Position Title: Child Protection Director, DRC
Requisition Number: 14-0028
Location: Kisangani, DRC
SUMMARY:
Position Summary: Pact seeks a Child Protection Director for a prospective five-year, USAID-funded Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) care and support program. The aim of the project is to reduce child vulnerability through Household Economic Strengthening (HES) among highly vulnerable families. In addition, the program will seek to strengthen local ownership of and capacity in OVC and HES programming.
The Child Protection Director will provide technical leadership to ensure high-quality OVC programming that meaningfully and measurably improves the well-being of vulnerable children and their families. The Child Protection Director will support CSO partners and government stakeholders to operationalize OVC and Child Protection policies and frameworks, including the National Action Plan for OVC. The Child Protection Director will work closely with the HES Child Protection Director to develop, implement, and monitor OVC program quality assessment and improvement activities. The Child Protection Director will have expertise in comprehensive, family and community-based programming for orphans and vulnerable children with a focus on improving children’s health, nutrition, education, protection, psychosocial well-being, and care as well as addressing household economic and food security and will have experience working with Congolese organizations serving OVC and the DRC government at all levels. He/she will liaise with relevant national, provincial, and local government (including Social Affairs, Labor, Justice, Youth, Gender, Children and Families, among others). He or she will be based in Kisangani, Orientale Province.
RESPONSIBILITIES/JOB DESCRIPTION:
• Provide technical leadership in OVC program design, implementation, and evaluation in order to achieve positive child and family outcomes.
• Lead OVC program quality assessment and improvement efforts, facilitating quality assurance activities with CSO partners in order to identify gaps, technical capacity limitations, and priority technical assistance needs.
• Oversee the development, implementation, and monitoring of OVC program quality improvement activities.
• Oversee the planning, coordination, and delivery of OVC technical assistance to CSO partners.
• Facilitate problem solving and action planning among CSO and DRC stakeholders to address critical challenges and barriers to improving child health, education, nutrition, psychosocial, and protection outcomes.
• Collaborate with HES Child Protection Director to design, implement, and evaluate HES activities that improve child and family well-being
• Ensure the use of child and family data to inform decision-making and appropriate programmatic adjustments/improvements.
QUALIFICATIONS:
• Bachelor’s degree in social work with a minimum of 5 years’ experience on technical and managerial positions; Master’s degree in social sciences or public health preferred;
• Experience with child protection programming, early childhood development, or household economic strengthening; Technical knowledge of community-based care programs and experience with OVC programming is highly desirable;
• Proven experience in networking, strong communication skills and good interpersonal relations;
• Proven leadership and inter-personal skills for effective team work; as well as the ability to work independently on a frequent basis, taking initiative, managing a variety of activities concurrently, and delivering outputs on schedule.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. We are also an equal opportunity employer of individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.
HOW TO APPLY:
To apply for this position, please visit our website at www.pactworld.org
