Senior Child Protection Assistant
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Intro
The Senior Child Protection Assistant position at UNHCR in Cairo, Egypt, requires experience in child protection and gender-based violence, as well as a background in international politics, political science, or law. The role involves contributing to child protection strategy, program planning, implementation, advocacy, and coordination with partners and communities to ensure the effective protection of children, adolescents, and youth of concern. The assistant will also be responsible for conducting Best Interest Procedures, monitoring protection issues, and providing guidance to staff and partners involved in child protection activities.
Tasks
- Contribute to assessing child protection issues through multi-sectoral and protection specific assessments.
- Facilitate consultation with children, youth and communities to inform child protection strategy and programme activities.
- Contribute to the formulation of child protection strategy and planning.
- Engage children, youth and communities in the implementation of child protection activities, provide information to children, youth and communities about child protection services and monitor and report on needs and issues to inform the Operations Response.
- Conduct Best Interest Procedures for individual children at heightened risks and prepare Best Interests Determination report, when required.
- Participate in the Best Interests Procedure Case Conferences and BID panels and draft associated documentation as required.
- Implement child protection SOPS and ensure up to date and effective referral to key services.
- Store and update child's case file in UNHCR data bases in accordance with UNHCR standards.
- Engage with children, youth and community members in identifying community-based child protection activities.
- Monitor and support appropriate care arrangements for unaccompanied and separated children and referral of children to ICRC or other relevant partners for establishment of family linkages.
- Regularly report on emerging protection issues and concerns voiced by children, youth and communities and assist in drafting reports, compiling and preparing data for the protection unit/section.
- Provide functional guidance to UNHCR and partner staff involved in child protection activities.
- Assist the Child Protection interagency coordination and information management activities as needed.
- Provide technical support and monitoring to child protection partners.
- Support in implementing learning activities for UNHCR and partners staff and communities.
- Support the identification and management of risks and seek to seize opportunities impacting objectives in the area of responsibility. Ensure decision making in risk based in the functional area of work. Raise risks, issues and concerns to a supervisor or to relevant functional colleague(s).
- Perform other related duties as required.
Requirements
- 2 years of previous work experience relevant to the function of child protection in a local context and having experience in the field of child protection
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