SHLS (Safe Healing and Learning Spaces) Facilitator

Job Description

Job Overview/Summary: The SHLS Facilitator will be responsible for leading guided activities for children and youth enrolled in the SHLS and other administrative activities, while also monitoring the impact of activities and collecting feedback from participants. Flexibility and openness to undertake other tasks will be required.

Major Responsibilities: Main responsibility is to develop activity material and facilitate group activities ensuring they are inclusive and tailored to context, age and vulnerability type.

Specific Responsibilities:

· Facilitate group activities in the SHLS, including SAFE (Supporting Adolescents and their Families in Emergencies).

· Co-facilitate WGSS activities when WGSS facilitators require support or are on leave.

· Collaborate in the development of curricula, tools and other resources for SHLS activities.

· Design and implement activities tailored to age and vulnerability type.

· Identify delivery methods and languages that make activity content accessible to all members.

· Identify strategies to ensure that (as much as possible) activities are tailored to the context and promote inclusion of different population groups (ethnicities, religious, minorities, vulnerabilities, LGBTIQ+, etc.).

· Gather children’s and youth’s feedback on activities, schedule and methodologies used.

· Monitor the quality and impact of activities.

· Draft the SHLS workplan on a regular basis.

· Keep the SHLS workplan relevant, up-to-date and innovative.

· Identify and implement strategies to promote inclusion and solidarity among children and youth.

· Support IEC material development.

· Review and incorporate activity feedback received by children and youth.

· Guarantee fairness of selection criteria and access to group activities.

· Refer Child Protection survivors to specialized services and or through the Child Protection caseworkers,

· Follow mandatory reporting.

· Ensure there is an updated service mapping.

· Follow Child Protection guiding principles of respect, confidentiality, and safety/security and non- discrimination while providing services to women and girls.

Coordination:

· Closely coordinate with the SHLS and WGSS (Women’s and Girls’ Safe Space) staff on trends, community dynamics, community acceptance, to modify activities and material accordingly.

· Collaborate with other stakeholders to ensure fruitful and smooth field-level coordination.

· Identify strategic collaboration and implement activities in collaboration with other service providers.

Other duties:

· Ensure supplies/resources for the SHLS and other program activities are requested on a timely manner and are efficiently utilized.

· Other duties as assigned by the supervisor to enable and develop IRC programmes.

Key Working Relationships:

· Position Reports to: Integrated Protection Manager

· Other Internal and/or external contacts:

o Internal: Regular relationships with IRC WPE (Women’s Protection and Empowerment), Child Protection, Protection Monitoring, and Livelihoods teams.

o External: Collaboration with IRC partners and donors including other non-governmental organizations, and inter-agency groups.

Qualifications

Requirements - Education:

· Higher education in social work/psychology or related fields preferred.

Requirements – Previous experience:

· 1-2 years’ experience in the humanitarian sector, particularly in Protection and specifically in the Child Protection sector.

· Experience in facilitating psychosocial group support activities with children and youth.

· Demonstrated experience working directly with refugees.

Requirements – Skills, knowledge, and interests:

· Demonstrates sensitivity to gender equality and GBV issues.

· Demonstrates ability and commitment toward diversity and inclusion.

· Commitment toward a healthy and supportive working environment.

· Personal qualities: good listener, team player, flexible, network-builder, able to handle pressure well and work in cross-cultural setting.

· Communication skills, with good understanding of relevant cross-cultural and sensitive issues.

· Flexibility and openness to undertake other tasks.

Requirements – Language skills:

· Fluency in Ukrainian and English. Polish and Russian language skills are an asset.

Requirements – Compliance:

· Strict adherence to humanitarian, protection and Child Protection principles and standards, as well as organizational policies including Code of Conduct and Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA).