MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategic Planning

• Provide strategic direction and undertake analysis of child protection trends, gaps in services, and IMC’s capacities

to guide IMC’s programming in country

• Contribute to IMC, national and inter-agency child protection strategies

• Lead child protection assessments as required, maximizing available sources of information and opportunities for

coordination, and ensuring compliance with safety and ethical standards

• Identify and build strategic partnerships with international, national and local partners 

• Ensure that programs are driven by the needs of children and youth, planned with community stakeholders, and

aligned with MoSAL/DoSAL and WoS CP AoR

• Identify appropriate locations and orientation for services

• Develop concept notes/proposals/appeals as needed

Implementation and Capacity Building

• Work closely with the global Child Protection Advisor, country level senior management, and program team to

achieve program goals

• Ensure adherence to IMC’s Child Protection Minimum Standards, as well as relevant inter-agency guidelines and

standards

• Oversee program interventions, including the establishment and delivery of focused child protection response

services • Build capacity of program staff/partners in relevant technical areas to deliver services and lead interventions

• Organize/support/facilitate technical training as needed, including Child Protection Case Management, Child

Protection Minimum Standards, relevant Child Protection Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Referral

Pathways, Caring for Child Survivors of Sexual Abuse, Unaccompanied and Separated Children, Best interest

Procedures

• Establish and monitor supervision and support systems for child protection case management services

• Strengthen integrated child protection interventions, functional internal referral pathways and linkages among all

IMC sectors – health, nutrition, Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS), and VAWG, and external referral

system with relevant actors providing education, legal support, cash and in-kind assistance in each area of IMC

interventions.

• Support timely and quality data entry for information management, including implementation, monitoring and

reporting.

• Ensure effective community participation throughout implementation 

• Oversee appropriate prevention and awareness-raising/behavior change strategies 

• Conduct regular program monitoring and quality assurance and apply learning for continuous improvement of

interventions

• Produce regular program reports, on time and with accurate data

Senior Coordination, Representation and Advocacy

• Coordinate with other service providers to ensure holistic support for children, including participation in

strengthening child protection case management, regular service mapping and functional referral pathways

• Represent IMC’s child protection programming in relevant coordination meetings and with a range of stakeholders

• Contribute to inter-agency efforts to strengthen child protection prevention and response through active

participation in coordination mechanisms and promotion of sector principles, standards, and guidelines

• Coordinate with, and build capacity of, other sectors as possible to ensure integration of child protection concerns

into various services and broader humanitarian response

• Collaborate closely with relevant authorities, humanitarian actors, donors, and other stakeholders

Human Resources Management

• Select and orient program staff/volunteers/partners for effective implementation

• Support, coach and supervise staff to build capacity and strengthen quality of interventions. 

• Develop support strategies for staff, foster teambuilding, and introduce principles of self-care and wellbeing.

• Provide supportive and constructive feedback, and conduct regular performance appraisal

Security and Conduct

• Ensure compliance with security protocols and policies

• Consider security implications of programs, reviewing plans with teams and appropriate stakeholders

• Foster a safe and supportive working environment for all child protection staff/volunteers/partners

• Exemplify core principles of child protection programming, including the child's survival and development, best

interests of the child, non-discrimination, children's participation 

• Contribute to the positive image and overall credibility of the program and organization, notably through

adherence to the Code of Conduct and Ethics, including compliance with anti-harassment, safeguarding and

Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) policies Perform other duties as assigned. The duties and responsibilities listed in this document are representative of the nature

and level of work assigned and not necessarily comprehensive.