Job Title: Child Protection Officer – Case worker
Requisition ID: req5784Sector: Child Protection
Employment Category: Fixed Term
Employment Type: Full-Time
Open to Expatriates: No
Location: Kasulu, Tanzania
Job Description
The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, IRC offers life-saving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in more than 30 countries and in 22 U.S. cities, IRC restores safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted by conflict or disaster. IRC leads the way from harm to home.
The IRC has been present in Tanzania for 25 years, supporting refugees and Tanzanians with health, education and protection. With a National Office in Dar es Salaam and field offices in Kasulu, Kibondo and Kigoma, the IRC serves over 200,000 people each year.
The IRC currently has over 200 staff and employs a further 2,000 refugee workers to enable the frontline delivery of its programmes. Together, we aim to provide the best possible impact for some of the most vulnerable children, women and men. In all that we do, IRC strives to deliver through IRC’s core values of Integrity, Accountability and Service.
IRC’s Child Protection program focus on case management services for UASC and other vulnerable children, running of six safe healing and learning spaces, strengthening community based child protection mechanisms and parenting education. The youth program continues to build leadership capacities of youth, create access to services at three youth centers, promoting sports and arts among the youth, facilitating peer educations, and supporting youth-led businesses.
Core Program responsibilities
• Build capacity of all community structures and host community child protection committees
• Identifying vulnerable children and children at-risk of harm or being harmed in the community.
• Working with community structures in ending violence against children.
• Identifying and supporting foster families and other community groups.
• Work closely with case workers and community volunteers in providing emergency items and services like clothes, food or school fees for the most vulnerable
• Enforcing codes of conduct in the community such as schools, health centers among others.
• Community awareness raising on Child Protection issues
• Integration of minorities and children with disabilities in all community activities.
• Including and engaging children and families in community events (e.g. religious or commemorations
• traditional ceremonies to empower children and enhance their sense of belonging)
• Support community structure in developing yearly plans and adhering to their action plans.
• Ensuring community structures have working gears.
• Advocate for community participation to ensure children access quality education.
• Build relationships with religious leaders, community leaders and influential people in community
• Create link between host community child protection committees and camp child protection structures.
• Supporting social reintegration of individual cases
• Work with Monitoring and evaluation team in organizing sessions to receive feedback from the community and provide feedback to the community on the issues raised.
Other Program responsibilities
• Manage overall child protection activities at the camp level in collaboration with the Child Protection Supervisor
• Data collection and data entry to share with the M&E department
• Identify the needs of the most vulnerable children and means for support
• Carry out verification of Most vulnerable children (MVC)
• In collaboration with tracing unit facilitate family reunification and fostering of unaccompanied minors
• Mobilize the children living alone to encourage and accept fostering
• Plan and conduct meetings, trainings and awareness campaigns in relation to child care and child protection,
• Ensure child participation at all stages of programming
• Monitor activities conducted by other Child Protection refugee staffs(Animators) in the camp
• Provide guidance and support to refugee incentive staff (animators) on the community mobilization, counseling, recreational activities and other child protection activities.
• Coordinate with other IRC sectors and NGOs present in the camp in community mobilization, referral systems and create awareness in an integrated manner.
• Track the cases reported at the office and within the community,
• Prepare work plans, monthly/weekly/quarterly and semiannual as requested by CP-S.
• Participate in coordination meetings as assigned by supervisor.
Personnel Management
• Supervise refugee incentive staff as needed
• Prepare staff duty roster and monitored staff adherence to program objectives as needed
• Oversee welfare and discipline of refugee incentive staff in coordination with CP-S
• File and ensure all incentive staff weekly reports are well documented and community structures meeting minutes.
General Responsibilities
• Attend and participate in trainings identified and organized by your Manager
• Follow any new procedures and guidelines designed in circulars from Country Director
• Report any violations of the IRC Sexual Abuse and Exploitation Code of Conduct (Tanzania and Worldwide) as per the IRC Tanzania reporting mechanism.
• Assist where necessary in undertaking activities that aim to prevent the occurrence of sexual abuse and exploitation of refugees by IRC and other humanitarian workers
• Represent IRC at different meetings as will be assigned
• Assist in control and proper usage of stationery and other items relating to work
• Perform other duties as assigned by your supervisor
Qualifications
• Degree in social work or relevant social science with at least 1 year relevant work experience in social work and protection.
• Experience working with children and youth, and especially vulnerable children desirable.
• Basic IT skills: knowledge of MS Word; Excel and Outlook required.
• Proactive
• Swahili and basic English skills required. French and Kiha a plus
• Familiar with core principles of Children Rights, Participation, Do No Harm, Community and Family Support as well as Children in Emergencies minimum standards.
• Ability to cope and work under pressure
• Excellent facilitation skills
• Excellent organization and communication skills
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Job Title: WPE Prevention & Advocacy Officer
Requisition ID: req5782Sector: Women Protection & Empowerment
Employment Category: Fixed Term
Employment Type: Full-Time
Open to Expatriates: No
Location: Kibondo, Tanzania
Job Description
The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, IRC offers life-saving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in more than 30 countries and in 22 U.S. cities, IRC restores safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted by conflict or disaster. IRC leads the way from harm to home.
The IRC has been present in Tanzania for 25 years, supporting refugees and Tanzanians with health, education and protection. With a National Office in Dar es Salaam and field offices in Kasulu, Kibondo and Kigoma, the IRC serves over 200,000 people each year.
The IRC currently has over 200 staff and employs a further 2,000 refugee workers to enable the frontline delivery of its programmes. Together, we aim to provide the best possible impact for some of the most vulnerable children, women and men. In all that we do, IRC strives to deliver through IRC’s core values of Integrity, Accountability and Service.
