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Job Description
Northeast Nigeria is currently facing a growing humanitarian crisis with a vast number of Internally Displaced Persons in need of emergency assistance. These IDPs are living among host communities, lacking access to livelihoods and resources, ultimately leading to unprecedented levels of malnutrition and food insecurity.
Responsibilities
- Provide child protection individualized case management to children in need identified in the community in accordance with IASC Guidelines.
- Engage caregivers, parents, and other key relations of the child in implementation of case planning with an aim to provide social support to the child to cope with different distress they may face.
- Provide confidential referral based on the best interest of the child to other CP service providers as part of case management; do regular follow-up to ensure that all the cases adequately receiving needed support.
- In coordination with the local government, child protection management committees and the Senior Technical officer- CP and other community stakeholders, identify children in need of alternative care placement. and implement it in compliance with related guidelines.
- Identify alternative caregivers for unaccompanied and separated children (UASC), abandoned and orphaned children as per the alternative care identification and placement process, vet and train them.
- Conduct regular and rigorous monitoring of children placed in alternative care to ensure children remain safe, well cared for and nurtured.
- Work with community volunteers and community- based protection mechanisms ( CBPMs) to identify other children with special needs ( including children with disabilities) and do necessary referrals as well as advocacy from relevant services providers.
- Under the supervision of the STO-CP &PSS, review current child protection sensitization guides to ensure they respond to current child protection concerns and trends in the target Local Government Authorities (LGA).
- Engage with community leaders, local government authorities and the Field Coordinator to select CP community volunteers in compliance with related SOP.
- Provide training, weekly coaching, on-the-job training and daily mentoring to CP community volunteers and perform all tasks related to their contracts in VMS.
- Monitor quality of message dissemination by community volunteers by conducting joint awareness sessions together with the community volunteers
- Oversee CP awareness campaigns in handy collaboration with other sectors (Health, Nutrition and WASH) and various stakeholders (government authorities, local and religious leaders) especially during the celebration of Child Protection related special events.
- Contribute to the development of appropriate IEC materials on Child Protection
- Initiate creative facilitation skills to be used by community volunteers during dissemination of CP related messages such as participatory education theatre among others.
- Oversee the formation and strengthening of Child Protection CBPMs in collaboration with community leaders and local government authorities in accordance with the existing Terms of Reference ( ToR).
- Conduct monthly meetings and coaching sessions with CP CBPMs to support their commitment to child protection activities to improve welfare of children in the community.
- Conduct training for members of the CP CBPMs on child protection related topics to increase their knowledge of child rights and child protection.
- Develop and regularly update the CP referral pathways as per the updated CP service directory.
- Support the M& E team in conducting Post Distribution Monitoring for reintegration kits.
- Monitor the implementation of CP mainstreaming activities in WASH, Health, and Nutrition sectors at LGA level
- In coordination with the CP TO and Protection Coordinator, conduct workshops and training for sector staff, community volunteers and Community health workers on Child Protection mainstreaming and FHI 360 child safeguarding policy.
Qualifications
- BA/BS in Social Work, Sociology, Social Sciences, Psychology, or a similar degree with at least 1-3 years relevant experience in GBV programming including GBV Case management and PSS, GBV prevention as well as setting up and management of women and girls’ safe spaces (WGSS).
- At least 1-3 year experience child protection case management and PSS as well as child protection prevention in humanitarian context.
- Extensive knowledge of child protection and PSS in humanitarian context.
- Good knowledge of “Caring for child survivor of sexual violence”.
- Proven experience in using CPIMS as part of CP case management.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality.
- Proven experience in working with IDPs or refugees, returnees, and host communities.
- Familiarity with Nigerian law enforcement systems and NGOs and CBOs is highly desirable.
Location: Borno, Nigeria.
For More Information: ASSISTANT TECHNICAL OFFICER CHILD PROTECTION
