BACKGROUND:
Following the earthquake on January 12, 2010 the IRC immediately deployed its emergency response team to appropriately respond to needs within the community. Children and youth have been disproportionately affected by this crisis. Thousands of children have been separated from their families or orphaned in a country, Haiti that was already the poorest in the Western hemisphere with enormous child protection problems to start with.Schools, training institutions, youth centers and children’s organizations have been destroyed, leaving children with few safe spaces where they can access psychosocial support, recreational and educational activities and other social services. Children and youth have little choice but to roam the streets, attempting to gain access to food, water, shelter and other basic supplies,exposing them to all kind of risks to abuse, exploitation, violence and neglect.
SCOPE OF WORK:
The Child and Youth Protection and Development (CYPD) Coordinator will be responsible for aspects of strategy development, program development and design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of all CYPD related activities within the IRC Haiti country program. The CYPD Coordinator will also ensure that those interventions are technically sound, take into account international best practices, and are appropriately meeting the needs of the beneficiaries in target communities.
The Child and Youth Protection and Developpement (CYPD) department of IRC Haiti includes 3 sectors:
- Child Protection: Work closely with the Haitian social welfare on setting a national Foster care system up, and, assess and register separated children living in residential centers; Reunify separated children from the centers and children living in domestic servitude; Conduct sensitization actions in community.
- Youth and Livelihood: Provide support to vulnerable youth in accessing employment and self employment opportunities. This includes business and life skills training, mentoring, acess to financial services and linkages to private sector opportunities.
- Education: Train primary school teachers with technology means in rural areas.
The CYPD Coordinator is in charge of the CYPD department with a team of about 30 persons including a CYPD manager and Education manager.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Representation & Partnership
Form strong relationships with relevant Ministry officials, helping to establish IRC as a key actor in Education, Youth and Livelihoods and Child Protection
Develop, maintain and/or initiate partnerships with community based organizations (, international and local NGOs, UN Agencies, potential and current donors and Government Ministries to support IRC programming
Support linkages with the private sector in order to create employment opportunities for youth
Represent IRC at CYPD related coordination meetings, ensuring proper dissemination of information among relevant stakeholders
Program Management and Development
Support the development of a country wide CYPD strategy for IRC-Haiti that reflects needs, assets and programming direction that is in line with best practices in the fields of education, child protection and youth livelihoods;
Develop a CYPD Sector Strategy for Haiti (CSS)
Play a leadership role in identifying new funding and developing new CYPD proposals in line with the strategy
Develop and maintain a monitoring & evaluation plan, including the systematic collection and analysis of data
Work closely with sector staff to develop and realize a ‘mainstreaming’ strategy to ensure that child and youth protection issues are sufficiently integrated into all aspects of programming
Develop synergies with other IRC programming areas (Women’s Protection and Empowerment, Governance and rights, health and environment health)
HR Management
Participate in recruiting and training CYPD staff
Ensure that all CYPD staff have regular performance evaluations and receiveongoing feedback
Provide ongoing support, mentoring and on the job training for direct supervisees
Actively seek out formal and informal training opportunities for CYPD staff
Oversees the creation of a ‘nationalization’ plan within the sector, assessing and highlighting the capacity building needs of national staff and the handing over of activities to Haitian actors, organizations and authorities.
Progressively handover responsibilities to the two managers (CYPD and education) to develop their autonomy
Budget, Administrative and Grants Management
Ensure that budgets are properly forecast and spent as per donor regulations
Review budget vs. actual reports, providing feedback as necessary
Ensure CYPD staff and partners understand and respect IRC Mandatory Reporting Policy- MRP - on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, Sexual Harassment and Financial Misappropriation, gender policy, CYPD sector framework and other relevant documents and referential IRC policies and procedures
Ensure all grants are implemented according to donor regulations and guidelines
Ensure the timely submission of donor reports
REQUIREMENTS:
Masters Degree in a child or youth related field, (eg. education, social work, community work)
6-year experience in the humanitarian world; at least two-year experience of those in implementing programs related to family tracing and reunification, child protection or youth & livelihoods related programming
International experience with preference in Haiti
Good knowledge and understanding of international child protection, youth and education policy and practice issues
Understanding of how to support the transition from direct service delivery to working in partnership with local actors (government ministries, civil society organizations, etc.)
Planning, monitoring and evaluation skills
Personnel management experience, including staff capacity development and team building experience
Ability to work well both within a team and independently, in a challenging, fast-paced multicultural environment·
Good coping strategies in stressful and emergency situation, calmness is a requirement
Ability and experience in working with a range of development actors including the private sector
Excellent English speaking and writing skills,including previous proposal writing experience
Fluent in spoken and written French
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