Protection Technical Advisor
World Vision · Dana
With 75 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.
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Employee Contract Type:
Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)Job Description:
To provide strategic and technical leadership in the design, implementation, and quality assurance of Protection, Child Protection, Gender, and GBV interventions across World Vision’s Syria Response. The role strengthens protection mainstreaming and integration in Health, WASH, Shelter, Livelihoods, Education, and MHPSS, ensuring programming aligns with international standards, IASC guidelines, and the Syria Response Strategy. The position will promote survivor-centered, inclusive, and locally led protection approaches that enhance dignity, participation, and resilience. Ensure WV’s programs adhere to the Syria Strategic Implementation Plan in protection, gender and conflict sensitivity, PSEA compliance, disability inclusion, and alignment with the IASC Minimum Service Package (MSP) and Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS).
- Ensuring WV’s programs adhere to international standards and tools, including upholding IHL, Do No Harm, Protection/Child Protection/GBV standards
- Develop high quality prevention and empowerment activities at women and girls’ centers, and survivor-centered GBV specialized response services
- Provide technical guidance on data protection, ethical case management, and safeguarding to ensure information-sharing and monitoring systems uphold confidentiality and survivor safety.
- In light of the findings of iterative assessments, provide recommendations to areas/sectors that might need improvement and determine the relevance of expanding operations in new sites and to scale-up interventions.
- Work with the MEAL team to ensure feedback mechanisms and accountability structures are accessible by the most vulnerable and are appropriate to safeguard sensitive personal data.
- Provide technical support to the MEAL team on monitoring and evaluation of protection activities, as required
- Work with SMT, Portfolio Managers, Technical Advisers and MEAL in program development and proposal writing by providing inputs and reviewing technical information to draft standalone protection concept notes/proposals, ensuring costing of protection activities, integration of cross-cutting themes, and donor-specific technical narratives (e.g., BMZ, GIZ, ECHO,…). Key areas to focus on will be Child Protection (CP), GBV, FTR, MHPSS, Community Based Protection and referral structures.
- Create/adapt/contextualize and apply existing or newmodels or material and processes with programme participants.
- Ensure proposals integrate accountability, data protection, and digital safeguarding considerations, and include measurable protection indicators.
- Strive to ensure, as much as possible, different protection interventions are integrated into proposed programs and with other sectors, ensuring cross-cutting themes are incorporated into program design (disability, conflict, gender, CP).
- Represent World Vision in Protection, Child Protection, and GBV coordination mechanisms and inter-agency technical working groups.
- Seek opportunities to collaborate with other organizations in both coordination, learning, and programing
- Network with other WV entities, particularly around best practices, technical approaches, and resource acquisition
- Collaborate with regional and global WV Protection and MHPSS networks to align learning and best practices.
- Provide WV’s Communication and Advocacy department with information to highlight WV’s Protection activities and impact
- Ensure and maintain information management tools such as the 4W, the cluster and WG reporting tool and the CPWG monitoring tool.
- Contribute to inter-agency advocacy efforts and joint protection assessments to strengthen evidence-based programming.
- Monitor and report protection, Child protection and GBV trends and early warning indicators and ensure emergency preparedness planning is done to anticipate new risks.
- Maintain the profile of child protection within the broader protection structure and ensure mainstreaming of child protection in other humanitarian sectors.
- Facilitate inter-organizational collaboration and resource mobilization (monetary and non- monetary)
- Develop and maintain appropriate links with national and local authorities, state institutions, civil society organizations, humanitarian agencies and other stakeholders in protection, child protection and GBV response.
- Develop joint initiatives to increase the evidence base for protection, child protection and GBV programming though targeted research, assessments or data collection
- Manage directly at least two technical protection staff. Provide coaching, mentoring, and structured supervision to strengthen technical capacity and well-being of team members.
- Conduct assessments of staff capacity gaps in Protection, IHL, CP, Conflict Sensitivity and Gender. Work closely with implementing partner organizations to determine the training needs of their staff.
- Develop and rollout training of staff and partner staff on key protection themes outlines above. Ensure remote learning modules and refresher trainings are developed for field-based and partner teams.
- Develop on going remote training materials for staff in Syria and Türkiye implementing GBV, FTR, MHPSS etc.
- Establish annual technical capacity development plans and track progress through supervision and learning reviews.
- In cooperation with the MEAL department, strengthen the monitoring and reporting system
Collaborate with MEAL department, sectoral or academic actors to identify and pursue focused research initiatives
Support emergency preparedness, surge deployments, and technical reviews as requested by the supervisor. Contribute to cross-functional initiatives and learning processes across WV Syria.
knowledge/qualifications for the role
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in protection, child protection, or GBV programming within humanitarian or development settings.
- Demonstrated experience in emergency and remote-management contexts in the Middle East.
- Proven record in developing and delivering training on protection, GBV, CP, MHPSS, and safeguarding standards.
- Experience applying IASC MSP, CPMS, GBV Guidelines, Sphere Standards, and CHS principles.
- Experience in protection and gender mainstreaming across other sectors (e.g., WASH, Livelihoods, Education, Health).
- Strong proposal development and donor engagement experience (e.g., BMZ, ECHO, USAID, GIZ).
- Experience in inter-agency coordination (Protection Cluster, AoRs) and in developing referral pathways.
- Experience supporting local partners and institutions on protection system strengthening and capacity building.
- Experience in data protection, PSEA, and digital safeguarding.
- Prior engagement with the Syria crisis response in Türkiye, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, or Iraq is an asset.
- Bachelor’s degree in social work, psychology, humanitarian protection, gender studies, law, or related field.
- Master’s degree strongly preferred.
- Formal training in GBV, CP, or MHPSS desirable.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English and Arabic (Arabic mandatory).
- Knowledge and experience of humanitarian principles and minimum protection standards, humanitarian coordination mechanisms, applying protection standards to vulnerable communities, referral services and protection service delivery, including protection monitoring.
- Previous engagement with the Syria Crisis response in Turkey, inside Syria, Lebanon, Jordan & Iraq can be an advantage.
Applicant Types Accepted:
Local Applicants Only