Child Protection Officer

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Provide technical guidance and direction for effective planning, implementation and monitoring of PSS activities provided to vulnerable children/adolescents and their families in community centres and SDCs;
•  Make frequent centres visits to monitor the implementation of activities, identify opportunities and constraints and any adjustments needed including staff training;
• Make frequent visits to monitor the implementation of the activities in outreach;
•  Develop training programmes and assist in capacity building for staff and partners, possibly in priority thematic areas such as CP, psychosocial support, community resilience;
•  Design a training and capacity building plan for TDH staff including community volunteers, partners, CBOs and LNGOs members and SDCs;
• Support the Project Manager in budgeting the above-mentioned training plan;
• Supervise and coordinate the work of staff involved in the psychosocial support activities;
• Support the Project Coordinator and the Officers in the organization of staff meetings;
• Design and supervise the Community Outreach intervention (home visits, focus group, community meetings, awareness sessions), ensuring a direct participation of the beneficiaries in the planning of the activities;
• Empower the field staff trough ToT and/or training on identification of children;
• Supervise the preparation of special events, recreational, cultural and sport activities together with project staff;
• Written Report on a monthly basis to the Project Manager and the Child Protection Expert;
• Support the Project Manager in drafting the quarterly and final reports to be sent to the donors;
• To closely coordinate with the Coordinator and the CEO to ensure effective delivery of age-appropriate activities in the Community Center/SDCs and MU;
• Represent the agency/organisation in meetings with other partners and other actors, to advocate and promote programme goals and objectives, and communicate with major partners on policies;
• Liaise with other agencies/NGOs/government bodies/donors to ensure coordination, implementation of common standards in the field and consideration of protection issues in assistance programs;
• To comply with the TDH-It Code of Conduct;
• Any other task relevant to the position;

Submission Guidelines: 

Only shortlisted applications will be contacted and invited to an official interview (including test). Please download the first set of questions to fill then send it with your Curriculum Vitae (maximum three pages) and Motivation Letter (indicating at least three references) to: hr.tdhit.lebanon@gmail.com. Please, specify in the subject of the email: position_name_surname