Overview
The Protection Officer (Child Protection) will lead Safe Healing and Learning Space (SHLS) activities and awareness-raising initiatives on child protection and child protection case management within targeted communities. The role ensures the delivery of quality, inclusive and safe participation and child protection services for children while actively engaging communities and coordinating with relevant sectors and 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 Sr. PICB Specialist to ensure effective internal integration and harmonized workplans.
- Mentoring and Coaching of partners in terms of child protection technical competencies.
- Regularly update and document the beneficiary data, attendance sheets, activities records, and monitoring data.
- Coordinate with relevant focal people and participate in regular team meetings, coordination meetings and monitoring activities.
- Assess SHLS facilitators’ capacities using the competency framework 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 in all activities, ensuring adherence to confidentiality.
Required Experience
- At least 3 years of managerial/supervisory work experience in child protection in preventing part and education programming in emergency or humanitarian contexts.
- Ability to work and adapt in an emergency context.
Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Social Science, Social Work, Education, Public Health, Laws, etc.
