Internal Vacancy - Child Protection Officer

War Child believes no child should be part of war. Ever.

Children have the right to grow up in peace, free from fear and violence. To develop their full potential and become the person they want to be. War Child makes a lasting impact. By protecting children from violence and offering psychosocial support and education. We unleash the children’s inner strength with our creative and involving approach. And inspire as many people as we can to participate in our cause. War Child is both implementing its own programmes and cooperating with a variety of partner organizations in 16 countries around the world. www.warchildholland.org

War Child is looking for a:

Child Protection Technical Officer

(Internal Vacancy do not Share Externally)

War Child (WC) is an independent and impartial international non-governmental organization investing in a peaceful future for children and young people affected by armed conflict. WCH works to enable adults and empower children and young people affected by armed conflict to bring about positive and lasting changes in their lives. Our activities seek to maximize children and young people’s participation in both project activities and broader decision affecting their lives, those who have previously been excludes from participating in such decision-making. As an organization, we are committed to promote, strengthen, and support the meaningful participation of children and young people.

Your challenge

• Assist in designing child protection capacity building plans for staff and partners
• Deliver child protection sessions, trainings and briefings, including tailored trainings where needed and feasible, to staff and partners.
• Provides ongoing and necessary technical support, guidance and advice to program staff and partners in the field of child protection, including child safety
• Delivers safeguarding briefings when needed to external visitors and new staff, in coordination with the SG focal point.
• Coordinate with other team members, mainly PSS and Education teams, to ensure that child protection connects and is mainstreamed in other WCH areas of work
• Represent WCH externally, in relevant platforms/networks focused on child protection themes, including CPiEW and PSS committee
• Contribute to the development/revision of child protection materials developed in working groups/platforms/networks
• Referral focal point : receive cases in need of CP services assess them and do the proper referrals.

Your profile

Necessary experience:

• At least one year of experience in delivering trainings;
• Psychosocial Support experience is an add value
• Able to support individual cases in need of immediate CP intervention
• Knowledge and experience working on RIMS platform
• Knowledge of current principles and practices of safeguarding- PSEA and Child Protection;
• Understanding of child rights (programming) in conflict and post conflict environments
• Strong critical analysis and strategic thinking skills;
• Planning and coordination ability;
• Monitoring and Evaluation ability;
• Ability to provide (creative/interactive) trainings;
• Excellent communication skills; ability to give and receive feedback;
• Affinity with children and young people;
• (Cultural) sensitivity;
• Result-oriented;

Require skills:

• Experience in Child Protection domain and Psychosocial Support
•  Experience in working in complex contexts
• Prior experience and proven capability in training and capacity development
• Experience in conducting counseling and awareness sessions
• Fluency in English and Arabic both written and verbal
• Experience in collecting information and writing reports.
• Handling insecure environments
• Planning and delivering results
• Communicating with impact and respect
• Analyzing
• Coping with change
• Demonstrated experience in monitoring and evaluation of projects

   

  Nice to have skills

• Art intervention skills
• Good knowledge on inclusion
• Previous experience working in camps.
• Good experience working with vulnerable  children ( Child Labor cases)

Job Location:                              Beirut, Lebanon

Starting date:                               as soon as possible

How to apply

Interested and qualified candidates are invited to apply before the 14th of January, 2024, using the Below mentioned link.

The safety of children is essential to War Child. War Child does not tolerate or accept any form of abuse. 
This subject is addressed in our recruitment and selection procedures.