Job Summary
The Protection and Inclusion (P&I) Officer leads on the “Leave No One Behind” , Safeguarding and “Do No Harm” agendas to be integrated into all Islamic Relief Kenya programmes, and ensures commitments towards Core Humanitarian Standards and Inclusion Charter are prioritized and mainstreamed.
Minimum Qualification:Bachelor
Experience Level:Mid level
Experience Length:5 years
Job Description/Requirements
Established in 1984 in the UK, Islamic Relief is an
international NGO seeking to promote sustainable economic and social
development by working with local communities through relief and
development activities.
IR started operations in Kenya in 1993 on orphan sponsorship
programme through a local CBO in Mandera District, Northern Kenya. It
opened its fully fledged office in March in 2006 at the height of
drought in the Horn of Africa. Since then, IR has been providing
humanitarian and development assistance to vulnerable communities. Over
these years it has implemented various development and relief activities
in Mandera. This has remarkably changed the lives of the vulnerable and
disadvantaged communities. In January 2010, IRK extended its operation
to Wajir County, neighbouring Mandera, in January 2012 expanded to
Garrissa and Dadaab, and in October 2017 opened programme office in
Kilifi County.
IR aim to help the needy regardless of race, religion or gender and
implement our work within the following themes: Disaster &
Humanitarian Response; Sustainable Community Empowerment; and Education,
Child Protection and DevelopmentIntegrated sustainable development is
one of the broad global goals adopted by Islamic Relief in its
institutional strategic plan that contribute to Empowering move out of
vulnerability and realize their God given potentials
Islamic Relief Kenya in pursuit to support and strengthen its
operations, seeks to employ motivated, hardworking and pro-active
individuals to fill in the following position.
Job Title:Senior Protection and Inclusion Officer (P&I)
Reporting To:Country Director
Base Location:Nairobi 60%- 40% Field offices Garissa, Kilifi, Mandera ,Moyale, Tana River and Wajir Counties
1. Scope of the Role:
The Protection and Inclusion (P&I) Officer leads on the “Leave No
One Behind” , Safeguarding and “Do No Harm” agendas to be integrated
into all Islamic Relief Kenya programmes, and ensures commitments
towards Core Humanitarian Standards and Inclusion Charter are
prioritized and mainstreamed. The candidate must have the ability to
forge strong partnerships with key stakeholders to meet the programmes
objectives. The candidate will champion and support others to ensure
beneficiaries and communities that IR works with in the country are
satisfied that IR’s approach and project activities are inclusive and
protective of the most vulnerable and marginalized.**
Key working Relationship
· Work closely with Country Line Manager, and HQ technical advisor
(Gender, Child Protection, Age and Disability), technical focal persons
such as Programme Leads, MEAL, Accountability, safeguarding and others
to ensure mainstreaming of inclusion and protection into IR country
programmes.
· Support the development and delivery of inclusive, sensitive and
accountable programmes under protection mainstreaming umbrella.
· Channel key recommendations and messaging to IR Advocacy
initiatives, as necessary, to influence policy and practice on inclusion
and protection.
· Work with key stakeholders within the country to build their
capacity on protection and inclusion, which includes child protection,
prevention of GBV, inclusion of all ages and abilities and to advocate
for accountable systems.
· Work to support and strengthen safeguarding approaches and mechanisms within the country programme .
Key Responsibilities
• Lead on the protection and inclusion agenda across the country
offices and programmes including child protection, gender mainstreaming,
age and disability inclusion and the inclusion of other socially
excluded groups.
• Conduct reviews and develop plans to ensure beneficiaries and
communities that IR works with are satisfied with IR’s approach and
project activities are inclusive and protective of the most vulnerable.
• Carry out periodic organizational assessment on inclusion and
protection using the Marker Tool across all projects and operations at
the country level and develop strategies to integrate protection and
inclusion across CO operations and projects in coordination with all
relevant departments within the CO.
• Ensure that IR’s 6 A’s Inclusive approach to programming is
consistently applied through all CO projects/ programmes and operations
• Build/ strengthen active partnerships with relevant government
agencies, UN and specialized NGOs/ CSOs partners, and strengthen
referral pathways in areas of Child protection and GBV and age and
disability.
• Network with key external stakeholders to find areas of
collaboration, best practice, innovation, knowledge sharing and
partnerships.
• Identify training needs and build the capacity of IR country staff
and other stakeholders on protective and inclusive programming.
• Ensure data collection mechanisms are in place for SADDD and data
is collected, reported on appropriately, analyzed and utilized.
• Provide technical support on inclusion and protection for new bids and proposals to ensure it is weaved into planning phase.
• Ensure CO protection and inclusion approaches are in line with
international standards such as Core humanitarian standards, inclusion
humanitarian standards and Minimum Standards for Child Protection in
Humanitarian Action, IASC gender guidelines.
• Create and lead on a protection and inclusion working group to
provide regular briefings to management and in country focal points that
support the deliverables of organizational change within the CO and
messaging for external actors.
• Document learning and evidence of impact related to protection and
inclusion initiatives and ensure these are reported to donors, IRW and
are used to inform new programming design.
• Proactively exchange learning and synergy with all involved stakeholders.
• Drafts relevant sections of reports required for donors, management, annual reports.
• Participate and influence external platforms on protection and inclusivity.
• Act as a first point of contact for staff and beneficiaries on all child protection/ protection & safeguarding issues
• Work with HQ-PQ team to ensure the implementation of a donor-funded
project on sustainable and inclusive Safeguarding mechanisms through
awareness raising of communities, capacity building of staff, developing
necessary materials and resources necessary for communicating
safeguarding messages, networking with local CSO’s.
Person Specification
Education
University degree in one of the relevant areas- International Law,
Human Rights, or Social Science, Development studies project management
Work experience
Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience or
Master’s degree and preferably 3 years of relevant professional work
experience in human rights issues, protection and/ or child protection
and GBV. Working in emergency or conflict situations in developing
countries is an asset.
Language
Fluency in English, and other national language .
Required Skills/Competencies
• Empathetic
• Excellent Communication skills
• Ability to work in a multicultural environment
• Good interpersonal skills
• Good advocacy, analytical skills
• Teamwork/working with people
• Drive for results Learning Elements
• Articulate methodology of programme and project management;
• Articulate rights based and results based programming in IR;
• Demonstrate a good understanding of IR policies and strategy to address child protection and GBV issues;
Knowledge
· Demonstrate enhanced knowledge of protective and inclusive programming
· Good understanding of CHS Commitments, SPHERE, and international standards for child protection, gender and inclusion.
HOW TO APPLY **
Please send us your cover letter and detailed CV, including your
qualifications, experience, names and addresses of three referees, a
working e-mail address and daytime telephone contacts. The forwarding
e-mail and cover letter must clearly indicate the position title on the
subject line. Send your application to
**********Tuesday 25th May 2021.
Please note that this is urgent recruitment, shortlisting will be done on a rolling basis
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