Senior Advisor for Child Protection in Emergencies

As the Senior Advisor for Child Protection in Emergencies, you will provide technical leadership, strategic development, and quality implementation of child protection programming in World Vision’s humanitarian responses. You will lead the development and testing of interventions and technical guidance for Child Protection in Emergencies (CPiE), design and develop proposals to mobilize resources for maintaining or scaling up child protection in emergency programs, and ensure child protection is mainstreamed in all operations. This role involves collaboration with other sectors to promote integrated programming, deployments to field offices/responses, and dedicated technical support. You will also provide capacity building for field staff and key stakeholders through training and coaching, contribute to improving knowledge and skills of World Vision and partners’ staff in addressing protection concerns of children in crisis, and lead the development, recruitment, and ongoing engagement of the CPiE roster of surge-ready staff. Additionally, you will share global minimum standards, inter-agency guidance, best practices, and represent World Vision in global CPiE/CPHA networks for increased learning, impact, income, and influence.

Master’s degree in social work; International Development; Child Development; International Relations; Humanitarian Protection; Human Rights; or other relevant degree; Minimum 7 years of experience in a technical position related to child protection in humanitarian settings; Experience mentoring and coaching staff to improve CP technical quality and mainstreaming in key sectors such as Education, Food Security and Livelihoods, WASH, Health & Nutrition; A valid HEAT certificate is required, or willingness to attend a WV-facilitated HEAT training within 3 months of joining; Previous experience working in other sectors (i.e., Education, ECD, MHPSS, Food Security or Cash) in addition to Child Protection in Emergencies will be favorable; Experience in donor-related project design and proposal development, including grant acquisition with public and private donors such as USAID/BHA, ECHO, FCDO, GAC, ADH; Experience living and working in a fragile/humanitarian context preferred; Effective written and verbal communication in English; Other UN languages such as French, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese preferred; Ability to travel domestically and internationally as required, including up to 60% travel for deployments and technical assistance assignments.