Child Protection officer – Conseil Tunisien pour les Réfugiés Retour vers les opportunités

Place of work: Tunis with missions to all concerned regions in North and South of Tunisia

Country: Tunisia

Type of contract: CDD from February 15 to December 31, 2020

Within the framework of the implementation of the project “Basic assistance provision and ensuring favorable protection environment” for the year 2020, object of partnership with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, the Tunisian Council for Refugees is launching an offer for the recruitment of a “Child Protection Manager”

Context

The current Tunisian context is marked by the increasing increase in the number of refugees and asylum seekers who have chose Tunisia as a country of destination. they live in urban areas and are scattered in different regions and governorates of Tunisia. This constitute significant challenges for humanitarian actors in providing their work.

Roles and responsibilities 

• Manage and support the individual case management through BIA & BID development processes.
• Provide mentorship and support to the community supervisors and workers through on the job training and guidance to enhance their case management skills and competencies.
• Analyse training schedules for the BID community workers and provide technical support and guidance for effective implementation of BID/BIA process.
• Provide BID Supervisors with technical support regarding complex cases or specific technical difficulties.
• Produce timely progress reports, including both quantitative and qualitative information, on Child Protection activities and input into regular situation reports, monthly and quarterly reports.
• Ensure correct management of BID/BIA documentation.
• Manage and coordinate the planning of the Child Protection activities to ensure minimal disruption to programme Activities-Including staffing issues and office administration ; to ensure effective management of programme resources.
• Facilitate regular interviews and home visits with relevant persons who can give information on the child (the child, his/her family, leader, teacher, neighbour).
• Comply with all relevant policies and procedures with respect to child protection, code of conduct, health and safety, security, equal opportunities and other relevant policies.
• Identify and build links with other partners, ensuring that issues for child protection are raised and addressed
• Coordinate the identification, follow up of children in alternative care and, monitoring of foster parents/Guardianship.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Good communication skills with fluency in written and spoken English and Arabic.
• Demonstrated ability to handle to a large BID/Case management case load.
• Graduate degree with preferably 5 years work experience in social work or with development-related organisations.
• Good IT skills including the use of Word and database software.
• Demonstrable ability to adapt to changing programme priorities and emergency priorities that may arise.
• Strong self-starter, able to take initiative and adapt to changing circumstances and priorities.
• Positive attitude towards community work with emphasis on the ability to learn from communities and support innovative approaches to problem solving.
• Experience and skills in management of staff
• Strong understanding and experience of Case management process.
• Experience in designing and facilitating training sessions.
• Experience in working in an insecure environment.
• Experience in documenting and presenting BID cases in an inter agency panel.