Scoping Advisor for East Asia
About Us
Family for Every Child is a global alliance of local civil society organisations working together to improve the life of vulnerable children around the world. Together we have a stronger voice to advocate for children and their families. We learn from each other, replicating and amplifying our expertise across the globe. Together we ensure that children can grow up in caring families safe from exploitation, trafficking, child labour and early marriage, and other forms of physical, sexual and emotional abuse.
Family for Every Child is a global alliance of local civil society organisations working together to improve the life of vulnerable children around the world. Together we have a stronger voice to advocate for children and their families. We learn from each other, replicating and amplifying our expertise across the globe. Together we ensure that children can grow up in caring families safe from exploitation, trafficking, child labour and early marriage, and other forms of physical, sexual and emotional abuse.
We have 18 members working hands-on with children without parental care in every region of the world. The members are supported by a global team, the Secretariat, which leads collective activities in policy, research, advocacy and knowledge exchange. Family for Every Child is made up entirely of national NGOs.
In line with our Membership Development Strategy for Family for Every Child, we are in the process of expanding the membership through a thorough research, selection and invitation process. We seek to ensure continuity of diversity of geography, child care focus and type of organisation, and equity of representation across the membership of the alliance. We are looking to identify new organisations which bring new models of practice to ensure the membership broadens its expertise, rather than duplicating existing models within the membership.
Our Goals:
All of our members are programmatically aligned with our 5 organizational goals.
- Enable children to grow up in permanent, safe and caring families
- Ensure high quality, appropriate alternative care choices for children
- Stop children from having to live outside of adult care and protect them in the short term
- Push for better and more participatory decision making about children’s care
- Strengthen child protection systems which promote better care for children
For more information about our members and our work please see www.familyforeverychild.org
About the Role
Our Membership Support Team is undertaking regional analysis of 4 countries in East Asia (Japan, Mongolia, South Korea and Taiwan) which will then enable us to identify one country to select for more in depth country analysis, and scoping of NGOs which meet our membership criteria.
This is a desk research exercise to provide an overview of children’s care issues in the region, and a top line indication of the strength of civil society and presence of an enabling government environment for reform to achieve better outcomes for children in each country.
The analysis examines:
- Scale and dimension of children’s care issues in accordance with the goals of Family for Every Child
- Presence of an enabling government environment
- Capacity, nature and operating environment of civil society, including opportunities for advocacy
- Known models of good practice - in line with current gaps in membership
This is a 12 day assignment to complete the regional analysis for each of the 4 countries named above. The output of the consultancy is a comprehensive set of data for the region plus a brief report summarizing key issues in the region of interest, and making a recommendation of one country to prioritize for more in depth country scoping. The recommendations in the report should be in line with meeting the current gaps in expertise amongst the existing members, which include: experience of children’s care in conflict/humanitarian contexts; alternative care (e.g. foster care, domestic adoption) in resource constrained settings, and working with children with a disability.
The consultant would report to the Membership Manager at Family for Every Child, Mike Northcroft, and work closely with others in the Membership Support Team.
About You
Essential
- Extensive experience of the four named countries in the East Asia region
- In-depth knowledge of the civil society environment in the four countries listed, and of the capacity for CSO’s to operate, particularly those engaged in research and advocacy
- In-depth knowledge of child rights programming, ideally backed-up by practical experience at the national and / or regional level. Ideally this knowledge should relate to care and child protection in both development and emergency settings
- Demonstrable communications skills with experience of writing regional situational reports
- Experience of partnership development with national or local NGO’s
- Fluent in written and spoken English
Desirable
- A credible reputation amongst INGO’s and NGO’s in the region with a broad range of pertinent personal contacts and working relationships to draw on
- Knowledge of other languages relevant for the assignment
HOW TO APPLY:
The 12 day contract is to be completed at the latest by 31st August 2015. We would like someone to start as soon as possible. The location of this post is flexible. However Family for Every Child is keen to ensure strong regional understanding.
Please send your resume detailing your experience to Jenny at jenny.teasdale@familyforeverychild.org. Please send the resume as a Word document, named Your Name Resume.
You must have the right to work in the country that you intend to work in. Family for Every Child is unable to provide work permits. Please note that all successful candidates must comply with Family for Every Child’s Child Protection Policy.
Remuneration to be discussed.
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