Overview
The Protection Officer (Child Protection) will lead Safe Healing and Learning Space (SHLS) activities and awareness-raising initiatives on child protection and case management within targeted communities. The role ensures the delivery of quality child protection services while engaging communities and coordinating with stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the implementation of SHLS and information dissemination activities on Child Protection.
- Develop and implement monthly and quarterly workplans for child protection activities.
- Assist the Protection Manager to ensure effective internal integration and harmonized workplans.
- Regularly update and document beneficiary data, attendance sheets, activities records, and monitoring data.
- Coordinate with relevant focal persons and participate in regular team meetings, coordination meetings and monitoring activities.
- Assess SHLS facilitators’ capacities and identify areas for further skills development.
- Lead delivering community awareness raising sessions, facilitate training and mentoring for SHLS facilitators and community volunteers.
- Ensure activities are inclusive, gender-sensitive, and accessible to children with disabilities.
- Collaborate with community members, local authorities, and partner organizations.
- Ensure that case management team maintains an up-to-date service mapping.
- Support case workers in case planning, involving families as appropriate.
- Support Case Workers to conduct case conferences with relevant service providers.
- Prepare for and lead structured individual supervision sessions with each case worker.
- Promote safeguarding, PSEA, and Do-No-Harm principles, ensuring adherence to confidentiality.
Required Experience
- Ability to work and adapt in Emergency context.
- At least 3 years of managerial/supervisory work experience in child protection in preventing part and education programming in emergency or humanitarian contexts.
- A strong understanding of Child Protection concepts, including minimum standards and guiding principles for working with children.
- Commitment to promoting the safety and well-being of children, preventing and responding to all forms of abuse, neglect, exploitation, and violence.
- Adhere organization’s Safeguarding Policy, Code of Conduct, and Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) standards.
- Knowledge of child rights, child protection standards, and case management including CPIMS+.
- Understanding of local context, sensitivities, and needs pertains to child protection issues.
- Having background in building community participation in emergency response with a flexible approach and the ability to adapt behavior to different situations.
Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree on Social Science, social work and Education.
