Child Protection Senior Officer at Terre des hommes (TDH)

Main Responsibilities:

• Daily coordination of case management activities in Kambioos Refugee Camp
• Management of the referral pathway ensuring coordination with partners on referrals
• Supervision of child protection team leaders and the database officers
• Organize and facilitate periodic planning and program reviews meetings
• Participate in management of complex or high risk child protection cases including managing a limited number of cases requiring specialized interventions
• Participate in the family level interventions with social workers and team leaders to more effectively manage outcomes or interventions; including participation in selected follow ups
• Review triages and guiding social workers in determining the best course of action in case management
• Support in the conduction of community mobilization for child protection including work with child protection committees
• Work closely with child protection psychosocial counselor to identify high risk cases / children in distress for psychosocial and mental health support
• Participate in need assessments and project evaluations aiming at contributing to the development of the child protection program strategy for the refugee community in Dadaab refugee complex
• Organizing and conducting training for partners
• Organize and facilitate weekly internal case conference meetings
• Represent Tdh at camp level case management and coordination meetings
• Develop field reports on a periodic basis
• Support documentation activities in the project by development of case studies and best practices from the field

Requirements:

• Graduate degree in social work / social sciences
• Minimum of 3 years’  experience in case management
• Experience in the case management process and knowledge of BIA/BID
• Experience in mental health and psychosocial support programming
• Team management experience
• Project reporting and evaluation experience
• Strong training experience required
• Good computer skills:Ms Word and Excel
• Fluency in English and Kiswahili