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American Refugee Committee is now Alight. We’re the same organization with the same people doing the same critical work – providing health care and clean water, shelter, protection, and economic opportunity to more than 3.5 million people in 17 countries each year. But in solidarity with the people we serve who are too often defined by a single dark moment in their lives, we’re dropping the label ‘refugee.’
What is Alight’s Talent Community?
The talent community includes a team of protection professionals, who are eager to take action with limited notice to work on short-term assignments. Community members will be contacted when opportunities arise to provide critical coverage while staff are on leave, during times of surge need, as well as new program startup.
The Terms of Reference (ToR) for each assignment will differ and may focus on assessments, proposal development, or project or organizational management.
When you Join Alight, you’ll find…
A team with deep experience in co-designing solutions that create new value around the world. We know we need to always be better, and we believe in the power and abundance of everyday people, everywhere, to change the world with us.
A culture of radical accountability to our customers –as we help build a meaningful life for and with the displaced, we ask them what they want and then deliver on it.
An organization that refuses to settle for anything less than delivering human-worthy services.
The Child Protection (CPC) Consultant will assist in overseeing the development, start-up and strengthening of CP programming components as part of the ALIGHT emergency response. S/he will be tasked with rapidly understanding the context, actors and landscape on the ground and what the critical child protection needs and priorities are in terms of strengthening the response around child protection. S/he will work to strength current child protection responses through providing needs-based capacity strengthening to CPiE staff and partners to standardize the CP response; will work closely with ALIGHT’s other emergency consultants, staff and partner organizations on developing a multi-sectoral approach to child services.
Other Roles of the Child Protection consultant may include:
- Leading the development of a multi-sector assessment and interagency rapid assessment as relevant, including methodology, training, accompaniment and analysis focusing on areas related to the needs of and services for children and adolescents.
- Offering technical assistance (such as training, practice mentoring, develop guidelines) to ALIGHT staff, partners and other actors, based on needs assessment and context priorities.
- Initiating and strengthening the harmonization of programming in urgent areas of child safety including but not limited to case management child friendly spaces, community based child protection among others.
- Ensuring needs and priorities for programming and advocacy are in line with the context, needs, and gaps on the ground.
- Identifying opportunities to develop direct programs and partnerships with relevant organizations to strengthen child protection outcomes and interventions, addressing critical needs and gaps in the response.
- Supporting the development of project proposals and budgets, including opportunities for multi-sector programming, in close collaboration with the child protection team, relevant field coordinators/managers and the global protection technical advisor.
- Assisting in the selection and recruitment of qualified staff in the CP programs, including in collaboration with partners.
- Offering technical support to the team and partners in the implementation of child protection in emergency activities, particularly regarding the implementation of case management activities.
- Participating in child protection and other relevant coordination meetings, task forces, and build productive relationships with those actors to better understand the context, needs and priorities around child protection, and use this to inform or guide the next steps ALIGHT takes around Child Protection in the emergency, with a preference around building CP mechanisms, and strong collaboration and cross-sector working.
- Developing, maintaining and/or initiating partnerships with community-based organizations, international and local NGOs, UN Agencies, potential and current donors and relevant Government Ministries to support ALIGHT CP programming.
- Developing and maintaining effective coordination and long-term relationships with external parties, representing ALIGHT positions, promoting long-term strategy and resolving problems/conflicts.
- Assisting in consistently and proactively monitoring/assessing the safety and security of field teams; promptly reporting concerns or incidents to ALIGHT Country management and liaising with community leaders and other external parties as required to maintain/enhance the security environment for ALIGHT program.
Key Job Requirements:
- Master’s Degree in a child or youth related field, (eg. education, social work, community work) preferred.
- Excellent knowledge and understanding of international child protection and youth policy and practice issues.
- Experience developing and delivering successful and safe Child Protection projects or programs.
- Experience in effectively dealing with staff, as well as donor agencies, government officials, and other NGO’s; ability to work with a broad spectrum of people.
- Proven proficiency in budget management, grants management and reporting.
- Excellent professional record of accomplishment with at least three years of international management level experience within NGO leadership working in child protection in emergency / humanitarian program implementation in conflict or immediate post conflict environments.
- Strong writing and analytical skills, including ability to communicate technical matters to a range of audiences.
- At least 3 years of staff management experience, including staff capacity development and team building experience.
- Strong coordination and project management skills.
- Proven experience supervising and providing case management services and support.
How do I join?
Candidates with relevant experience, who are available for short-term assignments, are invited to apply to join the Protection Talent Community. An Alight team member will reach out to you if your application is to be considered. Talent community members will be contacted about their interest and availability as relevant opportunities arise.
If you are looking to be part of a living, breathing, ever-changing organization full of disrupters and doers, then we want to meet you. We hope to hear from you soon!
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