VAC-9796 Child Protection Provincial Coordinator

CTG stands for Committed To Good. With an ethical approach at the heart of all that we do, it is a description that makes us proud. Respect for the fundamental human rights of our staff, and those our staff encounter, is a cornerstone of our values. We strive for gender equality, inclusion and diversity, providing fair and equal opportunities for all. We take a zero tolerance approach to corruption and stay true to local labour laws and all local statutory requirements. In operation since 2006, today we are honoured to serve clients in 15 fragile and conflict-affected states assisting with disaster relief, peace building, humanitarian aid and development programmes through our specialised recruitment, HR management and operational services.

• The CP extenders provide supervision, mentoring, monitoring and technical support to CPAN, Social Workers other CP activities in their covering provinces.

• The CP extender report to the child protection officers in UNICEF regional offices.

• The CP extenders to regularly monitor the security situation in the relevant provinces and report any emergencies, displacements and child rights grave violations caused by the armed conflict.

• The CP extenders to travel to travel to rural and conflict affected areas and have access to those areas to monitor the children situation and provide the planned response.

• The CP extenders to monitor, verify, report and response to six grave child right violations in their covering provinces.

• The CP extenders support EORE (Explosive Ordnances Risk Education) interventions and establish referral for survivors'.

• CP extenders to have the ability to conduct initial assessment of the conflict induced emergencies and displacement and provide the planned response based on the identified needs of the children, families, and communities.

• CP extenders to build strong relations with the communities and coordination with the active agencies and partners in their covering provinces.

• Support CPAN to improve the quality of case management, documentation, and timely response to child protection issues in relevant provinces.

• In close coordination with CPAN officer, the extenders identify and register the child protection cases at provincial and district level.

• In close coordination with CPAN, the extenders also conduct a mapping assessment of the service providers to identify what services are available at the provincial or district level and how children can be referred to these services.

• The extenders sensitize the community people on child protection cases on the prevention and protection of children in their communities.

• The extenders improve the linkage of child protection actors including CPAN with people at the community level.

• The extenders follow up on children in conflict with the law in the Juvenile Rehabilitation Centre and develop a social assessment file;
  
  
  

1.All CP activities, including support to DOLSA and Child Protection Action Network (CPAN) and Child Protection in Emergency (CPiE) on the districts and provincial levels is coordinated with other IPS/actors and monitored.

1.# of provincial child protection coordination meetings held where extender actively attended during the contract period.

1.2 # of CP district level coordination meetings held during where the CP extender actively participated and provided mentoring, technical and monitoring support.

1.3#  of child protection needs assessment conducted with recommendations in coordination with regional CP AoR partners and CPANs in conflict inducted emergencies and displacement districts/provinces (including in drought affected provinces).

1.4 # of children protected through case management support by the social workers including on GBV.

1.5 # of CP actors trained on CPiE during the contract period,

1.6 # of visits conducted from BR centres on provincial and district level and regular visits with DoVS from provincial DoPH.

           2. Child protection response and referral mechanism on children affected by armed conflict and the reporting and response mechanism (MRM) in the province is developed and implemented.

2.1 % of MRM cases verified, documented and reported to UNICEF MRM focal point on monthly bases

2.2: # of Community talks taken place with key community persons to provide MRM briefing, reporting and verification. 

2.3. # of meetings conducted with related stakeholders including in JRCs (12-Party Agreement members).

2.4: # of social workers and CPU members provided with technical support on case management and reporting on children affected by armed conflict and underage applicants rejected from CPUs

2.5: # number of awareness raising and risk mitigation activities conducted on EORE (Explosive Ordnances Risk Education) referrals made for survivors'

         3.CP-Network by coordinating formal and informal structures for CP on provincial and district level is developed. 

3.1. # of attended meetings such as Protection clusters, GBV, MRM, CPiE, IDP Coordination and OCT through the year.

3.2. % of cases referred to COMAC, NRC, PSN, IOM and others related stakeholders.to provide proper services.

3.3. # of awareness raising programmes conducted with families/communities related to protection of children and mitigation of child marriage, child recruitment, GBV, and preventing illegal immigration/unsafe migration

3.4. # of children reached with awareness raising and distribution of hygiene materials for prevention of COVID-19 pandemic

           4. The prevention of child protection violations at the community level and support provided through case management to children on the move is monitored.

4.1 # of community interventions implemented to prevent child marriage, forced marriage, child recruitment, GBV, unsafe migration etc.

4.2. # of UASC cases verified and documented.

4.3. # of referral UASC cases to partners and stakeholders.

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Education and experience:
Bachelor’s degree in one of the following fields is required: Law, social science, or another relevant technical field 2 year of experience.

Language Requirements:
Ability to read, write and speak local languages and English well.

Skills: 
1. Skills in documenting activities (writing short articles, activity reports, taking pictures...)

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