Senior Child Protection Technical Officer

Terre des hommes- Lausanne is seeking for a qualified Senior Child Protection Technical Officer.

The Senior Child Protection Technical Officer is responsible to:

• Support the development of the professional competencies of all staff on CP/GBV thematics and contribute to adult learning aspects through coaching and technical supervision
• Coordinate with staff and partners primarily but also with programme managers more widely and ensure that their work is carried out according to national and inter-agency standards and guidelines.
• Conduct an assessment of Tdh’s services, mechanisms and tools, contextualize and apply the existing programmatic models of actions and develop accordingly additional manuals and curriculums
• Develop a protection monitoring system and ensure regular reporting

Under the management of the Child Protection Technical Unit Manager, the CP Project Manager will perform the following tasks:

CP/GBV strategy and models of actions:

• Ensure high quality of activities are being implemented by reviewing and adapting the content of curriculums, manuals, model of actions and guidelines
• Contribute to the development of manuals and curriculums based on needs
• Responsible for contextualization and sharing of manuals and curriculums related to CP/GBV, PSS, Life Skills, Positive Parenting and Social Behavioral Change
• Contribute to the training design and ensure the process of adult learning takes place effectively

Staff and Partners Capacity Building and Development:

• In coordination with the Technical Unit Manager and other capacity building officers, identify training and development needs for Tdh staff and for partners, through job analysis, annual performance review documents and regular consultation with project manager and programme managers but also M&E department
• Develop effective induction packages
• Produce training materials for in-house courses on CP/GBV and other related aspects
• Design training monitoring and evaluation tools
• Support the capacity building officers in designing a training strategy and a capacity building packages for the local partners
• Contribute to the creation of capacity building process
• Contribute to the development of proposal activities

Staff and partners on the job technical support:

• In Coordination with the Project Manager, contribute technically to CP case management meetings and GBV meetings on weekly level
• Contribute to case conferences for complex and high risk CP/GBV cases.
• Directly communicate effectively with other officers and key stakeholders in order to regularly report trends, gaps, opportunities and needs and advocate for the best interests of children.
• Support the safe space team through the provision of coaching and technical support and guidance
• Ensure that staff implement and respect best-practice and international standards on CP/GBV prevention and response, whilst ensuring they are contextualised to the needs of beneficiaries
• Coordinate with other technical officers, capacity building officers and staff in terms of referral and mutual activities
• Conduct a regular audit on CP/GBV best practices and usage of tools.
• Participate in the evaluation and appraisals of the field staff

Training Resource Information Management and Development:

• With the support of the Technical Unit Manager involve in the development of a Tdh library (electronic and hard copies) on training and coaching methodologies, practices, materials and topics of interest to Tdh Lebanon.
• Develop a dissemination plan with the support of Programme Managers and Technical Unit Manager for the mentioned materials and tools
• Form links and develop ideas to promote practices based on information of Tdh’s programmes with relevant Lebanese and Palestinian child protection focused organizations or institutions

Coordination & Representation

• Attend cluster meetings (CP AND GBV Task forces) and redirect the needed programs and messages to the staff and share the meeting results with involved staff
• Submit timely technical weekly and monthly reports.
• Coordinate with all key CP/GBV stakeholders.
• Represent the organization in different researches, focus groups discussions etc

Other:

• Consistently and proactively monitor/assess the safety and security of field teams; promptly reporting concerns or incidents to Tdh management.
• Ensure any child safeguarding concerns are reported and addressed immediately
• Other duties as assigned by the supervisor to enable and develop Tdh programmes.

Organisational Policies:

• Respect the Tdh’s Global Code of Conduct (GCD), Child Safeguarding Policy (CSP), Prevention from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Policy (PSEA) and Policy on Gender and Diversity and its principles of child protection, ensuring the policy’s implementation and prompt notification of the CSP/PSEA Focal Point with any information regarding potential breaches of the policy.
• Is aware of, abide by and promote the practices and values set out in all other Tdh policies and procedures such as the Internal Regulations, Standard Operating Procedures and other policies

Participate actively in weekly and monthly coordination meeting with the line managers