Save
the Children East Africa Regional Office (EARO) is looking to recruit a Better Care Network (BCN) Regional Technical & Knowledge
Management Specialist.
Role
Purpose:
The
BCN is initiating a three-year regional inter-agency initiative to improve the
capacities of governments and their civil society partners in Eastern Africa to
develop and implement care reform that strengthen families and improve
alternative care services in the region.
To
support this regional inter-agency initiative, the BCN and Save the Children
are seeking a regional technical and knowledge management specialist with
significant knowledge of the technical aspects of reforming child care systems
and in-depth familiarity with the region to play a proactive role in
identifying and addressing relevant issues to advance child care reform and
provide technical support to key regional and country-level actors.
The
Specialist is expected to play a catalytic role in supporting positive change
in close collaboration and consultation with all regional and national
stakeholders.
Key Areas of Accountability:
- Facilitate a
review of existing regional mechanisms to inform the operational
arrangement of the regional technical hub and ensure it is complementary
to the actions of other actors in the region and provides added value to
existing initiatives.
- Conduct initial
consultations with key stakeholders to identify the three countries1 for
action where the national situation analysis and in-country consultations
will take place. In addition, resource countries will be identified where
promising practices and policies can support peer-learning.
- Facilitate
national situation analyses and in-depth country consultations within the
three countries for action, as well as remote consultations with key
stakeholders at the regional level.
- Identify and
offer technical support to key actors for care reform in the three
countries selected.
- Identify
potential points of intervention for system change and priority needs for
technical and organizational support and assistance in each country and
regionally as well as appropriate approaches to respond to these needs.
This will also include the development and implementation of regional and
national plans and their related monitoring and evaluation plan.
- Facilitate the
provision of priority activities to strengthen national and regional
capacity and coordination, including, but not limited to, a combination
of:
- Provide remote
and in-person technical support;
- document and
share positive examples of child care reform,
- facilitate
exchange visits between countries;
- link countries
with national, regional and global experts;
- organize
strategically focused technical workshops and meetings on family
strengthening and alternative care issues;
- develop and
maintain a regionally focused website and newsletter;
- commission
research in collaboration with stakeholders and academics in the countries
to increase local evidence and understanding of current formal and
informal care practices and raise awareness on the importance of
family-based care;
- Support relevant
national advocacy efforts.
Qualifications
and Experience
- Master’s degree
in social work, social science, social policy or related field or a
Bachelor’s degree with substantial training, knowledge, skills and
experience obtained through other routes;
- A minimum of 7
years of relevant experience in the provision of services, policy
development or advocacy regarding the care of vulnerable children,
including experience in the above in at least one developing country
context;
- Extensive
experience in working in the region on better care issues for children
with regional experience with advocacy, policy development or research;
- Extensive
knowledge of the literature on better care issues relating to children;
- Experience
developing and refining technical documents in this field;
- Experience
working with UN bodies, governments and/or NGOs;
- Excellent
writing and verbal skills in English and in summarizing complex documents.
Additional language(s) would be an asset;
- Experience with
child related technical networks;
- Proven ability
to handle challenging work load;
- Cross-cultural
experience, understand ¡ng and sensitivity;
- Excellent
interpersonal and written and oral communication skills;
- Commitment to
Save the Children values.
To
apply, send a copy of your CV with a cover letter to
EA.recruitment@savethechildren.org
Application
closes 17th July 2013 at 5:00pm.
We
work with children, communities and governments all over the world and we
believe in the right person for the job regardless of where you come from and
how you identify yourself.
We
need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to
ensuring that only those who are suitable to work with children are considered
for these posts.
All
successful applicants will therefore be required to complete a Police Check and
must sign onto our Child Protection Policy and organizational Code of Conduct.
