KREASI Provincial Coordinator: Child Protection
Role Purpose
KREASI (Kolaborasi untuk Edukasi Anak Indonesia) is designed to accelerate literacy, numeracy, and character development for preschool and primary students in eight districts across four provinces. One pillar of the project is to train and support the professional development pre-school and primary school principals in competencies in instructional leadership, teacher professional development and school management. Gender, Disability and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) and Climate Change Resilience are integrated throughout the capacity for principal’s professional development.
The KREASI program currently has a Princial Professional Development (PPD) training and coaching model that consists of two modules:
- Instructional leadership and teacher performance management
- School management including budgeting, strategic planning and performance reporting
The Child Protection Coordinator is based at the provincial level and will utilizes KREASI national technical guidelines to provide technical and operational support to local implementing partners in two districts located in a single province, per the following:
Kalimantan Barat:
- Kabupaten Ketapang
- Kabupaten Kayong Utara
Maluku Utara:
- Kabupaten Halmahera Utara
- Kabupaten Pulau Morotai
Sumatera Utara:
- Kabupaten Nias Utara
- Kabupaten Nias Selatan
Lampung:
- Kabupaten Tanggamus
- Kabupaten Pesisir Barat
The Provincial Child Protection Coordinator is responsible for supporting the establishment and effective functioning of School-Based Child Protection Committees in primary schools across target districts in the province. Each committee, composed of teachers and community representatives, will lead prevention and response to child protection risks in and around the school environment.
The Coordinator will support KREASI local implementing partners to strengthen school and community capacity to develop and apply standard operating procedures (SOPs) for identifying and responding to issues such as bullying, violence, neglect, and family-related protection concerns. The role promotes positive discipline, meaningful child participation, safe referral and case management, and child-led awareness campaigns on priority protection issues. The Coordinator ensures quality, consistency, safeguarding, and learning across all supported districts.
What you will do:
Partner Support and Capacity Strengthening
- Provide technical support to implementing partners to establish and operationalize school-based child protection committees (SBCPC) in target primary schools.
- Support selection, training and coaching of SBCPC members using national training materials.
- Provide guidance to ensure committees develop and regularly update school-level SOPs for identifying, documenting, and responding to child protection concerns.
- Build partner and SBCPC capacity on positive discipline, child participation, confidentiality, and survivor-centred approaches.
- Support implementing partners to mentor SBCPCs on basic case management, safe handling of disclosures, and appropriate referral pathways.
- Ensure linkages between schools and local child protection and social service providers.
- Support rollout of practical tools (forms, checklists, referral directories) to standardize quality practice.
- Mentor local partners to provide supportive supervision and quality assurance visits to schools and partner staff.
Coordination and Communication
- Coordinate with Provincial and District Education Offices to align SBCPC work with local education and child protection policies.
- Help partners facilitate collaboration between schools, community leaders, and local service providers (health, social welfare, protection services).
- Support regular coordination meetings between the implementing partner, districts, and relevant protection actors.
- Promote consistent messaging on positive discipline and safe school environments.
- Ensure clear communication channels for reporting and responding to protection concerns.
- Represent KREASI in provincial child protection and safe schools forums as required.
Monitoring, Learning, and Adaptation
- Monitor establishment and functionality of SBCPCs across supported schools.
- Track key indicators such as cases identified, referrals made, campaigns conducted, and participation of children.
- Support the partner and SBCPCs to reflect on trends and improve prevention and response mechanisms.
- Document lessons learned and effective practices in school-based child protection.
- Facilitate periodic learning and reflection sessions with partners and committee members.
- Recommend adaptive improvements to SOPs, tools, and approaches based on evidence and feedback.
Reporting and Documentation
- Compile and validate provincial data on SBCPC activities and results.
- Prepare regular narrative and quantitative progress reports.
- Maintain secure and confidential documentation of cases in line with safeguarding and data protection standards.
- Contribute case studies and examples of child-led action and positive discipline outcomes.
- Ensure timely submission of reports aligned with program and donor requirements.
Compliance and Safeguarding
- Ensure all activities adhere to KREASI operational guidelines, financial and administrative procedures.
- Promote and uphold safeguarding and child protection standards in all trainings and field activities.
- Ensure partners and trainers understand and apply safeguarding, inclusion, and non-discrimination principles.
- Report any safeguarding or compliance concerns through established mechanisms.
- Support safe, inclusive, and accessible participation of teachers, including those with disabilities.
Brand and Reputation:
- Contribute to implementing partners being aware and actively involved in building and maintaining the Save the Children and KREASI brand in all project field sites and with all project external stakeholders, including program strategic partners
General
Any other tasks and responsibilities are assigned by the Supervisor and must be complied with in accordance with Save the Children and Save the Children Indonesia's policies and practices regarding child protection, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities, and other relevant policies and procedures.
What we need from you:
- Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in project coordination or management, preferably within an NGO or development context.
- Bachelor’s degree in Education, Public Administration or a related field.
- Demonstrated experience working on community-based child protection mechanisms.
- Knowledge of referral systems and multi-sector child protection services.
- Strong skills in facilitation, coordination, and partnership management.
- Experience in monitoring, documentation, and report writing.
- Deep commitment to child rights, participation, and safeguarding.
- Strong organizational, problem-solving, and leadership skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Familiarity with the local context and challenges within the province and districts.
- Proficiency in project management tools and software.
- Willingness to travel within the province and districts as required.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills Fluency in written and spoken Indonesian, strong English written and spoken skills.
- Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children aims, values and principles including rights-based approaches.
- Demonstrated ability to write high-quality reports and other project documents in Indonesian and English
- Preferred: experience delivering and/or supervising training for school leaders.
Location:
- North Sumatera Province, based in Nias Selatan District
- Lampung Province, based in Tanggamus District
- Kalimantan Barat Province, based in Ketapang District
- Maluku Utara Province, based in Pulau Morotai District
Save the Children encourages qualified candidates to apply regardless of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation, or disability.
