Background/IRC Summary:
Le Comité international de secours (IRC) répond aux pires crises humanitaires du monde et aide les gens à survivre et à reconstruire leur vie. Fondé en 1933 à la demande d’Albert Einstein, l’IRC offre des soins vitaux et une assistance qui change la vie des personnes touchées par la guerre ou une catastrophe. À l’œuvre aujourd’hui dans plus de 40 pays et 22 villes des États-Unis, nous redonnons sécurité, dignité et espoir à des millions de personnes déracinées qui luttent pour survivre. L’IRC ouvre la voie entre le mal et la maison.
L’IRC est présent au Nigéria depuis 2012, date à laquelle l’organisation a répondu aux inondations dans l’État de Kogi. En février 2014, l’IRC s’est installé dans l’État d’Adamawa, dans le nord-est du Nigéria, pour y mener des interventions humanitaires dans le cadre d’une approche multisectorielle et intégrée en faveur des populations touchées par le conflit. L’IRC Nigéria dispose aujourd’hui d’un bureau national à Abuja et de bureaux locaux à Mubi et Yola dans l’État d’Adamawa, à Maiduguri, Monguno et Gwoza dans l’État de Borno, à Damaturu dans l’État de Yobe, ainsi que d’une extension actuelle aux États de Zamfara et de Katsina, dans le nord-ouest du Nigéria. Actuellement, l’IRC Nigeria met en œuvre des programmes de soins de santé primaires, de nutrition, de santé environnementale, de protection et d’autonomisation des femmes, de protection, de protection de l’enfance, d’éducation, de redressement économique et de développement.
The country program will develop a new strategic plan in the first half of 2021. IRC 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, Service and Equality.
Project Overview:The BHA (Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance) project, Integrated Emergency Response to the Displaced Population in Zamfara, Sokoto, And Katsina States, Northwest Nigeria will be carried out by a consortium led by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in collaboration with the Alliance for International Medical Action (Alima), Cooperazione Internazionale (COOPI), and Life Helpers Initiative (LHI), aims to leverage each partner’s expertise to provide immediate humanitarian assistance to internally displaced people populations through area-based approach. The Consortium partners will provide an integrated multisectoral intervention in Health, Nutrition, WASH, Protection, and Multi-purpose Cash Assistance (MPCA) activities in Zamfara, Katsina, and Sokoto states in collaboration with state governments, UN organizations and other key actors in Northwest Nigeria. The project will be implemented by a dedicated support, quality assurance, and coordination team, who will work closely with all partners through a management unit of well-structured consortium governance for the activity.
This Job Description expect to guide the CP staff to do their job well. This will enable his/her supervisor to hold him/her accountable to his/her responsibility and ensure accountability to our targeted clients, donors, and IRC Nigeria Country Program
Job Overview/Summary: This position is responsible for implementing, and supervising activities at the sites, support in training community structures, conduct case management, group psychosocial support for children and adolescents, positive parenting sessions for parents and caregivers and work closely with CP community-based structures to monitor and implement program activities. They will also work closely with the CP officer, Meal Officer and line manager, and the Consortium management team to ensure quality data collection and management, report writing and budget implementation.
Major Responsibilities:
- Ensure vulnerability assessments are conducted for all Identified and referred cases, to identify vulnerable children and families and their needs, prioritizing the identification of children experiencing abuse, neglect, exploitation, and violence including Unaccompanied and Separated Children (UASC) and Children and Armed conflicts (CAAC).
- Ensure quality case management through the development of individualized case-specific actions plans for at risk children and their families with an emphasis on high-risk cases of children.
- Coordinate with respective governmental agencies and other key stakeholders on vulnerable cases.
- Develop daily and weekly activity schedules and draft progress reports (i.e., vulnerability assessments, Focus Group Discussions (FGDs), awareness-raising activities, as well as prevention activities to reduce exposure to risk for vulnerable children)
- Ensure data protection principles are followed when using CPIMS in managing sensitive personal data of children and their families.
- Coordinate communication and support for children and their families and link them to specialized services or other IRC sectors where needed to ensure integrated service provision.
- Develop creative engagement activities through Safe Healing and Learning Space (SHLS) for affected children and families, providing resilience building opportunities to foster social and leadership development.
- Ensure regular communication with the CP manager for updates on achievements and challenges.
- Provide daily guidance on SHLS activities to the SHLS facilitators in accordance with the standard tools and procedures including weekly support supervision.
- Ensure there is regular interaction with community members and established community mechanisms like the community-based protection committees (CBPCs) to support protection activities.
- Conduct service mapping in location of implementation to support the establishment of referral pathway.
- Work closely with the CBPCs to ensure safe identification and referral of children with protection concerns.
- Ensure monthly child protection monitoring is conducted.
- Ensure parents and caregivers of vulnerable children are enrolled into the positive parenting sessions.
- Support the establishment, management, and delivery of the SAFE approach by facilitators and engage in ongoing skills building using Social-emotional learning (SEL) /SAFE materials.
Key Working Relationships:
Position Reports to: The Child Protection Officer
Position directly supervises: CBCPCs and SHLS Facilitators
Indirect Reporting: The NW Protection Manager, Consortium Management Team.
Other Internal: Heal; External contacts: child protection systems strengthening (CPSS), Partners CP sector
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Education:
- Minimum qualification of a degree or HND in Social Works, Psychology, Education, and any of the other social sciences.
- At least 2 years’ experience in implementing child protection programs in humanitarian or development settings.
- Demonstrated understanding of working with children and particularly vulnerable children.
- Experience as an active participant in social groups, with an understanding of group dynamics and processes.
- Capacity building, facilitation, or training experience
- Experience in supporting the delivery of psychosocial activities, emergency response, child protection case management including family tracing and reunification, and setting up child safeguarding mechanisms.
- Personal qualities: Team player, flexible, network-builder, time management and ability to handle pressure well.
- Fluency in English required and in Hausa preferred.
Working Environment: Access to basic social amenities and infrastructures are available.
IRC is an Equal Opportunity Employer IRC considers all applicants based on merit without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability.
The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way – Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity, and Anti-Retaliation.
