Job Title: Child Protection Case Worker (2 Fresher Jobs)
Organisation: ALIGHT
Duty Station: Elegu, Uganda
Salary Scale: UGX 900,000 – 1,000,000 (Gross P/Month)
About the Company:
ALIGHT, formerly the American Refugee Committee (ARC), is an international non-profit, non-sectarian organization that has provided humanitarian assistance and training to millions of beneficiaries over the last 40 years. In 2011, Alight helped nearly 2.5 million people get essential services to regain their health and take back control of their lives. Alight works with its partners and constituencies to provide opportunities and expertise to communities of refugees and internally displaced persons in seven countries in Africa, Asia and Europe, including Iraq, Kosovo, and in the Darfur region of Sudan and is currently providing for emergency relief and recovery in Haiti. Alight provides shelter, clean water and sanitation, health care, skills training, microcredit education, protection to help survivors of war and natural disasters to rebuild their lives with dignity, health care, security and self-sufficiency.
Job Summary: The Case Worker Child Protection is part of the Child Protection Team and is responsible for doing case management and prevention activities with support from the Child Protection Assistant.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Child Protection Case Management:
- Orient themselves on Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for Case Management /Best Interest Procedures (including all tools)
- Develop their monthly Workplan to conduct case management (from risk prioritization /identification to uploading on ProgV4) as per targets assigned by Protection Assistant.
- Conduct case management following SOPs to children and cases of abuse, exploitation, neglect and violence to 1. Unaccompanied Children (UAM), Separated Children (SC) and Children at Risk (CR) (Conduct risk prioritization exercise. Identification of case, Conduct Best Interest Assessments, Develop and implement case plan, Follow up of case plan (referrals etc) and Review and Case closure)
- Identify potential caregivers’ e.g. foster families for placement of UACs and SC using stipulated procedures.
- Sensitize the parents/caregivers on their roles and responsibilities on early child development, child rights and parenting without violence
- Conduct home visits to foster care homes and assess needs, ascertain the living conditions of the UACs/SC and provide ongoing support to families, foster and alternative care systems.
- Prepare and participate in weekly case review meetings led by protection Assistants to discuss their weekly cases.
- Share cases for Best Interest Determination with Child Protection Assistant on weekly basis.
- Conduct weekly follow ups with community based structures (assigned by Child Protection Assistant) to follow up on identification and referral to them (case worker) at Alight.
- Complete filing of 1. Case management as per standard SOPs.
Child Protection – Prevention
- Mobilize community/children/families to participate in protection activities like awareness campaigns and international commemorative day.
- Participate in monthly review meetings with Child Protection Committees (CPCs) for technical backstopping and foster parents.
- With support from child protection assistant implement activities for child participation and engagement as per program strategy.
- With support from child protection assistant conduct focus group discussions/participatory assessments with children to identify child needs and protection concerns/risks
- Complete filing of all prevention activities as per standard Alight Tools for activities.
Reporting
- Proactively contribute to quality and timely drafting of weekly, monthly reports.
- Perform any other duties assigned.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- A minimum of a Diploma in a relevant field.
- Basic knowledge of Child Protection. is desirable
- At least 2 -year experience in Child Protection in general and Case Management in particular
- In addition to written and spoken English, must be fluent in Local Languages
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested applicants should apply online at the link below.
Deadline: 15th April 2025