Background:

The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) is an international Catholic organization with a mission to accompany, serve and advocate on behalf of refugees and other forcibly displaced people. It was founded by the Society of Jesus on 14th November 1980 in Rome, Italy.  Currently, JRS operates over 56 countries worldwide. JRS has been working in Ethiopia since 1982. Currently JRS Ethiopia operates in Addis Ababa, Somali region (Melkadida, Kobe and Bokolomayo refugee camps). JRS Ethiopia’s main areas of interventions are education, livelihoods, child protection, mental health and psychosocial support, emergency assistance, and reconciliation and social cohesion.

Overall Responsibility:

The Child Protection Case worker will be responsible in conducting all steps of the case management process for an assigned number of individual children vulnerable to abuse, exploitation, neglect and violence and their families in this process. The Case Worker will be responsible in ensuring all Child protection principles are integrated in all steps of the case management process.

Key Responsibilities and Duties: 

Profile 1: Case Management

• Provide individual case management for identified children at risk in accordance with case management cycle, tools and procedures.

• Undertake Best Interest Assessments (BIAs) and Best Interest Determinations (BIDs) for unaccompanied, separated and other children at risk in order to understand the nature of the child/family’s protection concerns and needs, identify coping capacities and provide recommendations

• Establishment and implementation of care plans for children at risk – manage cases in line with SOPs, adhere to standard documentation processes and follow best practice guidance

• Referral and follow up to other service providers

Profile 2: Case Management (Focal point for Refugee Outreach Volunteers)

• Manage Refugee Outreach Volunteer programme (Children and Youth) and support the Refugee Outreach Volunteers from seven refugee communities:

• Convene individual monthly case management meetings with ROVs at JR

•  Provide guidance and case management support to ROVs, including through on-the job training (joint home visits

• Closely work with ARRA, UNHCR and other partners in the urban programme to support ROVs to undertake protection referrals

•  Assign ROVs to new cases of identified children at risk in accordance with a match

•  Monitor progress of ROVs working on individual cases

•  Manage case files and reports of ROVs in accordance with case management and information management tools

• Keep track of newly identified, pending and closed cases

Profile 3: Child Empowerment

• Set up and management of community-based child protection structure (two child parliaments)

• Design of activities and structured discussions held on regular basis (bi-weekly) with children in child parliaments

• Engage in inclusive child protection case management system

• Support design and implementation of activities with small scale “Child Empowerment Fund” initiated by the two child parliaments

• Oversee activities at child friendly space at Child Protection Center

• Development of diversified child friendly activities in the Child Protection Center based on children’s feedback and ideas – with support of social workers (refugees)

• Prepare and update the list of items to be purchased at CFS when needed and coordinate with logistics department on all procurement needs;

• Organization of educational trips for children

• Development of life skills curriculum and provision of life skills training for adolescents and youth

General duties of case workers of all profiles:

• Support JRS social workers in the identification of children at risk at the center

• Ensure coordination and confidential information sharing with Case management supervisor, implementing partner organizations and community-based child protection groups and networks, as well as other relevant stakeholders in Addis Ababa

• Perform any other duties assigned by the supervisor

For further information about the duties refer this link:  Child Protection Case Worker 

Report to:  Case Management Supervisor  

Level: Six (6)

Employment: 10 months, possibility of extension depending on availability of funding and performance 

Salary: As per the scale of JRS Ethiopia 

Job Requirements

Qualifications:

• B.A/B.Sc. with 5 Years’ experience or MA or MSc degree with 3 years of relevant and progressive experience working in Child Protection, mental health related field, Equivalent combination of relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate

• Demonstrable technical expertise in the assessment, design, and delivery of responses to pre-existing and emergency induced Child protection needs

• Experience in supervising individual and group counselling for diverse groups

• Strong organizational and supervisory skills

• Honest, hard-working, and self-motivated

• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work within different cultural environments

• Strong written and communication and presentation skills in English and the relevant local language

• Ability to work within a team structure or independently, flexible, and can cope with stressful workload

• Leveraging the resources of JRS-Ethiopia and partners/ building strategic alliances and partnerships

• Knowledge of project cycle management and sphere standards.

• Demonstrated experience and capacity in conducting data analysis and interpretation.

• Excellent organization, time and general management skills

• Critical thinking, strong analytical skills and objective judgments.

•  High degree of competency using MS Office, MS Teams, Excel, PowerPoint, Word and e-mail communication

• Commitment to high level of confidentiality with sensitive information.

How to Apply

Interested and qualified internal and external applicants can submit their CV (3-5 Pages) and application letter (the application letter should state current and expected salary); Send only the requested documents to JRS-Ethiopia Country Human Resource Officer within 7 days ( Including Saturday and Sunday ) of this announcement through the following email address: Use THIS LINK (fill the form) while applying   

Send your updated CV and letter of application Eth01.hr@jrs.net

1. E-mail your CV with e-mail (Use the e-mail indicated )

2. Fill up the form (Use the link indicated above)

3. Only those who complete the two will be considered in the recruitment Process

Women applicants are highly encouraged.