Child Protection Manager – Access to Justice – Beirut

MajorResponsibilities:

Access to Justice Consortium Lead:

• Serve as primary focal point between all consortium agencies and IRC. Maintain responsive and clear communications with the consortium focal points on the ongoing access to justice project.
• Convene and provide reporting/updates to consortia steering committee
• Represent the IRC and the consortium, demonstrating strong communication skills and understanding the project, and consortium priorities.
• Coordinate all meetings with the consortium members.
• Coordinate all meetings among consortium working groups (Steering Committee, Project Management, Technical, Advocacy, MEAL), document and share key discussions points and decision making.
• Maintain and update shared consortium folder with all relevant information and documents.
• Ensure ‘lessons learnt’ through the consortium are followed up upon by relevant focal points
• Track progress,
• Access to justice for children in Prison project:
• Manage the access to justice for children in prison project,
• Coordinate with IRC local partner who are working inside the prison,
• Advocacy, coordination and networking:
• Identify key stakeholders within the Judicial system who play a key role in Access to Justice for children at risk ofharm
• Build strong relationships with formal and non- formal key leaders and influencers of the justice system forchildren:judges,legal prosecutors, municipalitymembers,head of policestations,frontlinepolice workers,representativesof politicalparties, religious leaders.
• Responsibleforstartinganddrivingthe implementationoftheAccessto JusticeforChildrenProgramforward.
• Responsiblefordevelopingimplementationplans,activelycontactingrelevantstakeholderstotargetforadvocacyinitiatives,developingcontentandapproachesfor workshops.
• RepresentIRCasastrongadvocateofchildrights,morespecificallyofchildrenfairandtransparentaccesstojustice
• Proactivelymeetwithkeystakeholders and consortium members on bi weekly and monthly basis forprojectimplementation.
• Participate and actively contribute to coordination meeting at the national and local level when necessary, Liaisecloselywithgovernmentaldepartmentsand/orinternationalandlocal,NGOsincludingUNagenciesandidentify areas forcollaboration.
• Support the CP coordinator in related activities of the Case Management Task force and collectinformationinspecificthematicareas.
• Work closely with Legal counterparts to jointly identify specific components for technical capacity building plans,draftanddeliver workshops together,basedontheprograms vision.
• Flag important gaps in processes and the system to CP coordinator to inform strategic priorities for theNationalCaseManagement TaskForce.
• Contributetoresearch,Access to Justiceneed-assessments,andorganizationofeventspertainingtheAccess to Justice forchildren.

ProjectManagement

• Take the lead on internal and external reporting with partners, programs and finance teams, ensuring high-quality, well-written and timely reports meeting donor and IRC requirements. Maintain close collaboration with all relevant parties in preparation of donor reports.
• Lead project monitoring meetings in close coordination with partners, proper operational openings and closings of grants, and monitoring and evaluation of programmatic progress. Support the follow-up on action points from meetings.
• Conduct monitoring visits to field locations to observe and understand the progress of project implementation.
• Responsibleforallaspectsofbudgetmonitoringandtracking–thisincludespreparingaccuratespendingplans,monthlyreviewsof budgetversusactuals,amendingbudgets, re-aligningbudgets
• Overseethe IRC and the partners implementation.
• Prepareandmonitorprojectdetailedimplementationplanandconsistentlyreview andmonitor.
• ResponsibleofpreparingandmonitoringprojectprocurementplaninlinewithIRCprocesses.
• Responsibleoftherecruitmentoftheprojectvacantpositions
• Overseelogisticalandfinancialarrangementsofallrelatedprojectactivities
• Responsibleofweekly/monthlyreportingontheprojectactivities,progress,targets,challenges,suggestionsandlessonslearnt.
• Draftandsubmitmonthlyandquarterlydonorreports
• Provideconcreterecommendationsbasedonlessonslearntforproposalstobuildsystems
• Document childprotectiontrends andhighlightingmajor risksthataffect childrenat risk inLebanon.
• Monitorsactivitiesprogressandreporting:pre-posttests’documentationandanalysis,focusgroupdiscussions,surveysetc
• Monitorandevaluateproject’sprogressandimplementationqualityinaccordancewithIRCM&Estandardsandprocedures
• Documentprojectfiles.

Capacitybuilding:

• Work closely with the consortium members, the legal counselors and the caseworkers to ensure quality case management for children, and tosynchronizecasemanagementandlegalinterventionsfor thebestinterestofchildren.
• Identifytheteam’s and the partners’ capacitybuildingneedsandlinkthemwithlearningopportunities
• Deliverchildprotectiontrainingstostaff and consortiummembersandsupportstafftomakethemostoftheinterventionstheyareresponsible for.
• Supportdifferentstakeholderstoidentifyorganizationalandtechnicalneedsandgaps,coachpartnersandmentor partnersstaff.
• Reviewandmodify(whennecessary) casemanagement tools andtrainstaffonthem.

StaffManagementandDevelopment:

• Empower staff to drive results forward for children with special focus on children in contact with the law whorequiresafetyandjustice.
• Supervise and motivate the team to excel this includes a capacity building officers, legal counselors andindirectly supervising the caseworker to ensure we maximize our potential toinfluence changefor children.
• Working closely with the capacity building officer to support the organization and implementation ofcapacitybuildingactivitiessuchasworkshops,trainings,discussionmeetingandlearningsessionsaroundtransparency measures and access to justice for children, clinical management of rape, and steps for PhysicalExaminationandForensicTestingprotocols,childfriendly communication,accountability,transparency,etc.
• Provide support to the IRC and partners caseworkers in complex case and ensure cases fit within the required profile of theprogramonAccesstoJustice
• Provideconstructive feedbackandcounselonappropriatecareerpathsandprofessionaldevelopment.
• Promoteandmonitorstaffcareandwell-being;approveandmanageallleaverequeststoensureadequatecoverage.
• Offerleadershipsupportforsuccessfuladherence bystaffto IRC’sGlobalHROperatingPoliciesandProcedures.
• OtherdutiesasassignedbythesupervisortoenableanddevelopIRCprograms.

KeyWorkingRelationships:

• Position Reports to the Child Protection Coordinator
• Positiondirectlysupervises:
  • CapacityBuildingOfficers
  • CPCaseworkers
  • Legalcounselors
  • Partners
  • And leading the consortium

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelordegreeinlaw,political, criminal,socialsciences orrelatedfield.
• Master’sdegreerelevanttothepositionwill beanaddedvalue.

WorkExperience:

• minimumof6 yearsofexperienceinmanaginghumanitarianprojects
• Extensiveexperienceinchildprotectionandcasemanagement
• Provencoordinationexperienceandrepresentationinfrontofgovernmental authorities.
• Strongexperienceismanagingcapacitybuildingprograms,deliveringtrainingsandcoachingactivities.
• Experienceinworkinginjuvenilejustice.WorkingwiththeLebanesejusticesystemisstronglypreferable.

DemonstratedSkills Competencies andethics:

• Strongmanagementskills
• Excellentcommunicationskills
• Strongleadershipskills
• Self-drivenperson
• Strongadvocateofchildrightsandchildprotection
• strongandhigh-qualityproposalandreportswriting
• Resultsoriented anddriven
• MotivationandInspirationtodrivetheprogramforward
• RespectIRC policiesandprocedures

LanguageSkills:StrongEnglishandArabicspeakingandwritingskills

Computerskills:MasteringMicrosoftOfficePackage.

The position is based in Beirut with frequent visits to Tripoli and Akkar (60% travels).