Vacancy title:
Child Protection Officer

Jobs at:
Children’s Dignity Forum (CDF)

Deadline of this Job:
25th November, 2018

Duty Station:
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Summary
Date Posted: 31st October 2018 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed , Employment Type: Full-Time

The Children’s Dignity Forum (CDF) is a voluntary, private, non-governmental, non-partisan and non-profit-making Civil Society children’s rights organization based in Dar es Salaam as its headquarters, founded and registered in 2006 under the NGO Act No. 24/2002. CDF has offices in Tarime District, Mara Region and Mpwapwa District, Dodoma Region. For more information about CDF, please visit us at www.cdftz.org, www.facebook.com/cdftz and Instagram@cdf_tanzania. Due to the strategic expansion along with the implementation of the new CDF Strategic Plan 2020-2024, CDF is looking for the qualified and motivated person to fill the following position with immediate effect:.

JOB DETAILS:

Duties and Responsibilities

• To lead and support CDF child protection works at all levels.
  
• Ensure the quality program implementation, monitoring and other support as per the need of the RF, SP and OP.
  
• Support establishment and strengthening of the child protection structures such as the Women and Children Protection Team (WCPT), Gender and Children’s Desk and children’s clubs
  
• Liaise with the Training Officer to facilitate and organize knowledge and information sharing workshops for children, meetings and capacity building trainings for children.
  
• Organize and facilitate community dialogues and roundtable discussions on child protection with key stakeholders, community members and children in the CDF targeted areas.
  
• Provide ongoing technical support and facilitate the programme team and key partners with relevant information, update and initiatives on child protection.
  
• Monitor implementation and prepare program reports in accordance with the CDF and development partner’s agreement, requirement and reporting guidelines.
  
• Coordinate lesson learnt, best practices and documentation of success stories on child protection.
  
• Jointly with the Programme Manager maintain systems for submission of timely monthly, quarterly, bi-annual and annual reporting, following the M&E framework.
  
• Completion of all reporting requirements in line with development partners and CDF requirements
  

Qualifications, Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
Bachelor Degree in Social Science, Law, child development, social work or related disciplines.

• Knowledge of principles and practices related to child development, child protection and participation issues
  
• Demonstrable experience of working with and developing inclusive participation for children and young people.
  
• Able to work with and gain the confidence and respect of a range of children and young people (including traditionally excluded groups) in the participation process.
  
• Leadership and teamwork abilities.
  
• Able to communicate effectively (using a range of media i.e. verbal, written, web) for both adults and children and produce reports and other related materials.
  
• Able to use own initiative within an agreed framework to plan and organize workloads to meet conflicting deadlines as part of multi-agency partnership.
  
• Experience of delivering training to practitioners and able to travel.
  
• Demonstrable knowledge of a wide range of participation techniques and approaches particularly suitable for children and young people.
  
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office and Windows based computer application and database management