PSS Animator (Expected)

PROJECT TITLE: Enhanced Psychosocial Skills and Knowledge for Children and Community Members (Expected)

PROJECT OBJECTIVE: At risk children, caregivers, and community members in the Old City of Saida have enhanced psychosocial skills and knowledge reflected in the attitudes, feeling of safety, and wellbeing.

Project Outcomes:

1. Support at-risk children and caregivers by strengthening positive coping mechanisms, emotional resilience, as well as coping with specific stressors through a set of community-based and focused PSS, and emotional support sessions.
2. Promote positive parenting knowledge and skills among caregivers allowing them to play a positive leading role in shaping and directing the experiences and opportunities of children’s learning, growth, mental and physical health, psychosocial wellbeing, and development.
3. To advise, inform and enhance child support protection services through awareness on GBV, referral system/protection services for caregivers, community members, and CP capacity building sessions for local CSOs in the Old City of Saida.

Key Responsibilities of the PSS Animator:

• Outreach children through mapping and assessing to attend PSS activities;
• Register and enroll children in PSS activities;
• Develop an action plan of activities, topics, other types of interventions;
• Ensure that all activities are done in an appropriate, accessible, and safe location in line with minimum child-friendly standards;
• Attend all required internal and external training and meetings properly;
• Ensure that all children and caregivers are aware of any accountability/complaint mechanism;
• Deal with difficult behaviors (conflict, aggressiveness, introversion) and understand the reason behind the behavior;
• Plan and identify materials and any kind of support required for every intervention on weekly basis;
• Collaborate in ensuring that the material appropriately used and later stored in a safe way at the end of the day;
• Report and support the constant evaluation process about the impact of activities on children/youth;
• Provide information about progress when required;
• Revise sessions according to each feedback/evaluation and constantly adapt approaches and exercises;
• Ensure a daily proper recording of data (# of children, adults participating, activities delivered);
• Provide official and on-time reports for any security and safety incident;
• Ensure effective engagement of children with disabilities in the PSS activities;
• Ensure that the beneficiaries can participate in designing the activity, to express themselves and to be heard.
• Monitor child progress, identify children in need and refer special cases to the CP Officer as soon as identified.
• Ensure children under his/her responsibility are not exposed to any form of harm or stress during the activities;
• Ensure Do No Harm approach;
• Undertake all other duties that may be requested by the line-manager and that are compatible with the job;
• Respect and abide by the Child Protection, Code of Conduct, and PSEA Policy with colleagues, children, and caregivers;

Requirements for the position (Criteria):

• Bachelor's degree or of equivalence in years of experience.
• Minimum of 1 year of work experience in a related field.
• Manages time and priorities, meets deadlines.
• Knowledge of child protection.
• Cooperates and contributes to achieving goals.
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Flexibility and readiness to work on weekends and/or holidays (if required).

Required training for the position:

• Safe identification and Referral Training
• Mental health training
• Facilitation skills and child friendly space

WORKING HOURS: This is a full-time position requiring 4 working days per week (Approximate of 6-8 hours per day).