Description
Staff whose work requires or potentially could require any in-person interaction with Save the Children colleagues, partners, or beneficiaries must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 unless otherwise required by law. Save the Children complies with federal, state, and local laws with regard to accommodations related to this policy.
Summary
The Lead Associate, U.S. Southern Border Program delivers and manages partnerships and programs supporting families migrating to the US along the Southern US Border. Save the Children’s U.S. Southern Border Program spans across four states through approximately 20 implementing partners that annually support over 100,000 children and adults.
You will manage and deliver Save the Children child protection programs, helping to develop strong partnerships, facilitate trainings, lead working groups, track program data, and ensure partners have necessary program supplies and support to meet the unique needs of children and families. You will contribute to the creation and contextualization of program and training content that best meets the needs of border partners and program goals. You will support and contribute to ongoing needs assessment, partner identification, program planning and implementation, and provide ongoing technical support.
As a frontline representative of Save the Children, you are required to ensure safety and protection of children and families you come in contact with and represent the agency values of Accountability, Ambition, Collaboration, Creativity, and Integrity.
What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)
Support Partnership Development (10%)
Support for Program Delivery and Capacity Building. (60%)
Identify opportunities to enhance and expand local border community capacity to deliver appropriate programs supporting families migrating to the US along the Southern US Border.
Liaise, monitor and support border community partners to deliver programs and provide operational support that ensures the safety, protection and wellbeing of children.
Manage and deliver ongoing technical assistance- trainings, workshops and presentations to strengthen local capacity to safeguard, protect and support children’s wellbeing.
In collaboration with Save the Children Program Technical colleagues support the development and delivery of appropriate trauma-informed child protection programming for children and families that adapts to the dynamic circumstances of the border.
In collaboration with Save the Children Program Technical colleagues, develop and deliver resource materials and trainings for multiple audiences including shelters, child serving organizations, child care providers, educators, families, and community partners.
Lead and support working groups to guide community collaboration to identify and address gaps that help meet the needs of families migrating to the US along the Southern US Border.
Ensure all aspects of the Border work reflects Save the Children’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion and addresses the diverse experiences and needs of children and families arriving at the US southern border
Ensure Child Safeguarding is at the core of our program and operational work and continually seek to improve the Border Program’s efforts around child safety
Quality Assurance and Monitoring (30%)
Ensure the quality delivery of contextually appropriate border program content and accurate reporting of beneficiaries.
In collaboration with Save the Children’s finance and operations teams, support coordination of efficient sub-grantee program implementation plans and guidelines for program implementation partners that help ensure quality program delivery.
Manage U.S. Southern Border Program data collection tools and methods including program surveys, feedback forms and evaluations. Ensure partners are following regular reporting schedules and that data is entered on a timely basis into Save the Children’s data monitoring system.
Required Qualifications
Minimum High School diploma or equivalent, plus at least three (3) years of relevant experience
Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with individuals and teams at all levels, both internally and externally
Demonstrated commitment to fostering and maintaining an environment of diversity, inclusion, and belonging
Demonstrated commitment to ensuring child safe programming and operations
Proven effective customer service skills
Demonstrated ability create change while gaining the support of stakeholders
Professional proficiency in spoken and written English
Professional proficiency in MS Office suite
Demonstrated ability to prioritize time and tasks and handle multiple priorities simultaneously
Willingness and ability to travel at least 15% of the time within the US Border Region and occasional trips elsewhere in the US
Demonstrated conversational proficiency in Spanish
This position may require the incumbent to operate a motor vehicle to fulfill certain essential functions of the job. The incumbent should maintain a valid driver’s license and remain in compliance with any Save the Children policies pertaining to the safe operation of motor vehicles.
Why you should join the Save the Children Team…
Save the Children U.S offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, pet insurance, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, 403(b), generous vacation, personal sick leave, family leave, parental/adoption leave, commuter benefits, dress for your day, and much more.
Click here (https://www.savethechildren.org/us/about-us/careers) to learn more about how Save the Children U.S will invest in YOU!
About Save the Children
Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share.
Our work for children and their families requires that we commit—at every opportunity—to work together to identify and dismantle persistent systemic and structural racism, inequality, and any other forms of discrimination in this country and beyond. As an anti-racist organization, Save the Children will not tolerate discrimination in any form—in our employment practices, amongst our staff, in our leadership or toward the people we serve. We stand in solidarity with all people to fight for equal rights, justice, inclusion, and belonging.
We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, age, handicap, disability, marital status, or status as a veteran. Save the Children complies with all applicable laws.
Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom we are in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse. In addition, it is Save the Children’s policy to create and proactively maintain an environment that aims to prevent and deter any actions and omissions, whether deliberate or inadvertent, that place children at the risk of any kind of child abuse. All our representatives are expected to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with this commitment and obligation.
Save the Children is committed to minimizing safety and security risks for our valued employees, ensuring all are given training, support and information to reduce their risk exposure while maximizing the impact of our programs for children and families. Our shared duty, both agency and individual, is to seek and maintain safe working conditions for all.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
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