UNHCR Protection Project Case Workers - Subject to Funding

The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We believe in the power and potential of every child but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it is girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges girls and vulnerable children face. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood and we enable children to prepare for and respond to crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

For over 85 years, we have rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries.

We won’t stop until we are all equal.

Plan started working in Egypt in 1981 and has a presence in ten of the 27 governorates in which the country including Cairo, Alexandria, Giza, Beheira, Kalyoubia, Damietta, Qena, Assuit and Sohag. Plan international Egypt implements programmes designed to enable communities to improve the lives of the most marginalised children and their families. Plan Egypt’s Country Strategy focuses on five strategic objectives.

Through a five-interconnected, gender transformative and context-fit country objectives, PIE intends along with the various stakeholders at all levels to continue delivering positive and transformative changes so that “Children, especially girls, and young people grow up in an enabling environment, realizing their rights and contributing in both development and humanitarian settings as active agents of change”.

 Purpose

The purpose of the role is to follow up and monitor the project activities, while ensuring a seamless integration and quality of deliverables in line with the Country Strategy

Project’s Brief:

In continuation of collaboration between UNHCR and PIE to improve the protection status refugee children at risk through the provision of multiple protection activities and MHPSS (Mental Health and Psychosocial Support) in Egypt.

In response to the emergency in Sudan and in light of the increasing numbers of arrivals into Egypt, the project will expand its influence and services to reach the at-risk refugee children in greater Cairo to receive protection-oriented assistance and necessary care. The project aligns with UNHCR refugee response protection priorities.

PIE aims to use collaboration with UNHCR to build the foundation protection from violence approach, Following PFV PI strategy to works on 3 levels; “CAY, Parents and caregivers and community”.

This phase will focus on CAY and parents to build a good rapport with community in the target areas which prepare for new phase which can work on the three levels together to provide holistic protection services.

The new phase of the project will operate in greater Cairo and delta to reach the refugee children who face multiple protection risks- particularly child labor and child marriage which will focus on the following areas:

• Case management.
• MHPSS.
• Relevant training

Accountabilities:

• Contributing to Refugees children at risk receive protection-oriented assistance and necessary care by application of best interest assessments (BIAs) conducted with children at risk and provision of case management services to identified cases.
• Improving capacity of Syrian refugees, aged 8 to 14, to understand protection risks and violations, especially in relation child marriage and child labour through dissemination of the related manuals sessions for project target group.
• Facilitate, mobilize and support the involvement of communities and children in the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of Plan's programs
• Implement activities as per set quality standards.
• Facilitate and establish harmonious working relationships between Plan, targeted children, families, community leadership.
• Participate in beneficiary selection processes, including to facilitate and ensure the inclusion of children with disabilities and girls/women.
• Responsible for facilitating and implementing field visits to targeted children as planned and ensuring they are done properly at the community level.
• Undertake and ensure situational assessments, data collection, compiling and analysing as per the required standard.
• Undertakes primary responsibility for the implementation and follow-up of child activities and referral pathways, case management mechanisms, psychosocial support interventions and community-based support for at-risk children including unaccompanied/separated children.
• Facilitate and take a lead role in ensuring that case management services are of high quality including arranging family-based care system or other appropriate care system for unaccompanied and separated children and children without appropriate parental care.
• Prepare and submit weekly, monthly, quarterly high-quality reports
• Establishes and maintains documentation system for all program activities including, minutes of technical meetings.
• Document project learning, success stories, case studies, and learning briefs
• Ensure that Plan Egypt’s relevant policies on gender equality and inclusion, child and youth safeguarding, monitoring and evaluation and team security management are embedded into the project implementation plans.
• Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Child Protection (CPP) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI) are fully embedded per the principles and requirements of the policy including relevant Implementation Standards and Guidelines as applicable to their area of responsibility. This includes but is not limited to, ensuring staff and associates are aware of and understand their responsibilities under these policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), their relevance to their area of work, and that concerns are reported and managed per the appropriate procedures

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Location: Damietta and Cairo.

Type of Role: a contract till 31/12/2025.

Reports to: UNHCR Protection Project Supervisor.

Closing Date: 22/12/2024

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