Child Protection Officer

Internal/External vacancy for Child Protection Officer

LOCATION:  Hudet

GRADE:  4A

Vacant Position: 1

POST TYPE: National

Child Safeguarding:

Level 3:  Level 3: either the role holder will have access to personal data about children and/or young people as part of their work; or they will be working in a ‘regulated’ position (accountant, barrister, solicitor, legal executive); therefore, a police check will be required (at ‘standard’ level in the UK or equivalent in other countries).

ROLE PURPOSE:

Under the direct supervision of the Child Protection Coordinator. the Child Protection Project Officer, will ensures strengthen the child protection system through engagement, awareness raising and working with community-based structures, child protection service providers, and other sectoral service providers to prevent and mitigate risks of violence, abuse, including sexual exploitation and abuse, neglect, and family separation. the proper implementation of the Child Friendly Spaces Project. Save the children will respond to the psychosocial needs of boys, girls and their male and female care providers through provision of MHPSS and PFA services, creating safe, gender, age and culturally play and recreational environment and resilience building activities Provide training and orientation. Ensure that all activities are in line with Save the Children’s goals and policies. This means active participationand interaction inchild-friendly activities together with the Children, as wellas the volunteers and the rest of the staff. The Supervisor shall follow up plans, administer, monitor and evaluate the activities being implemented by the Child Protection team in the CFC, in a manner consistent with SCI programming principle and the mission’s program focus and strategy.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Child Protection Coordinator

Dimensions:

Number of direct reports: N/A

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Coordination

• Be a role model for the rest of the Staff in active involvement/ interaction with children in play and all our CP activities. This means to spend as much time as possible in the Child Friendly Centres to inspire the staff and volunteers by showing all children respect, care and commitment in the way we are treating them.
• Aactively participates in several coordination groups, including the Child protection and GBV Area of responsibility, national and regional protection clusters, Child protection and GBV sub working group and the national alliance to end FGM and child marriage
• Working in coordination with other actors allows SC to avoid duplication of services, conduct joint assessment, share experiences and learnings.
• Take a leading role in inspiring and empowering the team in all technical and practical tasks regarding the Child protection program.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the integrated GBV-CP response seeks to address both individual safety and protection concerns, as well as contribute to safe and protective society by facilitating access to services and empowering local communities
• To address the psychosocial distress of children and families SC will build capacities of governmental and non-governmental service providers through MHPSS and PFA training
• Addressing GBV concerns and creating safe access to services will also lead to better care for children, reduce family dispute, maintain family unity, and reduce harmful coping mechanisms and violent parenting means at household level.
• Provide training and orientation for CFS Facilitators on setting up and managing a CFS, on Child Rights, Child Participation, Child Protection (including the Child Protection Policy), and provide on-going support and mentoring to practice these concepts.
• Build resilience capacities of children and their care providers through organizing consecutive resilience workshops
• mainstream protection across sectors to ensure the safety and dignity of all beneficiaries and community members associated with the project
• Compile quantitative and qualitative updated data and reports on weekly and monthly basis.
• Report general protection issues in the operational areas to the Child Protection officer/coordinator or any next level supervisor.
• Identify and provide psychological first aid supports to children and care providers showing obvious signs of distress. SC will train governmental and non-governmental service on PFA and MHPSS to enable them provide ongoing MHPSS and PFA services for children and families in distress through referral and/or direct support.
• Conduct workshop to map existing community based child protection structures that are working on child protection issues
• Organize training on child protection issues including identification, documentation, referral and reporting of children at risk for members of community based child protection structures
• Provide psychosocial support to boys, girls and their male and female care providers through provision of MHPSS and PFA services, creating safe, gender, age and culturally play and recreational environment and resilience building activities
• Make sure that there is absolutely zero tolerance for corporal punishment or aggression from our volunteers, guards or other staff. If this occurs, the Supervisor must immediately reprimand the person and provide a written report to the CP officer, who is obliged to take necessary steps. Supervisor shall also ensure that our zero tolerance for all forms of physical punishment / aggression, motorized vehicles, tobacco or consumption of chat at our CFS, is made ​​known to all who are committed by Save the Children. All such cases shall be immediately reported to the CP officer
• In coordination with Child Protection team members, support regular participatory activities with different groups of children to identify issues affecting children in their communities, and assist the teams in developing appropriate responses.
• proposed protection interventions aim to reduce protection risks and sufferings among children and families

Monitoring /evaluation

•  Present weekly/monthly and quarterly project status report to CP Coordinator, which will include activity progress, and highlight any areas, which need special management attention.
• Undertake site supervision to review status of project implementation and to advice or any corrective action that needs to be taken.

Any other duties as assigned by the line manager and/or the SCI management

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values.
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary capacity to improve performance and applying appropriate measures when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for himself/herself (and their team).
• Takes responsibility for his/her own personal actions and encourages others to do the same.
• Widely shares his/her personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others.
• Future-orientated, thinks strategically.

Collaboration:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, his/her team, colleagues, members and external partners and supporters.
• Values diversity sees it as a source of competitive strength.
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions.
• Willing to take disciplined risk.

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency.