Regional Child Protection Coordinator

(National Position)

Place of work: Amman, Jordan

Category: Senior Leaders

Line manager: Regional Director

Functional managers: Head of Child Protection

Line Management: Regional Protection advisors (if applicable)

Provides functional support to: Country Programme Coordinator / Protection coordinators/ senior managers

Salary: According to the National Staff Salary Scale (3491JOD - 4555 JOD)

Grade: G7-A

Contract Type: indefinite Contract

Context

Terre des hommes Lausanne (Tdh), Switzerland’s largest children’s rights organisation, is reorganising its organisational model in order to get closer to children and young people in vulnerable situations in the thirty or so countries in which it is active.

In Tdh’s new organisational model, the HQ takes on the role of a centre of expertise in order to act effectively in favour of the respect, protection and promotion of children’s rights and to ensure overall steering, strategy, policies, monitoring and compliance and informed leadership.

In the MENA region, Tdh responds to child protection issues in both emergency contexts and stable development settings. The child protection transversal sector provides expertise across Tdh’s programs in Migration, Access to Justice, and Health in the domains of MHPSS, Case Management, Child and Youth Participation and Empowerment, Safeguarding and Child Rights and Business through a community based and system strengthening approach. By addressing the unique challenges faced by children in these diverse contexts, Tdh ensures comprehensive and integrated support. This approach not only addresses immediate protection needs but also contributes to long-term resilience and well-being of children and their families.

Tdh's child protection expertise in the MENA region supports country offices in designing, contextualizing, and implementing locally led multistakeholder interventions that enhance family and child well-being. Tdh collaborates closely with communities to strengthen community-based approaches and enhance both community and child participation and empowerment. Additionally, Tdh is actively and strongly engaged in coordination systems, working with formal and informal actors to improve the quality and sustainability of child protection systems.

Mission

Within the scope of the Child Protection expertise:

• Monitors and reports on the evolution of contexts and needs in order to enable timely and appropriate orientations and decision-making (e.g. countries where Tdh is present, mode of intervention, strategic choices, etc.).
• Promotes and ensures that Country Offices have the ressources and the capapcities to apply the Child Protection global frameworks, standards, processes and tools for managing programmes and expertise,.
• Fundraising for Child Protection transversal and flagship interventions within the region.
• Directs and pilots the implementation of Tdh child protection flagship projects and provides transversal expertise to all programmes (CYM, A2J, Health) in accordance with the ambitions set out in the strategy, the theories of change and the frameworks defined by the organisation.
• Monitors, analyses and reports on child protection related indicators integrated within programmes and expertise for the region (with the objective of operational impact).
• Ensures that information is shared to support communication and advocacy actions.
• Support the country offices in all matters relating to the quality implementation of child protection interventions in the country.
• Encourages and coordinates inter-country exchanges to foster learning (e.g. sharing of assessments, good practice, etc.)

Participation in governance bodies

• Regional office managers’ meeting
• Retreat of managers of the region (geographical scope)
• Global Child Protection meetings
• Ad hoc SMT or porgram meetings at Country Offices when requested by the Country Director or Porgramme Coordinator.

Key Responsibilities

Cross-functional roles and responsibilities

• Optimise resources at regional level while contributing to the organisation’s overall objectives.
• Harmonise regional practices

Leadership

• An authentic leader, he/she inspires their team through leadership, encourages collaboration and team cohesion, makes informed strategic decisions and is committed to excellence and continuous innovation.
• Represents, encourages and promotes the organisational and socio-cultural values of the organisation.

People Management

• Where appropriate, assists team members throughout the employee life cycle’: ensures their recruitment in functional liaison with the relevant headquarters departments; contributes to their integration and provides ongoing support and training (learning and development).

Strategy

• Contributes to the elaboration of Tdh’s Child Protection strategy.
• Analyses the issues and actors in the region within her/his scope of work.
• Ensures the implementation, dissemination and appropriation of the CP strategy at regional level.
• Contributes to the steering of the CP strategy.
• Ensures the implementation of the CP strategy in the countries of intervention.

Partnership

• Contributes to the identification, development and implementation of strategic partnerships within her/his scope of work.
• Supports the capacity sharing and equal partnerships with local and national players, in line with Tdh’s partnership and aid localisation policy and related tools.
• Ensures the dissemination and application of Tdh’s locally led and transformational power sharing approaches in Child Protection and MHPSS.
• Supports country offices in the implementation and development of partnerships.
• Supports country offices in Tdh’s ambition to strengthen aid localisation.

Innovation

• Within the scope of its competencies, contributes to Tdh’s ambition to be recognised as an innovative organisation, fostering a culture of learning and creativity, with a strong ability to generate, implement and scale innovations that support its mission.
• Encourages the identification and implementation of innovative solutions in the region’s country offices.

Positioning and Advocacy

• Represents Tdh in regional Child Protection and MHPSS forums and platforms.
• Defines the Child Protection advocacy strategy for the region.

Safeguarding

• With the support of the direct supervisor, ensure the proper dissemination of Tdh’s Safeguarding policy and its procedures at the regional office level.
• Assist country offices to periodically assess safeguarding risks and setting safeguarding measures to prevent and mitigate risks on an annual basis in line with Tdh’s Safeguarding procedures and with the support of the Global Safeguarding Advisor.
• Supports country offices to ensurie proper application of Tdh safeguarding standards throughout the project cycle.
• Builds the capacity of teams to respond to safeguarding issues at regional level.

Skills

This function requires the possession of fundamental personal, social and leadership skills, technical and methodological skills, as well as managerial and strategic skills. In particular, the following:

Excellence in leadership

• Strong ability to lead and motivate a diverse and remote team, leadership skills based on strong values, openness and ability to make strategic decisions.
• Highly developed spirit of collaboration and cross-functional leadership.

Management Skills

• Significant experience in financial and budgetary management, human resource management and project management.
• Proven experience in managing organisational and operational transformation.

Interpersonal skills

• Strong ability to build and maintain solid relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including donors, partners and governments.
• Reliability and independence, with a strong ability to organise, make decisions and resolve conflicts. Integrity, judgement and diplomacy.

Specific knowledge

• Experience in development and humanitarian contexts.
• Strong knowledge of the Protection needs, actors and systems of the region and countries of intervention.

Requirements

Training/Qualifications

Degree: Master’s level minimum

Experience

Significant experience in the field of child protection.

Expertise in advocacy techniques and strategies

Proven experience in organising training, workshops, conferences.

Significant experience in developing project proposals.

Previous experience in managing regional projects and consortia.

Languages

Mandatory written and spoken languages: Arabic and English

Languages appreciated:

Computer know-how

Microsoft Office package

Objectives

Objectives for the upcoming period should be completed on the Line Supervisor Evaluation Interview Form and in consultation with the functional manager.

Tdh Global Code of Conduct and ethical policies

Commits to promoting and complying with the Global Code of Conduct, systematically reporting any violations of the Code through Tdh’s formal reporting mechanisms and dealing with any violations of procedures and processes appropriately.

Raises awareness on the risks of policy non-compliance, violence and abuse, and related rights, towards children, community members and our own employees.

Undertakes to comply with key ethical policies and guidelines, including the Safeguarding Policy, the Anti-Fraud and Corruption Policy, the Conflict-of-Interest Policy and other policies related to the prevention of terrorist financing and criminal activities, as well as workplace behaviour.

Commits to putting values and principles into practice through exemplary behaviour, in full compliance with the Code of Conduct, and always respecting established procedures and processes.

Commits to developing a compliant and informed management culture within the organisation and in our work with children and the communities in which we operate.