Programme Officer – Adolescent Cash Plus Programme

About

The UN Volunteer will provide county-level technical and operational support to SDCS for implementation of the Adolescent Cash Plus programme, including integrated adolescent safe spaces, programme management, monitoring and referrals. The assignment is based in Homa Bay County in year 1 and requires relocation to Bungoma County in year 2. Duty station: Homa Bay County in year 1; relocation to Bungoma County in year 2.

How to apply

Apply online through the official advert page on the UN Volunteers portal.

Responsibilities

• Support SDCS and county teams to plan, coordinate and monitor county-level implementation of the Adolescent Cash Plus programme, including work planning, action tracking, meeting documentation, bottleneck follow-up and timely escalation of implementation issues.
• Support operationalization and implementation of the integrated adolescent safe spaces, including facilitator guides, job aids, quality checklists, attendance tools, safeguarding protocols, referral tools, reporting templates and learning materials.
• Provide practical implementation support to Children Officers, Child Protection Volunteers, safe space facilitators and community structures to deliver adolescent safe spaces, life skills, positive parenting linkages, social behaviour change activities and adolescent participation processes in line
• Support implementing partners (CSOs) to align workplans, budgets, Programme Documents, training plans, reporting schedules and field-level activities with the Adolescent Cash Plus programme design, UNICEF procedures, donor commitments and SDCS priorities.
• Facilitate coordination between SDCS, county departments responsible for children services, education, health, gender, youth, social protection and relevant community structures to strengthen multisectoral referral pathways and local ownership of the programme.
• Support identification and referral of adolescents and households requiring complementary cash plus interventions, including child protection case management, psychosocial support, health and Social Health Authority linkages, school re-entry support, disability inclusion services, parenting support,
• Maintain and periodically update county service directories, referral pathway maps and non-identifying referral-tracking tools, ensuring that confidentiality, informed consent or assent, data protection and do-no-harm principles are observed.
• Support programme monitoring, supportive supervision and quality assurance visits to safe spaces and related programme sites, documenting progress, service gaps, safeguarding risks, partner capacity needs, referral bottlenecks and recommended follow-up actions.
• Assist SDCS and UNICEF to strengthen programme management systems, including implementation trackers, county dashboards, training databases, field monitoring templates, supervision checklists, issue logs, partner follow-up matrices and monthly update notes.
• Contribute to capacity building, coaching and mentoring of frontline workers, partner staff and community actors on adolescent engagement, safe space facilitation, safeguarding, PSEA, referrals, case management linkages, disability inclusion, MHPSS-sensitive practice and documentation standards.
• Prepare concise technical updates, field visit reports, meeting notes, training summaries, action trackers, inputs to donor and programme briefs and reports, presentations and documentation of lessons learned and promising practices, ensuring that sensitive case information is not disclosed in routi
• Support peer learning, county exchange, community feedback and adolescent participation activities to inform adaptive implementation and continuous improvement of the Adolescent Cash Plus programme.
• Other support as may be necessary to help ensure effective implementation of the Adolescent Cash Plus programme (e.g. helping to resolve bottlenecks at county or sub-county level including other aspects of the programme).