Responsibilities
Program Development:
Provide ongoing leadership, training, and guidance to staff and local partners to ensure programming meets best practice standards and prioritizes the security of beneficiaries and staff.
Participate in program design and proposal writing.
Conduct or participate in assessments to ensure appropriate interventions are implemented.
Implement the psychosocial strategy to meet the needs of targeted clients.
Ensure that CP programming is community-driven and that community leaders fully understand and participate in the design of the project.
Developing the Child Protection strategy, and partnerships and providing oversight on day-to-day project implementation and reporting.
Work with the teams at the different filed sites to ensure sustained programming.
Staff and Community Capacity Building:
Collaborate with the GBV Coordinator to implement the staff training plan for Program team members.
Oversee and when necessary conduct trainings for other CATAI staff, community and service providers.
Collaborate with the Protection and Education Sectors to organize training for Protection staff, as needed
Collaborate with the other CATAI Program Managers to maintain an ongoing training program to ensure program integration.
Liaise with the GBV Coordinator and Field officers as needed for difficult or complex cases.
Inter-Agency Coordination:
Develop and maintain effective working relationships with all stakeholders – including community leaders(Camp chairman, National Emergency Management Agency, State Emergency Management Agency) NGOs, UN agencies, Local Partners and other CATAI sectors to enhance multi-agency and multi-sectoral cooperation and coordination.
Ensure that information from the coordination meetings is shared, as appropriate.
Attend internal and external coordination meetings at the different sites.
Monitoring and Evaluation:
Ensure monitoring and evaluation systems, especially for child protection monitoring are in place which can be used for informed programming.
Ensure monthly data cleanup and review meetings with the CPIMS focal person at location before they are shared to the sub sector for consolidation.
Provide weekly and monthly reports to the relevant reviewers.
Carry out field visits to all program sites on a regular basis.
Requirements
Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work, Education, International Development, or related fields is required; Masters could be an added advantage.
Minimum five years of relevant experience designing, implementing, and managing large, complex projects that work to protect vulnerable children and youth.
Minimum four years of project management experience in emergency context.
Experience in overseeing a child protection projects including supporting the delivery of psychosocial activities, emergency response, child protection case management including family tracing and reunification, and setting up child friendly and community based mechanisms.
Experience in developing and implementing organizational child safeguarding policies and procedures, including for NNGO partners.
Experience developing monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning processes for child protection within the education context.
Demonstrated ability to liaise and build networks with government officials, community leaders, civil society representatives, and, preferably, protection actors within the context of safety and protection promotion.
Demonstrated success incorporating innovation and participatory, flexible, and gender-sensitive programming into implementation.
Significant previous experience working in conflict or crisis situations in Northeast Nigeria.
Availability to travel to other CATAI implementing location.
The candidate must be fluent in English.
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