Child Protection Community Mobilization Assistant

Job Description

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 workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued. 
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.
Save the Children International seeks to always be a child safe organization through fulfilling its obligations to the community and through programme implementation carried out by the organization for safeguarding children and to improve the living standards of the child.

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Position: Child Protection Community Mobilization Assistant

Location: Aden/Lahj Office

Grade: 5

Contract Length: till Dec 2023 (with a possibility of renewal)

The Opportunity:

Save the Children International (SCI) Yemen Country Programme has an annual budget of around USD 70 million and growing, working mainly on the humanitarian response to the ongoing conflict and its impact including more recently on the cholera outbreak. The SCI Yemen has over 700 staff and 1500 volunteers and works in nine governorates in the north and south of the country through seven field offices and two sub-offices in addition to the main office in Sana’a.

The CP Community Mobilization assistant will be responsible for preparing, implementing the community mobilization events on the different activities of Child Protection, Education, Health and WASH programs.

Key Areas of Responsibilities: 

Program Support:

General

Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child protection, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.

Specific

• Under supervision of the community mobilization and PSS officer, work with children, parents and caregivers to form and activate the protection committees and community-based networks. 
•  Train the community networks and mobile teams on mobilization, and child protection related training in coordination with the CP teams.
• Work closely in the field with stakeholders and community leaders to obtain community profiles of targeted communities, assign volunteers per geographic location and supervise the volunteers to disseminate basic key messages on child protection, MHPSS, Hygiene & education issues; and facilitate community and child led campaigns which may include Organize cultural or sports festivals and other extracurricular events targeting children from all segments of the community.
• Supervise the community volunteers to plan all community mobilization activities jointly with the CBPNs – Community Based Networks and compile all field reports to be analyzed by the community mobilization and PSS officer.
• Hold community sessions and meetings to orient the community regarding CP and Education projects, services offered as well as the election mechanism in the targeted areas at both the facility and community level.
• Conduct regular refresher sessions on the CPC and parent-teacher association Terms of Reference (TOR) to ensure clarity in regards of roles and responsibilities.
• Actively support baseline/end line or other surveys for MEAL (monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning) purposes.
• Support the rest of the child protection team Education WASH and Health to implement the required activities when it’s related to protection and community mobilization.
• Ensure that communities are regularly involved in all phases of the programming.

Other duties as assigned by the supervisor to enable and develop SCI programmes.

Qualifications and Experience:

Bachelor’s degree in social science, or Education or any related field.

Essential

• At least 2 years’ experience in a similar post in CP/Education.
• Child Protection / community development experience.
• Have sound facilitation and training skills.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to represent Save the Children at meetings with government officials 
• Computer skills in word, excel, PowerPoint.
• Commitment to Save the Children Code of Conduct, Child Safeguarding Policy and values

Desired:

• Previous work experience with SCI.
• Background in Emergency programming is an asset.
• Strong verbal and written Arabic skills. 

Good verbal and written Arabic skills. 

Application Information:

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 www.savethechildren.net/careers/apply

“Save the Children is an equal opportunity employer. Women are strongly encouraged to apply”

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 workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.
Application Information:
Please apply using a cover letter and up-to-date CV as a single document. Please also include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations. A copy of the full role profile can be found at www.savethechildren.net/jobs We need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.