Turkey: Child Protection Officer, Fluent in Turkish and English

Child Protection Officer – Antakya

Save the Children is the world’s leading independent organisation for children. We work in 120 countries. We save children’s lives; we fight for their rights; we help them fulfil their potential.

ROLE PURPOSE:

The Child Protection Officer will be based in Hatay, supporting Save the Children’s new Education project, “No Lost Generation / Kayıp Kuşak Olmasın”. The Child Protection Officer will help manage the relevant project grant, support project planning, and work with technical advisors to support project implementation. This role will manage up to five Community Outreach Workers, and will be responsible for, where relevant, building their technical capacity. The Child Protection Officer will assist the direct supervisor in all aspects of child protection activities start up and implementation, including: temporary education centres, support to vulnerable children, training for key community members, and awareness on child protection issues.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Programme Implementation

• Coordinate and provide support to the direct supervisor and community outreach workers at the project sites in the planning, implementation and monitoring of regular activities that may include: recreational and psychosocial activities, individual support to vulnerable children, training, and awareness on child protection.
• Coordinate the preparation of weekly activity plans with Project Manager and the team, ensure smooth implementation of these plans and monitor activities in Temporary Education Centres (TECs), extra-curricular, recreational, and psychosocial support activities.
• Coordinate the activities in the Temporary Education Centers with the Education team and ensure that the school teachers and community outreach workers have adequate support in terms of child protection related issues.
• Organize regular meetings with MoNE-appointed coordinators, Education team and community outreach workers.
• In coordination with all the Child Protection team members, support regular participatory recreational and psychosocial activities with different groups of children to identify issues affecting children in their communities, and assist the teams to develop appropriate responses.
• Supervise the activities conducted by the community outreach workers and make sure that identification and referrals of vulnerable children are carried out according to the procedures.
• Identify training needs and assist the direct supervisor to organise training and awareness raising activities for staff, key community members and partners’ staff on CP related topics.
• Organise trainings on Child Protection in Emergencies (CPiE), Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPMS), Psychological First Aid (PFA) and psychosocial support for the project team and MoNE coordinators.
• Ensure mapping of services and referral systems (health, education, psychosocial, etc.) are developed and updated as appropriate on regular basis.
• Support community members to organise awareness messages on child protection issues.
• Build positive relationships with the communities and organize regular meetings and training for key community members with the outreach team.
• Produce and submit weekly and monthly reports on project activities as required.
• Work with cultural sensitivity and respect the dignity of refugees and members of the host communities at all times.
• Performs other functions relative to Child Protection activities and initiatives that may be assigned by the direct supervisor.
• Ensure full compliance of Child Safeguarding Policy at field level and especially with SC engaged personnel.
• Respond to all Child Safeguarding Policy concerns expressed or discovered appropriately and effectively.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE AND ATTRIBUTES:

Essential

• Master’s degree in social sciences, psychology, sociology, community development or related matters
• Previous experience in child protection programmes, psychosocial support, social work and community mobilisation
• Previous experience in working with children
• Good technical understanding of child protection and community based approaches
• Knowledge of Child Rights, Child Protection Minimum Standards and other international recognised tools
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to work with limited supervision and strong ability to take initiative
• Able to work to tight deadlines and under pressure
• Excellent team player
• Ability to quickly form relationship within the communities
• Fluent in Turkish and English – written and spoken
• Computer literacy including the use of Microsoft Word and Excel

Desirable

• Fluent in spoken Arabic
• Experience in working with NGOs
• Experience in working with refugees

We need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Please apply in English by sending your up to date CV with a cover letter as a single document explaining your salary expectations to turkey.recruit@savethechildren.org and mention the position that you are applying for to the subject section. The advertisement will be closed as soon as the suitable candidate has been identified.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.