Child Protection Officer

Core responsibilities:

• Assist in designing child protection capacity-building plans for staff and partners
• Deliver child protection sessions, trainings, and briefings, including tailored training where needed and feasible, to staff and partners.
• Provides ongoing and necessary technical support, guidance, and advice to program staff and partners in the field of child protection, including child safety
• Delivers safeguarding briefings when needed to external visitors and new staff, in coordination with the SG focal point.
• Coordinate with other team members, mainly PSS and Education teams, to ensure that child protection connects and is mainstreamed in other WCH areas of work
• Represent WCH externally, in relevant platforms/networks focused on child protection themes, including CPiEW and PSS committee
• Contribute to the development/revision of child protection materials developed in working groups/platforms/networks
• Referral focal point : receive cases in need of CP services assess them and do the proper referrals.

Necessary experience:

• At least one year of experience in delivering trainings;
• Psychosocial Support experience is an add value
• Able to support individual cases in need of immediate CP intervention
• Knowledge an experience working on RIMS platform
• Knowledge of current principles and practices of Child Safety and Child Protection;
• Understanding of child rights (programming) in conflict and post conflict environments
• Strong critical analysis and strategic thinking skills;
• Planning and coordination ability;
• Monitoring and Evaluation ability;
• Ability to provide (creative/interactive) trainings;
• Excellent communication skills; ability to give and receive feedback;
• Affinity with children and young people;
• (Cultural) sensitivity;
• Result-oriented;

Require skills:

• Experience in Child Protection domain and Psychosocial Support
•  Experience in working in complex contexts
• Prior experience and proven capability in training and capacity development
• Experience in conducting counseling and awareness sessions
• Fluency in English and Arabic both written and verbal
• Experience in collecting information and writing reports.
• Handling insecure environments
• Planning and delivering results
• Communicating with impact and respect
• Analyzing
• Coping with change
• Demonstrated experience in monitoring and evaluation of projects