Street Child believes that every child deserves the chance to be save, in school and learning. True to our creed, our projects focus on a combination of education, child protection and livelihood support to address the social, economic and structural issues that underpin today’s humanitarian crises. We partner with local organisations and communities to deliver our locally rooted programmes, using evidence to drive learning and the refinement and scale up of programmes to create maximum impact for the most children at the lowest cost. We pride ourselves with being willing to go to the world’s toughest places where others won’t, including remote, hard-to-reach areas and fragile, disaster-affected states across sub-Saharan Africa, South America, the Middle East and South Asia. Since 2008 we have helped over 250,000 children to go to school and learn and supported over 25,000 families to set up businesses so they can afford the cost of educating their children.

Under the overall responsibility of the Country Director and the direct supervision of the RACE FOR BOYS Project Manager, the Child Protection Assistant (CPA) will provide support and oversight to the case management team of the project. The CPA shall ensure that the case management activities of the project align with global and national child protection case management standards, including the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPMS) and inter-agency guidelines. The role involves capacity building, quality assurance and coordination to enhance the effectiveness of child protection interventions. 

The Child Protection Assistant is directly responsible for the daily execution, supervision, and localization of child protection and community-based reintegration activities. Operating at the community level, the incumbent provides end-to-end, individualized case management support to case workers for a strict caseload of 750 boys (approximately 12 new cases monthly), maintains local feedback loops, and manages community focal points. This role secures vital operational linkages with MINAS, DDR Centers, and specialized healthcare or livelihood networks, ensuring absolute alignment with Street Child Safeguarding Protocols and international CAAFAG Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).

Key Responsibilities

1.     Project Inception & Community Mobilization

• Stakeholder Coordination: Support organization for project inception workshops with government representatives (MINAS, DDR, etc), traditional community leaders, and civil society partners.
• Community Entry and Mapping: Lead strategic community entry protocols and protection asset-mapping to build local ownership and comprehensive awareness of project objectives across all 20 targeted communities in collaboration with the local partner.

2.     Prevention, Advocacy and Community Awareness

• Information Campaigns: Contextualize and systematically distribute child protection visibility materials and educational leaflets designed for caregivers, community leaders, and focal points.
• Risk Mitigation: Design and deliver localized awareness sessions highlighting Child Protection risks, the prevention of unlawful recruitment, and fundamental children's rights.

3.     Community-Based Protection Mechanisms

• Focal Point Management: In collaboration with local partner,Identify, train, and directly supervise 1 dedicated Focal Point per assigned community (managing Community Focal Points).
• Accountability Mechanisms: Establish and monitor functional, highly confidential community-based reporting and feedback channels.
• Operational Support: Administer monthly communication stipends, logistical support, and verify monthly data tracking from all community-based focal points.

4.     Direct Case Management and Data Protection

• End-to-End Tracking: Execute rigorous identification, vulnerability assessment, individual case planning, regular implementation, follow-up, and safe closure for a caseload of 750 boys.
• SOP Adherence: Uphold Best Interest Determination (BID) standards and strict Case Management SOPs at all times.
• Digital Maintenance: Ensure 100% accurate, regular data entry into CPIMS+/Primero and secure physical archiving of case files following precise information-sharing protocols.
• Emergency Funds Administration: Rapidly identify and process the most critical cases requiring emergency child protection and case management funds to answer priority survival, medical, or security needs.

5.     Referral Pathways and Institutional Coordination

• Pathway Optimization: Participate actively in Case Management Workshops alongside MINAS, DDR, and frontline partners to iteratively update referral structures and standardize CAAFAG operational templates
• Inter-Agency Review: Co-convene quarterly Case Review and Closure Sessions with MINAS Delegates across the 6 Divisions and Sub-divisions to vet case actions and transitions.
• Accompanied Referrals: Provide direct physical accompaniment and referral verification for boys to specialized Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS), formal/informal education, health care, livelihoods, and formal DDR services.

6.     Reporting, Compliance & Policy Adherence

• Reporting Deliverables: Draft actionable weekly updates, comprehensive monthly progress reports, validated human-interest success stories, and analytical lessons learned reflections.
• Safeguarding Mandate: Maintain absolute 100% compliance with Street Child's Child Safeguarding Policy and Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) frameworks.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, Psychology, Law, or a related field.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in child protection case management
• Proven experience in training and supervising case management staff
• Strong understanding of child protection principles and international standards
• Fluency in English, good working knowledge of French
• Knowledge of Pidgin English and other local lingua franca would be an added advantage
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and case management tools e,g CPIMS+
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities
• Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple tasks
• Commitment to child rights and protection