Job Details

ROLE PURPOSE: 
The Peace and Development Advisor will will play a vital role in leading and developing initiatives aimed at promoting peace, reconciliation, and conflict resolution in BARMM and other regions. The Peace and Development Advisor will work closely with BARMM government agencies, local stakeholders, community leaders, and project partners to facilitate dialogue, build relationships, and create sustainable peace-building strategies. 
The Peace and Development Advisor will design Peace & Development programs and oversee the delivery of SCP’s strategy in BARMM while at the same time ensuring alignment with the larger goals of the organization: Goal 1: Save the Children drives significant improvements in the health, learning, protection and participation of the most excluded and vulnerable children; Goal 2: SCP is continuously growing financially and has stable financial future; and Goal 3: SCP has a fit for purpose structure with skilled and competent talents working in a sustainable and inclusive workplace, and operating under efficient and integrated systems and processes. 
The Advisor helps shape SCP’s niche in the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus and Child- & Conflict-Sensitive Peacebuilding in BARMM and other areas. The post holder will also ensure that all program and advocacy actions are inclusive, responsive, conflict-sensitive and climate-informed. The Advisor is responsible for building evidence, monitoring progress, and documenting impact to contribute to positive social change through SCP-BARMM programs and projects, primarily supporting its peace and development portfolio including but not limited to education platforms. The Peace and Development Advisor will build strategic partnerships and develop a pool of experts and partners SCP can work with. 
The Peace and Development Advisor will provide technical support to staff and partners on contextualized and peace programming. The post holder will provide technical support to the relevant Ministries and Parliament Committees in supporting policy development that is relevant to SCP advocacy goals including child- and conflict sensitive peace programs and interventions. The post holder will build partnerships with the academe and local civil society groups including children and youth groups and engage them in the co-design and delivery of programs and advocacy and campaigns for and with children. 
The Peace and Development Advisor will also ensure that SCP’s advocacy agenda are visible and linked to SCP’s work with the Bangsamoro Transition Authority. The Peace and Development Advisor ensures that advocacy and campaign messages are sustained by the enactment of relevant policies especially the adoption of RA 10821 Children in Emergencies Act and localization of Comprehensive Emergency Program for Children, Children in Situations of Armed Conflict and Safe Schools Declaration. The Peace and Development Advisor also supports the awareness and capacity building of armed state and non-state actors to practice non-violent and peacebuilding approaches anchored on child rights programming and gender equality, disability and social inclusion principles. 
The Peace and Development Advisor ensures close collaboration with the Business Development and Awards Unit of SCP in building sustainable engagements with strategic institutional and corporate donors 
 
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
Thematic Area Leadership & Strategic Thinking•Periodically analyses the children’s rights and education and peace situation in BARMM and feeds this into SCP BARMM offices’ assessment and planning process•Leads in defining BARMM offices’ strategic focus on education, ensuring integration of Save the Children’s Theory of Change in the strategies and approaches; develops and periodically updates the strategy paper in relation to education in BARMM•Designs and oversees the delivery of a Peace Program strategy ensuring alignment with the SCP Organizational Goals and identify SCP’s niche in Peace, Child- and Conflict Sensitive Peacebuilding in BARMM•Identifies innovations in development and peacebuilding work and ensures evidence-based results when designing education and peacebuilding programs and projects in BARMM•Provides inputs in the development and drafting of the BARMM offices’ strategic and annual plans, with a particular focus on education•Actively participates in national, global, and regional Save the Children discussions on education programming, ensuring that priorities of BARMM offices are aligned with the global initiatives•Coordinates closely with the Humanitarian unit to ensure that education concerns are integrated in Education in Emergencies (EiE), Child Protection in Emergencies (CPiE) and Early Childhood Care and Development in Emergencies (ECCDiE) and Children’s Participation in Governance Programming in BARMM
Program Development and Resource Mobilization•Develops quality concept notes and proposals on peacebuilding, inclusive & conflict-sensitive learning, and humanitarian response-recovery initiatives for BARMM•Leads the design of relevant development programs in BARMM that are aligned to the Organizational Strategy and addresses the needs of marginalized children
•Designs and produces concept notes and proposals in collaboration with other SCP staff / stakeholders and ensures co-designs are inclusive, responsive, conflict-sensitive and climate-informed•Develops and builds evidence and research on SCP’s peace, conflict sensitive and peacebuilding actions•Ensures that advocacy and programs are inclusive, responsive, conflict-sensitive and climate-informed•Develops a resource package on Child- and Conflict Sensitive Peace Programs for marketing to donors, agencies, private sector•Contributes to efforts at resource mobilization and building Save the Children’s profile in the identified thematic area by conducting regular scoping of potential donors in the thematic area, liaising with and maintaining relations with relevant donors and Save the Children members
Strategic Partnerships & Advocacy•Builds strategic partnerships with relevant stakeholders•Develops a pool of experts / practitioners on peace and development that SCP can work with•Regularly conducts mapping of key players and stakeholders in education in BARMM and identifies strategic networks and partnerships•Takes the lead in defining and implementing the SCP and BARMM offices’ advocacy agenda on the relevant thematic area and SCI Global Initiative•Identifies and builds partnerships with CSOs and networks that focus on Literacy or the improvement of reading/numeracy skills or improving quality education performance and environments for children, peace education and peacebuilding•In coordination with the Policy Advocacy Manager, produces position papers, briefing papers and statements of the BARMM offices in relation to the relevant thematic area•Establishes and maintains active working relationships with key BARMM partners under education such as government, bilateral and multilateral agencies, civil society organizations and networks, and ensures that key messages of the BARMM offices are clearly shared and communicated•Represents Save the Children in strategic networks, advocacy meetings or partnership forums on education at the BARMM and national levels
