Overview
The Project Assistant (Child Protection) role supports child protection activities through case management and psychosocial support. The purpose is to ensure children at risk of harm receive timely and systematic support.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the protection of children from violence, abuse, exploitation, and neglect through case management and psychosocial support activities.
- Provide coaching and mentoring to case workers for case management services.
- Ensure girls, boys, and children identifying as non-binary with complex needs are identified and receive case management support.
- Document different steps in the case management process.
- Provide support to families to better care for and protect children.
- Work with other case management actors and service providers on safe referrals and management of caseload.
- Implement case management for children who have experienced or are at risk of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation and MHPSS.
- Support children and their families through the case management process (six steps: identification and registration, assessment, case planning, implementation of the case plan, follow-up and review, case closure).
- Provide psychosocial support to children and families as part of the case management process.
- Make safe and gender sensitive referrals to services and link to community support.
- Follow-up to ensure services and community support provided are responsive to specific needs.
- Address the needs of children in specific, vulnerable groups.
- Provide assistance and information to children affected by conflict, on the move or trafficked, children in need of alternative care or children with disabilities.
- Map community level resources and services.
- Work with Community Social Workers, service providers, government stakeholders and NGOs to identify and safely refer children at risk.
- Maintain an up-to-date service mapping for the township.
- Work in a way that respects guiding principles defined in the SOPs.
- Fill in and use case management forms appropriately.
- Participate in regular case management meetings with other case workers and supervisors.
- Prepare for and participate in regular structured individual supervision sessions.
- Actively engage in all capacity building opportunities.
- Prevent abuse, exploitation, neglect, harm and modern slavery within areas of responsibility.
- Prevent fraud, bribery, and corruption within areas of responsibility.
Required Experience
- Previous work experience in community development or with an NGO (preferably in child protection).
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience in working with children with complex needs, particularly in case management.
- Desirable: Has worked as Community Social Worker for at least 2 years.
- Demonstrated understanding of key considerations in working with children and particularly vulnerable children and families.
- Experience in community mobilisation and conducting outreach activities.
- Experience managing child protection cases in a sensitive and child friendly manner.
- Desirable: An active member of the community: leadership in the community: person trusted by children in his/her community; Strong connection with the community.
- Desirable: Experience or knowledge of working and living in relevant region/context.
- Desirable: Experience of promoting quality and impact through at least one crosscutting area: gender equality and inclusion, adaptive and safer programming; child rights; disability; migration and displacement.
- Desirable: Experience and knowledge of Save the Children’s structure, mandate and child focus.
- Desirable: Demonstrable MEAL experiences in different projects and program from different donors funding.
- Desirable: Experience in conducting assessments/Evaluations and an understanding of MEAL systems.
- Desirable: Proven capacity to supervise, train, and coach staff.
- Desirable: Demonstrate ability at report writing and excellent communication skills.
