Child Protection Coordinator
Country/Region: Uganda
Location: Kasese
Organization: Save the Children International
Join us to lead sustainable change for children:
- Be part of a GLOBAL and DIVERSE technical community
- Get EXPOSURE in many different contexts
- Test and scale up INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS
- Influence policies that affect MILLIONS OF CHILDREN
OVERVIEW
Are you passionate about being an advocate for children? Do you want to use your expertise to bring about lasting change for children and be a part of an inspiring, dynamic global movement?
ROLE PURPOSE:
The Child protection Coordinator has responsibility to provide overall technical leadership, coordination, and strategic oversight of the project, ensuring high-quality implementation, policy influence, and strong stakeholder engagement at district level.
Sounds interesting? Read more below
THE ROLE:
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
Strategic Leadership & Program Oversight
- Lead overall project planning, implementation, and project performance
- Ensure integration across all objectives: Policy & advocacy, behaviour change, Child protection systems, and Livelihoods
- Ensure alignment with national child labour frameworks and CP Minimum Standards.
Policy Engagement & Advocacy
- Lead engagement with MGLSD, National Steering Committee, Parliament, and MDAs
- Coordinate Policy dialogues and advocacy initiatives
- Oversee development of Policy briefs, fact sheets, and evidence products
- Lead district budget advocacy and financing discussions.
Stakeholder Coordination & Partnerships.
- Manage high-level relationships with the Government at the district level, the private sector (coffee companies, cooperatives), UN agencies, CSOs, and donors.
- Represent the project in CP coordination forums, Child labour platforms, and ensure effective multi-stakeholder collaboration.
- Lead engagement with coffee value chain actors on Child Rights and Business Principles (CRBP) and Human Rights due diligence.
- Oversee the development of company commitments and MOUs, Child labour policy development within companies, and ensure integration of traceability and compliance mechanisms.
Technical Quality Assurance.
- Ensure quality implementation of Case management systems and referral pathways, and Community structures and PSW strengthening.
- Provide technical guidance on Child protection standards, Safeguarding, and risk mitigation.
- Ensure ethical programming and “do no harm” approaches.
Team Management & Capacity Building.
- Supervise Project Officers and other child protection field teams
- Provide coaching, mentoring, and performance management
- Support capacity Building of staff and partners on Child labour, Case management, advocacy, and coordination.
Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL)
- Oversee project monitoring framework and indicators.
- Ensure quality data collection, analysis, and reporting.
- Lead Learning reviews, documentation of impact, and best practices.
- Use data to inform adaptive management.
Risk Management & Safeguarding
- Identify and manage programmatic and safeguarding risks
- Ensure incident reporting and response mechanisms are functional
- Maintain oversight of ethical concerns and compliance
Financial Oversight
- Oversee budgets and ensure efficient resource utilization
- Approve expenditure aligned with project objectives
- Ensure donor compliance and reporting requirements are met.
Other Duties:
- Adhere to the Child Protection Policy, Safeguarding policy and Code of Conduct.
- Consistently and proactively, monitor/assess the safety and security of field teams; promptly reporting concerns or incidents to the Project Manager and liaising with external parties as required to maintain/enhance the security environment for the program.
- Other duties as assigned by the project manager to enable and develop the program.
To be a strong supporter and advocate for children in this role you will need to have:
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Essential
- At least a bachelor’s in social work, human rights, or related field preferred and diploma/certificate in Child Protection as an added advantage.
- At least 5 years’ experience of implementing child protection system strengthening with similar responsibilities in humanitarian or development settings.
- Good understanding of the national social welfare systems, alternative care systems, juvenile justice system and child protection mechanisms.
- Experience in capacity building, conducting trainings, on-the-job coaching, and technical supervision.
- Experience in community mobilization and conducting outreach activities, including the ability to work on supporting case management work for children at risk.
- Excellent writing, facilitation, and organizational skills.
- Strong drive for results and ensuring timely delivery of quality products.
- Experience working with case files and databases and providing regular documentation.
- Ability to work individually and within a team.
- Good analytical, problem solving and project planning skills.
- Able to communicate clearly and strategically with internal and external stakeholders as a representative. This includes effective negotiation and representation skills.
- Computer knowledge - Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook.
- Advocates for children’s rights and child participation in all decisions that affect them.
- Strongly drives performance forward in area of the business for which they are responsible together with the team.
- Ability to ride a Motorcycle.
Desired
- Strong skills in monitoring, evaluation, research and conducting participatory, community-led assessments.
- Experience in designing and facilitating training sessions.
- Competent spoken English language.
- Demonstrated ability to work in a multi-cultural environment and establish harmonious and effective working relationships. · Experience or knowledge of working and living in relevant regions/contexts.
Application Information:
Please apply using a cover letter and up-to-date CV as a single document. Please also include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations. A copy of the full role profile can be found at https://hcri.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1
We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
Application closes on May 22, 2026, midnight Uganda time.
Save the Children is an equal opportunity employer and seeks to employ and assign the best qualified talent, persons with disabilities and female candidates are encouraged to apply.
Disclaimer: Save the Children International does not charge any kind of fee at whichever stage of the recruitment process and does not act through recruitment agents.
OUR DIVERSITY BELIEF
Save the Children International is committed to create a truly inclusive, effective and representative organisational culture, encouraging equity and diversity among its employees and eliminating unlawful discrimination. We want our people to be truly representative of all sections of society. Having a diverse profile of employees, different age groups, backgrounds, cultures, & disabilities etc. We are guided by our values in everything we do and recognise that being a diverse and inclusive employer helps us fulfil our responsibility to make a difference for children around the world.
