Child Protection Assistant

Requisition ID: req47248

Job Title: Child Protection Assistant

Sector: Child Protection

Employment Category: Fixed Term

Employment Type: Full-Time

Open to Expatriates: No

Location: Hagadera, Kenya

Work Arrangement:

Job Description

The International Rescue Committee
has been working in Kenya since 1992, providing essential services including
comprehensive health care, gender-based violence prevention and response,
women’s protection and empowerment, peace-building promotion, access to water,
sanitation, and hygiene, livelihoods support, protection and rule of Law and
multi-sectoral emergency response programming. IRC Kenya works with both
refugees and local vulnerable populations, with approximately 300 national staff
and 1,500 incentive staff in the country program. Within the Nairobi
headquarter office, approximately 40 program and operations staff members work
to support the field teams directly implementing projects. The Kenya Program
intends to establish a Child Protection unit as part of scale up of the
protection programming.

Job Overview:

The Child Protection Assistant is
responsible for implementing facility and community-based child protection
program in Hagadera refugee camp with limited support/ travel to the host
community. They will be responsible for prevention and response activities of
the child protection program that include working with the community,
psychosocial support groups/activities and case management; They will also work
closely with the health and other sector staff to ensure CP is mainstreamed and
integrated within the other programs.

Major Responsibilities:

The post holder will be
responsible for the following duties and responsibilities.

Program Implementation and Quality:

Reinforcing adherence to the child
protection (CP) guiding principles throughout all CP and partners activities,
specifically:

• Conduct assessment of the living
  conditions of children in the camp/ host community where applicable and
  participate in the development of appropriate response to the needs of
  children.
• Facilitate the involvement of
  children and the community (leaders, caregivers, and parents) in the Safe
  Healing and Learning Space (SHLS) and document the progress made.
• Supervise and coach community
  facilitators in the SHLS.
• Coordinate and lead psychosocial
  support activities at SHLS.
• Work with the nutrition and health
  teams in the identification, monitoring, verification, documentation and
  referral of cases of children and abuse.
• Follow-up the preparation and
  implementation of case action plan and home visit conducted by the social
  workers.
• Carry out data entry into the
  Child Protection Information System (CPIMS) database.
• Assist the child protection
  officer in facilitating and organizing appropriate care arrangement, and
  suitable alternative care system with close supervision and attention to the
  individual needs of children.
• Through working with the child
  protection committees identify potential foster families for unaccompanied and
  separated children in collaboration with social workers and community leaders.
• Train and supervise the community
  facilitators leading positive parenting skills training (Family Make the
  Difference) weekly sessions.
• Assist the child rights clubs to
  demonstrate to the community and the concerning body about protection concerns
  that children are facing while living in the camp and promote the participation
  of children in all matters affecting their lives.
• Organize awareness-raising and
  advocacy activities in the community including the celebration of international
  events days and other awareness raising sessions.
• Assist and participate in the
  preparation of budget, work and spending plans, and PR tracking to monitor the
  proper utilization of the budget and timely implementation of activities.
• Enforce and fully abide by the
  child protection code of conduct.
• Work closely with the other Child
  Protection teams within the IRC to provide an integrated response to the needs
  of children and their families.
• Perform other duties assigned by
  the supervisor.

Other:

The post holder will also work on
other duties such as;

• The Child Protection Assistant will directly report to the
  senior Child Protection Officer based in Hagadera with additional oversight
  from PRoL Technical coordinator in Kenya.

Qualifications

• University Degree in Sociology or
  psychology preferred or any other social science fields.
• 3 years of working with children
  experience for diploma holders.
• 1 year of working with children experience
  with the first degree.
• Ability to speak the local
  language () is an added advantage.
• Computer literate, data entry
  (database management) skills
• Certificates or Licenses:
• Trained on CP topics and certified
  will be preferred.

Standards of Professional
Conduct: The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles
outlined in the IRC Way – Code of Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, and
Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces
policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child
Safeguarding, Harassment-Free Workplace, Fiscal Integrity, Anti-Retaliation,
Combating Trafficking in Persons and several others.

Gender Equality: IRC is
committed to narrowing the gender gap in leadership positions. We offer
benefits that provide an enabling environment for women to participate in our
workforce including parental leave, gender-sensitive security protocols and
other supportive benefits and allowance.

Kenyan nationals are encouraged
to apply. International allowances are not available for this position. Salary
and employee benefits are compliant to the Kenyan NGO Sector.

IRC is an Equal Opportunity
Employer and considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to
race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital
status, veteran status or disability.

Disclaimer:

Please take note that
International Rescue Committee (IRC) does not ask for any fees in connection
with its recruitment processes.