Job Opportunity: Regional Officer needed at Street Child. We believe every child deserves the chance to go to school and learn.

Job Title:  Regional Officer
Reporting to:  Cameroon Country Representative
Hours:  40 hours/ week
Principal Location:  Buea, Cameroon
Length of Contract:  12 months fixed term contract

Organization Background:

Street Child works towards a world where all children are safe, in school and learning. We specialize in supporting children and communities in low-resource environments and emergencies: recognizing that the complex, compounded challenges that affect them require innovative, integrated interventions. Our interventions are informed by robust, rigorous evidence and results-oriented, optimized to create maximum impact for children at minimum cost. Since 2008, we have assisted over 850,000 children across 20+ fragile, conflict and crisis affected counties across Eastern Europe, South Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa.

ROLE PURPOSE:

Street Child aims to be an amplifier of local leadership and impact, and works with an expansive, evolving network of 95+ local level actors and organisations, underscored by close consultation and collaboration with local communities. Since 2019, Street Child has implemented a number of innovative initiatives to advance the localization agenda, in close collaboration with Education Cannot Wait [ECW], the Global Education Cluster [GEC] and Child Protection Area of ​​Responsibility [CP AoR] – producing powerful proof points where our principles and approach to localization have led to stronger, more sustainable local level actors and organizations. The role specifically seeks to strengthen our localization outreach within Region 3(B) of the Elevating Local Leadership in Emergencies (ELLIE) project with a remit over Cameroon, Burkina Faso,

The Regional Officer shall support the development of a portfolio of pathbreaking initiatives to accelerate local level action through advocating for increased funding flows and investment in consolidating capabilities and capacities of local level organisations and improving local level leadership, inclusion, and involvement across the humanitarian architecture. This role reports to the Country Representative shall support the activation of these initiatives across Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger and in close coordination with country colleagues in Cameroon and Nigeria. This includes Elevating Local Leadership in Emergencies, an ambitious, pathbreaking initiative to advance localisation in 35 countries across 3 continents in partnership with the United States Agency for International Development [USAID]. This role supports Street Child’s role increasing the scale and scope of its influence and impact across the architecture in the 4 countries.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

ADVOCACY, INFLUENCE, AND IMPACT ASSESSMENT [60%]

• Support in the collection and analysis of relevant data on localization in the countries of intervention.
• Ensure localisation initiatives are informed by expertise and experience from previous programmes, and reflect recent research and evidence on advancing local level action;
• Ensure excellent presentation of our localisation proposition through production and publication of articles, blogs, briefs, and reports;
• Support and strengthen strategic communication and coordination with, and capacity strengthening of clusters, coordination groups and networks to advise and assist on increasing funding flows to, and the involvement, inclusion and leadership of, local level organisations;
• Support and strengthen evaluation of the effectiveness of localisation initiatives and evidence of their impact – including best practices and proof points in the 4 countries;
• Support Street Child’s presence and profile in the countries of assignment through regular engagements and evidence sharing across clusters, coordination groups, and networks;
• Strengthen Street Child position as a thought leader and increase influence through strategic coordination, collaboration, and representation across the architecture;

PROGRAMME DELIVERY [40%]

• Support the roll out of localisation initiatives, conceptualising and operationalising programmes in close collaboration and cooperation with the Cameroon and Nigeria country teams;
• Support a robust programme management and monitoring and regular reporting to stakeholders;
• Assuring adaptive programme management to achieve ambitious aims and advance the localisation agenda;
• Support in conducting scoping and setting up of activities to accelerate localisation in the countries of assignment;
• Ensure collaboration and coordination with significant stakeholders including relevant working groups and clusters;
• Support capacity strengthening and support for the Nigeria and Cameroon country teams, assist, and advocate to clusters, coordination groups to increase funding flows, invest in consolidating capabilities and capacities, and advance inclusion, involvement, and leadership of local level organisations;
• Support country teams to assess the capabilities and capacities of local level organisations, and to advise and assist local level organisations to access funding, and accelerate inclusion, involvement, and leadership across the humanitarian architecture;
• Supporting and strengthening sharing, collaboration, and cooperation across Niger, Burkina Faso, Cameroon and Mali;

Person Specification:

Attributes / Essential / Desirable

Education and Qualifications:

• A first degree in Project Management, International Development, Strategic Management, Education and or in any other related disciplines A master’s degree in related discipline

Experience and Knowledge:

• At least 3 years of prior experience in project management ideally in the humanitarian sector
• Strong working knowledge of humanitarian standards and principles of good practice
• Experience in managing a multi-disciplinary, diverse team to deliver strong results
• Relevant experience of working in support of local partners
• Technical specialism in education in emergencies or child protection in emergencies
• Specific knowledge of the humanitarian landscape in Cameroon, Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso would be an added advantage

Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent spoken and written English and French skills
• Excellent interpersonal, listening and communication skills
• Excellent planning, coordination and reporting skills with demonstrated ability to work under pressure and delivering to tight deadlines
• Proven coaching/capacity building skills and organisational development experience

Other:

• Able and willing to occasionally travel as necessary
• A ‘can-do’ and agile attitude, a passion for problem solving and adaptive thinking
• Commitment to our vision, mission and values
• Commitment to protecting the rights of children in all circumstances
• Commitment to localisation and local action

Street Child’s commitment to Safeguarding:

Street Child is committed to the safeguarding and protection of the communities we serve, our partners, our volunteers, and our staff

As part of this commitment to safeguarding, all offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate background checks, including a Criminal Records check. Street Child also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job 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.

To apply:

Street Child welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and so interested candidates are encouraged to apply early.