Child Protection Manager at International Rescue Committee (IRC)

Job Overview/Summary:

The Child Protection Program Manager with the support of the CYPD Coordinator plays a key role in developing the Child Protection strategy, partnerships and providing oversight on day-to-day project implementation and reporting. The Senior Program Manager- Safety Outcome will directly supervise the Child Protection Program Manager. The Child Protection Program Manager will also be in regular contact with relevant CYPD Coordinator and Advisor.

Major Responsibilities:

Program Development

• Provide ongoing leadership, training, and guidance to staff and local partners to ensure programming meets best practice standards and prioritizes the security of beneficiaries and staff.
• Participate in program design and proposal writing.
• Conduct or participate in assessments to ensure appropriate interventions are implemented.
• Implement the psychosocial strategy to meet the needs of targeted clients.
• Ensure that CP programming is community driven and that community leaders fully understand and participate in the design of the project.
• Work with the teams at the different filed sites to ensure sustained programming.

Staff and Community Capacity Building

• Collaborate with the CP Coordinator to implement the staff training plan for Program team members.
• Oversee and when necessary conduct trainings for other IRC staff, community and service providers.
• Collaborate with the Nutrition and Education Sectors to organize training for health staff, as needed.
• Collaborate with the other IRC Program Managers to maintain an on-going training program to ensure program integration.
• Liaise with the CP Coordinator and Field Coordinator as needed for difficult or complex cases.

Inter-Agency Coordination

• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with all stakeholders – including community leaders(Camp chairman, National Emergency Management Agency, State Emergency Management Agency) NGOs, UN agencies, Local Partners and other IRC sectors to enhance multi-agency and multi sectoral cooperation and coordination.
• Ensure that information from the coordination meetings is shared, as appropriate.
• Attend internal and external coordination meetings at the different sites.

Monitoring and Evaluation

• Ensure monitoring and evaluation systems, especially for child protection monitoring are in place which can be used for informed programming.
• Ensure monthly data cleanup and review meetings with the CPIMS focal person at location before they are shared to the sub sector for consolidation.
• Provide weekly and monthly reports to the relevant reviewers.
• Carry out field visits to all program sites on a regular basis.

Administrative Duties

• Oversee administrative aspects of the program including, but not limited to, writing job descriptions, interviewing and selecting staff, developing staff performance objectives and conducting timely performance appraisals.
• Manage budgets in order to maintain program expenditure within budget.
• Ensure that staff follow IRC global financial procedures and meeting donor requirements.
• Update procurement plans and spending plans and share regularly with the operations and PMU.
• Ensure that all internal (IRC) reporting requirements are met and that reports are of a high quality are submitted on time
• Provide ongoing leadership, training, and guidance to staff and local partners to ensure programming meets best practice standards and prioritizes the security of beneficiaries and staff.
• Participate in program design and proposal writing.
• Conduct or participate in assessments to ensure appropriate interventions are implemented.
• Implement the psychosocial strategy to meet the needs of targeted clients.
• Ensure that CP programming is community driven and that community leaders fully understand and participate in the design of the project.
• Work with the teams at the different filed sites to ensure sustained programming.
• Collaborate with the CP Coordinator to implement the staff training plan for Program team member.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with all stakeholders – including community leaders (Camp chairman, National Emergency Management Agency, State Emergency Management Agency) NGOs, UN agencies, Local Partners, and other IRC sectors to enhance multi-agency and multi sectoral cooperation and coordination.
• Ensure monthly data cleanup and review meetings with the CPIMS focal persons at location before they are shared to the CPIMS officer for consolidation.

Key Working Relationships:

• Position Reports to:  Senior Program Managers – Safety Outcome
• Position directly supervises:  Child Protection Officers

Indirect Reporting:

• Other Internal and/or external contacts: describe the nature of departments or groups the position influences or requires support from to accomplish objectives.
• Internal: IRC SECTORs, External: CPSS, PSWG 

Qualifications

• Minimum six years of relevant experience designing, implementing, and managing large, complex projects that work to protect vulnerable children and youth.
• Minimum four years of project management experience in emergency context.
• Bachelor’s degree in social work, education, international development, or related field is required; Masters could be an added advantage.
• Experience in overseeing a child protection projects including supporting the delivery of psychosocial activities, emergency response, child protection case management including family tracing and reunification, and setting up child friendly and community based mechanisms.
• Experience in developing and implementing organizational child safeguarding policies and procedures, including for NNGO partners.
• Experience developing monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning processes for child protection within the education context.
• Demonstrated ability to liaise and build networks with government officials, community leaders, civil society representatives, and, preferably, protection actors within the context of safety and protection promotion.
• Demonstrated success incorporating innovation and participatory, flexible, and gender-sensitive programming into implementation.
• Significant previous experience working in conflict or crisis situations in Northeast or Northwest Nigeria.
• Availability to travel throughout the NorthWest Nigeria region.
• The candidate must be fluent in English; fluency in another Nigerian language like Hausa is required.