Child Protection Capacity Building Officer

BACKGROUND:  

The International Rescue Committee (IRC), one of the world’s largest humanitarian agencies, provides relief, rehabilitation, and post-conflict reconstruction support to people affected by natural disaster, oppression, and violent conflict in more than 40 countries. The IRC is committed to bold leadership, innovation, and creative partnerships. Active in public health, education, livelihoods, women's empowerment, youth development, and protection and promotion of rights, the IRC assists people from harm to home. The IRC launched an emergency health response in Libya in September 2016 as the humanitarian situation in the country was deteriorating following the 2014 civil war. Since then, the IRC has broadened its portfolio with health, protection, and governance programs aiming to employ a holistic approach to meeting the needs of crisis affected and vulnerable communities to survive, recover, and gain control of their futures. The IRC has been working to expand its multi-sectoral reach in areas of critical need in Libya and in these efforts houses a Grants & Partnerships Unit (GPU) to support the design of, fundraising for, and management of quality, responsive programming with ambitious goals for work in partnership with local actors.

The scope of IRC Libya’s protection and empowerment programming includes Women’s Protection and Empowerment (WPE) prevention and response), child protection (CP), and Protection Rule of Law (PRoL, or broader humanitarian protection) for conflict-affected and other vulnerable women, girls, men, and boys. In the design and development of responsive, client-centered protection programming, the IRC works both directly and in partnership with local actors promoting women’s social and, increasingly, economic empowerment and an improved protection environment for conflict-affected and vulnerable women, girls, men, and boys. Through this work, the IRC has raised awareness among communities, provided training for service providers, and established spaces for a range of psychosocial support activities and access to case management for women, adolescent girls, and children in Libya . The IRC aims to build on that foundation with additional, targeted support to local capacities and community-based mechanisms.

JOB OVERVIEW/SUMMARY: The IRC launched a program aimed at providing life-saving medical care and integrated protection services. This initiative expands our protection interventions, focusing on community-based protection, rule of law, child protection, women's empowerment (including GBV response and prevention), and mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) across all project locations.
Our current capacity-building initiatives target service providers in selected communities, including Brak Alshati, Alkufra, Misurata, Tripoli and Benghazi. These services aim to strengthen the child protection system and enhance the capacity of various stakeholders.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:
The CP Capacity building Officer will:

Conduct situational and needs assessments to inform program design and adaptation.
Conduct child protection capacity assessment and implement the required capacity building support to IRC Staff and Partner staff on CP Case Management, IRC curriculum including SEL, Positive Parenting sessions and Now I am stronger.
Supervise technical content and implementation of structured and non-structured activities and   awareness-raising campaigns for children and families.
 child protection staff and external actors including on-going coaching and mentoring.
Participate in building a strong relationship and understanding with the local community.
Undertake field visits to provide technical mentorship and supervision as well as regularly monitoring of the quality of the CP activities in all locations.
 Develop a training plan for externals in close coordination with the liner Manager and in consultation IRC partners.
In coordination with UNICEF, Identify appropriate actors that would participate in UNICEF capacity building plan mainly in CP case management and SEL and will benefit from CP training and communicate to the line manager in support of ongoing potential capacity building actors mapping as appropriate.
Provide support supervision and mentorship to CP Case workers and ensure that the staff adhre to the minimum standard when working with Children at the SHLSs.
Plan, coordinate, and deliver relevant CP related training to IRC staff, Partner staff and community outreach volunteers, and local NGOs, NGOs and other frontline actors.
Ensure all training and capacity building activities are carried out in accordance with IRC policies and procedures.
Coordinate and organize logistics for training, including raising purchase requests to ensure all materials are ready for training.
 Monitor training outcomes through baseline surveys, pre- and post-tests, and follow-up interviews, and continually reflect on training experiences and monitoring data to improve future training.
Compile, monthly, and weekly submissions of plans, data and reports both qualitative and quantitative, in relation to child protection program activities.
Participate in the project meetings to share regular updates e.g., number of trainings and CP Capacity gaps.
Provide support to the line manager and the Senior WPE officer as per need.
Together with the WPE Senior officer, the CP team, and IRC partner develop and update a clear schedule of all child protection capacity building activities for actors in target locations and share it with the supervisor.
Liaise with CP team and other protection teams for potential participants referrals and joint activities.
   Any other task as assigned by the line manager.

KEY WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:
Position Reports to: CP and WPE Manager


Other Internal and/or external contacts:
Internal: WPE Team, Child protection Team, Protection Information Management Team, Health Team, Supply Chain Team, The MEAL Team, and HR staff.

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