Child Protection Program Coordinator at Center for Advocacy, Transparency, and Accountability Initiative (CATAI)

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.
• Developing the Child Protection strategy, and partnerships and providing oversight on day-to-day project implementation and reporting.
• Work with the teams at the different filed sites to ensure sustained programming.

Staff and Community Capacity Building:

• Collaborate with the GBV Coordinator to implement the staff training plan for Program team members.
• Oversee and when necessary conduct trainings for other CATAI staff, community and service providers.
• Collaborate with the Protection and Education Sectors to organize training for Protection staff, as needed
• Collaborate with the other CATAI Program Managers to maintain an ongoing training program to ensure program integration.
• Liaise with the GBV Coordinator and Field officers 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 CATAI 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work, Education, International Development, or related fields is required; Masters could be an added advantage.
• Minimum five 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.
• 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 Nigeria.
• Availability to travel to other CATAI implementing location.
• The candidate must be fluent in English.