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JOB TITLE: Child Protection Officer
TEAM: Operations - Global Partnership in Education (GPE) Funded refugees and host communities. education project
LOCATION:Cross RiverGRADE: 4POST TYPE:NationalCONTRACT LENGTH: 12 months (renewable)
Fixed Term
**CHILD SAFEGUARDING
Level 3:
- The post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.
As part of these responsibilities the post holder will support the establishment of child safeguarding systems, promote a culture of keeping children safe, and ensure that potential harm to children (by our own staff and/or as a result of how we do our work) is identified and addressed on an ongoing basis. The post holder should report and respond to interventions as determined by position-related responsibilities identified in the Child Safeguarding Policy.ROLE **PURPOSE AND DESCRIPTION:
Save the Children with GPE fund to integrate child protection in education to provide refugee girls and boys, including adolescents, with high-quality psychosocial support, adolescent sexual reproductive health services, life skills training, and livelihood opportunities to strengthen their resilience and promote successful reintegration into their communities in Adamawa, Taraba, Akwa Ibom, Benue, and Cross River states.
- The Job holder will support the education team to improve the physical and emotional safety of children, supporting safe learning environments and ensuring that schools and learning spaces are free from violence, abuse, and exploitation.
- The Job holder will equip adolescent refugee girls and boys in the mentioned state with the skills and experiences vital to make balanced, strategic life choices as well as promote the safety, prevention of and response to violence against children in schools and communities.
- The Job Holder will be responsible for ensuring that quality child protection services are provided to the population served by the project (mostly vulnerable children and their families).
- In addition, will have their capacities developed to provide these kinds of protection to children in a range of Save the Children’s emergency responses worldwide; and will be expected to support on sectoral assessment, project planning and coordination.
- In most circumstances, the post holder will be expected to mentor and/or build capacity of Youth mentors, community volunteers, and animators on the field.
- The job holder provides coordination and engagement with relevant Protection stakeholders including Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, Ministry of Humanity and Social Welfare, and other relevant State Ministries.
- The job holder will also be working closely with community leaders, religious leaders as well as community members. In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.SCOPE OF ROLE:
Reports to:Programme Coordinator with Technical support from the Child Protection Specialist
Staff directly reporting to this post: N/A
*Budget Responsibilities: N/A
*KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY
- Coordinate with Social workers when there is a need to provide case management services for adolescent boys and girls.
- Participate in assessments and give to the overall intervention strategy based on feedback received from adolescent boys and girls throughout the programming.
- Strictly adhere to GBV guiding principle while engaging with Adolescent boys and girls and their parents/care givers.
- With support from the Child Protection Specialist, develop monthly and quarterly plans and costed plans, contributing towards an overall thematic programme plan. From the strategy initiate programming in the following areas as appropriate:
- Support to the psychosocial (physical, social, emotional) wellbeing of children and their families.
- Prevention and response to sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) and gender-based violence (GBV) in project communities.
- Prevention and response to the main risks for children’s exposure to physical harm.
- Prevention and response to all forms of exploitation including harmful child labour and child trafficking.
- Support the integration of cases into CFS and PSS in schools.
- Coordinate with the Youth Mentors and other relevant technical sectors, to ensure a rapid, proportionate and effective response.
- With support from the Child Protection Specialist, In collaboration with implementing partners and community leaders, develop a selection criterion of adolescent boys and girls to engage them in life skill sessions.
- Directly engage with adolescent boys and girls and parents as required, a