World Vision NGO Protection Officer - Kwa-Zulu Natal Response Jobs in South Africa

World Vision NGO Protection Officer - Kwa-Zulu Natal Response Jobs in South Africa

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

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Key Responsibilities:

Programme/Project Implementation and Quality Assurance

Manage implementation, budget, and quality of the field community mobilization and engagement, education in emergency, psychosocial services and protection which includes women and child protection and/or ending violence against children in the WVSA flood and mudslide emergency response.

Actively monitor output indicators for related outputs

Assess related project activities to ensure they are within scope, time, and budget.

Supports and integrates appropriate, safe, and meaningful participation of children throughout the project lifecycle and decision-making opportunities

Ensure accountability to children and families in the area programme through the establishment of feedback and complaints mechanisms

Provide support to M&E teams during monitoring and evaluation activities

In emergency or Response situations
Produce timely and quality reports to stakeholders as required.

Capacity Building

Support the formation of a local Child Protection & Advocacy (CP&A) group comprised of informal and formal Child Protection (CP) representatives in the community; coach CP&A group members to foster genuine ownership of group action plans for sustainability

Build the capacity of local CP&A group to understand CP issues and root causes, CP systems strengthening, and prioritization of CP issues to address

Facilitate CP&A group development of a shared action plan to address violence against children's issues

Monitor CP&A group functioning, implementation, and organizational capacity

Coordinate and support training in project model or CP intervention implementation for CP&A group members, CP officers, development facilitators, and local volunteers involved in CP project implementation

Partnering and External Engagement

Establish effective partnerships with local community volunteers, parents and CP stakeholders, networks, coalitions, working groups, and local government representatives to understand the functionality of the Protection System and to form/strengthen the local CP&A group

Represent World Vision as needed in local area community engagement, education and CP networks, coalitions, or government-led CP spaces to promote evidenced-based interventions and advance systems strengthening approaches to child protection

Establish effective working relationships with local faith leaders and communities (from a variety of faith backgrounds if applicable) to promote child protection initiatives, and positive parenting techniques, and invite them to be part of the CP&A group to address violence against children's issues

If needed in emergency and Response situations, participate actively and regularly in the local CP cluster to coordinate World Vision’s CP work alongside other humanitarian actors

Safeguarding

Report adult and child safeguarding incidents for designated area programmes (Levels 1-3)

Ensure proper implementation of the office’s Safeguarding Incident Preparedness Plans at the local area programme level

Train local partners or volunteers who work directly with programme beneficiaries on Safeguarding policies, procedures, behaviours, and reporting protocols

Knowledge Management & Learning

Seek out and document lessons learned from project activities across each CP domain of change in the local area programme

Facilitate regular reflection and learning activities with CP staff and volunteers as well as the local CP&A group to reflect on implementation and make adaptations as needed

Incorporate children’s feedback on programme activities into knowledge-sharing sessions and debrief with children’s groups to let them know how their opinions have affected the implementation

Lead the implementation of all psychosocial services designed activities

Collaboration with the Government

Identification of beneficiaries for psychosocial services

Build capacity in staff and stakeholders in psychosocial services

Required Professional Experience

2-5 years’ experience in child protection, child development, or community development

Experience working in an NGO or international development context

Experience leading workshops, training, and capacity-building sessions

Experience in project design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation and report writing

The following may be acquired through a combination of formal or self-education, prior experience or on-the-job training:

Tertiary education or equivalent in the fields of child protection, social work, community development, international development, child development, or a related field.

Other Competencies/Attributes:

Extremely strong planning and project management skills

Strong group facilitation, training, coaching, and capacity-building skills

Strong inter-personal communication and collaboration skills

Strong partnering, conflict management, and consensus-building skills

Strong written and oral communication skills

Knowledge of common local child protection issues and violations

Compassion and commitment to ending violence against the world’s most vulnerable children

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; World Vision NGO Protection Officer - Kwa-Zulu Natal Response Jobs in South Africa

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