Protection Assistant – Child Protection

Requisition ID: req47248

Job Title: Protection Assistant – Child Protection

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 Committeehas been working in Kenya since 1992, providing essential services includingcomprehensive health care, gender-based violence prevention and response,womens protection and empowerment, peace-building promotion, access to water,sanitation, and hygiene, livelihoods support, protection and rule of Law andmulti-sectoral emergency response programming. IRC Kenya works with bothrefugees and local vulnerable populations, with approximately 300 national staffand 1,500 incentive staff in the country program. Within the Nairobiheadquarter office, approximately 40 program and operations staff members workto support the field teams directly implementing projects. The Kenya Programintends to establish a Child Protection unit as part of scale up of theprotection programming.

Job Overview:

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

Major Responsibilities:

The post holder will beresponsible for the following duties and responsibilities.

Program Implementation and Quality:

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

• Conduct assessment of the livingconditions of children in the camp/ host community where applicable andparticipate in the development of appropriate response to the needs ofchildren.
• Facilitate the involvement ofchildren and the community (leaders, caregivers, and parents) in the SafeHealing and Learning Space (SHLS) and document the progress made.
• Supervise and coach communityfacilitators in the SHLS.
• Coordinate and lead psychosocialsupport activities at SHLS.
• Work with the nutrition and healthteams in the identification, monitoring, verification, documentation andreferral of cases of children and abuse.
• Follow-up the preparation andimplementation of case action plan and home visit conducted by the socialworkers.
• Carry out data entry into theChild Protection Information System (CPIMS) database.
• Assist the child protectionofficer in facilitating and organizing appropriate care arrangement, andsuitable alternative care system with close supervision and attention to theindividual needs of children.
• Through working with the childprotection committees identify potential foster families for unaccompanied andseparated children in collaboration with social workers and community leaders.
• Train and supervise the communityfacilitators leading positive parenting skills training (Family Make theDifference) weekly sessions.
• Assist the child rights clubs todemonstrate to the community and the concerning body about protection concernsthat children are facing while living in the camp and promote the participationof children in all matters affecting their lives.
• Organize awareness-raising andadvocacy activities in the community including the celebration of internationalevents days and other awareness raising sessions.
• Assist and participate in thepreparation of budget, work and spending plans, and PR tracking to monitor theproper utilization of the budget and timely implementation of activities.
• Enforce and fully abide by thechild protection code of conduct.
• Work closely with the other ChildProtection teams within the IRC to provide an integrated response to the needsof children and their families.
• Perform other duties assigned bythe supervisor.

Other:

The post holder will also work onother duties such as;

• The Child Protection Assistant will directly report to thesenior Child Protection Officer based in Hagadera with additional oversightfrom PRoL Technical coordinator in Kenya.

Qualifications

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

Standards of ProfessionalConduct: The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principlesoutlined in the IRC Way Code of Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, andAccountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforcespolicies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, ChildSafeguarding, Harassment-Free Workplace, Fiscal Integrity, Anti-Retaliation,Combating Trafficking in Persons and several others.

Gender Equality: IRC iscommitted to narrowing the gender gap in leadership positions. We offerbenefits that provide an enabling environment for women to participate in ourworkforce including parental leave, gender-sensitive security protocols andother supportive benefits and allowance.

Kenyan nationals are encouragedto apply. International allowances are not available for this position. Salaryand employee benefits are compliant to the Kenyan NGO Sector.

IRC is an Equal OpportunityEmployer and considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard torace, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, maritalstatus, veteran status or disability.

Disclaimer:

Please take note thatInternational Rescue Committee (IRC) does not ask for any fees in connectionwith its recruitment processes.