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Protection Programme Implementation and Technical Support:
· Support the planning and implementation of protection activities in line with the approved project design, DIP, performance framework, protection standards, and relevant humanitarian principles.
· Provide technical guidance to protection case workers, PSS and ERW facilitators, volunteers, partner staff, and other field teams involved in protection activities.
· Ensure protection interventions respond to identified protection risks, needs, vulnerabilities, and barriers to accessing services.
2. Protection Monitoring, Risk Identification and Referrals:
3. Monitoring, Quality Assurance and Capacity Building:
• Develop and follow up on protection activity plans, schedules, and field implementation plans.
• Monitor participation, coverage, quality, and progress against agreed protection indicators and targets.
• Conduct regular field visits and provide technical feedback and recommendations to improve protection activities.
• Support the collection, review, verification, and analysis of protection-related data and ensure that information is accurate and timely.
• Identify implementation gaps, protection risks, and emerging needs and propose appropriate corrective actions.
• Identify capacity-building needs among protection staff, volunteers, partners, and community structures.
• Support the delivery of training, coaching, mentoring, and awareness sessions on relevant protection topics, including protection principles, safeguarding, PSEA, referral mechanisms, and safe programming.
4. Coordination and Stakeholder Engagemen:
· Coordinate with relevant Protection Sector/Sub-Sector actors, authorities, partners, community representatives, service providers, and other stakeholders as required.
· Participate in relevant protection coordination meetings, working groups, technical discussions, and inter-agency coordination mechanisms.
· Engage with communities to understand protection concerns, priorities, barriers, and feedback and ensure that programme responses are appropriate and context-sensitive.
· Support community-based protection mechanisms and promote meaningful participation of women, men, girls, boys, persons with disabilities, and other potentially marginalized groups.
· Coordinate with other project sectors to ensure protection is appropriately mainstreamed across programme interventions, including Education, WASH, FSL, Health, Nutrition, and other relevant sectors..
5. Reporting, Documentation and Learning:
Required Professional Experience:
· At least 2–3 years of relevant experience in protection, humanitarian, development, or community-based programming, preferably with an NGO or humanitarian organization.
· Experience implementing or monitoring protection, child protection, community-based protection, protection monitoring, awareness-raising, or referral activities is desirable.
· Experience working with children, families, displaced populations, vulnerable groups, and communities affected by conflict or displacement.
· Experience providing technical support, coaching, mentoring, or capacity building to staff, volunteers, community structures, or partner organizations.
Experience working with Protection Sector/Sub-Sector coordination mechanisms, referral networks, local authorities, service providers, or other humanitarian actors is an advantage.
.Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification:
· Bachelor's degree in Social Work, Psychology, Sociology, Human Rights, Law, International Development, Social Sciences, or another relevant field.
· Additional qualifications or training in Protection, Child Protection, GBV, PSEA, Safeguarding, Humanitarian Action, Human Rights, or related areas are an advantage.
.Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications
· Good knowledge of Protection programming principles and approaches relevant to humanitarian and/or development contexts.
· Understanding of barriers to protection access and participation, particularly for vulnerable and marginalized children.
· Knowledge of child safeguarding, child participation, inclusion, gender, and conflict-sensitive programming.
· Good monitoring, data collection, analysis, and reporting skills.
· Strong communication, facilitation, interpersonal, and coordination skills.
Ability to work effectively with partners, community representatives, education
.Travel and/or Work Environment Requirement
The position requires ability and willingness to travel to other WV project sites when needed
.Physical Requirements:
· Ability to effectively coordinate with staff and key stakeholders ensure successfully program implementation.
.Language Requirements:
· Arabic, English