Child Protection Psychosocial Support Worker

The Child Protection Psychosocial Support Worker is responsible for leading and implementing psychosocial support activities for children and their caregivers in conflict and crisis settings. The role involves facilitating social-emotional learning, life skills, and parenting activities, ensuring child safety, and engaging with communities to support child protection programming.

Responsibilities

• Lead and implement psychosocial support activities for children and caregivers including social-emotional learning and life skills activities
• Facilitate sessions for parents/caregivers on stress management and positive parenting practices
• Create a safe environment for children to play, socialize and learn
• Observe and integrate children with special needs into activities
• Refer identified child protection cases to the IRC focal point
• Support monitoring and evaluation activities to ensure quality programming
• Identify barriers to accessing services and propose measures to reduce them
• Identify protection risks and mitigation measures
• Disseminate information on rights, duties, and services available
• Maintain relationships with communities and stakeholders to foster support for children and families
• Organize community meetings for information dissemination
• Encourage social cohesion among host and IDP communities
• Support distributions of risk reduction items and follow-up monitoring
• Take attendance, report material needs and support administrative tasks
• Complete activity trackers and contribute to reports
• Coordinate with other IRC sectors and local actors
• Participate in child protection coordination meetings
• Attend trainings and stay informed about child protection developments
• Monitor safety and security of field teams and report concerns
• Promote and adhere to IRC principles and code of conduct
• Provide translation and interpretation as needed
• Perform other tasks as requested by supervisor

Requirements

• Degree desired in Social Work, Psychology, Education, Human Rights, Social Science, Humanities or other related field
• Previous experience in implementing PSS programming for children and demonstrated understanding of working with children, particularly vulnerable children and children at-risk of violence, exploitation abuse or neglect
• Experience with community work, community mobilization and engagement, and working with children affected by conflict
• Clear understanding of and interest in the well-being of children and supporting their healing after the experience of violence
• Positive and professional attitude, including ability to lead and work well in a team setting
• Ability to keep records and write simple and basic reports of activities
• Comfortable speaking about sensitive topics in an honest, professional, and thoughtful manner
• Demonstrated understanding of and ability to maintain confidentiality and respect for clients/beneficiaries
• High degree of flexibility and strong ability to organize work, meet deadlines, maintain composure, prioritize work under pressure, coordinate multiple tasks and maintain attention to detail
• Computer literate, including Microsoft Word and Excel
• Language: Fluent in Ukrainian and Russian, basic skills in English

Skills

• Psychosocial Support
• Child Protection
• Social Mobilization
• Working with Vulnerable Children
• Social-Emotional Learning
• Life Skills Facilitation
• Parenting Support
• Conflict-Affected Children Support
• Records Keeping
• Report Writing
• Confidentiality Management
• MS Word
• MS Excel
• Work prioritization
• Task Coordination

Languages

Ukrainian, Russian, English