Terre des hommes
Job
title: Social
Empowerment Assistant
Job ID: 20230101
Category: Team
member
Reports
to: CP-Help desk Officer
Number
of subordinates: 19 CPV
Contract
duration: 7 months with possibility of extension based on funding
& Performance
Location: Dadaab
Overview
/ Summary: The Social empowerment assistant will be responsible for leading
the Life Skills component.
S/He
will be responsible for developing strategies / approach for mainstreaming Life
Skills component by working in close collaboration with the programme team.
This position will develop advocacy and behavior communication tools that meets intervention demands and feedback from across implementation sites ensuring that addressing barriers to girls and boys education and economic opportunities are being effectively addressed.
This
position will contribute to the Program’s reporting requirements as outlined in
the donor’s reporting guidelines.
This
position will ensure empowerment and advocacy implementation is responsive
to improving the learning outcomes of the marginalized in-school and
out-of-school children’s. S/He will report to the Help desk officer.
He/she
will conduct his or her duties in respect of the Charter of Terre des hommes
and the Tdh Child
Protection Policy.
Terre
des hommes expects that its contractors’ professional conduct reflects proper
behaviour in accordance with local culture and traditions. He/she assures the
moral protection of the name of Terre des hommes and defends in all
circumstances the interests of the movement.
Tdh
intervenes without any affiliation for politics, religion or financial profit.
He/she will direct his or her activities and engagements without preoccupation
of political, racial or religious affiliation.
He/she
commits to observe discretion on any information related to the organisation
functioning and beneficiary related issues
Specific
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
· Develop
Behaviours Change Communication tools and materials to improve knowledge,
attitude and practice of life skills choices for beneficiaries and their
eco-system.
· Developing
and delivering training programs to Community and Community base groups on BCC
techniques and best practices.
· Creating
educational resources such as brochures, posters, fact sheets, and training
materials to support BCC efforts.
· Track
barriers across implementation sites and develop appropriate BCC intervention
to address these barriers.
· Facilitate
out-of-school life skills training for adolescent boys and girls, as well as
connect aged out adolescents to livelihood partners.
· Carry
out art base projects that are led by children and young people, using a
participatory action research.
· Support
training of caregivers and community-based groups
· Raising
awareness and educating communities on child rights and child protection
issues.
· Identify
skills and knowledge gaps related to community-based interventions among
Livelihoods Field extension workers and address them through training and
capacity building.
· Write
timely quality; weekly, monthly, quarterly, biannual and annual reports
· CP
Awareness, information, behavior change and advocacy in the Host/Refugee
community
· To be
responsible to conduct proper recording, documentation for all the children and
their caregiver seeking child protection services and information at the
sectional level.
· Provision
and Dissemination of appropriate Child protection information to support
decision making on voluntary repatriation and sustained protection for the
children remaining in the camp.
· Provide
trainings and monitoring to the Community’s Own Child Protection Mentors and on
behavior change and General Child protection concerns.
· Document
community during radio session for both Refugee/host communities.
· Supervision
of the CPVs and conducting on job training for them
· Enhancing
Empowerment, Partnership and Advocacy for Child Safe Repatriation, to access
services including CP in the refugee communities.
· Reports
incidents and difficulties encountered with any CP staff or community worker to
advocacy and empowerment officer or CP project manager.
Project
Management
· Ensure
that assigned activities are appropriately implemented and, when necessary,
ideas on amendments deemed will be shared with the child protection officer and
Advocacy and empowerment officer.
· Participates
in weekly team and movement planning meetings and prepares timely
activity/training plans and budgets to the child protection senior officer for
upcoming activities.
Project
Strategy and planning
· Participates
in CP assessments.
· Participate
in the review of the strategy for Tdh in Kenya if requested.
Project
Implementation
Information
dissemination and advocacy.
· Sharing
and provision of appropriate child protection information to support decision
making on voluntary repatriation and sustained protection for the children
remaining in the camp
· Supports
in child led advocacy campaigns, mass awareness and special events throughout
the project. For the Host/refugee community level
· Conduct
refresher training and mentorship for children (Child Council members, peer support
members and Ombudsman) to reinforce knowledge on Child Protection topics and
provide information on any emerging issues such as Volrep or camp consolidation
to strengthen child participation on issues affecting them.
