Job Description
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.