Program Quality Assurance and Technical Support
•Serves as the lead technical resource in state-of-the-art programming and advocacy on Peace and Development in BARMM•Ensures that the Quality Benchmarks are developed, adapted and implemented by program partners in BARMM and acts on identified gaps and needs for quality delivery•Conducts rapid assessments on education in BARMM in times of emergencies•Builds the capacities and provides technical support to BARMM field offices and partners to enable them to meet agreed results and effectively execute strategies in relation to peace and development•Ensures that all BARMM offices and partners achieve the required standards needed in implementing peace and development work by developing relevant tools, designing modules, and providing materials, etc.•Provides oversight on the management of BARMM level programs including consortium projects pertaining to the thematic area in close coordination with the respective project leads (including leading the planning, assessment and review of targets / results and budgets)•Coordinates with other units in developing Advocacy and Business or Proposal Development products such as Business Development Unit, Advocacy, Campaigns, Communications and Media Unit, People Culture and Organization and Finance Unit.•Ensures that the SCP and BARMM offices’ program work directly links and contributes to the SCI Global Initiatives and Outcomes
Representation and Liaison with Relevant Government Agencies, Ministries and Parliament•Engages key agencies and Task Forces such as the Office of the Presidential Advisor on Peace, Reconciliation and Unity (OPAPRU), Transitional Justice and Reconciliation Committee (TJRC), Joint Task Force on Camp Transformation (JTFCT).•Engages relevant ministries but not limited to the Ministry of Basic Higher and Technical Education (MBHTE), Ministry of Interior and Local Government (MILG), and Ministry of Trade Investments and Tourism, the Bangsamoro Youth Commission and Committee on Women, Youth, Children and Persons with Disabilities to promote and develop child rights-based peace education and participation of children in the peace process.•Ensures that the Parliament and Ministries are informed and aware of SCP interventions across its peace and development programming•Ensures alignment of SCP peace and development plans are aligned and contribute to the BARMM Development Plan.•Facilitates coordination between inter-agency engagement to ensure adaptation of policies and programs that are consistent with inclusive, responsive, conflict-sensitive and climate-informed advocacies and programming
Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL)•Leads the design of results frameworks and indicators on education in BARMM and ensures alignment of these with the Global Initiative Indicators (as relevant)•Supports the establishment of monitoring, evaluation and accountability mechanisms and processes related to peace and development in BARMM and ensures that inputs, results and impact related to this are effectively monitored and evaluated•Leads the analysis and consolidation of the program and/or project offices and partners’ progress in achieving the indicators and objectives, and generates recommendations for program development and advocacy in BARMM•Contributes to the writing of the quarterly and annual BARMM offices’ plans and reports that are submitted to the national office•Contributes to areas of work for research and documentation in BARMM, e.g. further study of children’s rights and education situation, emerging good practices, etc., and oversees the process of producing these 
Others•Is updated and abreast with discussions / discourse on children’s rights and BE issues, including adolescent learning and EiE•Actively participates in relevant organizational meetings at the field office and national levels•Provides regular progress updates to the BARMM Field Manager and flags any issues/concerns with regard to peace and normalization agenda or other related PPPTD work in BARMM•Is aware of and follow safety and security policies and procedures•Assumes other tasks as deemed necessary by the PPTD Director and Chief of Programs
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• At least seven (7) years of experience in implementing and managing peace and development programs;
• Has experience and proven skills in the professional development of peace practitioners, and technical review and development of curricula;
• Has extensive experience working with the BARMM (or previously ARMM) government and/or in the BARMM context/areas;
• Master’s degree in Peace and Development, Community Development, Social Work or Social Sciences or equivalent experience;
• Familiarity and experience with globally-accepted standards and practices on education;
• Has proven skills in project management and working in humanitarian and development context;
• Proven ability to develop concept papers, project proposals, and research papers;
• Can deal with various levels of peace and development stakeholders - from decision-makers to field level practitioners;
• Has proven skills in program development and design, training design and delivery, monitoring and evaluation, community facilitation processes, and networking and influencing;
• Excellent oral and written communication skills; Able to articulate ideas and concepts clearly verbally and in writing; Interacting in culturally and politically sensitive situations;
• Computer literate and adept in the use of MS Office software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint);
• Highly organized, with good attention to detail and developed ability to prioritize multiple tasks to meet tight deadlines and organize work;
• Can work well in highly stressful situations; able to manage multiple competing tasks, prioritize deliverables and meet reasonable deadlines;
• A team player, willing to work long hours toward the attainment of program objectives and deliverables; and,
• Understands and believes in Save the Children’s mission and vision; commits to its objectives and willing to adopt Save the Children’s methodology and framework.