The Senior Consultant will provide technical guidance, strategic support, and coordination assistance for scaling up the Web Safe and Wise model in Andhra Pradesh, with a focus on prevention, detection, and response to online abuse and exploitation of children (OAEC).
Remain alert and responsive to any child safeguarding risks, acquire relevant knowledge and skills which will enable you to promote strong safeguarding practices, understand the safeguarding policy and procedures and conduct yourself in a manner consistent with ChildFund s Safeguarding Policy.
Required Experience and Education
- Graduate/Postgraduate degree in Social Work, Child Protection, Public Policy, Development Studies, or related field.
- Minimum 5-7 years of experience in child protection, preferably with a focus on online safety and OAEC.
- Strong knowledge of child rights frameworks, government systems, and child protection mechanisms in India.
- Proven experience in policy development, training, and capacity-building at state or national level.
- Demonstrated ability to coordinate with government departments, NGOs, and multi-stakeholder platforms.
Scope of Work
- Develop comprehensive strategies, roadmaps, guidelines, and SOPs for addressing OEAC at the state level.
- Provide technical support to WCD in scaling up the Web Safe and Wise model.
- Conduct research and analysis to identify best practices, trends, and innovative solutions for online child protection.
- Facilitate capacity-building programs for stakeholders (government officials, educators, child protection functionaries, CSOs, etc.) on OEAC prevention, detection, and response.
- Design and develop, and contextualize educational materials, training modules, toolkits, and awareness resources to enhance understanding of OEAC among diverse stakeholders.
- Liaise with government departments, NGOs, and other partners to strengthen collaboration and coordination mechanisms.
- Monitor and evaluate implementation progress, ensuring alignment with project objectives and measuring outcomes.
- Prepare and submit monthly, quarterly, and annual reports, along with recommendations and up to WCD and ChildFund India.
- Provide strategic guidance to ChildFund India on emerging risks, opportunities for policy influence, fundraising, and programmatic expansion.
- Undertake any additional tasks assigned by the Thematic Specialist and Specialist-Programs.
- A state-level strategy and roadmap for OAEC prevention and response in consultation with WCD and collaboration with other govt. departments.
- Support WCD and other line departments to execute the strategy and roadmap in the state.
- Training modules, toolkits, and awareness resources on OAEC.
- Capacity-building workshops, consultation conducted for key stakeholders.
- Regular progress reports (monthly, quarterly, annual) with analysis and recommendations.
- A final completion report summarizing achievements, challenges, and way forward.
Required Competencies
ChildFund s Core Competencies
- Teamwork: the ability to work effectively and collaborate with others; values and respects individual differences.
- Communication: demonstrates empathy and tact when communicating with others and uses a storytelling approach when appropriate.
- Result orientation: gets things done; takes proactive steps to achieve organizational goals and quality standards.
- Decision making: uses good judgement, critical thinking, and non-traditional ways to evaluate problems and opportunities; reflects and innovates to improve decisions and outcomes.
- Resilience: thrives and grows in rapidly changing, demanding, and complex environments.
- Digital literacy: adopts and champions new technology to relevant contexts, stays aware of technological trends and embraces technological solutions to business challenges.