Child Protection Officer - Borno at Save The Children

ROLE PURPOSE: 

With Funding from GAC, the CP Officer will provide support to the Nutrition and Child Protection Project in Borno and is responsible for ensuring that quality mental health and psychosocial support services and case management for children experiencing or at risk of abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence including GBV survivors are provided. Build the staff capacity to provide direct meaningful support to children at risk and GBV survivors, mentor, supervise and monitor team activities and ensure effective coordination and networking system establishment to the rest of child protection team. The CP Officer will be expected to support on child protection sectoral assessment, project planning and coordination with other actors and clusters. In most circumstances, the post holder will be expected to mentor and/or build capacity of implementing partners on the field.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY: 

• Conduct child protection using SC assessment processes and tools and the Inter-agency Child Protection Assessment Resource Toolkit. Adapt the Assessment Tool as necessary to children at risk. Coordinate with other SC thematic areas, the national/district Child Protection Working Group and/or other external sector agencies of GBV, ensuring assessment findings are documented and that all assessments include a specific, disaggregated data analysis of survivors’ needs.
• Develop monthly and quarterly plans and costed plans, contributing towards an overall thematic programme plan. 
• Support to the psychosocial (physical, social, emotional) wellbeing of children including GBV survivors and their families.
• Build the staff capacity to provide direct and appropriate support services to children at risk. 
• Prevention and response to all forms of exploitation including harmful child labour and child trafficking 
• Oversee and coordinate the development and maintenance of data collection and analysis mechanisms and share timely quality information the relevant sector management.    
• Support the integration of child protection activities into other sectors.
• Supervise project implementation to ensure timely delivery of project activities
• Prepare and review timely monthly reports submitted by partners and SCI Staff. 
• Identify project supplies specific to the programme needs and coordinate with the logistics team to put in place a sensible phased procurement plan.
• Work with the MEAL plan to ensure links to reporting requirements where possible, refer the MEAL framework to build an evidence-base for child protection programming interventions including GBV survivors.
• With support from the CRM/Accountability Officer put in place accountability activities for your project, ensuring that feedback from children and their families is considered in project design.
• Ensure that the minimum standards of humanitarian relief are maintained in accordance with the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Settings and the Sphere standard 
• Ensure children at risk and survivors of gender-based violence are timely identified and provided counselling and other appropriate response services.
• Ensure relevant referral forms are in place and implemented accordingly. 
• Coordinate monthly meetings including, parent’s forum and child protection committee
• Provide essential psychosocial first aid support to children and adults when needed.
• Ensure partner staff are supervised regularly to ensure activities are carried out in line with minimum standard guidelines.
• Consistently maintain referral pathway of project locations
• Ensuring assistance is provided to children affected by the conflict in a dignified, respectful, equitable and inclusive manner that supports their resilience
• Assisting children in acute distress and alleviating their stress, for instance ensuring that all staff / partners are trained on PFA and feel confident to use it
• The mainstreaming of inter-agency guidelines (e.g. IASC MHPSS guidelines) and standards (e.g. CPMS) across the different sectors of programme activities delivered by SC and its partners
• The use of structured and manualised MHPSS techniques
• The participation of parents and caregivers in MHPSS activities  
• Support structured MHPSS activities for groups of boys and girls of different age groups, with particular attention to survivors of SGBV, unaccompanied children and other children who present with signs of poor mental health and distress
• Identify MHPSS service providers and agree referral pathways for children with severe mental disorders

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• University degree or equivalent in social work, Social Science, development studies or equivalent combination of relevant training and experience
• Minimum 2 years post NYSC work experience in GBV and child Protection work, supervision, community mobilisation and distributions and solid understanding of the actual Nigeria Emergency context. 
• Proven ability to supervise a CP project with holistic approach and integrated to child protection right

SKILLS

• Previous experience in similar responsibilities, preferably with NGO and/or UN agency.
• Highly flexible and ability to work in a team.
• Communication & Interpersonal Skill Level – Excellent
• Language Requirements – English and Hausa – Excellent
• Level of IT literacy Required – (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Email system, Internet browsing) excellent