South Sudan: Child and Youth Protection Coordinator, South Sudan

Child and Youth Protection Coordinator, Ruweng State, South Sudan

Position type and closing date

Please note that this is an unaccompanied position

The closing date for applications is 5 December 2018

Contract duration: 1 year with possibility for exten**sion**

Applicants are required to uphold the core values of our organization.

Background

World Service is the internationally recognized humanitarian and development arm of the Lutheran World Federation, assisting people in need irrespective of their ethnicity, religion or gender. We implement programs worldwide, working with both local and international partners, helping communities achieve their full potential and advocate for their universal rights. Our partners include Lutheran Churches and their related agencies, the European Commission (ECHO), the US Government (BPRM) and UNHCR, with whom we are a key implementing partner. For additional information please see www.lutheranworld.org.

Purpose of the position

The Child and Youth Protection Coordinator will ensure leadership, planning, implementation and reporting of the child and youth protection programme of LWF in Ruweng State, South Sudan.

The post-holder is also responsible for supervising and building the capacity of Child and Youth Protection Officers, Case workers and incentive workers supporting refugee and hosting communities to achieve and sustain protection outcomes for all children in accordance with national laws, UNHCR and LWF policies, approaches and guidelines and the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in emergencies (CPMS).

She/he is responsible for the overall delivery of outcomes related to the protection of children and young people (youth) at risk, including prevention and response to all forms of abuse and exploitation, case management, coordination, strengthening community-based child protection mechanisms and advocacy for a protective, creative and developmental environment for children and young people.

Required Qualifications

Master’s level Degree in Social Work, Human Rights Law, International Relations, Political Science, Development Studies or in a related area. A Bachelor’s degree with extensive relevant experience may be considered.

Knowledge and Experience

Minimum 4 years of experience in similar positions with international NGOs or the UN.

Experience with refugee and host community protection programming in insecure environments.

Demonstrated clear understanding and experience in using established inter-agency standards and guidelines in child protection and youth programming such as the Core Humanitarian Standard and the Code of Conduct.

Ability to assess, design and deliver critical trainings on child protection and safeguarding tailored at building the capacity of national and refugee staff as well as duty bearers and key stakeholders.

Experience of setting up and managing safe and effective complaints and feedback mechanisms and case referral systems that meet confidentiality standards.

Excellent communication skills.

Ability to formulate and implement a robust M&E system, write clear and evidence-based assessments and project reports.

Team player, flexible, sensitive to colleagues and with a strong capacity for coping with stressful situations without jeopardizing results.

Language Skills

English advanced written and oral skills

Arabic would be an additional asset

Main Duties

Project Management

• Provide strategic direction, leadership and overall technical and management assistance to integrated child and youth protection programming, advising other sector programme design ensuring that all of LWF work contributes to protection outcomes for children and young people as per donor and LWF strategic focus.
• Lead in the planning, implementation and monitoring of child and youth protection project activities within the programme in line with existing LWF standards and donor regulations.
• Ensure child and youth protection activity budgets are regularly tracked, ensuring timely spending within budget limits and providing corrective budget management reviews and oversight as appropriate.
• Take lead in timely programme reviews and providing practical solutions to address the protection programme needs.
• Responsible for preparation and submission of high quality weekly, monthly and quarterly progress report (narrative) with special focus on child and youth protection for internal and external use.

