IRC Senior Community Wellbeing Initiative Child Protection Officer Jobs 2023 – Ethiopia NGO Jobs.
IRC Ethiopia looking for “Senior Community Wellbeing Initiative Child Protection Officer”.
Applicants with a University Degree may apply on or before December 10, 2023.
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is a global humanitarian aid, relief, and development nongovernmental organization. Founded in 1933 as the International Relief Association, at the request of Albert Einstein, and changing its name in 1942 after amalgamating with the similar Emergency Rescue Committee, the IRC provides emergency aid and long-term assistance to refugees and those displaced by war, persecution, or natural disaster.
IRC Senior Community Wellbeing Initiative Child Protection Officer Jobs 2023
The IRC has published a job vacancy announcement on November 24, 2023 for qualified Ethiopia’s to fill in the vacant post of Senior Community Wellbeing Initiative Child Protection Officer to be based in Jijiga, Ethiopia.
| Recruiter | International Rescue Committee (IRC) |
| Position | Senior Community Wellbeing Initiative Child Protection Officer |
| Location | Jijiga, Ethiopia |
| Country | Ethiopia |
| Total Vacant Post | N/A |
| Qualification | University Degree |
| Experience Required | Minimum One (01) Year |
| Application Deadline | December 10, 2023 |
IRC Job Vacancy 2023
Major Key Responsibilities:
- Undertake and ensure situational assessments, accurate data collection, compiling and analyzing information to the required standard.
- Participate in the development of CP/CWI strategy, approaches and contribute actively in its revision, monitoring and improvement.
- Takes primary responsibility for the implementation and regular follow-up of CP/CWI in emergency program (including development/ update of relevant strategies, SOPs and referral pathways, Training of Case Management, for BoCWA Zonal and woreda staff, psychosocial support interventions and community-based support for at risk women and girls).
- Ensure well-coordinated and comprehensive approach to address needs and cases concerning and referred to Woreda and Zonal BoWCA .
- Support program staff in the design and implementation of effective community mobilization and awareness raising strategies.
- Maintain standard, design, and undertake diversified psychosocial support activities at the Safe Healing and Learning Space (SHLS) and women and girls’ safe space (WGSS).
- Support and lead in the arrangement (establishment) of family-based care system or appropriate care system and promote community-based protection mechanisms, including developing of standard process of support including case planning, referral, follow up and review of case management.
- Lead in GBV rapid assessment and other program related assessment and contribute to the CW/CP overall intervention strategy based on feedback received from women and girls throughout the response activity engagement.
- Lead in CWI/CP IEC/BCC development both prevention and response according to the workplan, existing informed assessment, GBV trends analysis or other critical information received throughout community/IDPs feedback form
- Assist CWI/CP program manager to identify staff’s capacity gap training need assessment, formal and informal capacity building plan and delivery.
- Support CWI/CP officers in their regular work with IDP, including coordination meeting, ensure staffs are support with regular community/visit.
- Strengthen protection mechanisms through mobilizing and involving the community in reducing risks and harm of (abuse, exploitation, violence, and neglect) against women, girls, and children.
- Responsible for planning, budgeting, implementation, and monitoring of the CP/CWI program in line with organizational and donors’ guidelines, policy, and procedures.
- Prepare program work plan, spending plan, procurement plan, attend grant opening and closing meeting, BVA meeting and other management meeting as needed.
Position in Organization:
- Requisition ID: req46962
- Job Title: Senior Community Wellbeing Initiative/Child Protection Officer
- Sector: Child Protection
- Employment Category: Fixed Term
- Employment Type: Full-Time
- Open to Expatriates: No
- Location: Jijiga, Ethiopia
Minimum Requirements:
Educational Requirements:
- University Degree (BA, MA), in Social Science, Social Work, health or psychology/Sociology.
Experience Required:
- 2 years of work experience for the first degree and 1 years for postgraduate.
- Experience with Demonstrate confidence in discussing intimate gender and sexual issues.
- Experience working to always maintain GBV and protection principles including knowledge and
- Practical application of GBV guiding principles and PSEA.
- Experience working with counseling or social service provision with women and adolescent girls.
- Experience in working with harmed and at-risk children in NGO working system.
- Validated experience in field staff management
- Strong written and verbal language skills in English, and Amharic. Knowledge of local language is preferable. Knowing more than one local language is a plus.
Language Skills:
- Fluent in English language is mandatory.
How to Apply IRC Senior Community Wellbeing Initiative Child Protection Officer Jobs 2023
Note: Before you apply, please download (link is given below) the full advertisement and read it carefully.
Then to apply, go to https://rescue.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/46962?c=rescue
The Closing Date: December 10, 2023.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.
| Particulars | Details Link |
| Job Advertisement | Download |
| Official Website | www.rescue.org |
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