Child Protection Technical Advisor

 

TITLE:  Child Protection Technical Advisor TEAM/PROGRAMME: Program Development, Quality, and Impact LOCATION: Greater Cairo with frequent travel to project sites in different governorates GRADE: 2 CONTRACT LENGTH: Fixed Term Contract Till end December 2026

CHILD SAFEGUARDING: (select only one)

Level 3: The post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

Organization PROFILE:

Save the Children is the world’s leading independent organization for children. We work in 113 countries. We save children’s lives; we fight for their rights; we help them fulfil their potential. We work together, with our partners, to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. Our breakthrough on protection is that by 2030, Violence against Children is no longer tolerated. Child protection’s broad strategy has 4 key sub-themes; Children without Appropriate Care, Addressing Violence against Children, Children and Work and Child Protection System Strengthening. Country teams are expected to work on one or more of those sub-themes and to integrate their work where possible with health, mental health, cash, education, livelihoods and other thematic areas.

ROLE PURPOSE:

The Child Protection Technical Advisor (CP TA) leads in shaping child protection technical strategies, in line with SCI Egypt’s strategic priorities, and is accountable for ensuring that all child protection interventions follow global approaches and standards and are of a high technical quality. Working with teams across the organisation, the CP TA is accountable for the quality of SCI’s child protection programming in Egypt Country office. The role will contribute to project and proposal development, as well as provide advice to ensure communications development and products adhere to protection standards. A key function for this role is to develop close working relationships with Program and Project teams across Egypt in both development and humanitarian contexts. The role will also maintain effective relationship with SC regional and global protection counterparts and colleagues from other SC offices globally.

The CP TA Advisor is also responsible for building the technical capacity of the CP team and partners in Child Protection and keeping up to date with initiatives and developments in the field of child protection.  Additionally, the CP TA will play a critical role in networking and relationship building with key stakeholders at international and national levels and provide direct technical support to national agencies on selected initiatives. Current thematic priorities for this position include protection of children on the move or at risk of unsafe migration, case management, strengthening child protection systems, violence against children, alternative care, community level child protection and child protection mainstreaming across other sectors of interventions. The role is expected to collaborate with the MEAL team to develop learning agenda for CP and generate evidence for quality programming and advocacy. The position is Cairo-based and includes regular travel to Save the Children Egypt’s program locations across Egypt.

In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

 

Reports to (Solid Line): Program Development, Quality, and Impact Director

 

Staff reporting to this post:

Direct (Solid line): Case Management Specialist

Indirect (Dotted Line): Child protection senior officers, officers and project managers (dotted line)

Role Dimensions: The National CP Adviser is expected to work in close collaboration with PDQI; including MEAL and other thematic Advisers and with other sectors including education, cash, health and nutrition, mental health, livelihoods, GBV within the organisation. The post holder will work most closely with the Child Protection Teams in-country. S/he also maintains contact and coordination with relevant development sector and humanitarian organizations.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Country program strategy and planning

· Lead the development and rollout of the CP strategy for Save the Children in Egypt.

· Provide CP technical input to the development of