Family Strengthening and Early Childhood Development Advisor at Catholic Relief

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• Provide technical guidance on family-based case management, family strengthening, prevention of child-family separation, reintegration, alternative care, and family-based care pathways. • Apply a protective factors model that strengthens parental resilience, social connections, concrete supports in times of need, caregiver knowledge of parenting and child development, children’s social and emotional competence, and nurturing caregiver-child relationships. • Ensure approaches reflect safeguarding principles, disability inclusion, trauma-informed practice, country context, and relevant transitioning residential care guidance. • Provide technical guidance on iECD approaches grounded in the Nurturing Care Framework, including health, nutrition, responsive caregiving, early learning, safety and security, and caregiver well-being. • Provide expertise on iECD systems, policies, standards, service packages, curricula, implementation guidance, and quality assurance mechanisms, as relevant to the country’s proposed work plan. • Provide expertise on early identification and referral for children with developmental delays, disabilities, nutrition concerns, protection risks, caregiver stress, or other vulnerabilities, based on relevant country platforms and referral networks. • Coordinate with the global technical counterpart and relevant technical advisors, and liaise with resource partners and consultants as appropriate, to ensure ECD activities draw on specialized expertise in areas such as positive parenting, nutrition, policy development, daycare/childcare quality, MHPSS-informed ECD, or disability inclusion. • Build capacity to apply residential care transition guidance, alternative care standards, reintegration practice, and family-based care pathways in day-to-day implementation. • Align family strengthening with child protection, alternative care, ECD, health, nutrition, social protection, disability inclusion, violence prevention, parenting, and referrals to HES/SILC where appropriate. • Work closely with the parenting resource partner to ensure parenting content and delivery approaches are context appropriate and responsive to the needs of specific household types. • Tailor parenting and caregiver support for caregivers of children with disabilities, families at risk of separation, reintegrating families, kinship care families, foster care families, and other alternative care families. • Develop, adapt, or update ECD competencies, training curricula, job aids, coaching tools, supervision tools, and practical guidance for health, social service, education, community, daycare/ECDE, faith-based, and project actors. • Document lessons from relevant ECD workstreams, such as IECD policy operationalization, childcare facilities/ECDE quality improvement, care group delivery, family strengthening models, workforce strengthening, specialized reintegration pathways, parenting adaptations, referral linkages, and approaches that help children remain safely in family care. • Provide inputs to milestone reports, donor updates, briefs, learning products, and project communications on family strengthening, protective factors, parenting adaptations, case management, reintegration, and family-based care. • Participate in relevant working groups, networks, and fora related to family strengthening, case management, parenting, alternative care, reintegration, and residential care transition.