National Programmes Development Director

Responsibilities

Programme Development

– Leads the development of strategic directions in Programme Development at national level, framed by the SOS Children’s Village Programme Policy and other related policies. This means to take action through one integrated programmes of child development in a caring family environment (families of origin; SOS families, other alternative family-based care options) and through programmes interventions (direct essential services; capacity building; advocacy in the fields of care, education and health)

o Leads the processes of national child rights situation analyses and of feasibility studies at location level.

o Ensures development of qualitative SOS Children’s Village programmes proposals and steers the implementation to reach the strategic targets.

o Steers the development of new locations and alignment of existing locations following the SOS CV Programme Policy.

o Participates in the strategic and annual planning process as member of the NMT.

o Supports the budgeting process and reviews the SOS CV programmes budgets on location level.

o Prepares and is responsible for the budget of the national Programmes Development Department.

Quality Management, Monitoring and Evaluation

– Ensures implementation of quality standards within SOS Children’s Village Programmes as described in manuals, policies and concepts such as the SOS Children’s Villages Manual, Quality4Children standards, the Danuta and Danilo paper, the Family Strengthening Manual, and other future SOS CVI manuals, policies and concepts (in all fields of SOS Children’s Village Programme responses and activities).

– Provides ongoing monitoring of children’s rights protection in the Member Association.

– Ensures implementation of all existing and future SOS CVI policies in the area of programme development (e.g. the Child Protection Policy, the HIV/AIDS policy, the formal Education Policy, Inclusion Policy).

– Ensures implementation of a Quality Assurance system (including monitoring & evaluation)

– Adjusts ongoing programmes to national legal regulations in accordance with with ND.

– Ensures development of national concepts according to SOS CVI policies and SOS CVI programme quality standards.

Human Resources Development

– Is responsible for performance management of the staff of the Programme Development Department.

– Decides on which candidate is finally recruited in a recruiting process and leads the onboarding process of members of the national Programme Development Department.

– Ensures that professional and developmental objectives are set up. Works out individual development plans in cooperation with subordinates.

– Supports and provides coaching in the realisation of the set objectives.

– Monitors objective achievement.

– Conducts Performance Appraisal Talks.

– Ensures support in recruitment and selection process of leading programme development co-workers in SOS Children’s Village programmes through national PD Advisors.

– Ensures that national PD Advisors content-wise lead programme unit managers on location level.

– Ensures organisation of initial and ongoing trainings for key SOS Children’s Villages Programme staff and Programme Development Department staff

Research and Knowledge Management

– Coordinates all research activities in the programmes development area in the Member Association.

– Cooperates with governmental and non-governmental organizations carrying out research on child and family care.

– Takes responsibility for the Member Associations participation in international research projects within SOS CVI.

Partnership building and Advocacy

– Monitors national activities (of the state and of key NGOs) and planned future developments in the social welfare sector, protection of children’s rights as well as gaps in child rights fulfilment by the state.

– Participates in and/or initiates national initiatives aiming at improving conditions and changing policies and practices that undermine the well-being and rights of children of our target group.

– Develops and maintains contacts, exchanges information and develops partnerships with key stakeholders of the child welfare sector (state, NGOs, INGOs and GOs)

Child Safeguarding (CS)

– Responsible to raise awareness of the SOS Child Protection Policy principles and to prevent and protect children from all forms of abuse, abandonment, exploitation, violence and discrimination

– Carries out CS risk assessment within his/her area of work and ensures that relevant actions are put in place to mitigate the existing and possible CS risks.

– Responsible to report any CS suspicion, concern, allegation or incident immediately, following Child Safeguarding reporting procedures. CS reports should be made to the national CS focal person or any other member of the national CS team and/or to respective line manager.

– Analyses in cooperation with national CS focal person lessons learnt from CS incidents and plans actions related to care quality improvement.