ROLE PURPOSE:

Child Protection Social worker will be responsible for the provision of community mobilization activities in the project coverage area in Kandahar province. S/he will be responsible to work directly on community mobilization and sensitizations. KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY :

Conduct community socialization and mobilization activities with targeted communities mostly focus on door to door meetings
Organize community-based awareness raising sessions considering family-based meetings.
Community level advocacy and awareness raising on child right and child protection.
To assist the project team in conduction of awareness raising sessions at community level.
Conducting meeting with children, families and community leader to bring changes in the children life and create a protective environment for them.
Identification and reporting of key child protection issues at community level.
Triangulation to identify key intermediaries/ respondents and through chain of referrals seeks consultation to complete documentation of case profiles through questionnaires and focus group discussions.
Conduct training to family members on positive parenting, fatherhood, child rights and child protection if assigned by supervisor.                                   
Provide psychosocial support to families who needs psychosocial support
Weekly base comprehensive reporting to child protection officer
To attend district level DCAPN meeting in order to discuss child protection concerns at district level.
Actively participate in conduction of survey with children, guardians, parents + care givers, local business, local civil societies and local administration.
To assist the CP Officers in provision of relevant information that helps them to present to CPAN (while during sharing outcomes).
Report any child safeguarding concerns related to Save the Children Child Safeguarding focal point considering the SCI - Child Safeguarding Policy.
Prepare weekly and monthly report and share with line supervisor on regular basis
Prepare weekly and monthly plan and share with line supervisor at the begging of the month/week.
Utilizing knowledge and resources in efficient manner to input for designing future intervention to improve the lives and access to opportunities of children to basic child rights
Work closely with other community-based facilitators and coordinate field level activities together.  
Any other task assigned by line supervisor

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

Accountability:

holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity