Child Welfare Assistant-Mandera at Islamic Relief

Purpose

Child welfare assistant will be part of the child welfare team, supporting in the implementation of the child welfare activities in the field and assist in programme design, implementation, planning, monitoring and evaluation. Working with a dynamic team in the field he/she will ensure that core commitments to children are upheld in accordance with policies and procedures established by the Islamic Relief and other National and international Laws protecting and safeguarding children. The Project Assistant will work under the supervision of the child welfare Coordinator in the implementation of the project activities.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic and Programme Development

• Promote good practice by encouraging and championing the organization policies and procedures.
• Enhanced Project efficiency and effectiveness through timely implementation and follow ups.
• Contribute to internal discussions on thematic issues particularly on child protection, orphan programming and overall strategic objectives.
• Develop case studies and success stories to show case project Impact to target families.

Project Implementation

• Assist the child welfare team in planning and execution of project activities according to the project implementation framework.
• Support in facilitating quarterly payments and passing of extra gifts to supported children and their families.
• Conduct routine home/ family visits to ensure the sponsored children are receiving promised services with dignity and attending school regularly.
• Compile and share sponsored children annual progress report to donor.
• Maintain sponsored children records both hard and soft copies.
•  Support project right holders’ identification through community consultative process
• Support sponsored children guardian capacity building on current and merging child protection issues.
• Facilitate distribution of foods packs to targeted sponsored families during the month of Ramadan.
• Maintain accurate, confidential, and up to date documentation on all cases of safeguarding and child protection.
• Participate in and contribute to project quarterly performance review meetings.
• Participate in sponsored children periodic data collection to assess the project impacts and contribution.

Monitoring, Documentation, Communication, and reporting

• Develop and share individual weekly/ monthly work plans and targets.
• Contribute to the preparation and timely submission of internal and external reports.
• Ensure project right holders are conversant with IRK safeguarding, child protection, compliant response mechanisms policies and procedures.
• Document community and stakeholders’ feedback and share with relevant stakeholders for appropriate action.
• Conduct timely documentation of project progress through case studies, stories, photos, videos, among others.
• Compile sponsored children’s drawings\\letter and share with the respective donors.

Coordination and Networking

• Establish and maintain active relationship with the stakeholders we are working with.
• Represent IRK in departmental relevant forums at the county level as may be assigned by the line manager.

Essential Skills & Qualifications:

• University degree in development studies, sociology, public administration, community development,
• Minimum of 2 years relevant work experience in child welfare/protection related programme.
• Strong communication (written & spoken) and interpersonal skills.
• Experience in project planning, Implementation, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning.
• Experience in the use of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc) and knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages.
• Flexible, with ability to work and handle multiple tasks and meet strict deadlines.
• Ability to work on your own initiative as well as a part of a team.
• Demonstrable leadership and the ability to deal with difficult decisions.