Child Protection / Gender-Based Violence Officer - IHA MAPLE at Save The Children in Adamawa

Child Safeguarding

Level 3 - the duties of the post may require the post holder to possess consistent reach out with or entry to children or young people. As part of these duties the post holder will assist the establishment of child safeguarding operational structures, advance an environment that fosters keeping children safe, and make sure that possibility harm to children (by our own employees and/or because of how we do our work) is recognized and handled on an ongoing basis. The post holder should documentation and address interventions as concluded by role associated duties recognized in the Child Safeguarding Regulatory framework.

Position Objective

With Financing from GAC, the CP/GBV Officer will offer assistance to the Nutrition and Child Protection project in Adamawa and is in charge of making sure that quality mental health and psychosocial aid offerings and case management for children experiencing or vulnerable of abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence which includes GBV survivors are offered. Build the employees capacity to offer direct meaningful assist to children vulnerable and GBV survivors, train, oversee and oversee staff initiatives and ensure efficient synchronization and relationship building system establishment to the rest of child protection team. The CP/GBV Officer will be anticipated to assist on child protection sectoral evaluation, project organizing and synchronization with other actors and clusters. In most situations, the post holder will be anticipated to train and/or build capacity of executing associates on the site.

Key Zones Of Responsibility: 

• Organize with other Save the Children thematic zones, the national Child Protection Operating Group and/or other external sector agencies of GBV, making sure evaluation findings are recorded and that all evaluations comprise of a specific, disaggregated data evaluation of survivors’ needs.
• Formulate every month and every quarter strategies and costed strategies, supporting towards an entire thematic program strategy.
• Assist to the psychosocial (physical, community-related, emotional) wellbeing of children which includes GBV survivors and their families.
• Strengthen the work collaboratively capacity to offer direct and suitable aid offerings to children vulnerable. 
• Prevention and response to all forms of exploitation which includes harmful child work and child trafficking.
• Supervise and organize the development and servicing & maintenance of data collection and evaluation mechanisms and distribute prompt quality information the related industry management.
• Assist the consolidation of child protection initiatives into other sectors.
• Oversee project execution to guarantee on-time completion of project initiatives.
• Organize and evaluate prompt every month documentation provided by associates and SCI Employees.
• Recognize project inventory specific to the program needs and organize with the logistics team to put in place a sensible phased procurement strategy.
• Collaborate with the Monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning strategy to guarantee links to status updates qualifications where possible, refer the Monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning structure to build an evidence-base for child protection programming interventions which includes GBV survivors.
• With assist from the CRM/Responsibility Officer put in place responsibility initiatives for your project, making sure that response from children and their families is assessed in project design.
• Make sure that the at least guidelines of humanitarian relief are preserved in accordance with the At least Guidelines for Child Protection in Humanitarian Settings and the Sphere standard.
• Ensure children vulnerable and survivors of gender-based violence are prompt recognized and offered counselling and other suitable response solutions.
• Ensure applicable referral forms are in place and executed as appropriate.
• Organize every month sessions which includes, parent’s forum and child protection board.
• Offer crucial psychosocial first assist assist to children and adults when needed.
• Ensure work collaboratively employees are monitored routinely to guarantee initiatives are carried out in line with at least standard standard procedures.
• Repeatedly preserve referral pathway of project sites.
• Making sure support is offered to children affected by the dispute in a dignified, respectful, equitable and welcoming manner that aids their adaptability.
• Helping children in acute distress and easing their stress, for instance making sure that all employees / associates are prepared on PFA and feel assured to use it.
• The integration of inter-agency standard procedures (e.g. IASC MHPSS standard procedures) and guidelines (e.g. CPMS) across the different sectors of program initiatives fulfilled by SC and its associates.
• The use of organized and manualized MHPSS methods.
• The involvement of parents and caregivers in MHPSS initiatives.
• Assist organized MHPSS initiatives for groups of boys and girls of different age groups, with particular attention to survivors of SGBV, unaccompanied children and other children who show with signs of poor mental health and distress.
• Recognize MHPSS service vendors and consent referral pathways for children with severe mental disorders

Skills development:

Offer capacity to executing associates that possess less CPiE expertise 

General:

Adhere with Save the Children rules and practice regarding child protection, code of carry out, workplace safety and wellness, fair access and other applicable rules and standardized processes. Other ad hoc duty upon demand by Direct supervisor.

Competencies:

• Previous expertise in similar duties, ideally with NGO and/or UN agency.
• Very adaptable and capability to operate in a team.
• Information exchange & Interpersonal Ability Level – Outstanding.
• Language Qualifications – English and Hausa – Outstanding
• Level of IT literacy Necessary – (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Email system, Internet browsing) outstanding

Additional work tasks:

The obligations and duties as set out above are not exhaustive and the position holder may be necessary to carry out additional obligations within reasonableness of their level of competencies and expertise.

Aspiration:

• Sets driven and difficult targets for themselves (and their team), takes duty for their own personal development and promotes others to do the same.
• Widely allocates their personal aspiration for Save the Children, engages and encourages others.
• Future orientated, thinks strategically.

Partnership:

• Actively listens to different perspectives and experiences of participants.
• Actively engages in networks to entry and support to good practice.
• Establishes and sustains effective communication and dialogue with disaster and dispute affected people and other participants.
• Establishes clear targets with associates

Creativeness:

• Conceptualizes and promotes new and creative strategies.
• Ready to take self-controlled risks
• Levels of honesty and reliability

Honesty and reliability:

Truthful, promotes openness and transparency. Dedication to Save the Children Values

Note

• Please submit application using a cover letter and current Resume as a single record.
• Please also comprise of description of your ongoing compensation and remuneration requirements.
• We need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our dedication to the protection of children from abuse.
• Fair access: 
• The obligations and duties as set out above are not exhaustive and the position holder may be necessary to carry out additional obligations within reasonableness of their level of competencies and expertise.
• Workplace safety and wellness:
• The position holder is essential to carry out the obligations in accordance with SCI Workplace safety and wellness rules and standardized processes.