Child Protection Officer - Zahle

ROLE PURPOSE:

The Child Protection Officer will be in charge of the daily follow up of the Child Protection activities, provide support to implementing partners and lead the direct implementation in the field. The Child Protection programme includes the establishment and expansion of psychosocial programming with children and youth and capacity building and support for caregivers. The Child Protection Officer should ensure that all aspects of work are undertaken in accordance with Save the Children’s Policies

In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.

CHILD SAFEGUARDING:

Level 3:  the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Child Protection Program Manager

Staff reporting to this post: None

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Programme implementation/management

• Liaise with the line manager to identify project’s priorities, develop and lead the implementation of project’s monthly and weekly work plans.
• Liaise with Supply chain, Finance and HR to ensure sufficient support to field activities.
• Under the supervision and the support of the Programme Manager, lead the implementation of the needs assessment interviews.
• Monitor progress and solve issues that are interrupting the implementation of activities.

Programme design/development

• Ensure that SC accountability systems are followed by field staff.
• Conduct field visits to ensure that the quality standards are met throughout the implementation phase.
• Produce weekly and monthly quantitative and qualitative reports for internal use.
• Ensure that programme interventions continue to be informed by and integrated with other core sectors in Save the Children, such as Education, Shelter, and Food Security and Livelihoods.

Partnerships management

• Under the supervision and with the support of the Program Manager, provide daily support to partners’ staff by providing technical and operational support.
• Monitor partners’ activities implementation and ensure that high quality implementation standards are applied, by using quality benchmarks and other quality monitoring tools.
• Verify partners’ report by validating them against SC internal reporting mechanisms.
• Under the supervision of the programme Manager, conduct training for partners’ staff

External relationships/Representation

• Ensure activities are developed in coordination with relevant local authorities and key stakeholders.

General

• Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child protection, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.
• To perform such other responsibilities as agreed with the line management.

QUALIFICATIONS 

• Bachelor Degree in Social Work or other related studies

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• At least 3 years’ experience in the Child Protection field;
• At least one year of experience working with international NGOs;
• Experience in Psycho Social Support programming and community mobilisation;
• Fluency in written and spoken Arabic and English;
• Ability to write weekly and monthly reports;

Desirable

• Experience in team leading and handling programmes action plans;
• Commitment  to  and  understanding  of  Save  the  Children’s  aims,  values  and principles  including rights-based approaches

Additional job responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Equal Opportunities

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Child Safeguarding:

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.