Localization and Partnerships Officer
Street Child, Cameroon
Job Description
Job Title: Localization and Partnerships Officer
Reporting to: Country Director - Alfonce Tata Nfor
Hours: 40 hours/ week
Principal Location: Buea, Cameroon
Length of Contract: 12 months fixed term contract with the potential for extension
Organisation Background:
Street Child believes that every child deserves the chance to go to school and learn. Our projects focus on a combination of education, child protection and livelihood support to address the social, economic and structural issues that underpin today’s education crisis. We partner with local organisations and communities to deliver our locally rooted programmes, using evidence to drive learning and the refinement and scale up of programmes to create maximum impact for the most children at the lowest cost. We pride ourselves on being willing to go to the world’s toughest places where others won’t, including remote, hard-to-reach areas and fragile, disaster-affected states across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Since 2008 we have helped over 850,000 children to go to school and learn and supported over 25,000 families to set up businesses so they can afford the cost of educating their children.
Our work as Street Child of Cameroon in the aforementioned domains is deliberate and intentional and we aim to scale up our operations in the field by ensuring that more and more children return to normal lives by living in a safe environment, reunited with their families, attending school and protected against violence, sexual exploitations and other societal vices. To help us achieve this lofty goal, we seek the services of an Localization and Partnerships Officer who shall help us deliver our localization agenda work while supporting our interventions in the different clusters and working groups and helping our local partners meet their goals.
ROLE PURPOSE:
Street Child aims to be an amplifier of local leadership and impact, and works with an expansive, evolving network of 95+ local level actors and organisations, underscored by close consultation and collaboration with local communities. Since 2019, Street Child has implemented a number of innovative initiatives to advance the localisation agenda, in close collaboration with Education Cannot Wait [ECW], the Global Education Cluster [GEC] and Child Protection Area of Responsibility (CPAoR) producing powerful proof points where our principles and approach to localization have led to stronger, more sustainable local level actors and organizations. The role specifically seeks to strengthen our localization outreach within Region 3(B) of the Elevating Local Leadership in Emergencies (ELLIE) project with a remit over Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger.
The Localization and Partnerships Officer shall support the development of a portfolio of pathbreaking initiatives to accelerate local level action through advocating for increased funding flows and investment in consolidating capabilities and capacities of local level organisations and improving local level leadership, inclusion, and involvement across the humanitarian architecture. This role reports to the Country Director and shall support the ELLIE Regional Coordinator in the activation of these initiatives across Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger and in close coordination with country colleagues in Cameroon and Nigeria. This includes Elevating Local Leadership in Emergencies, an ambitious, pathbreaking initiative to advance localisation in 35 countries across 3 continents in partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). This role supports Street Child’s role increasing the scale and scope of its influence and impact across the architecture in the 4 countries.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
ADVOCACY, INFLUENCE, AND IMPACT ASSESSMENT [50%]
- Support in the collection and analysis of relevant data on localization in the countries of intervention;
- Ensure localisation initiatives are informed by expertise and experience from previous programmes, and reflect recent research and evidence on advancing local level action;
- Ensure excellent presentation of our localisation proposition through production and publication of articles, blogs, briefs, and reports;
- Support and strengthen strategic communication and coordination with, and capacity strengthening of clusters, coordination groups and networks to advise and assist on increasing funding flows to, and the involvement, inclusion and leadership of, local level organisations;
- Support and strengthen evaluation of the effectiveness of localisation initiatives and evidence of their impact including best practices and proof points in the 4 countries;
- Support Street Child’s presence and profile in the countries of assignmen