Head of Child Protection and Safeguarding at Plan International – Tanzania

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Head of Child Protection and Safeguarding at Plan International October 2024

Location: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Job Type: Full-time
Company: Plan International
The Organisation
Plan
International is an independent development and humanitarian
organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We
believe in the power and potential of every child but know this is often
suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it
is girls who are most affected.

Working together with children,
young people, supporters and partners, we strive for a just world,
tackling the root causes of the challenges girls and vulnerable children
face. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach
adulthood and we enable children to prepare for and respond to crises
and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local,
national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

For over 85 years, we have rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries.
We won’t stop until we are all equal.

ROLE PURPOSE
The Head of Child Protection and Safeguarding
position is responsible for providing technical support in child
protection programming and Safeguarding roles in Plan International
Tanzania. The position has the responsibility of designing sustainable
and integrated child protection strategies in programming and providing
continuous technical support in the project management cycle of the
child protection programs of Plan International Tanzania.

The
position has the role of designing grants proposals, creating and
building strategic partnerships and national-level networking and
advocacy. This position has responsibility of working with Business
Development Team in fundraising at the stage of proposal development on
Protection from Violence programming. This role is based at the Country
Office and reports to the Team Leader Program Quality
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DIMENSION OF THE ROLE

• This position reports to Team Leader Program Quality and is part of the Extended Country Management Team (ECMT)
• Performs
  child protection and child safeguarding assessments, mapping exercises
  and evaluates external country level data to inform next steps.
• Contribute to the identification of best practices and lessons learned
  to contribute to the knowledge management on child protection, and
  safeguarding.
• With support from MERL, collaborate with the
  project team, children, young people and other stakeholders to define,
  implement and monitor child-friendly, accessible and confidential
  safeguarding feedback and monitoring mechanisms.
• With communications team develop and ensure dissemination of right messages on child protection, and safeguarding.
• Ensure
  that all data is disaggregated by sex, age and disability for children,
  adolescents and school-aged youth including regular analysis on trends
• Contextualise tools, curriculums and policies related to child protection, and safeguarding to the Tanzania context.
• Technically
  support the design of community prevention mechanisms to mitigate and
  respond to child protection and safeguarding to ensure the quality of
  the outcomes.
• In collaboration and coordination with PA
  safeguarding focal person, conducts regular assessments to identify
  child safeguarding risks as well as guide partners in conducting
  assessments in the project implementation areas
• Provide support
  and advice in dealing with alleged cases of safeguarding and PSEAH
  concerns by Plan staff, partners and visitors, as well as participate in
  fact-finding, investigation and related actions;
• Lead the completion of annual safeguarding self-assessment for all PIT offices
• Carry
  out assessment and complete documentation related to assessments,
  incident allegation reporting and case management, plans, needs
  assessments, risk assessment and mitigation efforts in a timely and
  ordered manner.
• Compile documentation to be retained
  confidentially according to established guidelines, policy and Plan
  international requirement
• Represent PIT in all internal and
  external fora and networks, including Safeguarding and Protection from
  Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment (PSEAH) taskforce groups and
  other inter-agency meetings.
• This position has the role of
  designing child protection strategy and deigning project proposals for
  the child protection program thematic area in coordination with the
  Business Development Unit
• This position will also provide
  technical inputs to Program Quality initiatives related to strengthening
  project management processes and capabilities, ensuring proper guidance
  and tools in child protection programming.
• Performs other related duties as assigned by the supervisor

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Location: Dar es Salaam
Reports to: Team Leader Program Quality
Level: 16
Closing Date: 24th October, 2024

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.
We
want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we
work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age,
disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership,
pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual
orientation.

Plan International is based on a culture of
inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures
every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse
people, thoughts, and ideas.
We foster an organisational culture
that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’
rights and inclusion.

Plan International believes that in a
world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to
ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep
children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to
children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in
any way to harming or placing children at risk.

A
range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with
Plan International’s Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan
International also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.
In line with this scheme we will request information from applicants
previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual
abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under
investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an
application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these
recruitment procedures.
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