CP/EDU Officer (Baaj & Sinjar)

General description of the position:

Reporting to the Child Protection and Education Project Manager, and in close consultation with Field Coordinator, the Child Protection and Education Officer is responsible for supervising and coordinating a number of Child Protection and Education program activities including Case Management, Psychosocial Support, Community Outreach, formal and non-formal education and school rehabilitations. Responsibilities include direct management of a team consisting of 2 social workers, and indirect support to community volunteers. The post holder is expected to provide on-going technical support, mentoring and guidance to the project team to ensure child protection and education activities in the project locations are carried on a timely basis ensuring the high quality of the response.

Responsibilities & Tasks

Team & Human Resource Management

• Provide appropriate training, mentoring, coaching and technical guidance of the team under her/his responsibility.
• Participate in ensuring a positive working environment and good team dynamics (solve out potential conflicts) and follow the staff under his/her direct responsibility on a regular basis.
• Follow up staff attendances, leaves and provide monthly attendance sheets to her/his manager to facilitate payroll process.
• Regural field visits to support the staff in the field

Case Management 

• Ensure that the case management system for children and adults is aligned with the Inter-agency Case Management Guidelines, adheres and refers to the inter-agency standardized operating procedures and tools.
• Ensure that Social Workers thoroughly follow the case management steps ensuring that each step is properly implemented and documented in the individual’s file.
• Conduct weekly supervision meetings with all Social Workers, providing technical advice on cases and psychosocial support.
• Map existing specialized services and make sure that the referral pathway is up-to-date to facilitate beneficiaries’ access.
• Ensure data is collected systematically and accurately and logically presented to the line manager.

Psychosocial Support

• Under the supervision of the line manager and based on the assessment’s findings, design an array of age and gender appropriate psychosocial interventions for children, adolescents and caregivers.
• Support the Social Worker to draft a weekly activity schedule and revise it regularly as to make it adaptable to the evolving needs on the ground and according to the logistic needs and constraints.
• Ensure that signs of mental health and psychosocial distresses are identified, registered and cared for in timely and quality manner through referrals when appropriate.
• Train the Social Workers on basic concepts of case management in order to timely refer cases of  individuals at risk or of affected by protection concerns.

Community Outreach

• Conduct an initial assessment of the protection risks and concerns in his/her area of responsibility with an aim of defining contextually-relevant community mobilization strategy.
• Under the supervision of the line manager and based on the assessment’s findings, design an array of age and gender appropriate social events, educational programmes, awareness raising sessions.
• Ensure a close supervision of daily community outreach activities, support the staff in prioritizing interventions if needed, overcoming challenges and  seeking synergies with other actors.
• Provide daily guidance and support to the staff, suggest  changes, updates and improvements of relevant awareness raising, psychosocial, educational activities when needed.

Child Protection

·        Promote and ensure project activities are in line with child protection and humanitarian principles.

·        Regular contact with the child protection committees, and working on enhancing their capacity.

·        Ensure Tdh Child Safeguarding Policy and Child Protection Minimum Standards are mainstreamed through all the programmatic activities.

·        Report serious cases of abuse committed against children to the Child Protection and Education Project Manager with respect to confidentiality.

Education in Emergencies

·        Liaise with humanitarian actors and government authorities for coordinated and harmonized education programming in the project areas.

·        Regular liaising with the supported schools’ management and the PTAs/SMC.

·        Supervise and provide technical support to the project team members for the quality implementation of the educational activities.

·        Manage and update the monitoring tools used for the project on a regular and timely basis.

·        Deliver pieces of training to the formal teachers and the community/school-based committees  (like TICC training, stress management, basics of child protection, safeguarding, CoC, …etc)

Coordination & Representation

·        Work in close collaboration with Tdh partners and other key actors.

·        Coordinates with other Tdh sectors to ensure implementation of standardized activities and with other departments (programme and support). 

·        Participate in fora and meetings held at site level in her/his field of expertise, when relevant and necessary.

Required Competencies: This function requires the mastery of Personal, Social and Leadership Competencies (PSLC), Technical and Methodological Competencies (TMC) and Management and Strategic Competencies (MSC)

·        Language Skills: Fluent in the languages spoken in the assignment location. Knowledge of English is an advantage.

·        Education Degree:  University degree in Social Work, Social Studies, Human Rights, or any other related discipline.

·        Work experience: Minimum 2 years of experience in the field of Child Protection / Case Manaegemnt / SGBV / Social work.

·        ToT in Teachers in Crisis Context (TiCC) training

·        Knowledge & skills: Good analytical and writing skills.

·        Computer skills: Good knowledge of the MS office software.

·        Other: Knowledge of child protection systems in Federal Iraq/Good capacity building and supervisory skills / Previous experience in child protection case management is highly desirable. Acquaintance with the Child Protection Minumim Standards, good knowledge of the Inter-agency Guidelines for Case Management and Child Protection

Values:

·        The post holder must know, implement and promote humanitarian principles and specifically child protection principles and information management principles.

·        The post holder is polite, respectful, honest, punctual (and respects deadlines), creative, pacifist, proactive, committed and – during office hours – non-political. S/he is in constant exchange with colleagues and supervisors, communicates problems and enriches discussions. S/he is willing to improve own capacities and is open for all topics Tdh is working on to actively contribute to a comprehensive programme implementation.

Other

·        Fully comply with Tdh Code of Conduct and ensure Child Safeguarding Policy is upheld at all times.

·        Ensure adherence to Tdh standards and quality requirements in all the project activities.

·        Adhere to and ensure the team under her/his responsibility follows Tdh administrative and logistical regulations and procedures.