- Where
- Buea, Southwest Region, Cameroon
- Level
- Mid
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…