Child Protection Program Officer (2 positions)

Develop and submit a work plan for the project period 

Provide technical and management support for the implementation, monitoring and reporting of child protection in emergency programmes and ensuring that the following interventions included in the child protection priority focus areas are implemented, monitored and managed in a timely and effective manner  

Provide technical support to the community, social workers, case management workers and partners such as Women, Children and Social Affairs Office in the implementation of emergency child protection response plan. This includes ensuring that the efforts are aligned with existing government mechanisms and services to strengthen the sustainability of the efforts. 

Provide on-going capacity building of social workers and front-line workers on prevention and response to violence, referral pathways, case management, community-based child protection systems, community mobilization, integration of child protection into other program (multi-sectoral programming), and psychosocial support in line with capacity building plans.  

Monitor and report on results of capacity building efforts. 

Undertake response implementation in line with relevant child protection in emergencies standards, including the Minimum Standards for CP in Humanitarian Action (2012), the IASC Guidelines for Integrating GBV into Humanitarian Interventions (2015), and the SoPs on Child Protection Case Management Services in Emergency Response in Ethiopia (2016). 

Deliver activities related to child protection response services, with a focus on delivery through multi-sectoral platforms (including education, WASH, health and nutrition) 

Support social workers to ensure that psychological first aid and psychosocial support services are provided with a focus on a package of services extending from safe spaces into the community coping mechanisms, also with a focus on psychological first aid. 

Regularly collect, analyze and report various data related to the woreda level child protection indicators including gender-based violence response target, and child protection reports from assigned social workers in the designated Woreda & submit regular updates to GGE Monitoring and Evaluation officer.  

Ensure accurate and timely reporting requirements from woreda and kebeles/sites are met and systematic coordination of appropriate responses on child protection in emergency operational response plan, with other relevant sectors, especially education, WASH, health and nutrition 

Coordinate and provide support for the woreda Women, Children and Social Affairs led coordination mechanism for effective implementation of emergency child protection interventions at woreda and site level. 

Participate in woreda level child protection and emergency response related meetings and share minutes of such meetings regional team.  

Undertake information management including collecting, analyzing, and reporting of child protection in emergencies situation and response interventions.  

Monitor the coverage and complementarity of kebele / site level child protection activities and recommend for corrective actions to be taken in a timely manner.