Typical Responsibility

·       To provide overall coordination, implementation and reporting of Emergency child protection and Youth (ECP) project of PIE in the intervention areas.

·       Conduct identification assessment, planning, intervention and follow-up for professional case management in support of vulnerable children.

·       Responsible to establish standard child friendly spaces (CFS) that can accommodate and ensure socially and culturally relevant services. 

·       Organize and provide guidance for community structures to provide child protection and youth empowerment programs in the refugee camps ad host communities when necessary.

·        To implement, monitor & follow up and report all CP/recovery projects in accordance with funding agreement and budget allocation made by Plan International Ethiopia’s Country Office and Program Area’s (PA).

·       To assess the outputs, outcomes and impact of program interventions and activities of Child protection and youth in Emergency and host community programs.

·       Facilitate child protection and youth project implementation in collaboration with Regional, Zonal and woreda protection offices and provide reports on weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis to PIE PA and CO and all concerned bodies.

·       Representing Child protection and youth protection in high profile different protection technical working meeting, cluster, camp level coordination meetings and other technical working group meeting as necessary.

Related to Program Design;

·       Facilitate and collect baseline information and data from in line with Youth and Child protection and education in Emergency submit to PA and CP for further analysis.

Related to Monitoring and Evaluation;

·       Facilitate quality monitoring and joint supervision with concerned government sectors, PIE and UNHCR, ARRA and take timely action in consultation with sub office manager and child protection team and protection Coordinator and PIE.

·       Manage and oversee the development, implementation, monitoring and tracking of work plans and budgets.

·       Provide operational guidelines and procedures for use by all partners implementing the program

Related to coordination, partnership and networking

·       Ensure regular participation in Youth and Child protection in Emergency, SGBV, NFI, Shelter and other related task force case management meetings, networks and other platforms at refugee camps, and Woreda levels and ensure timely sharing of information collected.

Related to capacity building support

·       Provide adequate technical support to Youth and Child protection in Emergency social worker, case workers, community structures  and partners in the area of case management counselling

·       Participate on Youth and Child protection in Emergency related TOT trainings and workshops and cascade the training to concerned government experts, school structures and local communities, Refugee community social workers, case management workers.

·       Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Child Protection (CPP) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI) are fully embedded in accordance with the principles and requirements of the policy including relevant Implementation Standards and Guidelines as applicable to their area of responsibility. This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring staff and associates are aware of and understand their responsibilities under these policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), their relevance to their area of work, and that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures.

Dealing with Problems:

The role holder will deal with children with various levels of psychosocial distress and depression who passed through conflicts, abduction, abuse, recruitment, separation, etc. to mention a few.

This requires the post holder to create capacity and awareness among target community, especially volunteer social workers, CPC, children and parents including other community based structures to identify children with kind of problems. The role requires developing tools, conducting assessment, that measure level problems regarding the nature and depth of problem and avail responses to reduce its effect.

The post holder is required to create safe and conduce space to deal with the beneficiaries. It also requires the post holder to conduct referrals of beneficiaries to different services centres and recommend case closure based on the level of improvement of an individual beneficiaries, 

All the above responsibilities oblige a post holder to develop high level of professional discipline and preparedness to investigate cases, analyse, & thinking creatively in the process of solving problems of beneficiaries.

Key relationships

·       The post holder will be technically working with community volunteers on the ground in collaboration with the, education/ECCE officers, UNHCR, ARRA etc. in his area of presence. S/He will be working as a team member with other officers during assessment and design of programs, planning and activity implementation, as well as reporting, monitoring and evaluation phases.

·       The post holder will have a direct reporting relationship with the child protection and youth programs coordinator. S/He will get direction from the coordinator regarding his role and responsibilities.

·       According to the need, the post holder is required to work closely with other agencies working I the area and primary agencies such as UNHCR, ARRA and local government counterparts.

Job Requirements

• BA Degree in Sociology, Social Work, Psychology Child Development and other related fields.

• A minimum of 3 years of humanitarian aid experience applied in emergency/recovery response operations preferably in the area of child protection and youth program Activity

• Excellent knowledge of Child Protection and SGBV minimum standards and basic principles; Good knowledge of SGBV and Child Protection case management

• Excellent knowledge of basic child protection and youth principles and child & adult development and learning

• Good knowledge of donor grants and contract regulations.

 Desirable

• Ability to deliver quality programs in a desirable time and work under stressful conditions.

• Proven ability to work in a team environment and independently.

• Excellent written, verbal communication skills in English and Amharic.

• Computer literate.

• Good interpersonal skills.

• Gender sensitive.

• Proposal and report writing skills.

• Analytical and strategic thinking

How to Apply

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Note: Female applicants are highly encouraged to apply!