Senior Advisor for Child Protection in Emergencies

Required Education, training, license, registration, and/or Certification

• Master's degree in social work, International Development, Child Development, International Relations, Humanitarian Protection, Human Rights, or other relevant degree.
  
• Certification or other similar qualifications of capacity to facilitate trainings and provide coaching and supervision to key Protection, Child Protection technical packages (i.e. Case Management Training Package, Protection Mainstreaming Minimum Standards, Child Protection Minimum Standards, Unaccompanied and Separated Children Toolkit, Community Based Complaints and Reporting Mechanisms),
  

Required Professional Experience

• Minimum 7 years of experience in a technical position related to child protection in humanitarian settings.
  
• Experience mentoring and coaching staff to improve CP technical quality, as well as mainstreaming in key sectors such as Education, Food Security and Livelihoods, WASH, Health & Nutrition etc.
  
• Experience in donor related project design and proposal development, including grant acquisition with public and private donors such as USAID/BHA, ECHO, FCDO, GAC, ADH, etc.
  
• Demonstrated experience in developing and facilitating training across different cultures and language contexts including developing curriculum, session plans and training materials
  
• Experience living and working in a fragile/humanitarian context preferred.
  
• Experience and understanding of the humanitarian architectures, clusters’ approach, standards and humanitarian funding cycle is essential.
  

Required Language(s)

• Effective written and verbal communication in English. Other UN languages such as French, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, preferred.