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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.
Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!
Key Responsibilities:
Project planning and implementation:
- Mobilize and sustain meaningful participation of community, government and local partners in Project interventions
- Facilitate the formation, training and strengthening of gender transformational groups i.e. Citizen
- Voice Action, Girl Child Rights Clubs in schools to lead advocacy activities promoting the elimination of FGM & Child Marriages.
- Support identification and capacity building of men and boys as champions and voices of change
- In consultation with the Cluster manager support identification and capacity building of CSOs
- Support train ToT on Community change model and facilitate issue based community intergenerational dialogues in the focus areas
- Mobilize communities and partners to participate in appropriate WV Models addressing root causes of Child protection
- Support CSOs to conduct issue-based talk shows and Anti FGM sporting activities to create Anti-FGM movement among the youth for surveillance and reporting
- Conduct sessions in local schools on child rights to strengthen child rights clubs
- Conduct training and sensitization sessions for law enforcers (Police, Chiefs, Department of Children Services, Office of the DPP, Magistrates) on their role in protection of Women and Girls and establishment of child and gender help desks.
- Train and support local community based organizations on gender based violence prevention and response, Chain of evidence custody and SOPs as well CVA (Citizen Voice and Action) to engage duty bearers and county governments on budgeting processes to ensure informed allocation towards addressing human rights violation
- In consultation with the Project Officer & Cluster Manager, facilitate partnering with local media stations to develop and disseminate locally relevant messaging on safe spaces
Quality assurance -Monitoring, Reporting, evaluation and Documentation:
- Train and support change agents and survivors on data collection (including tools), analysis and synthesis for duty bearer’s engagement
- Train community structures and Service providers on the use of CPIMS to ensure effective tracking of cases for efficient response and prosecution
- Partner organizations will be trained on innovative approaches including social media and mobile phones based initiatives
- Partner organizations will be facilitated to conduct joint monitoring visits
- Support baseline and end-line evaluation with integrated GESI assessment
- Together with partners develop monitoring tools and collect the monitoring data.
- Compile and file all the necessary, activity reports, weekly plans, monthly, quarterly and annual reports for forwarding to the Project Officer/ Cluster Manager
Strategic Engagement, Partnership and Networking on FGM/Child Marriage Prevention and response
- Facilitate networking relationships and participation with wide stakeholders such as government, church, faith based organization leaders and other key partners at local level such as NGOs, CBOs, CVA, IGA groups
- In consultation with the Project Officer & Cluster Manager and collaboration with other actors (CSOs) support development of county Child Protection related policies encompassing safe spaces
- Organize and facilitate celebration of international human/child rights campaign day, including International Day for Elimination of VAWG.
- Support local CBOs to advocate for the establishment of safe spaces, including information hubs where the survivors can openly share and receive support social, psychological support.
- Support meeting for the local structures including CUC/AAC and CP technical working group/ network to empower local & cross-border surveillance, reporting and referral mechanism
- Support the departments of Gender, Children Services, Office of the DPP, Police to conduct judicial service week and sensitization on the dissemination of National Policies i.e. the Children Act, Anti FGM Act, Sexual Offences Act which support the elimination of VAWG.
Support Resource Acquisition:
- Provide information to contribute towards fund raising initiatives for Integrated Child Protection related interventions
- Mobilize the community for contributions towards project interventions.
- Ensure Integrated Sponsorship implementation and monitoring
Required education, skills and experience:
- Diploma in Gender, Social Sciences, community development, Anthropology or related field from a recognized university/college. A degree will be an added advantage
- At least 2 years’ experience in Integrated Child protection programming
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal in English, Kiswahili.
- Ability to communicate in the local dialect
- Motor cycle rider with valid license
If you possess the above requirement submit in one PDF your CV, both sides of national identity and current reference letter reference letter from your local chief.
