Child Safeguarding and gender Coordinator

1. Main Tasks:

1. AAP:

• Facilitate feedback sessions with children or administering surveys to allow children to voice their needs and priorities.
• Improve the awareness of affected children, young people on their rights and expected conduct of teachers and other humanitarian aid workers.
• Conduct regular consultation session with children through active listening, child-friendly language and participatory facilitation.
• ills with children and adolescents of different age groups.
• Receive in-person complaints related to safeguarding breaches and SEA allegations and refer to the PSEA Focal point accordingly.
• Develop information, education, and communication (IEC) materials, and disseminate child friendly key messages to explain and promote AAP.
• Implement the feedback channels (quantitative, qualitative, and participatory data collection) and handle the overall feedback information management and reporting.

2. Gender and adolescent girl's programming:

• Provide technical support to Makani staff on the adolescent girls’ programming that includes: 1) implementation of girls’ life skills tailored package, 2) establishment of girls’ networks and 3) implementation of gender equality initiatives by the girls’ networks.
• Rigorous follow up on the implementation of adolescent girls’ programming
• Liase between Makani partner and local women led organization in charge of girls’ network component.
• Coaching to Makani staff implementing the adolescent girls’ programming with the support of relevant UNICEF staff and local women led organization working on establishment of girls’ networks

3. GBV:

• Set up a network of dedicated GBV focal points in MAKANI centers trained on GBV and capable of following up on daily basis on alignment of interventions with GBV principals.
• Capacitate Makani partners on Gender Based Violence Safe Identification & Referrals for Girls at risk / survivors of GBV.
• Liaise with GBV focal points in MAKANI centers on daily basis.
• Liaise with GBV partners in the area to ensure linkages between adolescent girls’ package and GBV services where needed.
• Coach Makani partners where needed on GBV oriented programing.
• Ensure that GBV related procedures are adequate and applied through regular monitoring visits to the MAKANI centre in the governorate.

4. PSEA and Child safeguarding:

Prevention of SEA and serious child safeguarding violations:

• Conduct training and awareness-raising session on PSEA and Child Safeguarding for all personnel involved in the MAKANI program regularly.
• Facilitate awareness-raising with child beneficiaries and their caregivers on PSEA and CS and the existing reporting channels.
• Conduct activity level risk assessment before the start of any big activity that involves direct or indirect contact with children and their caregivers and propose mitigation measures.
• Ensure that PSEA and Child Safeguarding policies and procedures are adequate and applied through regular monitoring visits to the MAKANI centre in the governorate.

Response:

• Receive in person SEA and low/ serious child safeguarding allegations from children/ caregivers and MAKANI’s staff personal and coordinate age/ gender / disability sensitive response to the victims.
• Notify the management about SEA cases and serious CS violations in line with the internal procedures of the organization.