Child Protection and Gender Technical Advisor
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Save the Children
- Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
- Job type: Job
- Experience level: 5-10 years
- Organisation type: Civil Society
- Remote option: No
- Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
- Remuneration: Remuneration not disclosed
- Work schedule: Full-time
- Deadline: 17/04/2026
- Location: Sierra Leone
About Us
The Organization
We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard. We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030
We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard. We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
Strategy Leadership and Technical Quality
- Lead the operationalisation of the Child Protection strategic goal of the Country Strategic Plan and its quality delivery. Ensure that programme remains relevant to the external environment and changing needs of most marginalised children in hard to reach areas.
- Ensure quality programme implementation across CP programming areas by harmonising approaches across different locations and programmes.
Resource Mobilisation
- Analyse and inform donor priorities and positions on issues related to CP and Gender Equality and shape senior management decisions on strategic CP priorities; contribute to the development and regular updating of Save the Children Sierra Leone fundraising plan.
- Lead the technical scoping, planning, and design and proposal writing during new programme development, and ensure that we design and deliver high quality, holistic child protection and gender-equality focused programmes, building on global best practice.
Monitoring and Evaluation
- Contribute to the development of tools and frameworks, dissemination of guidance, or other resources to ensure monitoring and evaluation of program quality
- Work with Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) teams to carry out gender and power analysis, and conduct quality monitoring against international standards through participatory methodologies
Accountability and Learning:
- Ensure to provide an avenue for children’s voice through accountability mechanisms across all CP programmes being implemented directly or through partners.
- Support teams and partner organizations to strengthen their child participation tools
Coordination and External Representation:
- In alignment with Country Office strategy and leadership, engage in strategic positioning with donors, partners and government in-country, and ensure that Save the Children is a partner of choice in CP programming.
- Represent Save the Children at national level CP and external meetings, and Technical Working Group meetings
QUALIFICATIONS
- Master’s degree in a relevant Humanities Field.
- Significant (at least 8 years) professional experience of working at a senior advisory level in CP, Child Rights, and/or Gender Equality in international NGOs in complex settings. Specific experience in sub-sector specializations of Child Protection is highly valued.
- Strong commitment to capacity building of staff and partners with willingness to adopt participatory and consultative approaches.
- Progressive, professional-level experience at the management level with background in Child Protection and/or Gender Equality
- Strong reporting skills
- Fluent Spoken and written English is essential.
- Excellent time management and planning capacity.
- Ability and willingness to travel regularly into the field.
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