Duration of post: 1 year
Hours: Full-time – 5 days per week
Remuneration: Lodging and half-board will be provided, as well as all work-related in-country
travel; the post-holder will also be paid a locally-appropriate salary.
Supervision: The project officer will be supervised and supported by the MCT Managing Director,
who has overall responsibility for the delivery of MCT’s projects in Morocco.
Moroccan Children’s Trust
The Moroccan Children’s Trust (MCT) is a small UK-registered charity, with a board of directors
drawn from the UK and Morocco. It aims to offer support and assistance to disadvantaged families
across southern Morocco, through community projects that empower local people to change
their lives for the better. MCT’s main partner in Morocco is Fondation Amane pour la Protection
de L’Enfance, a Moroccan registered NGO based in Taroudannt, Souss-Massa.
MCT works closely with FAPE on several interconnected programmes which aim to improve the
support given to vulnerable children in Souss-Massa:
- Provincial and Regional Advocacy Programme: supporting government officials to
implement the national policy objective of an integrated child protection system, both
through a discussion-action cycle with provincial officials at the tribunal, and through
research and recommendations generated by a regional strategy group of NGOs,
convened by UNICEF and led by FAPE
- Deinstitutionalisation Action Research: A one-year programme working with a range of
professionals who have contact with vulnerable children, aiming both to deliver education
on deinstitutionalisation and child protection systems, and to generate a new
understanding of how to make progress in these areas
- Fostering Programme: A pilot programme in partnership with the Moroccan Ministry of
Justice and 4 other NGOs, aiming to place children who are currently in residential care
into high-quality, well-supported foster placements
Women’s Project
MCT and FAPE run a women’s project, based at Centre Amane, which supports the most
disadvantaged women in Taroudannt to help one another to make positive changes in their lives.
The project is based on the model of participatory women’s groups, and we are currently
considering different proposals for expansion of the project to different areas of the province.
Research
MCT works in partnership with the faculty of ‘Law and the Family’ at Université Ibn Zohr (Agadir)
to undertake research projects that examine the circumstances, needs and challenges of children
and families in difficult circumstances. The first major participatory research project examines the
thoughts and feelings of children in residential care about the idea of non-kin fostering, and this
is due for completion in 2017.
Job Description
Child Protection Advocacy
- Support the president of FAPE by representing MCT/FAPE at strategy meetings
- Participate in the planning and discussion of collective advocacy activities,
- Develop relationships with other NGO and public actors
- Develop communications related to MCT’s child protection work
- Actively look for opportunities to develop MCT/FAPE’s plan for supporting the
development of a child protection system
Projet D.A.R
- Support the project D.A.R coordinator with the implementation of the project where
needed (research, planning, evaluation, write up of the research study)
- Support the project D.A.R coordinator to manage the grant
Women’s Project
- Work with social work support officer on opportunities for the women’s group’s
current members, and the plan to develop new groups
Research
- Support and manage any research volunteer placements with MCT
- Coordinate with external researchers working with MCT/FAPE
- Help to advance MCT’s research strategy by exploring how expansion of the research
portfolio could advance MCT/FAPE’s wider strategy
Foster Care
- Support the project manager with the implementation of the foster care project:
coordinate the research elements where possible
- Support the development and evaluation of policies and procedures, making use of
research into best practice
- Support the project coordinator with advocacy elements of foster care project
- Support the evaluation of the foster care project year 1
Person Specification
This position would be suitable for a recent graduate looking to gain wider experience in the
international development sector
Essential
University degree
Fluency in either Moroccan Arabic or French
Excellent communication skills
Strong basic IT skills, including the use of spreadsheets and presentation software, eg
PowerPoint
Demonstrable ability to work well in teams
Previous experience of working across cultural/linguistic boundaries
An interest in qualitative research with disadvantaged communities
Desirable
Post-graduate degree in international development, sociology, geography, or a related field
Previous experience of working on qualitative social research
Previous experience of working with vulnerable children and families
Knowledge of Amazigh (Berber) languages, or modern standard Arabic
How to apply:
Applicants should send their CV with a cover letter explaining their interest in the role to
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