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Requisition ID: req23658
Job Title: Child Protection Officer
Sector: Child Protection
Employment Category: Fixed Term
Employment Type: Full-Time
Open to Expatriates: No
Location: Kasulu, Tanzania
Job Description
ORGANIZATIONAL DESCRIPTION:
The
International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst
humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives.
Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers
lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee
from war or disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S.
cities, we restore safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted
and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home.
BACKGROUND:
Tanzania
has been a country of asylum since the 1970’s. Currently, the country
hosts approximately 280,000 Burundian and Congolese refugees and asylum
seekers. Tanzania champions the rights of children through
Within
this context, IRC provides protection and basic assistance in the areas
of Child and Youth Protection and Development, Protection and Rule of
Law, mainstreaming Disability Inclusion, Women’s Protection and
Empowerment, and Mental health, Sexual Reproductive Health Care
services, and Education both in refugee camps and amongst Tanzanian host
communities and incorporates research in the Kigoma region. Outside the
refugee context in the past years, the IRC has worked to respond to
Child Labour through Education and on Parenting Interventions.
IRC’s
child protection program currently focuses on Protection services
through six safe healing and learning spaces, strengthening
community-based child protection mechanisms and parenting education. The
youth program will continue to build leadership capacities of youth,
create access to services at three youth centers, promoting sports and
arts among the youth, facilitating peer educations, and supporting
youth-led businesses and building life skills.
Major Responsibilities:
Core Program responsibility
Conduct community-based activities
Conduct psychosocial support activities in SHLS centers
Facilitating training/sessions activities
Other program responsibilities
- Managing overall child protection activities in and outside the camp in collaboration with other child protection officers.
- Plan and conduct meetings, training, and awareness campaigns in relation to childcare and child protection.
- Ensure child participation at all stages of programming
- Monitor
all child protection activities conducted by refugee staff/host
community volunteer and collaborate with other child protection staff. - Provide
guidance and support to refugee incentive staff (animator) on the
community mobilization, counseling recreational activities and other
child protection activities. - Coordinator with other IRC sector
and NGOs present in the camp in community mobilization, referral system
and create awareness in an integrated manner. - Track indicator and prepare and submit activity report to the child protection supervisor
- Prepare
work plans, procurements plans and spending plans, proposals, and
monthly /donor reports in collaboration with the CYPD senior manager
and/or other program staff as requested - Track and updates the PSS, parenting and SEL sessions activities.
Personnel Management.
- Supervise refugee and host community volunteer
- Prepare staff duty roster and monitor staff adherence to program objective as needed
- Oversee welfare and discipline of refugee incentive staff in coordination with CYPD senior manager.
General responsibilities
- Attend and participate in training identified and organized by supervisor
- Follow any new procedure and guidelines designed in circulars from country director
- Report
and violations of the IRC Sexual Abuse and Exploitation Code of Conduct
(Tanzania and Worldwide) as per the IRC Tanzania reporting mechanism. - Assist
where necessary in undertaking activities that aim to prevent the
occurrence of sexual abuse and exploitation of refugee by the IRC and
other humanitarian workers. - Represent the IRC at interagency meeting as assigned
- Assist in control and proper usage of stationery and other items relating to work
- Perform other duties as assigned by your supervisor.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s
in social work, sociology, psychology, community development, rural
development, or relevant social science with at least 2 years relevant
work experience. - Experience in working with children and parents/caregiver especially vulnerable children and those at risk.
- Experience working with vulnerable families especially children.
- Ability to work independently with high degree of initiative required.
- Good IT skills; knowledge of MS Word; Excel and outlook required.
- Swahili and good English written and oral required. French and rundi a plus.
- Qualified Women and people with disability are highly encouraged to apply.
Warning :
Please
note that the IRC does not charge a fee at any stage of its recruitment
process (application, interview meeting, processing, training or any
other fee). IRC does not request any information related to bank
accounts. If asked of any payment please contact
[email protected].
