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Save the Children International is looking for The Drowning Prevention Project Officer
 

JOB TITLE:  The Drowning Prevention Project Officer

TEAM/PROGRAMME:  Thailand Programme (DRR/Child Safety)

LOCATION:  Based in Phang Nga

Type of Contract: 30 months (with possible extension pending funding)

CHILD SAFEGUARDING:
Level 3:  the role holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work in country programs; or are visiting country programs; ore because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

ROLE PURPOSE:
Drowning is the most common cause of death among children in Thailand. According to Thailand’s Department of Disease Control, 1,243 children under 15 die from drowning each year.  Water is an essential feature of Thailand’s geography and climate, and these water sources are responsible for drowning deaths, particularly children. Open waters, rivers, ponds, ditches, and quarries are in abundance in both rural and urban areas and fill with water during the rainy season. Closed vessels such as large buckets and troughs are used for water storage, cooking, and feeding livestock. Additionally, Thailand is prone to natural disasters including floods, tropical storms, typhoons, and tsunamis.

While drowning is pervasive across Thailand, children are at a heightened risk of drowning in rural areas, especially around natural water sources. Further compounding the problem is that two out of every three children under the age of 15 (approximately 11 million children) do not know how to swim. In addition, parents, caregivers, and communities are unaware of the high rate of child drowning and have limited, if any knowledge of drowning prevention.

The project officer will be responsible for supporting the project implementation, research, monitoring and evaluation in the field. The project officer will coordinate project activities at the field level in coordination with project partners, co-lead on the parent training program, and closely support the water safety awareness campaign. The project officer will also be responsible for data collection and consolidating data for learning and reporting purposes, and for administrative and finance support to the project coordinator and partners.

SCOPE OF ROLE:
Reports to: Phang Nga Field Coordinator and Senior Child Safety and DRR Programme Coordinator

Dimensions: The Project Officer will lead and implement the drowning prevention project, ensure engagement with all project components’ stakeholders, timely execution of activities, and proper documentation and reporting.

Budget Responsibility: Supports budget planning and monitoring

Number of direct reports: NONE

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
1.Programme Delivery:

• Supports the Field Coordinator in direct implementation of the Drowning Prevention Project; ensuring delivery of the whole child safety programme activities, events, workshops and advocacies.

• Engages with Khuk Khak Municipality, Takuapa district, Phang Nga Province, Office of Basic Education Commission (OBEC), primary schools, early childhood development (ECD) centre, Health Promotion Hospital, rescue, private sector and other CBOs to organize swimming education programs, conducts training of trainers (TOT) for key teachers, students, parents and community volunteers

• Supports the Field Coordinator in collaboration with Communication & Advocacy Coordinator and MEAL Coordinator in implementing the advocacy campaign.

• Supports the Field Coordinator to leads in engaging teachers, students, parents and community, providing trainings and events, creating a database to track beneficiaries’ information.

• Liaises with the Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) & Comprehensive School Safety (CSS) framework’s network to address project’s advocacy needs, and ensure positive outcomes for children.

Emergency Response

• Be Emergency Response Team (ERT)

• Attends to ERT training

• As assigned, assists the Field Coordinator  and the Senior Child Safety Programme Coordinator in each emergency response

2. Project Management

• Support the Field Coordinator to design project activities and develop a clear and detailed implementation plans; and monitors activities against this plan to ensure timely and quality implementation.

• Actively participates in the drowning prevention project brainstorming design sessions and meetings, providing inputs based on current implementation.

• Represents Save the Children in advocacy, networking, meetings, workshops, and conferences as needed.

• Co-ordinate and communicate with partners and stakeholders on the drowning prevention project management and activity implementation.

• Support the Field Coordinator to manage the drowning prevention project grants, ensuring donors’ compliance through proper tracking of reporting on activities, training and monitoring of project delivery and quality.

• Provides ideas, feedback and updates to the Field Coordinator on project progress.

3. Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL)

• Support to the Field Coordinator in writing project reports for Save the Children members and donors.

• Support the Field Coordinator and MEAL officer to develop monitoring and evaluation project plans, and ensure its implementation.

• Support the Field Coordinator and Communication & Advocacy Coordinator to develop communication & advocacy project plans, and ensure its implementation.

• Support the Field Coordinator to ensure quantitative and qualitative documentation of project outcomes and impacts; and that learning is shared with key internal and external stakeholders.

• Support the Field Coordinator to work with MEAL team support, apply the Save the Children accountability procedures to the 7% project activities.
 

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (SCI Values in Practice)
Accountability:

• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving results together with children and role modelling Save the Children values

• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved

• Creates a managerial environment in-country to lead, enable and maintain our culture of child safeguarding

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for self and team, takes responsibility for own personal development

• Widely shares personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others

• Future oriented, thinks strategically and on a global scale

Collaboration:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with own team, colleagues, partners and stakeholders

• Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength

• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to

Creativity:

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions

• Willing to take disciplined risks

• Has exciting campaign ideas and activities to engage with target audience 

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency

• Always acts in the best interests of children

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Essential:

• Thai nationality

• Minimum 3 years of experience working on development projects and / or awareness campaign management  

• The ability to speak, read and write in Thai and English as working languages

• Proficiency in computer use with various software packages; and confident in digital technology, particularly with engaging with people online

• Ability to lead a community of people and/or volunteers with experience mobilizing volunteers

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Clear desire to work with people to help solve their problems 

• Ability to work independently

• Ability to travel in remote and/or disaster-affected areas as assigned

• Good at using different types of communication tools to tell stories

• Demonstrated good facilitation or training skills

• Demonstrated administration skills

• Commitment  to  and  understanding  of  Save  the  Children’s  aims,  values  and principles  including rights-based 

• Strong interpersonal skills the ability to work collaboratively with others

Desirable:

• English language skills desirable

• Experience or familiarity with water safety / child safety

• Background in Emergency programming is an asset.

• Experience working in education programs is an asset.

• Experience working in an international development organization is an asset.

• Experience working with governmental agencies, communities, CBOs, NGOs and press is an asset.

Equal Opportunities

The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the Save the Children Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.
Save the Children offers competitive remuneration package.
Deadline for submission of application is on 31 July 2016
 
To apply, please send your application and CV to HR Department at hr.thailand@savethechildren.org

Please indicate in the subject as “Apply for The Drowning Prevention Project Officer. (Name of candidate)”
Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.
“We need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.”