With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Key Responsibilities:

60%

1. Provides expertise and direction in relation to holistic child development, protection, participation, ensuring contribution and alignment with organizational strategic directions as well as contributions to WV’s Child Well-Being Outcomes.
2. Initiates coaching, mentoring and building the capacity of Field Office and Project Teams to effectively facilitate programs, projects in strengthening child protection system with advocacy

3. Provides guidance in technical programming of child protection (CP), child participation and CESP across all sectors & Ministry pillars in support of and aligned with the WVDF Country strategy and in collaboration with relevant stakeholders.
4. Ensure implementation of Child Protection Minimum Requirements in CESP; child protection and participation mainstreaming in TP implementation and CP&A project model implementation in PNS/grants, whenever applicable.
5. Establish complaints and response mechanisms which WV hold accountable as a safe organization for children in all community-based programmes.(e.g reporting of inappropriate behavior toward children by staff and other WV people)
6. Provide technical support in utilizing systems approach to all child protection programming – development setting, humanitarian context, and PNS/ grants.
7. Serve as Field Office Safeguarding Focal Point, including the implementation of the following:
a. Safeguarding Training to field staff and WV affiliates. Ensure all partner organizations and volunteers understand and comply with Child & Adult Safeguarding Policy
b. Ensure field staff and affiliates abide by WV Behavior Protocols and keeping required signed agreement form on file.
c. Management of Safeguarding incidents (Level 1-3) according to protocols with support from the national and regional office.
d. Work with sponsorship and area programme teams to ensure Safeguarding standards on Visits to WV projects are met.
e. Tracking and monitoring of CP cases
f. Compliance to Safeguarding Incident Preparedness Plan
g. Ensuring confidentiality of information regarding child protection incidents and sponsored child information

h. Facilitate setting-up and implementation of Community Feedback and Complaints Mechanisms
i. In coordination with P&C Staff Care, support staff working on difficult child protection issues/incidents.
j. Provides support to Area Program Audit preparation and follow-up in relation to CP.
k. Ensure child safe participation at all levels.
8. Demonstrates Christ – centered lifestyle that inspires passion and participates in spiritual formation. Models a high standard of personal integrity/maturity, demonstrates servant leadership and ensures that a Christ-centered commitment is foundational to every department programs and activities.
30%
1. Provides technical support to Area Programmes in ensuring age-appropriate, culturally, gender and spiritually sensitive meaningfulparticipation of children and functionality of Children’s Associations and FO Children’s Federation.
2. Provide support to national level activities that need child participation. Ensure that child leaders are mentored and engaged in age-appropriate activities. Collaborate with advocacy and sponsorship teams in promoting safe and meaningful child participation.
3. Establishes strategic alliances, partnerships and networks at the regional level (FO) down to local level to assure appropriate government and community support for all child protection concerns.
4. Provides technical inputs to cluster and area program teams to ensure that interventions and initiatives contribute to children’s holistic growth and well-being.
5. Coordinates DPA/CESP related trainings in building community awareness. Provides technical support on Child Protection during DPA and community engagement processes.
6. Coordinates with the Program Manager and/or Area Program Team leader and Sponsorship

CESP and prepares consolidated child protection updates as part of CESP (Community Engagement and Sponsorship plan) report at the field office.
7. Models Biblical ethics, Christian values and beliefs in action and lifestyles while in and out of performance of duties. Participates in organizational and divisional spiritual formation activities.
8. Develop concept note for possible funding opportunity for specific child protection issue at the FO level.
9. Provide support to advocacy campaigns relevant to children’s rights, child protection and child participation.
10. Lead and coordinate efforts for child safe organization compliance in emergencies; child protection strategies in humanitarian action utilizing CP Systems approach in emergencies.
10%
1. Performs other tasks as maybe relevant to the implementation of programs in her/his assigned areas.

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only