Child Protection Information Management Assistant

IRC began work in Nigeria in 2012 in the north of Adamawa State in response to the flood emergency. It is one of the few international humanitarian actors present in Nigeria’s North Eastern States.

In the end of 2014 and the beginning of 2015, there has been a considerable upsurge (vague) in violence perpetrated by Boko Haram in the North Eastern States, creating an influx of IDPs in the region. From the beginning of the insurgency, the hosts communities in North Eastern States have been housing a large number of displaced and have now reached absorption capacity limit. The recent arrivals are lacking the most basic services such as access to adequate shelter and simple household items; food; health care; safe drinking water and basic sanitation. In addition, the insecurity that has resulted from past and recent Boko Haram raids, as well as continued threats of others, has presented serious protection concerns for communities in these areas where children and women represent 70% of the IDP population. There is an immediate need to address the fundamental basic requirements of the IDPs.

The child protection response has a main focus on psychosocial support for children, adolescents and their parents through the Safe Healing and Learning Spaces and parenting groups, case management for unaccompanied, separated children (UASC) and other children at risk, working with community based child protection mechanisms and awareness raising on child protection concerns. The Data Base Assistant will be responsible for the implementation of information management in relation to the case management project.

This Job Description is reviewed to capture the current expectation of the CP staff so at to provide him/her with guidance of what is expected of him/her based on the current context and programming. This will enable his/her supervisor to hold him/her accountable to his/her responsibility and ensure accountability to our targeted clients, donors and IRC Nigeria Country Program.

SCOPE OF WORK:

The Date Base Assistant will assist in the setting up and implementation of the information management system as part of case management responses for children vulnerable to abuse, exploitation, neglect and violence (especially UASC).

Position objectives:

• To ensure all information collected from field sites in their location as part of case management responses for children harmed or at risk of being harmed are safely and accurately filed and stored.
• To support caseworkers in managing their caseload by extracting individual caseload information.
• To ensure that all data protection protocols are observed while managing information collected.
• To uphold the IRC Child Safeguarding Policy and the Prevention of Sexual of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse within the work place and communities of intervention.

Who this position reports to:

The Child Protection Information Assistant reports to the Child Protection Program Manager in Yobe.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Technical Quality

• Ensure data of all cases registered under case management are entered into the CPIMS Data Base.
• Provide coding for all cases registered.
• Responsible for ensuring data protection for all CP data.

Grant Monitoring and Reporting

• Provide input for weekly and staff activity reports.
• Monitor and report trends in case management to CP Manager on a monthly basis.

Coordination & Representation

• Effectively communicate with caseworkers, CP assistants, officers and manager to provide necessary information concerning reporting.
• Regularly attend case management meetings at field level

Program Development

• Contribute to the development of proposal activities in relation to information management.

Other

• Consistently and proactively monitor/assess the safety and security of field teams; promptly reporting concerns or incidents to IRC management andliaising with community leaders and other external parties as required to maintain/enhance the security environment for IRC programs
• Other duties as assigned by the supervisor to enable and develop IRC programs

Professional Standards

All IRC staff is required to adhere to THE IRC Way Standards for Professional Conduct and the IRC country employment policies.

Uphold the IRC Child Safeguarding Policy and ensure the Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in the workplace and communities of intervention.