Technical Advisor II – Safe and Dignified Programming

3 weeks ago


Baltimore, United States Catholic Relief Services Full time

Job Summary:

You will lead a team of technical advisors providing technical support to EMPOWER partners on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA)/Safeguarding as well as Safe and Dignified Programming (SDP)/protection mainstreaming in line with the EMPOWER program goals and objectives, and with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) principles and standards, donor guidelines, and industry best practicesto advance the delivery of high-quality, safe programming to the poor and vulnerable. Your technical advice, leadership, knowledge, and support will provide capacity strengthening for partners in Latin America and the Caribbean. You will be part of the global Humanitarian Response Department (HRD), within the Safe & Dignified Programming & PSS team.

Roles and Key Responsibilities

Supervise a team of two TAI for SDP to provide comprehensive and streamlined support to all partners.  Provide technical leadership in designing a capacity strengthening approach in PSEA/safeguarding and SDP for CRS EMPOWER staff and partners by developing learning and training strategies, standard training agendas/curriculums/tools, and follow-up plans for coaching and accompaniment. Work with CRS EMPOWER team and partners to ensure coordinated SDP messaging and practices are integrated in program implementation. Oversee and coordinate the work of the SDP team with Partner Safeguarding Policies and Procedures compliance Contribute to knowledge management by documenting and promoting the sharing of learning, best practices and experience on supporting partners’ SDP and PSEA/safeguarding application within CRS as well as with Partner staff, the Caritas Internationalis Safeguarding Task Force, IASC AAP PSEA Taskforce, and the CHS Alliance.  Support 20+ national/local partner organizations in the EMPOWER project to strengthen, integrate and improve SDP in humanitarian response programs, strengthen organizational safeguarding/PSEA policies and practices, and apply humanitarian standards by: Conduct self-assessments to identify their strength and gaps in PSEA/safeguarding and SDP. Develop action plans based on self-assessments to address gaps and prioritized areas, in conjunction with EMPOWER team members. Take appropriate efforts to strengthen partner capacity, as per the action plans. This will include a combination of methods, such as formal trainings, exchange visits among partners, TA accompaniment, write-shops to develop policies/SOPs (or review of existing policies), on-the-job learning, simulation exercises, etc.; Lead or contribute to the development and review of technical content related to SDP and PSEA/Safeguarding for project proposals, including defining appropriate monitoring systems and indicators. Advise project teams on integrating donor strategies, priorities and technical requirements into project proposals. Establish and maintain relationships with donors, peer organizations, research and other institutions, and participate in forums in the area of safe and dignified programming and PSEA/Safeguarding to collect and share learning/best practices and promote CRS’ work. Contribute to the development and implementation of agency-wide strategies, standards, tools, and best practices in safe and dignified programming that effectively engage partners. Help ensure a cross-sectoral approach integrating gender, protection mainstreaming, and disaster risk reduction. Ensure quality partnerships between CRS and target partners in line with CRS and Caritas Internationalis (CI) partnership principles. 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities   

Excellent interpersonal skills. Extremely flexible and able to cope with stressful situations in emergency environments. Excellent relationship management skills with ability to influence and get buy-in from people not under direct supervision and work with individuals in diverse geographical and cultural settings Strong strategic, analytical, problem-solving and systems thinking skills with capacity to see the big picture and ability to make sound judgment Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to write reports Proactive, resourceful, results and service-oriented Presentation, facilitation, training, mentoring, and coaching skills 

Required Languages  – Oral and written language proficiency; capable of conducting trainings, writing reports and proposals, holding meetings, conducting interviews and communicate with partners in English and Spanish is a requirement. 

Travel: 

Willingness and ability to travel internationally 50% of time (., 6 months out of the year) Willingness and ability to deploy as soon as possible when disasters strike, primarily within Latin American and the Caribbean; may include deployments to other regions, as needed

Supervisory Responsibilities:  Supervise two Safeguarding/SDP TAI’s on the CRS EMPOWER LACRO team

Key Working Relationships

Internal:  HRD Safe & Dignified Programming & MHPSS Team Members; EMPOWER Project Team Members; CRS Safeguarding Unit; relevant LACRO DRDs & Regional Technical Advisors; PIQA Senior Technical Advisors; Partnership Capacity Strengthening Unit.

External:  All partner staff targeted on the projects, IASC AAP/PSEA Task Team, Local PSEA or Protection Networks in the projects target countries, other PSEA actors in target countries (INGOs, NGOs, UN Agencies, Donors), Caritas Internationalis Safeguarding Task Force, Caritas members in target countries.


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