Child Protection Officer job at ALIGHT (Formerly known as American Refugee Committee)

About the Organization

ALIGHT Uganda (formerly American Refugee Committee) is a Non-governmental Organisation (NGO) in Uganda involved in Education, Health, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid & Emergency, Migration, Poverty Reduction, Security, Social Development sectors.

Job Description

Ensure all CP program activities (case management, children participation, adolescent programming, working with community based structures) are conducted in accordance with standard operating procedures to ensure quality and effectiveness.

Duties and Responsibilities

Program Implementation

Planning and implementation of child protection prevention and response activities in line with the organization’s strategy and program documents.
Ensure all CP program activities (case management, children participation, adolescent programming, working with community based structures) are conducted in accordance with standard operating procedures to ensure quality and effectiveness.
Plan and conduct training and mentorship of child protection staff and community-based structures to deliver quality child protection services to children and their families.
Representation of Alight in the sector-based coordination meetings and other activities at the coordination levels.
Participate in assessment and identification of child protection gaps and coordinate with other sectors and actors within the location to address them.
Supervise the Child Protection Assistants and Caseworkers to deliver quality child protection services to children and their families.
Support in the development and reviewing of activity TOR and workplans of the Child Protection Assistants.
With support of Manager, prepare and monitor child protection activity-based budget.
Ensure effective documentation of child protection activities including filing system for case management and activity progress reporting.
Conduct field monitoring to establish the gaps and capacity building needs to improve project implementation.
Mainstream child protection activities into other sectors through close collaboration with other sectors.
Carry out mobilization of key community stakeholders including protection committee, youths, women, men and host communities to participate in community awareness events/meetings
Demonstrate awareness and implementation of child protection policy’s standards and code of conduct in course of his or her work.
Proactive participation and input in program and proposal development process
Under the supervision of the Protection Manager, contribute to drafting concept papers and proposal development.

Staff development and management:

Provide technical and programmatic leadership for the Child Protection staff and community structures within the operational area.
Develop staff performance measurement and targets and appraise them based on the set targets.
Conduct daily field visits to support CP Assistant - mentoring - through technical back stopping and to train duty bearers.
Uphold ’s code of conduct and principles on accountability.

Monitoring and Evaluation:

Contribute to the daily quality implementation, monitoring and evaluation of projects and interventions.
Identify, document and disseminate relevant project success, challenges and follow up on implementation of project’s action points
Assist in participatory needs/vulnerability and capacity assessments of affected communities
Participate in project evaluations and assist in the analysis of results.
Performed any other assigned or delegated tasks in the course.

Qualification, Experiences and Competencies

A Bachelor’s degree in Social work, Social Sciences, Community Psychology, Adult and Community Education and Development studies.
A minimum of 3 years’ experience in working on Child Protection programs preferably with INGOs
Strong experience working with vulnerable children including survivors of GBV and child abuse, neglect, violence and exploitation.
Strong technical knowledge of and experience on Case Management
Experience of Community based Protection Approach
Excellent command of verbal and written English, and atleast one or two of the local languages spoken with the settlement camps. i.e Swahili
Good understanding of minimum standards in child protection in humanitarian standards and Inter-agency guidelines and tools including BIAs, BIDs and Progress V4 for Case management.
Computer literacy i.e. good knowledge MS Office including Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
Preferably a resident or willingness to reside in either Nakivale or Rwamwanja Settlement.