Child Safety & DRR Project Coordinator (Re-announcement)

Save the Children International
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31 Jul 2017
07 August 2017

TITLE: Child Safety & DRR Project Coordinator (Re-announcement)

TEAM/PROGRAMME: DRR/Child Safety

LOCATION: Bangkok

CONTRACT LENGTH: 1 year (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; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

ROLE PURPOSE:

Save the Children works to protect children from preventable death and injuries from road crashes, drowning and disaster. The Comprehensive School Safety is a core framework that ensure school teachers, educators, students, parents and community leaders have a clear knowledge and skill through the series of capacity trainings, workshop and simulations. We advocate the national level for a positive change that improve children’s life by integrating the child friendly and safety for survival education programs and materials are developed, piloted and prepared for potential national scale-up

The Child Safety & Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Project Coordinator will be responsible for the overall implementation, coordination and management of the Road Safety & DRR programme, ensuring programme implementation with quality and cost effectiveness. The Project Coordinator will provide support to ensure that the project can deliver key activities on time and meet target and objectives. The Project Coordinator will assist the Senior Bangkok Field Coordinator in Humanitarian Response.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Senior Bangkok Field Coordinator

Dimensions: The Child Safety & DRR Project Coordinator will lead and implement the 7% project, while S/he will be the dot line managing for the Child Drowning Prevention project and DRR, ensure engagement with all project components’ stakeholders, timely execution of activities, and proper documentation and reporting.

Number of direct reports: 3

Number of indirect reports: 1

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Programme Management

In collaboration with Senior Phang Nga Field Coordinator, and the Child Safety & DRR Specialist, provide oversight and management to the 7% Road Safety, Child Drowning Prevention and DRR Programs in Bangkok.
Work closely with Child Safety and DRR Specialist to ensure quality implementation under SCI Child Safeguarding Policy and other quality benchmarks.
Ensure timely and quality management of Road Safety, Water Safety and DRR projects according to Save the Children’s quality framework and donor requirements. These include but not limit to leading the development and review of work, procurement, communications, advocacy, and MEAL plans.
Ensure that project progress is effectively monitored through the regular collection and analysis of key indicators and ensure that processes and results are proper documented.
Ensure effective grant and partnership management across the projects, including quality and timely reporting and project documentation to members, partners, and donors.
Coordinate and communicate with partners and stakeholders on all child safety for survival programmes, and be responsible for all team members to practice partnership management according to Save the Children principles.
Identify and activate areas of integration and shared learning across the Child Safety and DRR projects.
Engage with other programs and themes, and with various Save the Children strategic partners including corporate partners, NGO partners, and government authorities according to Save the Children’s Thailand Country Strategy 2016-2018.
Support the Child Safety and DRR Specialist in project design research. This may include, but is not limited to, identifying stakeholders, sources of information, attending meetings/interviews, and liaising with members and potential donors.
Support the Senior Bangkok Field Coordinator, Finance Manager, Senior Support Operations Manager, Awards Manager, and the Programme Development and Quality (PDQ) team in fundraising and project design.
Represent Save the Children in advocacy, networking and partnership meetings, workshops, and conferences.
Participate in regular team meetings, and project training and workshops.
Ensure that lessons learnt and success stories from the project are effectively documented and shared.

Humanitarian Response

Be a member of the Emergency Response Team (ERT).
Attend ERT trainings.
As assigned, assist the Senior Bangkok Field Coordinator in each emergency response.

Project Management

Take the lead in implementing directly the 7% Project; ensure delivery of all helmet safety project activities, events, workshops and advocacy efforts.
Be the budget holder for all road safety grants.
Lead the 7% project activities, design and develop a clear and detailed implementation plans (DIP), work breakdown structure (WBS), issue log, budgets, and monitors activities against the plan to ensure timely and quality implementation.
Actively participate in the project brainstorming design sessions and meetings, providing inputs based on current implementation.
Manage the projects’ grants, ensuring donors’ compliance through proper tracking of reporting on activities, training and monitoring of project delivery and quality.
Ensure quality and eligible grant management through regular support to project stakeholders, monitoring of project delivery and quality, as well as donor compliance.
Liaise with Finance Manager and Awards Manager in BvA monitoring and alert the Senior Bangkok Field Coordinator on emerging grant concerns.
Provide ideas, feedback and updates to The Senior Bangkok Field Coordinator on projects’ progress.

Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL)

With supervision from the Senior Bangkok Field Coordinator and support from Grants and Awards Manager, writes and ensures timely and quality progress and end of project reporting to Save the Children members and donors.
Works with MEAL Coordinator to develop monitoring and evaluation project plans, and ensure its implementation.
In consultation with the MEAL Coordinator, take the lead in establish accountability mechanisms and ensure that they beneficiaries are informed and accessible
Works with MEAL team to support and apply the Save the Children accountability procedures to the 7% project activities.
Works with Communication & Advocacy Coordinator to develop communication & advocacy project plans, and ensure its implementation.
Ensures quantitative and qualitative documentation of project outcomes and impacts; and that learning is shared with key internal and external stakeholders.

BEHAVIOURS (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:

University degree in social work, social sciences, medical & health or other relevant field
Minimum 3 years of experience working on development projects and / or awareness campaign management
Thai nationality
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