Child Protection Technical Advisor - 2025241

Job Title: Global Child Protection Advisor

Employment Type: Regular, Full-time

Position Overview

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, World Relief is rapidly expanding and growing its 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. Founded in the aftermath of World War II to respond to the urgent humanitarian needs of war-torn Europe, 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.

Role & Responsibilities

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.

Business Development (40%)

• Grow World Relief’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 the 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 World Relief’s Protection work.
• Carry out project visits.

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Company Information

World Relief A global Christian humanitarian organization. Mission: To boldly engage the world’s greatest crises in partnership with the church. Founded: Post-World War II. Experience: 80 years across 100 countries. Focus Areas: Humanitarian and disaster response, community strengthening and resilience, refugee & immigrant services and advocacy.