Child Protection Officer

Legal

Overview

Lead and implement protection programming for earthquake response.

You have:

• At least 2 years of protection programming experience in the field areas.
• Bachelor’s degree on social work, law and social science.
• Ability to critical thinking, timeliness, coordination and collaboration skills.
• Ability to handle individual and community interactions and discussions.
• Familiarity with program design, including log frames, budgeting and grants/report writing
• Familiarity with M&E system design and implementation, preferred.

Job Description

Background:

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is a private, non-political, non-profit, and non-religious organization. For over 90 years, we have been providing humanitarian assistance to communities affected by conflict and natural disasters in more than 40 countries. Since 2008, the IRC has been active in Myanmar, delivering humanitarian assistance in areas such as health, protection, water, and sanitation, specifically targeting families impacted by conflict and natural disasters.

Background of Protection Response

Protection & Rule of Law Programming will aim to prevent and respond to the different protection concern among the individuals affected by massive earthquake in Myanmar targeting the injured, displaced, people who have lost legal documents, psychological distress, family separated, and at risk of rights violation. It will focus on 1) protection risk assessment and monitoring for referrals, 2) information services in emergencies, 3) protection case management including Emergency Protection Assistance, 4) safe spaces for children, women, elderly and PwD, to facilitate PFA and 5) protection capacity building including protection mainstreaming, humanitarian principles, PSEA etc.

Main Responsibilities:

- Lead and provide guidance to the team on the child protection concepts, workplan, targeting and budget management. - Provide support in documenting the service mapping and regularly updating the service mapping. - Implement case management including emergency protection assistance and MHPSS support through safe spaces especially for children. - Assess, analyze, plan the protection incident for child protection case management and emergency protection assistance. - Guide the Protection Monitors and Protection Outreach Focal Point on the child protection case identification, assessment, and referral as required. - Liaise with the protection technical team at Yangon for needed support on capacity and programming. - Manage documentation, reporting for all the protection response project. - Provide key message orientation to the partners and protection team for protection information sharing. - Provide referrals to the other sectoral services as identified. - Promote protection mainstreaming standards and monitor in the services delivered by IRC and partners.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements

- At least 2 years of protection programming experience in the field areas. - Bachelor’s degree on social work, law and social science. - Ability to critical thinking, timeliness, coordination and collaboration skills. - Ability to handle individual and community interactions and discussions. - Familiarity with program design, including log frames, budgeting and grants/report writing - Familiarity with M&E system design and implementation, preferred.

Myanmar nationals with relevant skills sets and proven experience of working at international level are strongly encouraged.

The IRC Core Values and Commitments The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, Equality 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 Anti-Retaliation and Combating Trafficking in Persons. IRC is committed to ensuring that IRC staff are suitable to work with children and have the knowledge s/he needs to uphold and abide by the IRC’s Child Safeguarding Policy. Level of interaction with children: Frequent direct contact with children. IRC ensures that its staff must actively practice the roles and responsibilities related to client responsiveness, accountability to people in affected communities and must have competencies to solicits and listens to feedback and other’s perspectives, responds to feedback with maturity and sensitivity and takes appropriate decisions and makes changes to behavior or actions in response to feedback. IRC recognizes that gender equality is fundamental to the achievement of our organizational mission. As such, IRC is committed to the promotion of gender equality in all aspects of our operations and programs. Our organizational policies, procedures and actions demonstrate this commitment.

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Added 1 year ago - Updated 1 year ago - Source: rescue.org