Child Protection Officer ALIGHT (Formerly known as American Refugee Committee)

KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
Program Implementation
• Planning and implementation of child protection prevention and response activities in line with the organization’s strategy and program documents.
• Ensure all CP program activities (case management, children participation, adolescent programming, working with community based structures) are conducted in accordance with standard operating procedures to ensure quality and effectiveness.
• Plan and conduct training and mentorship of child protection staff and community-based structures to deliver quality child protection services to children and their families.
• Representation of Alight in the sector-based coordination meetings and other activities at the coordination levels.
• Participate in assessment and identification of child protection gaps and coordinate with other sectors and actors within the location to address them.
• Supervise the Child Protection Assistants and Caseworkers to deliver quality child protection services to children and their families.
• Support in the development and reviewing of activity TOR and workplans of the Child Protection Assistants.
• With support of Manager, prepare and monitor child protection activity-based budget.
• Ensure effective documentation of child protection activities including filing system for case management and activity progress reporting.
• Conduct field monitoring to establish the gaps and capacity building needs to improve project implementation.
• Mainstream child protection activities into other sectors through close collaboration with other sectors.
• Carry out mobilization of key community stakeholders including protection committee, youths, women, men and host communities to participate in community awareness events/meetings
• Demonstrate awareness and implementation of child protection policy’s standards and code of conduct in course of his or her work.
• Proactive participation and input in program and proposal development process
• Under the supervision of the Protection Manager, contribute to drafting concept papers and proposal development.

Staff development and management:
• Provide technical and programmatic leadership for the Child Protection staff and community structures within the operational area.
• Develop staff performance measurement and targets and appraise them based on the set targets.
• Conduct daily field visits to support CP Assistant – mentoring – through technical back stopping and to train duty bearers.
• Uphold ’s code of conduct and principles on accountability.

Monitoring and Evaluation:
• Contribute to the daily quality implementation, monitoring and evaluation of projects and interventions.
• Identify, document and disseminate relevant project success, challenges and follow up on implementation of project’s action points
• Assist in participatory needs/vulnerability and capacity assessments of affected communities
• Participate in project evaluations and assist in the analysis of results.
And,
• Performed any other assigned or delegated tasks in the course.

REQUIREMENTS
• A Bachelor’s degree in Social work, Social Sciences, Community Psychology, Adult and Community Education and Development studies.
• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in working on Child Protection programs preferably with INGOs
• Strong experience working with vulnerable children including survivors of GBV and child abuse, neglect, violence and exploitation.
• Strong technical knowledge of and experience on Case Management
• Experience of Community based Protection Approach
• Excellent command of verbal and written English, and atleast one or two of the local languages spoken with the settlement camps. i.e Swahili
• Good understanding of minimum standards in child protection in humanitarian standards and Inter-agency guidelines and tools including BIAs, BIDs and Progress V4 for Case management.
• Computer literacy i.e. good knowledge MS Office including Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
• Preferably a resident or willingness to reside in either Nakivale or Rwamwanja Settlement.