The Role

The Child Protection Team leads Save the Children's efforts across a range of child protection issues, specifically, issues of children without appropriate care (CWAC), family strengthening, children on the move and counter trafficking in persons, preventing violence against children and Child labor, and providing critical protective services for children impacted by emergencies. One core element of this work is Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS), delivered through the support of case management, specialized mental health referral systems, counselling programs, and our signature psychosocial support program HEART (Healing and Education through the Arts).

As the Senior Advisor, Child Protection, you will provide technical support for Save the Children's Child Protection and MHPSS programs. This will include contributing to strategic directions and plans, developing and maintaining key external partnerships, maintaining links with other departments to strengthen and expand our approaches for supporting children's psychosocial well-being. In this role, you will provide technical assistance to country offices to develop, implement, improve, and evaluate Child Protection and MHPSS programming.

Location

Hybrid - Washington DC, Fairfield, CT or Lexington, KY office locations

What You'll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

*not inclusive of all role responsibilities. May be subject to change

Technical Assistance (70%)

In collaboration with the Child Protection Team, the MHPSS Team, and Country Offices:

• Draw on lessons learned across countries and contexts to inform Child Protection and MHPSS program design
• Provide technical assistance to program teams, assisting with complex problems and bringing multi-country perspectives
• Lead the development of context-specific Child Protection and MHPSS strategies
• Provide assessment, design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation support to country offices
• Build capacity of country offices and other sector staff to design, implement, monitor, and evaluate quality programs

Program learning and internal/external representation (10%)

• Monitor new developments in Child Protection and MHPSS programming, management, and evaluation to ensure that program teams apply best practices
• Elevate the importance of Child Protection and MHPSS with internal and external stakeholders
• Prepare and present relevant research at thematic conferences
• Liaise with key partner agencies, task forces and working groups as appropriate

Resource Mobilization/Management (10%)

• Support new/existing relationships with key donors (headquarters and regional/country level) and relevant SC colleagues
• Contribute to agency knowledge and decision-making concerning pursuit of funding opportunities
• Lead the development and submission of high quality Child Protection proposals
• Lead the development of donor reports and related assets

Knowledge Management (10%)

• Support country offices to develop case studies, reports, and other multi-media documentation of program innovation and successes
• Liaise with communications teams within Save the Children and our partners to share multi-media assets and support local, regional, and global advocacy

Required qualifications for the role

• Minimum of a bachelor's degree in social work, psychology, child protection, or related field or equivalent experience, plus at least 7 years of experience in direct implementation of MHPSS programming with children and/or families, or other relevant experience
• Previous work with INGOs, CSOs, or UN agencies
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of key MHPSS, Child Protection, Humanitarian Assistance, and Global Development issues including disaster response, humanitarian assistance, conflict affected populations, and other related areas
• Proven experience providing technical support and management MHPSS and/or broader focused Child Protection programs
• Demonstrated knowledge of public and private funding streams, including key donors such as US Government funding
• Proven experience in program design and proposal development for private foundations, bi- and/or multilaterals, and/or US Government funding
• Demonstrated knowledge of development and humanitarian crisis impact on children's protection, health, education, and overall well-being
• Willingness and ability to travel approximately 40% of the time, often to complex and difficult environments
• Professional proficiency in MS Office suite
• Professional proficiency in spoken and written English

Preferred qualifications for the role

• Previous emergency response or humanitarian experience is preferred
• Second language proficiency - Spanish, Arabic, French or other relevant languages

Compensation

Save the Children is offering the following salary ranges for this position, dependent on candidate location:

• Geo 1 - NY Metro, DC, and other locations with labor costs significantly above national average: Target Salary for this position is $119,425 - $133,475 base salary
• Geo 2 - Locations around the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $107,525 - $120,175 base salary
• Geo 3 - Locations significantly below the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $96,050 - $107,350 base salary

The salary ranges listed above are for US based candidates. For candidates located outside of the US, salary ranges will be based on the salary scales of the local employer of record. Actual base salary may vary based on, but not limited to, relevant experience, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location (more information on job structure is available here).

About Us

We are looking to build an inclusive team at Save the Children. We offer a range of outstanding benefits to support this goal:

• Flexible schedules and time off: Flexible schedules, generous PTO, 11 paid holidays plus 2 floating holidays and hybrid working opportunities
• Health: Competitive health care, dental and vision coverage for you and your family
• Family: A variety of paid leaves: caregiver, parental/adoption, critical child illness and fertility benefits
• Employee Rewards Program: Annual merit increases and/or additional incentives for eligible employees
• Retirement: A retirement savings plan with employer contributions (after one year)
• Wellness: 15 safety and wellness days annually (if hired on or after July 1, safety and wellness days prorated to 8 days), mental health benefits and support through Calm and company-hosted events
• Employee Assistance Program: free and confidential assessments, short-term counseling, referrals, and follow-up services
• Learning & Growth: Access to internal and external learning & development opportunities and mentorships

Click here to learn more about how Save the Children US will invest in you.

Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom we are in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse.

Save the Children is committed to minimizing safety and security risks for our valued employees, ensuring all are given training, support and information to reduce their risk exposure while maximizing the impact of our programs for children and families. Our shared duty, both agency and individual, is to seek and maintain safe working conditions for all.