Child Protection Technical Advisor

Are you a person of compassion? An advocate for justice? Someone who stands up for the rights of the vulnerable and speaks out for the marginalized, the exploited and the forgotten?  Do you believe in our calling as Christians to welcome the least of these and love our neighbor?

If you answered 'yes', to any of the above, World Relief, and millions of people around the world need you.

At this pivotal moment in time, we are rapidly expanding and growing our team to meet the increasing needs of our world. We are looking for people who want to use their gifts and talents to make a real and tangible difference in our world and the lives of the suffering.

If you're looking for a purpose-driven career in which you can grow your talents, while also standing up for the rights of the vulnerable, we want you to join us today.

ORGANIZATION SUMMARY:

World Relief is a global Christian humanitarian organization whose mission is to boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church. The organization was founded in the aftermath of World War II to respond to the urgent humanitarian needs of war-torn Europe. Since then, for 80 years, across 100 countries, World Relief has partnered with local churches and communities to build a world where families thrive and communities flourish.

Today, organizational programming focuses on humanitarian and disaster response, community strengthening and resilience, and refugee & immigrant services and advocacy.

POSITION SUMMARY:

As a member of a cross-sectoral programming advisory team, this role's primary function is to grow World Relief's Child Protection portfolio and deliver technical assistance in alignment with International Programs strategy. The position will drive the technical excellence of World Relief's child focused programming and larger Protection sector work. Primary responsibilities include: business development, program technical assistance, strategy, learning and impact, and external engagement.

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Business Development (40%)
• Grow WR's Protection, with a focus on Child Protection, and Early Childhood Development portfolio and funding through leads development, pre-positioning, and the development of high-quality concept notes and proposals.
• Collaborate with the Business Development team to create guidance and equip country offices in relevant partner mapping and relationship development.
• Support prepositioning through development of capacity statements and capture trips.
• Co-design approaches with country teams through the facilitation of design workshops and development of appropriate theory of change, logframes and indicators.
• Review proposals to ensure compliance with donor requirements for technical sections, especially as related to protection mainstreaming.

• Contribute support in writing of pertinent technical sections as needed.

• Program Quality and Technical Assistance (30%)

• Act as global technical lead for supporting implementation and continued growth of World Relief's Child Protection, ECD and Parenting programming.
• Provide technical support to country offices with assessments, program planning and design, monitoring and evaluation, capacity building, and program quality assurance.
• Monitor the progress of programming in assigned portfolio and maintain regular contact with project staff through written and verbal check-ins to ensure country teams are well-oriented to monitoring and evaluation frameworks, technical reporting requirements, and are able to implement projects with technical excellence.
• Champion the integration of Child Protection and ECD components within other sectoral programming (e.g. health, women's empowerment, etc) through collaboration with other sector leads and country offices and development of new guidance and tools.
• Contribute to the development of a programmatic strategy framing WR's Protection work.
• Carry out project visits to country offices for sectoral training, program monitoring and evaluation, quality improvement, and partner development and collaboration.
• Prepare timely technical reports on project progress and evaluations for internal and external audiences, including donor reports.

• Develop programming guidance and tools (including capacity building strategies, curricula, and M&E tools) in collaboration with other sectoral teams to help country office staff design and implement context-specific projects.

• Strategy, Learning and Impact (15%)

• Work with MEAL team to strengthen MEAL frameworks and assessment tools to strengthen evidence base for WR's Child Protection and ECD work.
• Stay abreast of new developments and innovations in the Protection sector and the child protection and child development fields to ensure program compliance and incorporate into staff capacity building, design of new projects and scaling up of best practices.
• Foster learning and collaboration among staff through the facilitation of the WR Child Development and Protection Community of Practice.

• Strengthen documentation and evidence-building around WR's ECD and Child Protection programming work for internal learning and external publications through the development of case studies, project briefs, and published articles.

• External Engagement (15%)

• Build WR's technical brand through thought-leadership, networking and engaging with partners, donors, governments and community leaders and addressing professional conferences and technical forums through abstracts, program presentations, publications, and advocacy.
• Any other duties as requested by supervisor

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• Mature and personal Christian faith
• Committed to the mission, vision, and values of World Relief
• Desire to serve and empower the Church to impact vulnerable communities
• Able to affirm and/or acknowledge World Reliefs Core Beliefs, Statement of Faith, Christian Identity and National Evangelicals For the Health of The Nation document
• Demonstrated technical expertise and experience in designing and providing technical assistance to child protection programming in emergencies and in protracted humanitarian crises, including familiarity with minimum standards for child protection in humanitarian action and other tools and guidance from the Global Child Protection Area of Responsibility (GCP AoR).
• Familiarity with USAID Policies and Guidance related to humanitarian programming, the Protection sector, child safeguarding, the Thrive strategy, and other relevant program areas.
• Proven experience in program design and business development evidenced by successful grant awards and past history of working with BHA, PRM, and UNICEF.
• Demonstrated experience in monitoring and evaluation utilizing quantitative and qualitative methodology, including development of indicators, logframes, and assessments.
• Experience in working with a multisectoral team and projects to ensure protection is integrated within other sectoral programming
• Ability to manage competing priorities.
• Must be able to establish strong relationships cross culturally.
• Proven solid analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong facilitation skills and proven experience providing capacity building for adults.
• Strong English writing and oral presentation skills.
• Ability and willingness to travel to program countries for up to 25% of time including to insecure locations where freedom of movement may be limited and areas where amenities are limited.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience working in international development in technical assistance type roles

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master's Degree in International Development, Human Development, Social Work or other related field.
• At least 3 years of experience working in fragile or conflict-affected areas or with people on the move as a key target population

World Relief offers a competitive benefits package and employee discount program for full-time and part-time employees.

World Relief is honored to be recognized with the Gold-level Cigna Healthy Workforce Designation for exceeding the core components of our well-being program including leadership and culture, program foundations and execution, and whole person health.

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Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.

For World Relief staff, strong commitment to the mission, vision, and values of World Relief is essential, and Christian faith is a prerequisite for employment, based upon United States federal guidelines provided in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Final compensation will be based on experience of candidate and geographic location.