dynamics, returnee’s management and technical knowledge on child protection monitoring and evaluation, migration and Returnees  
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation and coaching
• Highly developed cultural awareness and ability to work well in environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures
• Strong results orientation, with the ability to challenge existing mind-sets
• Experience of successfully implementing changes to improve and monitor quality standards and impact
• Ability and willingness to dramatically change work practices and hours, and work with incoming surge teams, in the event of emergencies
• Fluency in English, and local language both verbal and written, required
• Commitment to Save the Children values

Desirable

• NGOs Experience working in a complex multi-culture working context in any one of the protection areas
• Experience providing trainings and building capacity of staff.       

The Organization

We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard. 

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued. 

How to Apply

Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application, and include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations. A copy of the full role profile can be found at

https://stcuk.taleo.net/careersection/ex/jobdetail.ftl?job=200006RC&tz=GMT%2B03%3A00&tzname=Africa%2FNairobi

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.

All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our global anti-harassment policy.