Position Title: Senior Technical Officer
Child Protection & Psychosocial Support (CP & PSS)
Location: Maiduguri
Supervisor: Protection Coordinator
Project Description:
Northeast Nigeria is currently facing a growing humanitarian crisis with a vast number of Internally Displaced Persons in need of emergency assistance. These IDPs are living among host communities, lacking access to livelihoods and resources, ultimately leading to unprecedented levels of malnutrition and food insecurity. FHI 360 has been working in Nigeria for over 30 years and responded to the humanitarian crisis in the NE for five years. In anticipation of a new project, and in support of ongoing ones, FHI360 seeks an experienced Senior Technical Officer, Child Protection & Psychosocial Support to support our response to the humanitarian crisis in NE Nigeria.
Basic Function:
The Senior Technical Officer- Child Protection and Psychosocial Support (CP & PSS) provides technical and programmatic leadership for child protection and PSS subsector within the Protection Sector to ensure timely and high-quality deliverables in terms of outputs, outcomes, and impact to contribute to the attainment of the SURE-SN project’s sub-purpose for protection, which is the to improve the overall well-being of vulnerable individuals through increased access to integrated GBV, PSS and child protection services.
Job Purpose:
Under the direct supervision of the Protection Coordinator, the STO- CP& PSS will lead the effective delivery of the child protection and PSS in target locations namely Bama (Bama town and Banki), Mobbar (Damasak) and Ngala LGAs, Borno State. He/she will be responsible for the planning, implementation, and monitoring of Child protection prevention and response activities as well as PSS activities targeting adult persons including caregivers at both Safe Healing and Learning Spaces (SHLS) and community level. Responsibilities also include providing technical oversight for development, designing, planning, implementation, and capacity-building of ATOs- CP and ATOs-PSS Subsectors staff, Community Volunteers, and relevant stakeholders through remote and weekly field support/supervision visits across the target locations. Responsibilities include also developing draft reports, concept notes as well as project proposals.
Duties and responsibilities:
Under the direct supervision of the Protection Coordinator, the Senior Technical Officer- Protection CP & PSS is responsible for the following tasks:
Program implementation:
Child Protection Subsector
Psychosocial Support (PSS) Subsector
Supportive supervision:
Human Resource and Administration:
Reporting:
External Coordination:
Financial management and operational support
Knowledge, skills, and attributes:
Qualifications and Requirements:
Safeguarding:
FHI 360 is committed to providing a safe environment for all employees, beneficiaries and anyone contracted by FHI 360. This Includes taking measures to protect vulnerable people from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) by either FHI 360 employees or associated personnel. FHI 360 abides by child safeguarding principles. FHI 360’s Safeguarding Policies apply and flow out to all FHI 360 staff, board members, volunteers, and partner staff (subcontractors, consultants, vendors, and subrecipients), regardless of the funding mechanism or amount of contract, agreement, or purchase order.
This job posting summarizes the main duties of the job. It neither prescribes nor restricts the exact tasks that may be assigned to carry out these duties. This document should not be construed in any way to represent a contract of employment. Management reserves the right to review and revise this document at any time.
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