Job Title: Assistant Technical Officer (PSS – Safe Healing and Learning)
Requisition: 2021200172
Location: Damasak, Borno
Job type: Full time
Supervisor: Field Coordinator
Project Description
The Humanitarian crises in Northeast Nigeria has profoundly impact children and adolescents and have caused long term disruption of every aspect of daily living, including housing, health, sanitation, recreation, and education. The crises have disrupted family relationships, disturb social cohesion, and have created feelings of isolation, uncertainty, fear, anger, loss, and sadness. This long-term exposure to the humanitarian crises in Northeast Nigeria without appropriate mitigation have been damaging to both physical and mental health of affected population.
Under the Protection Sector, FHI 360 aims at improving the wellbeing of vulnerable individuals through increased access to Psychosocial Support Services (PSS) and integrated Gender-Based Violence (GBV) support and Child Protection. Position objectives under the Psychosocial Support Sub Sector (Specializing in Safe Healing and Learning) includes:
- To establish and or oversee management of Safe Healing and Learning Spaces (SHLS) aspect of PSS for children and families and Communities and oversee the delivery of group Social Emotional Learning.
- To provide support and coaching to the PSS-SHLS Assistant Technical Officers.
- To ensure monitoring, documentation, and reporting on activities
- To liaise and coordinate with other stakeholders (other FHI360 Sectors and/or service providers)
Basic Function
- Under the overall supervision of the Field Coordinator (FC) and technical supervision of the Technical Officer – PSS-SHLS, the ATO, Safe Healing and Learning will oversee the implementation of the Safe Healing and Learning approach and the implementation of adolescent mentoring sessions.
- The ATO will ensure social emotional learning sessions, indoor and outdoor activities are conducted as per the SHLS established standards.
Qualifications and Requirements
- BSc / BA in Sociology, Psychology, Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, or its recognized equivalent with one to three years of relevant experience with NGO or CBO.
- Experience in Child Protection programming especially in implementing SHLS is an advantage. Familiarity with Nigerian law enforcement systems and NGOs and CBOs are highly desirable.
Knowledge, Skills & Attributes:
- Knowledge and experience implementing the Safe Healing and Learning Space tool kit.
- Experience in facilitating training and mentorship of local communities to support child protection activities.
- Experience implementing adolescent mentorship projects.
- Mandatory fluent in English and Hausa. Knowledge of Kanuri and Shuwa Arab is an added advantage.
- Excellent report writing skills.
- Good communication and negotiation skills
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Understanding and commitment to child’s rights and child protection issues
- Ability to live in a non-family field location with minimum access services.
- Excellent computer skills
- Dynamic, pro-active
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