Childfund recruits 01 Consultant in Child Protection and Advocacy h/f

Childfund recruits 01 Consultant in Child Protection and Advocacy

Title: Consultant in Child Protection and Advocacy
Location: Dakar, Senegal Country Office
Duration: 3 Months

Established in Senegal since 1985, ChildFund is present throughout the country with interventions focused on areas essential to the development and holistic well-being of children and youth such as health, education, protection and promotion of children’s rights and socio-economic development. As part of its activities, Childfund is recruiting a consultant in Child protection and Advocacy.

Mission of Consultant

The Consultant works collaboratively with, national and international colleagues and partners in support of strong core program design, implementation, evaluation and learning in line with ChildFund’s theory of change, program strategies and standards for child protection in all three Life Stages for children. He/She gives he support for the design and execution of the country office policy advocacy plan that enables ChildFund and its local partners to advocate with decision-makers for the protection and welfare of children inits operating areas and nationally. He/she represents the Country Office in inter-agency advocacy networks and builds relationship with government and non- government institutions at regional, national, and sub-national levels for effective sharing and coordination on actions, learnings, and technical support.

Deliverables

Finalizes the advocacy plan and the youth advocacy training manual aligned to ChildFund International’s advocacy guidance, operational advocacy guidance, program strategy of the Country office, and local country context and socializes them within the core staff of the country
Participates/Facilitates/promotes child protection networks in alliance with local governments, institutions, and
Provides supports for decision-making and implementation of appropriate actions in case, on violations in child safeguarding standards by staff or partner
Provides technical support to ChildFund´s child protection portfolio of the country office, in development and emergency
Collaborates with communication specialist to develop and reach target audiences with local media position statements on issues as well as to produce collateral material for advocacy purposes.
As needed, participates on proposal development teams, including preparation of technical proposals, capacity statements, and concept notes as they pertain to child
As needed, deploys to emergency responses and work closely with response teams in country office to establish child protection responses through coordination, assessment, proposal development, program startup and
Produce a consultancy’s report on the achievements and challenges of the period.

Qualifications/Experience

Required

At least 5 years of experience results-based child protection program design, implementation and/or evaluation in relation to community-based and/or national child protection systems and stakeholders, policy advocacy
In-depth understanding of in country child protection legal frameworks, situation, mechanism, issues, and services.
Proven ability to provide high quality child protection technical assistance, guidance, and coaching to field-based implementing staff and
At least 3 years’ experience in working on advocacy in development and/or emergency contexts preferably with an international development
Proven excellent communication, networking, presentation, public-speaking and interpersonal

Preferred