Summary
Date Posted: Monday, January 24, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Oversees all case management and child protection activities, including developing guidance and training materials, monitoring implementation progress, identifying and cascading solutions to improve service delivery, and sharing best practices. Case management is the main platform that is used by the project across all sites to deliver services to OVC households to improve beneficiaries’ health and social wellbeing. Will work closely with all team members including Case Management Assistants, Community Case Workers, Community Mobilisers, and Education Officers Supervising, mentoring and technical support to Case Management Assistants and Community Case Workers

Roles and Duties
• Work in close collaboration with the community mobilizers to strengthen relationship with the community and to strengthen the referral system.
• Work with the child protection team to ensure close links between case management and with Child Protection Committees
• Ensure internal referral mechanisms (with other sectors) are in place and cases are appropriately managed and followed up when referred
• Provide ongoing capacity building of case workers
• Submit regular case management reports and ensure that information is kept up to date
• Coordinate with other partners offering case management services to children on referral and transfer of cases
• Technically supervise Case Management and Child Protection program activities including the design, development, and implementation of technical guidance as it relates to Case Management and Child Protection, ensuring all activities are in line with state-of-the-art, recognized best practices for addressing needs of OVC, young people, and their caregivers.
• Train, coach, and mentor technical staff and sub-grantees responsible for the delivery of case management services, including identifying, enrolling, assessing, developing, and monitoring care plans, referring, and linking to service providers, and graduating beneficiaries
• Develop clear guidance, standard operating procedures, tools, and job aids on case management steps (enrolment through graduation and case closure) and CCWs/CHWs service delivery (i.e., nutrition assessment and counselling, psychosocial support, parenting education, education support, and identifying and responding to cases of abuse and violence)
• Oversee all child protection and parenting activities, including monitoring, and ensuring response to violence against children and gender-based violence cases.
• Build awareness of key Case Management and Child Protection concepts and principles among staff, sub-grantees, and institutions.
• Develop materials and support project officers’ methodologies for effective identifying appropriate child protection interventions for specific households, depending on the needs and resources of those households.
• In collaboration with TSC Health and HIV, ensure PreP services are available in accordance with government guidance.
• Work with consortium partner responsible for gender mainstreaming and the Technical Director and ensure case management and child protection activities are gender sensitive
• Work in partnership with other OVC technical experts in the implementation of the program
• Remain up-to-date with the latest methodologies, best practices, national and donor requirements
• Supervision, Monitoring and Learning.
• Coordinate with zone teams to ensure pre and in-service trainings for CCWs/CHW; this includes developing materials for monthly meetings as well as tracking and monitoring meeting.
• Oversee the training carried out by the technical officers, sometimes serving as a co-trainer, to ensure that they are consistently delivering project training effectively and conveying information and new ideas accurately and in a participatory manner that is appropriate for adult learners.
• Provide guidance and monitor monthly progress towards OVC_SERV, ensuring that the same families are provided with services each quarterly; problem solving with Zones teams and M&E staff if targets are not achieved.
• Work closely with CSOs through the coordination units to identify and monitor targets in compliance with M&E plan, maintain and facilitate joint operational plans, and develop or refine methodologies to track case management and child protection services over time.
• Review, analyze, and use data for Project Monitoring and Evaluation to identify issues and develop solutions to improve service delivery and implementation.
• Compile regular status, progress, and final reports regarding project case management and child protection work.
• Conduct supportive supervision to technical officers and CSO staff for mentorship and coaching and to ensuring quality delivery of services per the national and donor requirements.
• Ensure proper documentation of OVC case files i.e National Most Vulnerable Children Monitoring System Forms are correctly and filled and filed.
• Lead the development of the technical work plan for CSOs including drafting guidance, standard narratives, Gantt charts, and budget inputs; review CSOs’ work plans and budgets.
• Work on quarterly report preparations including specifying data needs, coordinating with other advisors and compiling and reviewing the report for further review.


Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Level of Education:

Job application procedure
Email your application letter and resume with names of current three references and their contact information before the Application Deadline.
Applications should be sent by email only to the addresses below and should note the position title in the Subject Line:
The 3 Referees: These must include your current employer (if employed), your peer or immediate supervisor, and A same rank colleague or subordinate who can make a honest recommendation or reference for you.
All application should be sent to:
Secretary General
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania
P.O. Box 3033
Arusha, Tanzania.
Email: elcthq@elct.or.tz 

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