Technical Roles

• Ensure Unaccompanied and Separated Children (UASC) are documented as per the established standards and support them through alternative care arrangements in a safe and conducive family environment with probable foster parents, in addition to ensuring that guidelines and approaches for identification of children at risk are followed.
• Ensure timely and high-quality data on children and young people at risk are collected, analysed, shared with partners and utilized for decision making, inclusion and advocacy within the program from the existing Child Protection Information Management System (CPIMS) database.
• Ensure prevention and response to the main risks for children’s exposure to physical harm, sexual harm/exploitation and child labour for the UASC and other children within the refugee community.
• Work closely with foster caregivers to ensure safety and dignity of children under alternative care are guaranteed and ensure foster parents are supported and empowered through skills training and micro-projects to improve their household income.
• Ensure the psychosocial (physical, social, emotional) wellbeing of children, young people and their families is well maintained.
• Work with community structures, children, young people and related partners to strengthen safeguards to prevent sexual and gender based violence, sexual exploitation and abuse and harmful traditional practices against girls and boys both in schools and community.
• Deliver key trainings on child and youth protection, rights, psychosocial support and case management with key actors.
• Use relevant participatory approaches to engage communities and their leaders in the camps to dialogue on child and youth protection concerns/issues affecting children and young people and ensure actions agreed are followed an implemented.
• Facilitate participatory engagement in the identification and establishment of micro-projects for foster caregivers, including relevant skills training and systems strengthening for sustainability.
• Map actors, set-up and strengthen referral services for children and young people in collaboration with UNHCR and other partners.
• Ensure child friendly spaces are well managed or established to address psychosocial support needs for children and young people.
• Strengthen and operationalize the functionality of community based child and youth protection committees, networks and groups.
• Ensure that refugee communities are aware of the rights and protection of children and young people within the refugee population.
• Support setup of project M&E plan and tracking systems, including timely and quality reports on protection areas within the programme framework.
• Support establishment of confidential mechanisms of complaints and feedback in communities and schools to address sexual and rights violations of children and young people by duty bearers and other community members.
• Ensure that child and youth protection standards are maintained and mainstreamed across the sub-programme.
• In collaboration with M&E units, conduct satisfaction/feedback sessions with beneficiaries and community members on issues of child and youth protection on a quarterly basis and ensure lessons learnt incorporated into programming.
• Work with technical colleagues from LWF HQ, the country office, UNHCR, and others to develop high quality child and youth protection tools, manuals and guidelines.

Staff Capacity Building

• Coach, mentor and train project staff, external actors and partners on child and youth protection standards, methodologies and approaches.
• Ensure that staff (social workers, incentive staff, data associates) are compliant with set implementation plans and quality standards.
• Provide technical hands-on support to core frontline staff in the development of weekly, monthly and quarterly work plans and ensure that all activities are reported on time and with good quality.
• Support staff on capacity needs identification and provide tailor made training based on capacity gaps in regard to child and youth protection issues.

Proposal and Programme Development

• Aid collection of field based data on needs and gaps in various thematic areas to inform programming and proposal development.
• Work with Team Leader, Programme Coordinator and Education Coordinator to prepare high quality concept papers and proposals on related thematic areas for child and youth protection.
• Conduct technical reviews of protection proposals, assessing the extent to which they meet standards and best practices in protection.
• Pick up and share relevant information leading to programme development from partners and donors.
• Ensure that protection issues are strongly integrated in other thematic programme development areas such as in education, livelihoods and other sectors managed by partners.

Representation and Coordination

• Promote cordial working relationship with local authorities, UNHCR and partners in the programme area.
• Strongly represent LWF at protection coordination meetings and working groups at field level and at times in Juba.
• Ensure that protection coordination working groups are updated with LWF protection activities and upcoming events.
• Ensure that information from coordination meetings is shared internally and with other sectors, as appropriate.
• Use evidence and learning from child and youth protection work in the camps to advocate for protection and inclusion of children and young people and their caregivers in protection initiatives and dialogues at various forums.
• Support/Facilitate field level donor visits as necessary
• Act as the LWF Ruweng office Team Leader when required in the absence of the Team Leader

LWF Policies and Standards

• Sign to the LWF protection policies and code of conduct for working with children and young people and ensure that all staff under his/her supervision sign to and abide by the same policies and standards.
• Perform any other duties as deemed necessary by the organization as dictated by the context and needs of the LWF programme in South Sudan.

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