CALL FOR CVS

Terre des hommes is seeking expression of interest from qualified and committed individuals:

Name of the position: Child Protection Project Coordinator

Locations: Attica

Contract Type: National, Short-term

Type Contract

Starting Date: ASAP

Reports to: Deputy Director

Work location: Athens, Greece

Activity rate: 100% (full time)

Deadline Applications: 26/12/2021

Context:

Terre des hommes (Tdh) is the leading Swiss child relief agency. The Foundation has been helping children in need for over 60 years; defending their rights regardless of their race, creed or political affiliation. In over 40 countries, Tdh protects children against exploitation and violence, improves children’s and their mother’s health and provides emergency psychological and material support in humanitarian crises.

In Greece, Tdh has been working through partners since 2006 and has directly provided integrated child protection and youth services (case management, shelter, MHPSS, education and life-skills, etc.) since March 2016. The overall goal of Tdh’s continued interventions in Greece is to improve the protective environment for at risk children and youth and enhance their resilience.

For further information, please visit our website www.tdh.ch/en and www.facebook.com/tdh.greece/

General Position Description:

The Child Protection Project Coordinator (PC) is a pivotal role in Tdh Hellas and is responsible for oversee-ing the effective implementation of projects which strengthen the child protection systems, increase child-safeguarding awareness and capacities and improve best practice amongst organisations and agencies in contact with children across Greece.

S/he is responsible for project planning and set-up, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and end of project transition. S/he ensures the timely implementation and quality of project activities, in accordance with the project/s objectives, targets, budgets and methodological frameworks.

As a member of Terre des hommes Hellas, s/he will supervise project staff and/or consultants and collabo-rate with other team members and partners to ensure effective project implementation. In addition, to moni-toring and updating workplans and budget forecasts the PC will ensure technical quality of project activities.

The CP PC should be an experienced project manager and effective communicator; with substantial knowledge of child protection and child safeguarding, they should be able to advise Tdh Hellas on policy making, research and project development while s/he will be tasked with building the Child Protection body of work of the organisation with the Deputy Director. S/he will be able to build reliable partnerships with lo-cal and national stakeholders, state and non-state actors, donors and supporters.

Key responsibilities:

Strategy and Vision

1. Participate in or support needs assessments in Tdh areas of operation in-country

2. Contribute to the development and review of the country-wide strategy

Team Management

3. Identify, recruit, train and supervise project staff and/or consultants

4. Ensure team members/consultants have a clear understanding of the project and Tdh Child Protection (CP) mandate

5. Contribute to a positive working environment and good team dynamics

6. Evaluate staff under direct responsibility on a regular basis and provide them with feedback in addition to sharing evaluations with HR

7. Develop team self-reliance and encourage collaboration

Project Management

8. Ensure projects are implemented in accordance with project methodology, objectives, indicators and budgets and in compliance with Tdh and donor requirements

9. Act as budget holder and collaborate with finance staff to update the budget forecast on a monthly basis

10. Develop, review and update project tools to support quality project implementation (e.g. workplans, SOPs, training modules, etc.) and ensure the submission of timely, accurate external and internal reports

11. Work with the M&E department to ensure an adequate monitoring and evaluation plan, complaints response mechanism, and tools are in place and oversee their effective implementation

12. Identify logistic and admin support needs and prepare procurement plans in line with the project needs and ensure the timely preparation of purchase requests and follow up with relevant departments

13. Ensure the effective flow of information between team and other delegation members (e.g. attending/holding regular meetings, being responsive to e-mails, and calls, etc.)

14. Based on changes in context and / or project learning, propose amendments to the project when necessary

Partnerships and Representation

15. Identify, build and manage collaborative partnerships, with sub-grantees, donors, local government and other project stakeholders and substantially contribute to grant-making for relevant projects

16. Participate in fora and meetings at local or regional level and liaise with humanitarian actors, authorities and other sector to disseminate information, best practices, lessons learned, etc. when required

Risk Management

17. Fully comply with Tdh’s Global Code of Conduct and systematically report any breach to the Code through the whistleblowing procedure: raises awareness within the Foundation on abuse and violence and the rights deriving therefrom, respecting the rights and dignity of children, members of the communities and our own Staff

18. Design and audit processes and procedures to eliminate or mitigate potential risks

19. Evaluate employees’ risk awareness and train them

20. Support management to identify security risks related to project implementation

Other

21. Regular travel will be required.

22. Perform other duties as required.

Candidate profile:

• Honours qualification in social sciences, political science, legal studies /human rights, clinical psychology/psychology or similar field. A Masters qualification would be an advantage.
• At least 5 years of professional experience in project management; experience of supervising training projects would be an advantage
• At least 4 years experience in the field of child protection and safeguarding,
• Background and expertise in child protection social work and/or human rights;
• Experience with, or knowledge of children’s educational and/or recreational organisations and bodies in Greece;
• Experience of building strong partnerships with stakeholders to attain project goals;
• Experience of developing and delivering training modules and knowledge of current training trends desired;
• Experience of working independently and as a member of a team
• Excellent oral and written skills in Greek and high level of English required
• Fully conversant with usual IT tools

Terre des hommes provides equal work conditions for men and women. Furthermore, for candidates with equivalent qualifications and for positions with responsibilities, applications from women are strongly encouraged.

If you are interested in this position, please send your CV and motivation letter
in English with reference code CP_PC2022 for at:

Tdh will only consider complete online applications.

Only short listed candidates will be contacted and the interview will be conducted in Greek/English.

Due to the urgency of the position, applications will be short listed on a
regular basis and we may offer the post before the closing date.