Jobs/Roles in the ECE Community: Internationally
I am so excited to investigate the countless organizations
that are committed to the well-being of children. I can say that we are not
alone in this. It is great to feel that I belong to a huge
community of practices that have passion, vision, and mission. There are
many individuals, agencies, and organizations on a local, state, and
international level who don’t know each other but their passion for the welfare
for all children that unite them to make a difference.
The early childhood field expands its horizon globally, and
as an early childhood professional, I am thrilled to explore the international
community of early childhood. My family
and I are very involved with a non-profit organization that works
globally. That is why I am excited to explore the international community
of EC.
UNICEF
The website immediately communicates what drives this
organization, “for every child, a fair chance…”- This simple phrase quotes my
attention. UNICEF works across 190 countries and territories jointly
defending the right s of children and advocating globally, protecting the lives
of every child, every day across the globe.
What I love about this organization is that they are also
working to improve the policies and services that protect all children. They
aim to make the world a safe and inclusive place for children to grow and
thrive.
International Step by Step Association
What stood as I was perusing their website is their
dedication to promoting child development across all domains. They are
committed to providing knowledge and tools to improve the quality of Early
Childhood Development. Child development is my degree that is why any
early childhood development topic is near and dear to my heart.
ISSA also gather and create prominent research and insights
into child care and share it with colleagues, organization members, and
policymakers to make a difference in the EC field. Their vision is to work
together with families, communities, and professionals to empower every child
to reach his unique potential and embrace the values of social justice and
equity. That is a great vision!
Save the Children
The Save, the Children organization, works in the U.S. and
around the globe to give children a healthy start, the opportunity to learn,
grow and protected from any harm. The uniqueness of this agency is their
passion for every child’s future. That is why in times of crisis they are quick
to respond and take every necessary step to save children.
What I love about this organization is their hands-on
capacity to save the children around the world. They want to make sure
children’s unique needs are met, and their voices are heard.
Job / Roles connected with the EC field internationally.
Associate Technical Director,
Child Protection – Family Care First (Cambodia)
The Associate Technical Director, Child Protection will oversee
all technical aspects on the FCF project and provide strategic technical
leadership across the programme, including strategic advice to the Chief of
Party and project team and over 20 projects across diverse partnerships and
ensure technical excellence in the FCF priority areas and programming. Work
will also include coordinating with government technical departments, donors,
development partners, and other NGO partners.
Required Qualifications
- Master’s degree Social Work, Child protection, or other relevant social sciences
- Commitment to Save the Children’s Child Safeguarding and other global policies, and to Save the Children values
- Strong understanding of the UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children and commitment to family based care
- Practical knowledge of current thematic issues and debates regarding child protection in developing countries, and of the major institutional donors
- Excellent understanding of rights based/child rights programming
- Willingness to travel regularly and for prolonged periods to the field
The skills that I need to sharpen for this job is to
effectively support a diverse range of projects, I will also need communication
and collaboration skills.
Technical Advisor, Development
Food Security Activities-Heatlh & Nutrition
Save the Children is seeking a Health and Nutrition
Technical Advisor (TA) for the anticipated 5 year USAID Food for Peace (FFP)
Development Food Security Activities (DFSA). This person will take overall
responsibility of Save the Children’s deliverables in the project. The
Technical Advisor will provide overall leadership and technical direction for
the project, ensuring achievement of project deliverables. The project focuses
on sustainably reducing persistent acute malnutrition rates in two target
counties in Kenya. The project will be implemented in two phases whose
objectives are to research, test approaches, and collaboratively design a
context-sensitive, multi-sectoral activity that sustainably reduces acute
malnutrition; and to implement and adapt, in conjunction with Kenyan systems, a
multi-sectoral systems-driven activity to reduce acute malnutrition; and
strengthen relevant systems and institutions to manage and scale nutrition
activities.
Technical assistance and capacity building
- Provide programmatic and strategic leadership, setting priorities in designing and managing the implementation of the project’s activities in collaboration with the other technical advisors and the implementation team
- Provide overall technical guidance and leadership for implementation of health and nutrition activities
- Provide technical leadership for health system strengthening and capacity building approach of health and nutrition activities
- Provide leadership for Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement measures in health and nutrition
- Contribute to health and nutrition formative research and pilot research design and implementation
- Work with the project System Strengthening and Institutionalization Lead and contribute to the development and execution of health and nutrition systems strengthening and capacity building efforts
- Review and analyze data for performance monitoring and utilize the data to take corrective actions
The skills that I need to sharpen for this job is
communication and collaboration skills.
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