Overview
The Program Officer (PO) is responsible for the implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting of Child Protection activities. The role involves planning, coordinating, and implementing child protection activities in line with project objectives, national frameworks, and organizational policies to ensure uninterrupted program delivery and quality assurance.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate and support situation and needs assessments.
- Ensure children harmed or at risk are identified and receive case management support.
- Support and oversee child protection case management processes.
- Coordinate case management referrals and liaise with statutory duty bearers.
- Coordinate and implement child protection activities under assigned projects.
- Ensure weekly planning and implementation of activities, including budget expenditure.
- Account for activities and budget expenditure within the provided time frame.
- Provide follow-up on activities and use monitoring results for reporting.
- Maintain accurate Child protection and beneficiaries’ databases.
- Provide day-to-day direct technical support and coaching to community and stakeholders.
- Ensure regular data collection and submission of monitoring reports.
- Spearhead child protection related service provision monitoring and identify service delivery gaps.
- Support the identification, documentation, and referral of children with child protection concerns.
- Organize and coordinate child protection, GBV, CWC, and ACP meetings.
- Provide high quality reports on activity implementation and corrective measures.
- Document best practices, lessons learnt, and success stories.
- Represent Save the Children in working groups and other events.
- Ensure effective coordination with other responding organizations.
- Support donor report writing processes by compiling data.
Required Experience
- At least three years relevant experience implementing, supervising, monitoring and evaluating field-based child protection or education projects with an NGO, particularly focusing on children’s rights, preferably in an emergency setting.
- Ability to train, mentor and coach SWOs, PSWs, Safe families mentors and facilitators on child protection common approaches.
- Good understanding of child rights issues and child rights instruments.
- Specific familiarity with child rights issues in the NGO world or work.
- Ability to interact with communities; children and adults as well as other stakeholders.
- At least 1 year’s experience in financial, planning and budget management.
- Experience in riding motorcycle and a valid riding permit.
Qualifications
• At least a bachelor’s degree in social works and social administration, Development Studies, Psychology, Child Development, Child Psychology, Community Psychology or any equivalent accrued working experience in a related position.
