Protection Case Management Assistant - North West, United Kingdom - International Rescue Committee

International Rescue Committee

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North West, United Kingdom

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Description

Requisition ID:
req43119

Job Title:
Protection Case Management Assistant

Sector:
Protection and rule of law

Employment Category:
Fixed Term

Employment Type:
Full-Time

Open to Expatriates:
No

Location:
Bamenda, Cameroon

Context

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises and helps people survive and rebuild their lives.

Founded in 1933 at the behest of Albert Einstein, IRC provides lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee war or disaster.

Present today in more than 40 countries, we are restoring safety, dignity and hope for millions of crises affected people who struggle to survive.

IRC's mission is to help people whose lives and livelihoods are disrupted by conflict or disaster to survive, recover, and take charge of their future.

IRC began operations in Cameroon in 2016 to meet some of the growing needs of people affected by Boko Haram-related violence in the country's Far North.

Assistance to displaced populations extends across the Far North, notably Mayo Sava, Mayo Tsanaga and Logone & Chari, by providing assistance to increase access to water and improve hygiene practices in the displaced communities and vulnerable hosts, cash support programs to enable poor families to meet basic needs and improve food security, and protection programs, particularly by meeting the specific needs of women and girls.

The coordination office is in Yaoundé with field bases in Maroua and Kousseri.

Following the growing crisis in the North West and South West regions of Cameroon, IRC expanded its operations to the South West region in August 2018 and the North West region in December 2019.

IRC provides vital humanitarian assistance to internally displaced populations, with a field base in Buea, Kumba and Bamenda.

IRC Cameroon is committed as expressed in its strategic action plan 2020, to continue providing essential humanitarian services, emphasizing on the need for secured communities and ensuring that affected populations can meet their basic needs, while re-enforcing beneficiaries' resilience, especially women and girls.

Summary

The protection Case Management Assistant will be responsible for overseeing the implementation of the Women, Protection and Empowerment (WPE) activities at the safe spaces and implementing the mobile response to victims of rights violations in the affected areas, as directed by the protection manager with Office's support.

This will include availability at the safe space to receive and manage cases referred by other actors, IRC staff, community focal points and those who will come themselves to seek the service.

The protection Case Management Assistant will support GBV survivors/victims of rights violation in the case management process from start to finish and will follow up and advocate for access to other available services, supervise/coach CBOs & CBPC, as well as Community Focal Persons.

Intervention zone

The protection case Management Assistant will be based in Widikum in Momo Division in the NW region where they are expected to be residing.

Responsibility

Under the direct supervision of the protection case management Officer, the Case Management Assistant will:

Ensure the management, and follow-up of survivors'/victims of rights violations' cases at the level of the safe space (For WPE Cases only) but also in the community respectively.

Ensure that the care activity respects all the GBV/PRoL guiding principles of case management.
Supervision of CBOs and community focal points, for awareness raising.
Collect data on reported cases and ensure the availability of essential information on survivors'/victims needs and necessary tools for medical referral or other necessary services (including postrape kit, confidential and private places, data sheets, etc.)
Share a weekly and monthly report of assisted cases with your supervisor.
Present a quarterly analysis of GBV/PRoL cases treated with her supervisor for programmatic guidance, including sensitization themes.
Set up an action plan with their survivor/Victims of rights violations to allow followup and support in the implementation.
Maintain good relations internally with program staff and externally with other actors involved in GBV/PRoL, namely medical providers for monitoring, support, and advocacy for access to services.
Actively participate in weekly Protection team meetings as well as in internal and external trainings, team retreats and other meetings or workshops.
Attend various meetings within and out of the IRC as requested by the Protection Case Management Officer, or the Program Manager/Coordinator;
Participate fully in the distribution on dignity kits, IPAs and related activities.
Perform other tasks requested by the ES225 Protection program hierarchy or necessary for the organization.

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