CARE AID is an independent humanitarian non-governmental, non-profit organization founded in 2019, and officially CAC registered in 2021 in Maiduguri Borno state, Nigeria. Care Aid mission is to respond to humanitarian crises and build resilience, promote inclusive and sustainable growth, co-construct effective governance and support the building of civil society by investing in people and their potential.
CARE AID is committed to providing humanitarian relief to people in urgent need and protect their dignity while co-creating inclusive longer-term opportunities for sustainable growth through various clusters like; CCCM/Shelter/NFI, Protection, GBV, Livelihood, Wash and peace building.
We are recruiting internally and externally for the position below:
Job Title: CCCM Social Worker-Protection
Location: Borno State
About the Job
- This position falls under the direct management of the programs manager
- The CCCM Protection support will play an integral part of the camp management team of ensuring that all inhabitants of the camp are living a safe, secured, and dignified life.
- Under the supervision of the CCCM Program manager, the CCCM Protection support is responsible for the day-to-day activities of the protection component of the project, including conducting data collection, meetings and mobilizing key project stakeholders, developing protection related materials for community trainings and facilitate trainings, among others.
- He/she will organize focus groups to support him/her in the accomplishment of her daily task and duties.
- He/She will be accountable for the smooth operation of the protection component of the project, meeting project timelines and targets, in addition to internal capacity building trainings.
- He/ she will be responsible of ensuring protection mainstream standards among the camp services and to monitor the global protection risks to provide mitigation solutions.
- He /she will be in charge for referrals of beneficiaries to the appropriate protection partners, but not only, and ensure that this mechanism remain efficient and functional.
Job Duties
- Carry out daily monitoring visits, focus group discussions, participatory assessments, key informant interviews in accordance with Care Aid tools of collection and ensuring appropriate treatment of sensitive information.
- Ensure that mainstream protection is implemented by all agencies at the site level.
- Assess protection issues captured or identified during daily activities and make appropriate referrals for services to humanitarian or other actors as per the referral pathway or best practices.
- Identify cases in need of urgent response and directly follow-up/accompany affected individuals to services providers when needed to ensure access to services.
- Work with supervisor to create weekly work-plans and prioritization of tasks.
- Ensure proper documentation and secure storage of any protection data collected (hard and soft copies).
- Complete daily, weekly, and monthly reporting on findings.
- Foster and maintain excellent working relationships with all stakeholders and participate in daily coordination with humanitarian and all other local and international actors.
- Provide trainings and on-job coaching to CCCM team and other agencies personnel as required as well as provide awareness sessions and ad hoc training sessions for camp leaders and community.
- Provide technical and programmatic support to the community mobilizers in the field.
- Provide technical and programmatic leadership to community-based mechanisms
- Support CCCM and partners workers in identification and ensuring that reporting is in line with Care Aid, Sector, and donor guidelines.
- Work with community-based structures to identify protection problems that cannot be resolved at community level or by existing services and assist community to come to solutions
- Liaise closely with protection actors in the field and other humanitarian partners to ensure an understanding of the overall issues; an understanding that shall be used to guide weekly work plans
- Take a leading role in setting up the community center- liaising with the community
Required Qualifications and Experience
- A University degree in Social Sciences, Development Studies, Guidance and Counseling or relevant fields.
- Minimum of 2-3 years’ experience working with vulnerable communities.
- Experience in protection interventions in line with vulnerable or IDP operation.
- Experience of working with national and international non-Governmental organizations.
- Good communication skills and ability to conduct training and awareness.
- Computer skills (Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel).
- Ability to communicate in English, write reports in English and consolidate the reports prepared by protection monitoring assistants into formal English documentation
- Ability to communicate in local languages.
- Good organizational and management skills.
- Willingness and ability to work full time in the field directly with communities
Essential knowledge and skills:
- Extensive knowledge of Nigerian displacement context.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Excellent interpersonal and team-playing skills.
- Highly flexible, with the ability to use initiative.
- Ability to work in a multi-cultural environment.
- Commitment to humanitarian principles and values.
- Understanding of gender, protection, and human rights.
- Commitment to promoting gender equality.
Preferred experience:
- Proficiency in English and local language, both oral and written.
- Managerial experience, including leading/supervising subordinate staff, organizing activities and report writing.
- Experience in training and capacity-building of staff.
- Experience in protection.
- Preferable experience operating in a refugee/IDP camp environment.
How to Apply:
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and Cover Letter in one single pdf attachment via email to: [email protected] using the Job Title and Location in the subject line. E.g., “CCCM Social Worker-Protection – Borno”.
Application Closing Date: 18th September 2022
Note:
- Applicants are advised that Care Aid does not require any payment or expense during the entire recruitment process. Any request in this direction should be immediately reported as it is contrary to the values and practices of our organization.
- Due to the volume of applications received, Care Aid may not provide feedback to all applicants. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
- Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible, as applications will be reviewed as received.
- The position is required as soon as possible, Care Aid reserves the right to select a candidate and finalize the recruitment before the closing date, if considered necessary
