Child Protection (CP) Coordinator at Save The Children

Reports to: Program Manager – ECHO

Role Purpose

• The Child Protection (CP) Coordinator plays a critical role in strategic planning, partnership development, and providing oversight for day‑to‑day child protection implementation. 
• The coordinator will deliver technical support to the ECHO‑funded Education in Emergencies (EiE) and Child Protection project to SCI staff and partners in Yobe and Katsina States under the Save the Children country programme and will oversee child protection activities to ensure effective planning, implementation, and field‑level monitoring. 

Responsibilities

Programme Leadership and Quality Implementation: 

• Lead the implementation, and monitoring of integrated Child Protection and EiE interventions in line with ECHO requirements and CP Minimum Standards (CPMS). 
• Ensure programmes are technical sound, contextually relevant, and conflict-/gender-sensitive. 
• Oversee delivery of key CP components (e.g., case management, PSS, community-based child protection, CP risk mitigation in education). 
• Ensure integration of CP across EiE activities, including safe learning environments and referral pathways. 
• Promote child participation and accountability to affected populations in programme design and implementation. 

Strategic Planning and Programme Development: 

• Lead CP inputs into needs assessments, risk analysis, and response strategy development
• Ensure alignment with national CP systems, humanitarian response plans, and CPAoR strategies. 
• Identify opportunities for programme expansion, innovation and scale-up.

Technical Guidance and Capacity Strengthening: 

• Provide technical oversight and mentoring to CP and EiE staff and partners. 
• Build staff capacity on: 
• Case management and alternative care 
• Mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) 
• Safe Families 
• Adolescent Sexual Reproduction Health and Rights 
• Safe identification and referrals 
• CP mainstreaming in EiE
• Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) for child protection 
• Ensure adherence to best practices, SOPs, and safeguarding standards.

Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) for Child Protection: 

• Guide safe and appropriate use of CVA within CP case management and prevention programming. 
• Ensure CP risk analysis informs targeting, transfer values, and delivery mechanisms. 
• Build staff and partner capacity on CVA and child safeguarding considerations. 
• Safeguarding, Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) and Risk Management: 
• Ensure all CP programming adheres to child safeguarding and PSEA policies. 
• Identify, assess, and mitigate protection risks associated with programme delivery. 
• Strengthen feedback and complaint mechanisms, ensuring safe and confidential reporting pathways. 
• Promote a culture of do no harm and ethical programming.

Coordination, Representation, and Partnerships: 

• Represent the Save the Children in CPAoR, and other relevant coordination forums. 
• Strengthen collaboration with: 
• Government social welfare and education authorities 
• Local NGOs and community structures 
• UN agencies and other INGOs 
• Support partnership management, including technical support to local partners. 

Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL): 

• Ensure robust monitoring systems are in place for CP indicators. 
• Support development and use of tools for data collection, case tracking, and outcome monitoring. 
• Support data analysis, learning reviews, and adaptive programming.

 Information Management and Reporting: 

• Ensure timely development of high-quality donor reports 
• Maintain accurate programme documentation, including: 
• Case management records (confidential and secure) 
• Activity reports and dashboards 
• Work closely with CPIMS officer and the MEAL teams to ensure data quality and integrity. 

Human Resource Management and Team Leadership: 

• Line manages CP staff (officers, caseworkers, facilitators). 
• Support recruitment, onboarding, and performance management of CP team members. 
• Promote staff wellbeing and resilience, especially given exposure to sensitive CP cases. 
• Foster a collaborative and inclusive team environment.

Budget Management and Compliance: 

• Support in Management of CP programme budget, ensuring effective and efficient use of resources. 
• Ensure compliance with ECHO regulations, donor requirements, and internal procedures. 
• Monitor expenditure and contribute to forecasting and budget revisions.

Emergency Preparedness and Response: 

• Support emergency preparedness planning, including contingency plans and surge capacity. 
• Lead rapid CP response during shocks (e.g., displacement, conflict escalation, floods). 
• Ensure CP risks are systematically addressed in all emergency interventions

 Behaviours (Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• Holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the Hreedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve Performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.Ambition:
• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
• Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• Willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

Qualifications  

• Advance technical Skills, B. Sc or master's in social work or equivalent, professional certificate, min 5 years experience, advanced people management skills, advance project management skills. 

Experience and Skills: 

• At least five (5) years post NYSC relevant experience in child protection programming 
• Demonstrable commitment to a holistic vision of children’s welfare 
• Substantial management experience, preferably in emergencies  
• Excellent written and spoken English; local language skills a major advantage 
• Demonstrable competence in report writing  
• Experience of financial planning and expenditure monitoring as applied to grants management  
• Experience of working with communities, and supporting their participation, ownership and empowerment 
• Strong representational and communication skills sensitive to the cultural and military/political environment 
• The ability to plan and ensure the implementation of projects, and to oversee the management and report on resources effectively. 
• Able to work calmly under pressure in a rapidly changing context 
• Proven team management skills  
• Adaptability and flexibility; ability and willingness to live in the field 
• Competent in Outlook, Word and Excel 
• Commitment to upholding Save the Children’s Child Safeguarding Policy, and other Global Policies

Working Contacts:

• External: The CP coordinator is required to have regular contact with other similar organizations, children, community, and government departments. 
• Internal: The CP coordinator will have direct relationship with all staff and management at all levels in ensuring the organizational policies and procedures are adhered to and complied with.

Additional job responsibilities:

• The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Equal Opportunities: 

• The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Child Safeguarding:

• We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Safeguarding our Staff:

• The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI anti-harassment policy

Health and Safety:

• The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.