About

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY Results-oriented and focused protection officer with several years of career experience in protection (case management, mental health and psychosocial support operations of child protection projects). Strong ability to identify community strengths and weaknesses and develop relief initiatives from information obtained. Excellent team builder and motivator with honed communication and analytical thinking skills.

Skills

  • Communication
    8
  • Teamwork
    9
  • Problem-Solving
    8
  • Creativity
    9
  • Leadership
    8
  • Basic financial and administrative skills.
    5
  • Possession of good report writing skills
    9

Experience

Andrew Asaph Rufi

Work experience
  • Duties;
  • Planning and implementation of activities.
  • Support health facilities to be adolescent friendly and gender responsive.
  • Support on the development and implementation of all health (SRH & mental health training activities on the project, ensuring the highest quality of standard.
  • Ensuring activities carried out at the child friendly spaces are age appropriate.
  • Identify community based child protection mechanisms at the community.
  • Supervises protection interventions including the provision of appropriate and timely supervision of psychosocial support activities, case management services, identifying training needs of protection assistants, and ensuring that protection issues are effectively embedded in all programming.
  • Ensures protection services and activities are delivered in line with international quality standards.
  • Oversees the distribution of cases among the case workers by the Case Worker Team Leader, ensuring that team and individual caseloads.
  • Verifies the status of the case management database, conducts case reviews and provides feedback.
  • Supports in developing tools to ensure up to date and technically sound mechanisms are in place for gender and protection mainstreaming.
  • Provides guidance to outreach volunteers and social workers in the planning and implementation of participatory community activities, awareness sessions and campaigns and in the general communication with communities;
  • Supports the planning, implementation and reporting on all protection activities via monthly work plans, schedules and team management.
  • Provides verbal and written feedback on a daily basis to direct supervisor; assist in writing regular narrative and quantitative reports when requested.
  • Identify and select child protection community volunteers.
  • Regular monitoring and evaluation of Child Friendly Spaces, Youth friendly spaces and life skills activities.
  • Reporting all activities (weekly, biweekly and monthly reports)
  • Conduct training and provide technical support to volunteers.
  • Conduct psychological interventions.
  • Provide support in the development of curricula, advocacy and community mobilization strategies, including information, education and communication (IEC) materials and radio messages to ensure service delivery issues are captured.
  • Give Psychological First Aid.
  • Adheres to child protection guiding principles

Andrew Asaph Rufi

Work experience
  • Implement and monitor child/GBV protection and education projects in target areas, in accordance with project objectives, activities, targets and budgets.
  • Ensures that activities are appropriately monitored and evaluated and propose adjustments to project or program strategies, in consultation with the Child Protection Coordinator and Deputy Coordinator.
  • Contributes to initial and periodic assessments of the Child Protection and Education project activities and impact, through field visits and staff meetings.
  • Contributes to the contextualization of CP/EiE technical tools and materials
  • Forecasts and follow up on expenditures related to CP and EiE projects and participate in budget revision sessions;
  • Develops M&E plans, contribute to the design and development of relevant data collection tools to ensure effective implementation and monitoring at field level;
  • Collects data and information to report on project indicators and ensure that assigned projects are on track, making necessary adjustments where need be;
  • Contributes to proposal development in close collaboration with the Program Coordinator;
  • Prepares timely procurement requests in line with project needs and budgets.
  • Identifies logistic and admin support needs related to assigned projects and communicate these to the relevant support departments
  • Provides minutes of meetings to the Program Coordinator.
  • Ensures monthly data analysis reports on CP and EiE activities are submitted.
  • Prepares periodic project narrative reports on assigned grants.
  • Support structured MHPSS activities for groups of boys and girls of different age groups, with particular attention to survivors of SGVB, unaccompanied children and other children who present with signs of poor mental health and distress.
  • Identify MHPSS service providers and agree on referral pathways for children with severe mental disorders.
  • Individual counselling sessions with children and beneficiaries where required to discuss complex cases.
  • Other task as requested by the child protection manager.

Andrew Asaph Rufi

Work experience
  • Supports Protection (CP and GBV) and Education team recruitments within designated projects, contribute to the development and revision of job descriptions in collaboration with the Program Manager.
  • Ensures the project team has a clear understanding of CHAD’s mandate and projects through an initial induction meeting followed by regular weekly and ad-hoc get-together with relevant staff;
  • Leads and manage staff, encouraging effective teamwork and providing supervision and guidance, including regular and constructive feedback.
  • Reports incidents and difficulties encountered with any staff members to the Program Manager.
  • Organizes and leads weekly team meetings and provides weekly program update and movement plan to program manager.
  • Identification of suitable locations for child friendly spaces setting up.
  • Planning and implementation of activities.
  • Ensuring activities carried out at the child friendly spaces are age appropriate.
  • Identify community based child protection mechanisms at the community.
  • Strengthening community based child protection committee.
  • Identify and select child protection community volunteers.
  • Regular monitoring and evaluation of Child Friendly Spaces, Adolescent Centre’s, and children’s club.
  • Reporting all activities (weekly, biweekly and monthly reports compilations)
  • Adheres to child protection guiding principle

Andrew Asaph Rufi

Work experience
  • November, 2015 - October, 2016
  • Fulltime
  • Member of the psychiatric team.
  • Conduct therapies, (individual, group, and family)
  • Perform duties delegated upon by superiors at office.
  • Conduct psychological assessments using psychological tools, (MMPI, EPQ etc.)

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