The Women’s Protection and Empowerment program in Tanzania has worked to strengthen gender-based violence (GBV) service delivery, help survivors heal, mobilize communities to prevent violence, and promote women and girls’ inclusion. The IRC works to ensure GBV survivors have access to life-saving care, improved protection and envisions a country in which women and girls are respected, have access to essential services and opportunities, and live free from violence. The IRC Tanzania has been implementing GBV programs in refugee camps.
The WPE Prevention & Advocacy Officer reports to the WPE/GBV Prevention & Empowerment Supervisor and will work closely with other WPE/GBV staff, other IRC sectors and partners. You will lead the IRC’s GBV prevention and advocacy interventions, leads prevention and risk reduction activities, including risk identification, and efforts that mobilize the community and partners to reduce risks/prevent GBV by tackling its root causes.
Program Responsibilities;
• Participate in the development of proposals, concepts notes, and budget as requested.
• With support of the WPE Prevention and Advocacy Supervisor, prepare individual, monthly, quarterly and annual GBV prevention work plans.
• Participate/support in risk reduction activity and the identification of risks to women and girls in assigned refugee camp, by carrying out regular safety audits situational analysis and consultations with women, men, boys and girls and identify trends and changes in the context important for consideration in risk reduction activities.
• Conduct, monitoring and reporting of the Engage Men in Accountable Practices (EMAP) activity.
• Conduct and follow WPE community mobilization strategies to address longer term risks for women and girls, inclusion of community consultation, feedback, and participatory approaches.
• Promote timely referral in awareness session, information dissemination for women & girls in the community, promoting accessibility for GBV services
• Conduct/organize key international events such as commemoration of 16 days of activism against gender based violence and International Women’s day
• Conduct/organize and facilitate trainings and workshops on gender and GBV related issues for implementing partners, MHA, IRC staff, UNHCR, women’s groups, refugee community leaders, religious leaders, youth groups, NGO workers and any other identified groups
• Conduct information dissemination utilizing IRC-developed materials/translation, IEC materials and community engagement, dialogue and reflection tools to ensure ongoing engagement with various groups in the community to tackle the root causes of GBV
• Participate in other key sector meetings in the camp to advocate for gender inclusion, representation and consideration of other potential risk factors to women and girls as identified during safety audits and women center discussions as assign by supervisor.
• Participate in data interpretation and use it to identify information gaps/intervention areas and develop campaign messages.
• Conduct risk monitoring of GBV to inform risk reduction activities.
• Conduct prevention activities in line with program workplan, and prevention strategies.
• In collaboration with other sectors, and actors, ensure the community meets its needs by advocating for identified needs in the community
Data collection and reporting;
• Track indicators, maintain, update and analyze data on WPE prevention activity and indicator
• With support from supervisor, prepare and submit timely and quality weekly, monthly, quality and other donor reports as per the donor requirements. Accountable to meet reporting deadline.
• Support and working closely with WPE M&E Manager on program data collection.
• In collaboration with M&E Manager, participate in GBV rapid assessment and/or other WPE program related-assessment, and contribute to the WPE overall intervention strategy based on feedback received from women and girls throughout community mobilization and engagement.
• Use of WPE Prevention M&E tools sufficiently and systematically.
Program management
• With support and the supervision of WPE Prevention and Advocacy Supervisor participate in all prevention budget planning; accountable for develop and maintain work plans, spending and procurement plans, tracking expenditures and ensure all prevention activities are allowable and allocable according to IRC and donor compliance and regulations; review monthly BvA and bring any over/under expenditure, miss-charge or double charging issues etc to the attention of the supervisor in a timely manner and jointly develop corrective plans and prepare prevention activity cash projection submit to supervisor.
• Build the knowledge and skills of Prevention/outreach incentive social workers and community based groups to be able to advocate, response and prevent GBV.
• Engaging with community activist, volunteers and EMAP graduate to obtain the network and working relationship
• Communicate any incentive staffs issue to supervisor in a timely manner. Any recruitment of the new incentive staff must obtain supervisor approval.
General Responsibilities:
• Attend and participate in trainings identified organized by your supervisor.
• Follow any new procedures and guidelines designated in circulars from Country Director.
• Support the IRC Tanzania Country SAP implementation in Kibondo field office, coordinate with other IRC actors particularly Health, Education, MHPSS and Operational Department to achieve the IRC strategy outcome with support of WPE Sr. Manager and WPE Coordinator.
• Report any violations of the IRC Sexual Abuse and Exploitation Code of Conduct (Tanzania and worldwide) as per the IRC Tanzania reporting mechanism. The reporting of violations is an obligation on the part of all staff members.
• Assist where necessary in undertaking activities that aim to prevent the occurrence of sexual abuse and exploitation of refugees by IRC and other humanitarian workers.
• Represent IRC at interagency meetings as assigned.
• Assist in control and proper usage of stationery and other items relating to work.
• Perform other duties as may be assigned by your supervisor.
Qualifications
• A bachelor or Diploma in sociology, social work or relevant social science with at least three years relevant work experience in community mobilization activities.
• Experience working in the protection and empowerment of women and children desirable.
• Experience working with camp-based populations/ rural communities desirable.
• Experience working as a trainer, using participatory techniques desirable.
• Good IT skills: knowledge of MS Word; Excel and Outlook required.
• Swahili and good English written and oral skills required. French a plus.
• Ability to work as part of a team that shares the common goal of preventing violence against women and children.
• Clear understanding of gender, human rights, and issues surrounding violence against women and girls.
• Positive and professional attitude, including ability to lead and work well in a team setting.
• Strong ability to organize work, meet deadlines, maintain composure, prioritize work under pressure, coordinate multiple tasks and maintain attention to detail.
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