Child Protection Project Assistant

Request for Expression of Interest 

People in Need Moldova needed a Child Protection Project Assistant 

Organization - People in Need  

Job Title - Child Protection Project Assistant 

Duty station - Comrat, Gagauzia, Moldova 

Application Deadline - January 8, 2025, by COB. 

Education & Work Experience  

  • Minimum of Bachelors in Social work, Counselling Psychology, or relevant discipline; 

  • Previous work experience in community development or with an NGO (preferably in child protection); 

  • Minimum 2 years of professional experience working with children; 

  • Excellent communication and engagement skills with children and their caregivers; 

  • Computer knowledge – Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook. 

  • Able to empathize with children and families that have been impacted by the humanitarian emergency; 

  • Strong skills in monitoring, evaluation, research and conducting participatory, community-led assessments; 

  • Experience working with case files and databases and providing regular documentation; 

  • Excellent community mobilization skills;  

  • Ability to work individually and within a team; 

  • Good analytical, problem solving and project planning skills; 

  • Able to communicate clearly and strategically with internal and external stakeholders as a representative. This includes effective negotiation and representation skills; 

  • Excellent writing, facilitation, and organizational skills; 

  • Experience managing child protection cases in a sensitive and child friendly manner; 

  • Languages: Russian(required)English/Ukrainian(desirable). 

Type of contract - Employment contract; Full-time work 

Expected Duration of Assignment - 13/01/2025 - 31/05/2025

Background:  

People in Need (PIN) is a Czech non-governmental organization that provides relief aid and development assistance while working to defend human rights and democratic freedom. It is one of the largest relief and development organizations in post-communist Europe and has administered projects in 37 countries over the past 30 years. See here for more information about PIN: www.peopleinneed.net. 

From 2009 onwards, PIN has added development programmes to its work in Moldova, building a vision and practices that keep people and communities at the center of our work. Throughout its presence in the country, PIN has been contributing to the development of the following sectors: Sustainable Livelihood and Environment, Social Inclusion and Protection, Good Governance. 

Position Overview:   

The Child Protection Assistant (CPA), part of the Social Inclusion and Protection Sector within the Relief and Development Department (RDD), takes overall responsibility for implementing all case management steps, including carrying out and documenting protection assessment, developing case plan, taking all the actions to strengthen protective environment of refugee children in Moldova.  CPA will ensure children harmed or at risk of being harmed are identified and receive individual case management support by conducting documentation, assessments, action plans, direct service provision, referrals and follow ups for an assigned case load of children, provide support to families in the process of case management and directly work with other Assistants and service providers on management of caseload and referrals.  

Duties & Responsibilities: 

  • The caseworker will provide quality case management services to children who have experienced or are at risk of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation or are otherwise vulnerable in line with the eligibility criteria and case prioritization guide; 

  • Guide children and their families through the case management process (identification and registration, assessment, case planning, implementation of the case plan, follow-up and review, case closure) as outlined in the Standard Operation Procedures; 

  • Provide psychosocial support and emotional support to children and families throughout the case management proces;   

  • Conduct safe referrals to essential services as appropriate, and follow-up to ensure services provided were responsive to the needs identified within the assessment; 

  • Liaise with community members, service providers, NGO partners and government stakeholders to identify and safely refer children at risk;  

  • Participate in inter-agency case conferences (presentation of cases and dissemination of challenges if applicable); 

  • Provide feedback on written documents and the design of future programming; 

  • Consistently and proactively monitor/assess the safety and security of field teams; promptly reporting concerns or incidents to management. 

Interested applicants must submit the following: 

  • Cover letter (in English); 

  • full CV (in English); 

  • Contacts of three references (one should include the supervisor in the most recent work assignment). 

The above shall be sent to the following address: https://apply.workable.com/people-in-need-2/j/9E63AF9B54/apply/  

Deadline for applications: January 8, 2024, by COB. 

The applicants will be invited for interviews on a rolling basis. The application process might be stopped earlier if a suitable candidate is identified before the application deadline. 

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for the interview. No phone calls or inquiries are allowed. 

People in Need is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behavior at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct and committed to promoting the welfare of children and adults with whom People in Need engages /is in contact with. People in Need expects all staff to perform job duties and responsibilities in accordance with People in Need code of conduct and key policies (available at: https://www.peopleinneed.net/key-policies-4142gp). People in Need Staff will undertake the appropriate level of training. 

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. 

We are committed to ensuring diversity (people from different social and ethnic backgrounds and of different genders, sexual orientations, etc.) within our organization and encourage interested candidates to apply. 

By sending their CV and other documents to the aforementioned link the candidate implicitly consents to their personal data appearing in the CV and such other documents being held and processed by PIN exclusively with the view to analyzing the candidate’s suitability for the position and keeping such data in our files for a reasonable period of time in accordance with the PIN's Data Protection Policy. The candidate can revoke such consent anytime by sending an according notice. Kindly refrain from including any special personal data, whose processing, as per applicable law, requires the express written consent of the subject of such data.