Gender and Safeguarding Coordinator

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Save the Children

  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Humanitarian or Development: Development
  • Experience level: 5-10 years
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: No
  • Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
  • Remuneration: Not Disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 16/01/2024
  • Location: Zambia
Child protection/ Children’s rights PSEA/ Safeguarding
Gender: 
Coordination and representation:
  • Coordinate Gender technical resources and support from CO, RO and strategic gender partners.
  • Collaborate  with peers and partners and participate in relevant gender working groups in relevant ministries to achieve thematic outcomes. 
  • Engage in meetings with relevant Ministries and keep the country staff office updated in emerging gender equality and transformative issues such as government policies and strategies.

Capacity Building
  • Ensure all staff are aware and oriented on gender equality in Save the Children programming context. 
  • Support Country Office teams to integrate gender equality strategies into program/project objectives and initiatives.
  • Assess current Country Office capacity in gender-sensitive and transformative  programming and update country gender strategy as relevant. 
  • Facilitating gender capacity building for field teams via training and/or tool development.

Programming & MEAL:
  • Support Country Offices and partners to design and implement quality programs that are gender sensitive and ensures gender equality 
  • Ensure gender is mainstreamed in project/program implementation where relevant 
  • Facilitate gender and power analysis studies for new programmes to inform gender sensitive and gender transformative programming 

Fundraising:
  • Identify gender-related funding opportunities and participate in donor meetings as required.

ACCM:
  • Be SCI Zambia’s spokesperson for gender-related issues including engaging with media..
  • Identify ACCM priorities for gender and support TSs to deliver on advocacy and campaigns strategy and deliverables related to gender.
  • Ensure evidence and learning on gender influences policy and advocacy agendas.

Safeguarding:
  • Identify and address training needs of staff and stakeholders in relation to keeping children safe.
  • Arrange for ongoing capacity building of staff in general child safeguarding issues, through formal training, discussion of case studies, refresher sessions, etc. 
  • Coordinate and mobilize stakeholders to undergo training in Safeguarding.
  • Conduct training in Safeguarding and policy development for key stakeholders (Gvt and partners)
  • Develop and prepare materials for all Safeguarding related trainings.
  • Prepare all logistical arrangements leading to SG trainings in Dar and all field offices.
  • Coordinate employees trained in TOT and ensure that they are implementing strong child safeguarding systems to partners and the organization at large.
  • Provide technical guidance on Safeguarding to SF focal persons, partners and other key stakeholders including consultants in line with the Safer Partnerships project in collaboration with Awards and Ops.
  • Conduct supervision and monitoring visits to the field for quality assurance
  • Develop SG activity reports and trainings plans and share with all focal persons for implementation. 

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
  • A University degree in the social sciences or relevant subject, at least five years in capacity building and technical assistance provision to Government, NGOs/CBOs; 
  • Experience in child protection/child safeguarding practice; including work and vulnerable children and managing issues.
  • Knowledge of gender and power analysis such as GEM
  • In depth understanding of children’s issues in Zambia, demonstrable commitment to Children’s Rights, coordinated care, case management and, child development processes and practices in Zambia;
  • Willingness to travel to and work in hard-to-reach areas; computer literacy and excellent documentation and report writing skills in English are a must. 

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