Project Officer - Ending Violent Against Children Project - Luc Yen District, Yen Bai Province

World Vision Vietnam (WVV) invites competent Vietnamese candidates for the position:
Special Project Officer for Ending Violence Against Children in the Greater Mekong Sub-region project (EVAC-GMS) in Van Chan, Area Development Programs
EVAC project in Viet Nam is to care for and protect vulnerable children and youth from child trafficking, abuse, neglect, exploitation and all other forms of violence within supportive families and communities in 4 APs (Luc Yen and Van Chan APs in Yen Bai province; Muong Cha and Tuan Giao APs in Dien Bien province). From October 2017 to September 2020 (4 years), the project plans to achieve 4 main outcomes: (i) children and youth, especially the most vulnerable, are empowered with the skills and knowledge to reduce their personal risk to trafficking and related forms of violence; (ii) families and caregivers are provided with access to adequate and appropriate services in order to care for and protect their children; (iii) communities are strengthened and working together to create a safe and protective environment for all children; (iv)Systematic barriers are reduced to addressing violence against children, including trafficking.
PURPOSE OF POSITION:
Facilitate and support district, commune people’s committees or district/commune child protection committees to plan, implement, monitor EVAC project activities to achieve project annual outcome/outputs with integration with current AP and district/commune social economic development plans.
Main Responsibilities:
Planning
- Assistance is provided to the EVAC Project Manager and AP manager with technical support from Project Coordinator and DME Officer to develop Plan of Action at grassroots levels, ensuring the integration between EVAC and AP.
- Problems and alternative solutions as well as opportunities for partnership are identified by participating in community needs assessments including stakeholder analysis and situation analysis in collaboration with other AP team members.
- Potential stakeholders and resources are identified for partnerships/ project implementation in the target locations.
Project Activities Implementation, Monitoring and Reporting
- Assistance is provided to partners in providing safe migration assistance services.
- Partnership with the community based Child Protection Committees on child protection and combating violence is promoted and strengthened.
- Assistance is provided to training on life skill education and vocational training for children and youth.
- Direct assistance and protection services are provided to vulnerable and victims of trafficking and child protection incidents.
- Support is provided to each client and the progress of his/her reintegration is tracked in cooperation with government counterparts.
- Meetings with volunteers, case workers and Project Management Boards (PMB) for reflection and case management review are organized monthly or when needed.
- Appropriate expenditures/utilization of funds are ensured
- Partnership with appropriate stakeholders is established
- Project activities at the AP level are monitored to ensure the project goal and outcomes are achieved
- Information about project activities is gathered and documented regularly.
- Act as a contact person of the AP for routine issues concerning EVAC
- Attend reflection meetings at AP and EVAC meetings at national level
- Assistance is provided to EVAC Project Manager and AP manager with technical support from Project Coordinator and DME Officer in project design, implementation, monitoring and reflection
- Project activities are implemented in integration with the other projects at APs
- Project reports are developed in good quality and delivered on time
- Ensure EVAC related document at field are filed for references
- Follow strictly WVV finance procedures and guidelines
- Support Project Coordinator in liaising with Provincial Program partners upon request
- Contribution is made to project baseline survey, participatory rural appraisal, final evaluation, or other social surveys
Capacity Building
- Volunteers and caseworkers are trained on facilitation and program skills.
- Life skill and positive parenting education provided to targeted groups.
- Assistance is provided to the Project Coordinator in capacity building for caseworkers and government counterparts who will carry out child protection activities at grassroots levels
- Behaviour Change Communication is provided to and lesson learnt of EVAC project activities is shared with other APs.
Documentation
- Contribution is made to project good practices, lesson learnt and MSCs and other documentations upon request

- Attractive Salary and Bonus - Health Insurance and Social Insurance Regulated by Vietnam Labor Law - Professional, Dynamic working Environment