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Job title: Child Safeguarding Coordinator 
Contract: 1 year renewable 
Reports to: HWF Director 
Liaises with: HWF Programme/Project Manager, Migrant Learning Centers under HWF support, Partner organizations 
Duty Station: Mae Sot, Thailand 
 

Job purpose 
The Child Safeguarding Coordinator will work closely with the Migrant Learning Centers (MLCs) and Education teams under Help without Frontiers Thailand Foundation, and with other education stakeholders to ensure that Child Safeguarding policies are updated, implemented and monitored with maximum efficiency. The activities include providing comprehensive risk assessments, and monitoring CSG in the MLCs supported by HWF. The Child Safeguarding Coordinator will also act as HWF’s Child Protection Focal Point person, and will collaborate with a network of stakeholders operating within the Migrant Child Protection in Education context. The Coordinator will facilitate a working group amongst stakeholders to promote a common Child Safeguarding minimum standard policy; plan and deliver capacity-building training; and monitor and report on Child Safeguarding in the migrant area.
 

Duties and Responsibilities 

• Improve and Maintain Child Safeguarding Policies and Mechanisms within HWF
• Revise HWF’s Child Safeguarding Policy and all related procedures. 
• Deliver a suite of mandatory core training workshops to enable staff to undertake their roles and mainstream safeguarding functions.
• Deliver on-going refresher training and CSG inductions as appropriate.
• Set up HWF Child Safeguarding key teams and regular meetings. 
• Collaborate with HWF-CSG key teams and processes within HWF’s Program to ensure that Child Safeguarding is integrated into all project activities.
• Identify potential risks to children in all the project activities including workshops and events, plan mitigating measures, and assign staff to be responsible for the implementation.
• Ensure that all programming is designed, implemented and monitored through a Child Safeguarding lens.
• Support staff to take proactive steps to ensure that all programming activity identifies the potential risks and works to eliminate and mitigate those risks.
• Ensure that all staff, partners, and representatives demonstrate understanding on Child Safeguarding through regular awareness sessions and internal communications.
• Ensure that the tools and knowledge are made available to all staff and that they know how to access support and guidance.
• Work closely with HWF’s senior management team to conduct at least one ‘lessons learned’ session from the identified CSG issues to improve the CSG reporting and/or response.
• Collaborate with all other HWF programmes to design all printing/online materials in line with the Child Safeguarding message and introduce a report of Child Protection cases.
• Coordinate investigations with identified internal teams in accordance with the CSG investigation procedure.
• Maintain appropriate and effective reporting mechanisms. 
• Refer urgent identified CSG concerns to appropriate service providers without delay.
   

Support and monitor Child Safeguarding within the MLCs under HWF

• Coach and support MLCs under HWF to revise and improve policy practice at least 2 times per year.
• Develop capacity building plans and conduct training for MLC directors, headmasters, teachers, PTA and other partners and provide on-going support related to Child Safeguarding policy and procedures.  
• Develop risk assessment tools and conduct risk assessments with other organizations on MLCs under the support of HWF. 
• Provide ongoing technical supervision on child safeguarding for the MLC focal person.
• Support MLCs to improve their Child Safeguarding Policy within their management system by measuring implementation, identifying mitigating measures, and meeting and conducting agreements with each MLC committee and PTA.
• Write reports/feedback on the Child Safeguarding situation within MLCs to the Education team and participate in the New School year application process. 
• Conduct focus group discussions with children and youth to collect their voices and improve the feedback and complaint mechanism.  
   

Child Safeguarding Network – Migrant Education setting

• Establish a Child Safeguarding in Migrant Education Working Group, including developing the TOR and having the TOR signed by the top management level of Working Group members, and develop and carry out a monitoring plan with the working group.

• Develop a common standard and practice on Child Safeguarding among stakeholders working with MLCs in Tak Province. 

• Conduct a review of Child Safeguarding Policy implementation across the stakeholders and partners through the Compliance Action Plan.

• Strengthen agreements on teachers and education staff who work closely with children and youth, and implement, monitor and advocate this to be the minimum standard of recruitment process across all stakeholders’ organizations and partners.

• Apply critical analysis to ensure that we live up to our commitment to making Working Group members and partners safe for children by ensuring child safeguarding concerns are reported effectively and in line with the policy, acting as the referral point.

• Ensure mapping of service providers for children is completed in Working Group members’ and partners’ operational areas.

• Be a focal point person in Child Protection Networking (CPN), attending regular network meetings and joining events/campaigns organized by CPN.
   

Other

• Contribute, as requested by the HWF Thailand Director, to the development of project proposals and work plans, and the objectives, advocacy strategy and annual budgets to ensure that they align with effective project implementation. 
   

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, Psychology, or other relevant field of study.

• At least 3 years experience in Child Safeguarding, Child Protection working context, case management. 

• Demonstrated understanding of Child rights, Child Protection issues and case management.

• Experience in designing and delivering capacity-building training and assessment tools.

• Ability to speak, listen, read and write at the professional level in Thai or Burmese, and English. 

• Ability to work in partnership with different stakeholders, including Thai government officers.

• Ability to work under pressure and in multicultural settings.

Qualified candidates should submit:
A copy of your CV, a cover letter and salary expectation (all documents in English) as well as 3 references (include email address and phone number).  to recruitment@helpwithoutfrontiers.org  by September 15, 2020.

Subject: Child Safeguarding Coordinator

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.