Overview
The Senior Protection Officer - Child Protection will support the implementation of the "Strengthening Child Rights Monitoring Mechanism (CRMM)" project, focusing on monitoring, verifying, documenting, and reporting serious children's rights violations and facilitating referrals for support.
Tasks Summary
- Oversee and ensure implementation of the "Strengthening Child Rights Monitoring Mechanism (CRMM)" project activity.
- Liaise and collaborate with community-based structures and other relevant stakeholders.
- Support verification of child rights violations incidents.
- Capacity building of front-line volunteers and relevant stakeholders.
- Raising awareness on child rights.
- Ensure monitoring serious child rights violation incidents, verification, documentation and provide support to appropriately refer and document cases.
- Assist in quality operationalization of the IRC’s child rights violation monitoring interventions.
- Support program and M&E activities as requested.
- Analyze child rights violation data, verified and produce child rights violation incident reports.
- Ensure capacity building of community volunteers, community-based protection structure and mass awareness initiatives.
- Work closely with community people, children, parents and caregivers and key stakeholders.
- Maintain organized documentation of field visits, attendance, referrals, and reports.
- Ensure accurate data entry into required trackers.
- Work closely with child protection managers to achieve project results.
- Onboard community volunteers following IRC’s recruitment policy, CiC instructions and RRRC guidelines.
- Work closely with community volunteers to identify CRV incidents in assign camps, report and verify incidents in timely manner.
- Support survivors to get required services through direct or following referral pathway.
- Regular monitoring of the program and providing necessary supervision support to the team.
- Facilitate training and orientation with community volunteers, community people, children, parents and caregiver on CRV/child protection concerns.
- Identify most vulnerable survivors, assess their protection risk, thread, needs and ensure need-based support.
- Maintain open and professional relations with team members, including volunteers.
- Ensure timely completion and submission of monthly timesheets, weekly and monthly progress, probations reviews and annual performance reviews.
- Ensure support and ongoing capacity building opportunities for program team including community volunteers.
- Supports implementation and adherence to grant work plans, spending plans and monitoring and evaluation plans.
- Actively develop and maintain effective working relationships with protection actors, community structures, groups in the field.
- Regularly attend relevant coordination meetings at field level.
- Contribute to the development of the CP CRV program strategic direction.
- Coordinate with other IRC sectors staff at field level.
- Consistently and dedicatedly monitor/assess the safety and security of field teams.
- Other duties as assigned by the supervisor.
Experience Requirements
- At least 3 years’ experience of implementing child protection programs, preferable social work, or education, in humanitarian or development settings.
- Previous experience on protection monitoring, case management, supervising and coordinating a team in a cross-cultural setting preferred.
- Demonstrated understanding of working with children and particularly vulnerable children.
- Previous experience in emergency preparedness and response preferred.
- Previous experience in capacity building and mentoring of staff preferred.
Qualification Requirements
• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Social Science/ Social Work/ Education/ Human Rights/ Economics or degree in equivalent subject
