The International Rescue Committee has been working in Kenya since 1992, providing essential services including comprehensive health care, gender-based violence prevention and response, women’s protection and empowerment, peace-building promotion, access to water, sanitation, and hygiene, livelihoods support, protection and rule of Law and multi-sectoral emergency response programming. IRC Kenya works with both refugees and local vulnerable populations, with approximately 300 national staff and 1,500 incentive staff in the country program. Within the Nairobi headquarter office, approximately 40 program and operations staff members work to support the field teams directly implementing projects. The Kenya Program intends to establish a Child Protection unit as part of scale up of the protection programming.

Job Overview: The Child Protection Assistant is responsible for implementing facility and community-based child protection program in Hagadera refugee camp with limited support/ travel to the host community. They will be responsible for prevention and response activities of the child protection program that include working with the community, psychosocial support groups/activities and case management; They will also work closely with the health and other sector staff to ensure CP is mainstreamed and integrated within the other programs.

Major Responsibilities: The post holder will be responsible for the following duties and responsibilities.

Program Implementation and Quality: Reinforcing adherence to the child protection (CP) guiding principles throughout all CP and partners activities, specifically:

Conduct assessment of the living conditions of children in the camp/ host community where applicable and participate in the development of appropriate response to the needs of children.
Facilitate the involvement of children and the community (leaders, caregivers, and parents) in the Safe Healing and Learning Space (SHLS) and document the progress made.
Supervise and coach community facilitators in the SHLS.
Coordinate and lead psychosocial support activities at SHLS.
Work with the nutrition and health teams in the identification, monitoring, verification, documentation and referral of cases of children and abuse.
Follow-up the preparation and implementation of case action plan and home visit conducted by the social workers.
Carry out data entry into the Child Protection Information System (CPIMS) database.
Assist the child protection officer in facilitating and organizing appropriate care arrangement, and suitable alternative care system with close supervision and attention to the individual needs of children.
Through working with the child protection committees identify potential foster families for unaccompanied and separated children in collaboration with social workers and community leaders.
Train and supervise the community facilitators leading positive parenting skills training (Family Make the Difference) weekly sessions.
Assist the child rights clubs to demonstrate to the community and the concerning body about protection concerns that children are facing while living in the camp and promote the participation of children in all matters affecting their lives. d8KA9UD veH8m
Organize awareness-raising and advocacy activities in the community including the celebration of international events days and other awareness raising sessions.
Assist and participate in the preparation of budget, work and spending plans, and PR tracking to monitor the proper utilization of the budget and timely implementation of activities.
Enforce and fully abide by the child protection code of conduct.
Work closely with the other Child Protection teams within the IRC to provide an integrated response to the needs of children and their families.
Perform other duties assigned by the supervisor.
Other: The post holder will also work on other duties such as;

The Child Protection Assistant will directly report to the senior Child Protection Officer based in Hagadera with additional oversight from PRoL Technical coordinator in Kenya.
Qualifications

University Degree in Sociology or psychology preferred or any other social science fields.
3 years of working with children experience for diploma holders.
1 year of working with children experience with the first degree.
Ability to speak the local language () is an added advantage.
Computer literate, data entry (database management) skills