Re- Post: Animators ( Multiple Positions)

    Organiation Overview :        Since its creation in 1960, the mission of Terre des hommes (Tdh) has been to come to the aid of children in need. It endeavors at all times to defend the rights of children, in times of war and natural disasters, or in less publicized situations of distress. Today, the Terre des hommes Foundation is a significant force among children’s aid organizations in Switzerland and throughout the world. Tdh has development projects and emergency relief programs in more than 30 countries in two core areas: healthcare and child protection. Every year, Tdh offers sustainable solutions and a better future for over one million children and their relatives. Job description: The Animator  is responsible, together with the community programme manager, for the planning, implementation, supervision and functioning of the different strands of the community programme. The community mobilizer supervises, assists and trains the entire team working in the aforementioned strands of the community programme. He/she participates in the process of setting up or reorienting these programmes.   Child Protection Policy: -     Commit to respect the Tdh Child Protection Policy and principles of child protection. -     Commit to ensure the best implementation possible of the Tdh Child Protection Policy in Lebanon. -     Commit to inform supervisors and to deal with any cases, allegations, or possibility of transgression, even potential, of the Tdh Child Protection Policy.   Main duties and responsibilities: General: -       Promotes, facilitates and encourages the achievement of the action planning objectives. -       Ensures that Tdh’s project actions or activities are non biased, neutral and inclusive of all actors present in the Palestinian and Syrian refugee context and the Lebanese context. -       Works directly in the field with children, families and stakeholders of the project locations he/she is allocated to. -       Is a Tdh focal point in the community and represents the organization. -       Facilitates, collects and reports information regarding the overall situation of the children and their families in the community, with specific attention paid to the project targeted children. -       Shares child protection resources and information both within the Tdh staff structure and the community he/she operates in. -       Promotes and ensures the principles of child protection and child participation are respected within the Tdh project and with identified child protection resources. -       Informs his/her direct supervisor about any difficulty met in Tdh activities implementation. -       Ensures a strict adherence to Tdh Child Protection Policy at all times, including respect for confidentiality and child centered approach, acts in the best interests of the child.   Specific duties and responsibilities:   Child Protection Resources: -       Identifies, liaises, promotes and when necessary identify and propose training needs to child protection resources with a view to strengthening their capacity to respond to child protection needs. -       Assists in the coordination and delivery of community child protection awareness raising events as determined by project objectives. -       Use the referral pathway tool, clearly identifying both formal and informal child protection resources. Recreational activities: -       Acts in the best interest of the child. -       Assumes primary recreational activities responsibility to project targeted children. -       Conducts home based and neighborhood based recreational activities with targeted children and their families. -       Organizes and plans for recreational joint events, gathering children and adults from various communities. -       Supervises the recreational activities conducted by other NGOs supported by Tdh. -       Ensures a proper recording of number of children, adults participating, and activities delivered. -       Monitors the impact of the activities on children (outputs & outcomes) -       Promotes, ensures and establishes the child as a central actor in the activities thus promoting child participation and gender balance.   Relief distribution: -       Supports if needed the social workers in their distribution activities.   Reporting: -       Ensures data is collected and collated to prove the achievement of project objectives. -       Assists in the design, maintain and use data collection systems and punctual reporting to enable measurable results to prove the achievement of project objectives. -       Provides reports as required and directed by the Project Manager.   Non-Violent Communication: -       Adhere to the principles of the NVC process while in communication with all project actors, including colleagues. -       Ensure that conflict is addressed with the principles and process of NVC with all project actors and colleagues. -       Support and assume responsibility, if necessary, for conflict transformation activities and actions. -       Assist the Tdh T&D department regarding identification, referral and intervention in child protection related conflict events, mediation, training and coaching of resources when needed.