FPSS Team Leader

Terre des hommes- Lausanne is seeking a qualified FPSS Team Leader based in the South.

In local contexts, the FPSS Team Leader

• Promotes, facilitates and encourages the achievement of the action plan objectives.
• Works directly in the field with children, families and stakeholders of the project locations he/she is allocated to.
• Is a Tdh focal point in the community and represents the organization.
• Facilitates, collects and reports information regarding the overall situation of the children and their families in the community, with specific attention paid to the project children.
• Identifies, networks and connects child protection resources to the child, community and community structures.
• Supports and assists in the network mapping of resources specific to the locations he/she operates in.
• Shares child protection resources and information both within the Tdh staff structure and the community he/she operates in.
• Promotes and ensures the principles of child participation are respected within the Tdh project and with identified child protection resources.
• Informs his/her direct supervisor about any difficulty met in Tdh activities implementation.
• Ensures a strict adherence to Tdh Child Protection Policy at all times, including respect for confidentiality and child centered approach, and acts in the best interests of the child.

Under the management of the Child Protection Project Manager, the FPSS Team Leader performs the following tasks:

Team leadership:

• Coordinates the FPSS team and ensures that objectives are completed in a qualitative and quantitative manner in due time.
• Liaises with the project manager for the FPSS team.
• Reports activities and needs to the project manager.
• Represents Tdh in meetings and trainings while taking MoM.
• Collects all data, reports, achievements, challenges…etc from the FPSS team and communicates them with the project manager.
• Manages all PWARs and PSRs requested by the FPSS team, and keeps track of the purchasing and distribution of all the items and the submission of their delivery notes.
• Keeps track and follows up on M&E deliverables.
• Coordinates with the Senior MHPSS Technical Advisor.
• Coordinates with the local authorities and other stakeholders in the areas we are working in when needed.

Child Protection / FPSS / MHPSS Resources:

• Identifies, liaises, promotes, facilitates, coaches and when necessary delivers training to child protection and FPSS resources with a view to strengthening their capacity to respond to child protection and FPSS needs.
• Assists in the coordination and delivery of community child protection awareness raising events as determined by project objectives.
• Assists in the production of a referral pathway tool, clearly identifying both formal and informal child protection and FPSS resources.

FPSS:

• Assumes primary FPSS sessions responsibility to project targeted children.
• Ensures that risk assessment, case mapping and exit planning is conducted.
• Ensures a prompt and timely response to children determined and identified at 'high risk' through project activities.
• Promotes, ensures and establishes the child as a central actor in FPSS practices.
• Links the child, his/her family and community to child protection resources and networks of assistance.
• Attends and participates in regular FPSS meetings and takes MoM.
• Maintains FPSS documents to a high standard, complete with up-to-date information.
• Acts in the best interest of the child.
• Supports if needed the animators in their recreational activities.

Relief distribution:

• Participates in the identification of the beneficiaries.
• Participates in the monitoring of the lists.
• Participates in the organization of the distributions.
• Delivers the support to the intended beneficiaries.
• Organizes the distributions: sites planning, schedule, information to the stakeholders, governance actors, beneficiaries, and logistics arrangement with the logistics department.
• Delivers the relief items to the intended beneficiaries with respect and dignity.
• Ensures the proper recording of the distribution (filling of delivery papers, signing of distribution lists, returns forms…).
• Ensures the proper handling of the relief items on distribution sites, during transportation and the recording of each item's movement.

Monitoring:

• Participates in the monitoring of the use of the support using the methodology developed with the Project Manager.
• Performs home visits for post distribution monitoring, using questionnaires.

Reporting:

• Ensures data is collated to prove the achievement of project objectives.
• Assists in the design, maintains and uses data collection systems and punctual reporting to enable measurable results to prove the achievement of project objectives.
• Provide reports as required and directed by the Project Manager on the distributions, the monitoring, and the case management.
• Participates in the post-distribution monitoring reports.

Non-Violent Communication:

• Adheres to the principles of the NVC process while in communication with all project actors, including colleagues.
• Ensures that conflict is addressed with the principles and process of NVC with all project actors and colleagues.
• Supports and assumes responsibility, if necessary, for conflict transformation activities and actions.
• Assists the Tdh T&D department regarding identification, referral and intervention in child protection related conflict events, mediation, training and coaching of resources.

Project Neutrality:

• Ensures that Tdh's project actions or activities are non-biased, neutral and inclusive of all actors present in the Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian refugee contexts.
• Reports any breach of neutrality, even if perceived but not true, to the Project Manager.
• Promotes and ensures that all actors, regardless of political or non-political affiliations, are aware of Tdh's project's neutrality and activities with all actors in the context.

Organisational Policies:

• Respects the Tdh's Global Code of Conduct (GCD), Child Safeguarding Policy (CSP), Prevention from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Policy (PSEA) and Policy on Gender and Diversity and its principles of child protection, ensuring the policy's implementation and prompt notification of the CSP/PSEA Focal Point with any information regarding potential breaches of the policy.
• Is aware of, abides by and promote the practices and values set out in all other Tdh policies and procedures such as the Internal Regulations, Standard Operating Procedures and other policies.
• Undertakes all other duties that may be requested by the line-manager and that are compatible with the job.
• Participates actively in weekly and monthly coordination meetings with the line manager.
• Supports other teams and the line manager.

Location/Travel: South with movements to Beirut.

Job Qualifications and competencies:

Academic Background: BS in Psychology or Sociology.

Experience: 5 to 6 years of experience.

Professional Competencies:

• Child protection and FPSS knowledge, international principles & standards related to child rights, child-friendly justice, restorative justice, etc., sense of responsibility, trustworthiness & ethics, good & professional attitude).
• High level of planning, follow up and analytical skills.
• Representation: participation in working groups, representation/presentation skills, public speaking.
• Good communication and facilitation skills.
• Innovation and Development.
• Computer skills.
• Time management.
• Team work.
• Good Arabic and English skills (written and spoken).