Job Title: Temporary GBV Caseworker
Job Description
INTRODUCTION
Save the Children has been working in Rwanda since 1994 in partnership with the Government of Rwanda (GoR) and local stakeholders to promote a bright future for children. We have experience working in all 30 districts across the country. The main areas of focus are education, child protection, child rights governance, and health and nutrition in humanitarian and development contexts.
GENERAL BACKGROUND
Save the Children (SC) is the world’s largest independent child rights organization, underpinned by a vision of a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development, and participation. Our mission to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. Save the Children implements both development and humanitarian assistance programs in Rwanda and Burundi.
ROLE PURPOSE:
Supporting individual children and families through provision of case management services and increasing the community’s capacity to identify and respond to child protection concerns.
In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
Direct Case Management Support
- Provide comprehensive and gender sensitive case management services and psychosocial support to vulnerable children including children at risk of abuse, exploitation, neglect, violence and unaccompanied,separated children and children with disability with protection concern.
- Ensure children receive appropriate individual case management support by conducting registration, assessments, case plans, direct service provision, referrals and follow up support for an assigned caseload of children in line with Case Management SOPs.
- Conduct regular follow-up and monitoring visits based on the child’s needs.
- Ensure that urgent and challenging cases are immediately discussed with direct supervisor and presented in case conference.
- Establish and maintain constructive relationships with service providers to facilitate case management referrals in project sites, under the supervision of the Case Management Team Leader.
- Work closely with the CP and community service team, community based child protection mechanism to ensure the effective identification of vulnerable and at-risk children.
- Ensure that confidentiality, informed consent, the best interests of the child, Do No Harm, and other case management principles and best practices are adhered to throughout the case management process, including the utilization of appropriate tools and case management forms.
- Work with cultural sensitivity and respect the dignity of vulnerable children and families and members of the host communities at all times.
- Support community-based mechanisms, including selection, training and mentoring of Case management Volunteers as required, in collaboration with the responsible Child Protection Officer.
Community Mobilisation
- Support community awareness sessions on child protection concerns, identification of vulnerable children and the process of registration of separated/unaccompanied children including family tracing and reunification.
Unaccompanied and Separated Children – FTR and Alternative Care
- In case of separated and unaccompanied children, Case worker should document, follow up and determine the child’s best interest according to the standard of family tracing and reunification procedures.
- Provide reintegration support and follow-up to reunified cases.
- Place, Monitor and support temporary care arrangements and foster care for separated/unaccompanied children.
Administration, Documentation, and Reports
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date case files for all child protection cases.
- Participate in case conferences and case management meetings as required.
- Adhere to strict confidentiality and information management standards and protocols, sharing information only in compliance with these standards
- Support and participate in programme monitoring and evaluation activities as requested.
QUALIFICATIONS
University degree in social sciences, arts, public administration, social administration, community development.
EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
Essential
- 2 years experience working with child protection case management and SGBV domain.
- Ability to communicate in English and French and Kinyarwanda through verbal and written communication.
- Good technical understanding of child protection and community-based approaches.
- Computer knowledge.
- Strong interpersonal and communication and interviewing skills.
- Be able to prioritize tasks.
- Able to work to tight deadlines and under pressure.
- Experience with community development, working with children and schools.
- Very good communication and interpersonal skills.
- The ability to think critically and to recommend good solutions to problems.
- Strong Organizational skills.
- Ability to conduct outreach at the community level.
Desireable
- Experience working in humanitarian crises and/or refugee settings.
CHILD SAFEGUARDING:
This position is Child safeguarding Level 3: the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.
ANTI-HARASSMENT POLICY
We are committed to ensuring a safe working environment for all those who work for us and for all those who come into contact with our staff and representatives, including children and members of the communities with whom we work.
SCI takes a zero-tolerance approach to sexual harassment and any other conduct that is discriminatory or disrespectful to others.
We need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
Note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Disclaimer: Save the Children International does not charge any kind of fee at whichever stage of the recruitment process.
Application Link No later than 14th October 2024
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