· Life
skills training and provision of start-up kits and Nurturing kits for the
babies (0-4) for trained vulnerable girl mothers to enhance income generated
activities as a source of livelihood support.
· Conduct
refresher training and mentorship for children (Child Council members, peer support
members and Ombudsman) to reinforce knowledge on Child Protection topics and
provide information on any emerging issues such as Volrep or camp consolidation
to strengthen child participation on issues affecting them.
Awareness
· Participates
in the development and organisation of awareness activities in close
consultation with advocacy and empowerment officer and child protection
officer.
· Contributes
and Participates in the preparation and implementation of special events at
community level.
Documentation
· Ensures
correct data protection procedures and filing
· Documentation
of the conducted activities, documenting of human interest stories
Monitoring
and evaluation
· Participates
in a base line survey and evaluation of the CP projects
Capacity
building
· Contributes
to the training and capacity building of all community workers, community
structures, Child protection volunteers and host community members.
Coordination
· Supports
and works in coordination with all CP team, community leaders CPCs and other
relevant camp-based actors in all steps of project implementation.
· Participates
in weekly team meetings, Cluster weekly meeting
· Participates
in case conference meetings at section level.
· Represents
Tdh in inter-agency meetings.
Representation
· Represents
Tdh in the community level.
· Develops
a community network to facilitate the project acceptance and ownership.
Reporting
· Participates
in weekly meetings and weekly planning activities.
· Provides
accurate and timely activity, monitoring and assessment reports.
· Maintain
and ensure a culture of strict confidentiality – inter Tdh staff and between
Tdh staff and non Tdh employees.
· Upon
completion of the assignment, submits detailed handover notes when leaving for
annual leave.
· Completes
and meets the deadline of all assigned work.
· Provides
accurate and timely weekly and activity reports
· Provide
weekly reports to the advocacy and empowerment officer
· Participating
in the monthly report drafting
Security
· Comply
with Tdh Security Regulations.
· Reports
any security/safety incident and/or risk to the CP project manager and field
coordinator.
Child
Protection Policy
· Commit
to respect the Child Protection Policy.
· Report
serious cases of abuse on children identified by the Child Protection team to
the CP Program Manager. Strict confidentiality must be respected.
Others
· Undertake
all other duties that may be determined by the advocacy and empowerment officer
and CP project manager and that are compatible with the job.
Competencies:
This
position requires Personal, Social and Leadership competencies (PSLC),
Technical and methodological competencies (TMC)
In
particular:
· Minimum
Diploma/degree in Business administration, Social science, developmental
studies or related field from a recognized institution
· At
least 2 years’ experience working with community outreach activities, Youth and
adolescent’s empowerment program and livelihoods, preferably in a refugee
setting.
· Proven
experience managing community dialogues and working directly with
beneficiaries.
· Competence
using information technology including experience with graphic design,
word-processing, spreadsheets and database software.
Languages:
· Fluency
in English and Kiswahili. Ability to communicate in Somali is a plus
Abuse
Prevention Policy – Operational Risk Management
· Commit
to respect Tdh Risk Management Policies including Child Safeguarding Policy,
Safety and Security Policy and Anti-Fraud/Corruption Policy, Whistle Blowing
Policy
· Commit
to ensure the best implementation possible of the Tdh Risk Management Policies
· Commit
to inform supervisors and to deal with any cases, allegations, or possibility
of transgression, even potential, of the Tdh Risk Management Policies.
Other:
· Knowledge
of the Dadaab context is a key requirement.
Application
Modalities:
Interested
candidates who meet the criteria above are encouraged to send their
applications letter and
detailed CVs to KEN.recruitment@tdh.ch.
Candidates
are required to indicate the position title on the subject line of the email
when applying.
Kindly
note only applications sent to this email address will be considered.
Only
shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
This
is a local hire and female candidates are encouraged to apply.
Closing
date for the application of this position is 24 January 2023.
Tdh’s
recruitment and selection procedures reflect our commitment to protect
children’s rights, which includes the prevention of all forms of child abuse.
Tdh
is an equal opportunity employer