Deadline: 29 January, 2021
Location: Borno, Nigeria
Save the Children International (SCI) is seeking to fill the role of Case Management Officer.
The organisation works to ensure children around the world get health care, food and shelter as well as learning and child protection services.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate all training on case management for case workers
- Collate and compile all workplans and share with SCI weekly
- Conduct referral and protection mapping (any other assessments)
- Lead the formation and initial training of foster parents
- Ensure meetings and activities hold monthly
- Ensure all documentation, reports, and records are maintained per agreed procedure, and information is provided on community activities as required
- Facilitate mentoring and coaching of case workers on various topics, as outlined in the implementation plan
- Maintain documentation and CPIMS systems at the community/state office level
- Ensure all cases are managed with the adherence to confidentiality clause
- Coordinate case conference meetings
- Carry out daily supervision of the child protection case workers
- Ensure case workers are trained on UASC and registration of the children
- Ensure the quality of the interagency case management tools
- Report general protection issues present in the camps to SCI protection advisor
- Participate in the CP assessment and analysis process
- In coordination with the CP team, support regular participatory activities with different groups of children to identify issues affecting children in camps and assist team to develop appropriate responses
- Adhere to the child safeguarding and protection policies and reporting standards
- Write and submit weekly activity reports
Requirements
- University degree or equivalent in Social Work, Social Sciences, Development Studies or equivalent combination of relevant training and experience
- Three years, minimum, of work experience in protection work, supervision, community mobilisation and distribution, and solid understanding of the actual Nigeria emergency context
- Proven ability to supervise a CP project with holistic approach
- Fluency in English and other languages of northern Nigeria is a plus
- Computer literacy
To apply and for more information, click here.
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