CPiE Officer

The Opportunity

The position holder will be responsible to ensure implementation of child protection, youth and SRHR activities designed to prevent and respond to child protection risks/concerns affecting crisis impacted children in target locations. He/she will liaise with child protection activities at refugee camps and other target area levels and make sure that the program is implemented in target camps/locations in line with the standards, guidelines of the program and agreement entered with respective monitoring agencies, line offices/signatory bodies. The post holder is expected to provide guidance, mentoring and coaching to Social Workers, Community Volunteers, Caseworkers and Community-based structures to enhance the quality of Child Protection Case Management and provision of Psychosocial Support services. In addition, he/she will ensure a periodic and timely reporting of Programme activities as per PIEs internal reporting requirements.

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QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

• BA degree in Sociology, Social Work, Psychology, Child Development, Disaster Risk Management and other related fields.

• A minimum of 3 years of humanitarian aid experience applied in emergency/recovery response operations preferably in the area of child protection and youth program Activity

• excellent knowledge of Child Protection, SRHR and SGBV minimum standards and basic principles; Good knowledge of SGBV and Child Protection case management

• Excellent knowledge of basic child protection and youth principles and child & adult development and learning

• Candidates who have experience as volunteer, internship in PIE's community development, emergency programs or have provided volunteer services to any of government institutes is a plus;

• Knowledge of Local language may be a mandatory requirement depending on the need. But for this case, it is a desirable added skill and requirement;

Qualifications / experience desirable:

• Ability to deliver and manage information and data quality programs in a desirable time and work under stressful conditions.
• Proven ability to work in a team environment and independently.
• Excellent written, verbal communication skills in English and Amharic.
• Computer literate.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Gender sensitive.
• Case study/story and report writing skills.
• Analytical and strategic thinking

Languages required

• Fluency in English language is essential

• Knowledge of local language is advantageous