Catholic Relief Services (CRS)

Senior Specialist for Child Protection and Care System Strengthening

Software EngineeringPosted 1 mo ago

Location

Phnom Penh

Job Type

FULLTIME

Work Mode

On-site

Industry

Non-profit

Languages

English, Khmer

About the role

The Senior Specialist acts as the subject matter expert providing technical advice, guidance, and support to strengthen child protection, care, and development systems in Cambodia Country Program.
Through application of specialized technical expertise, the Senior Specialist will support project implementation, systems strengthening, capacity development, and learning efforts to improve outcomes for vulnerable children and families.
The Senior Specialist contributes to improving policies, practices, service quality, and sustainable system change through collaboration with government, civil society, faith-based, and community stakeholders.
Serve as the project’s subject matter expert for Child Protection and Care System Strengthening within Cambodia Country Program.
Provide technical advice, guidance and leadership within the area of specialization in Cambodia, in coordination and collaboration with the global technical counterpart and drawing on senior consultants and resource partners with specialized expertise, to ensure project strategies, tools, training content, implementation approaches, and partner support reflect current evidence, technical standards for program quality, and country context.
Provide technical assistance to strengthen systems serving children and families in Cambodia.
Support government, civil society, faith-based, and community actors to develop, adapt, and implement relevant policies, regulations, standards, standard operating procedures, tools, and guidance at national and targeted subnational levels.
Strengthen capacity and implementation quality within Cambodia.
Provide coaching, training, supportive supervision, and technical troubleshooting to project teams, partners, and relevant system actors to improve practice and program results, support adherence to standards, and effectively and efficiently address performance gaps.
Support integrated project delivery across technical areas within the project. closely with the project team, global technical counterpart, resource partners, other subject matter experts, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL), and implementation teams to support coordinated, mutually rei.

Required Skills

Subject Matter ExpertiseTechnical AdviceGuidanceSupportChild ProtectionCare Systems StrengtheningDevelopment SystemsProject ImplementationSystems StrengtheningCapacity DevelopmentLearningPolicy ImprovementPractice ImprovementService Quality ImprovementSustainable System ChangeCollaborationLeadershipCoordinationTechnical AssistancePolicy Development