Child Protection in Emergencies Officer

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Description

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• We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood. And we enable children to prepare for – and respond to – crises and adversity.
• We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.
• The Child Protection in Emergency Officer (CPiE-Officer) is responsible to ensure implementation of child protection activities designed to prevent and respond to child protection risks/concerns affecting crisis impacted children in target locations.
• He/she will coordinate project activities at woreda level and make sure that the project is implemented in target woreda/locations in line with the agreement entered with respective government line offices/signatory bodies.
• The post holder is expected to provide guidance, mentoring and coaching to Social Workers/Community Volunteers to enhance the quality of child protection case management and provision of psychosocial support services.
• In addition, he/she will ensure a periodic and timely reporting of project activities as per donor and PIE’s internal reporting requirements.

• Bachelor’s degree in Sociology, Psychology, Social Work, Law, Community Development or other related fields of social science studies.
• Minimum of 3 years experience in implementing child protection in emergency or other similar projects and clear understanding of child protection technical areas such as case management, PSS, CBCPS etc
• Experience of working with child survivors and at risk children in NGO working system;
• Experience in organizing and facilitating capacity building trainings on key child protection topics for a range of target groups including government frontline workers and Social Workers;
• Experience in community mobilization and conducting outreach activities.
• Fluent spoken and written English, and Amharic languages. Knowledge of the local language of the project area will be considered an asset
• Experience in capacity building and mentoring.
• Good computer usage skills: e.g. MS Word, Excel, power point etc
• Good interpersonal communication and problem-solving skills and flexibility
• Good understanding of Child Protection program approaches and practices

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