Save the Children UK Vacancies in Kenya

1. Community Mobilisation and Social Marketing Consultant
2. Child Protection Standard Operating Procedures Consultant
3. Psychosocial Support and Child Friendly Spaces Consultant

As the world’s leading independent children’s charity, Save the Children UK Kenya is rapidly expanding programmes in response to the emergency in North Eastern Kenya.  We are looking for dynamic, resilient professsionals to join us in saving and improving the lives of thousands of vulnerable children.
Community Mobilisation and Social Marketing Consultant
Save the Children UK is seeking the services of a consultant in Community Outreach and Social Marketing. The purpose of the consultant is to strengthen community-based approaches and structures to prevent and respond to child abuse, exploitation, violence and neglect in Dadaab.
The objective is to develop a participatory and inter-active training package for staff on community sensitisation, mobilisation and outreach; tailor the training content to the Dadaab context, design specific tools and activities that can be implemented to achieve the project goals. The work is expected to take a maximum of 30 days.
Closing date 18th June, 2010.
Child Protection Standard Operating Procedures Consultant
Save the Children has drafted Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to guide child protection case work in Dadaab. There is now need for a consultant to work with Save the Children to refine and strengthen these procedures in consultation with an appropriate range of stakeholders, including communities, and conduct a training needs analysis for agencies that play a role in child protection prevention and response.
Copies of the finalized SOPs will be disseminated to child protection actors but a tailored package of basic training on child protection to bring the procedures to life is also required.
The consultant will conduct an initial review of the draft SOPs and work closely with Save the Children to finalize the draft. The consultant will then facilitate two workshops on the SOPs with key stakeholders from Dadaab: One to inform the final draft SOPs and one to train on the finalized SOPs. The work is expected to take a maximum of 21 days.
Closing date 18th June, 2010.
Psychosocial Support and Child Friendly Spaces Consultant
Child friendly spaces are one of Save the Children’s key global programmatic interventions to protect children from harm and psychosocial distress. The consultant is expected to deliver a package of sustainable staff capacity building through training, mentoring and production of standard training packages and tools to enable staff to help children develop core psychosocial competencies and promote cooperative behaviour among peers.
The consultant will be provided with the relevant documents and briefings required to understand the background of the programme and Dadaab context. The work is expected to take a maximum of 2 months.
Closing date 18th June, 2010.
Please send your CV with a cover letter and contacts of three referees to jobskenya@scuk.or.ke.
Quote the job title and location on the subject line.
Only short listed candidates will be contacted. Our selection processes reflect our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
Our people are as diverse as the challenges we face.

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