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Job Purpose:  The Child Protection and VAWG Officer will support child protection, and VAWG prevention and response works including case management, ensuring survivors and vulnerable children receive appropriate services. She/Hewill mentor social workers on case management practices and lead capacity building for social workers, education officers, and other sector staff on protection-related topics. The officer will coordinate and facilitate protection coordination meetings, participate in needs assessments to identify risks and gaps, and strengthen cross-sector collaboration. Through training, mentorship, and coordination, She/heswill ensure protection principles are mainstreamed across WVE’s humanitarian response, enhancing accountability and impact

Major Responsibilities:

• Actively participate in field-level assessments to identify protection risks, gaps, and vulnerabilities.
• Contribute to data collection, analysis, and reporting to inform evidence-based programming and advocacy.
• Provide direct technical support and mentorship to social workers handling child protection and VAWG cases, ensuring adherence to international standards and organizational protocols
• Monitor case documentation, follow-up, and referral pathways to guarantee timely and appropriate services for survivors and vulnerable children.
• Design and deliver training sessions for social workers and government stake holders on key protection thematic topics, including child protection and VAWG case management.
• Provide tailored training for education officers, health staff, and WASH teams on protection principles, safeguarding, and survivor-centred approaches.
• Organize and facilitate regular coordination meetings with sector leads, promoting joint planning and integrated protection responses.
• Collaborate closely with education, health, and WASH teams to mainstream protection  principles into their programming, ensuring services are safe, inclusive, and responsive.
• Track progress of child protection and VAWG activities, including case management interventions, ensuring that outcomes are measured against project objectives. She/he will document lessons learned, best practices, and challenges from protection programming, and actively share findings with sector teams to strengthen cross-sector collaboration and improve future interventions.
• Prepare timely reports on protection activities, case management outcomes, training sessions

Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification:

• Univesity degree in social work, socialogy , psychogy , public health and relevant field of social sciences .

Required Professional Experience:

• A minimum of three years experience in child protection, Gender-based violence and related areas, program/project development and management in emergency context is required.
• Proven experience in designing and implementing child protection and GBV trainings to a variety of stakeholders.
• Direct case management and experience working with children, women and adolescents is an asset.
• Knowledge and experience on Gender Based Violence programming including prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA) an asset.
• Extensive training in the fields ofP psycho-social wellbeing, case management and application of international technical guidelines and standards in Child Protection and VAWG

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications:

• University degree in social work, sociology, psychology, child protection, public health and relevant fields of social sciences.
• Knowledge and skills of and ability to implement integrated CP responses, incu

Travel and/or Work Environment Requirement:

• Frequent travel to the project sites and to Ho as needed

Language Requirements:

• English and Knowledge of local language is advantageous

World Vision is a child-focused organization that is committed to safeguarding all children as well as adult beneficiaries and has zero tolerance for incidents of violence or abuse against children or adults, including sexual exploitation or abuse, committed either by employees or others affiliated with our work. Therefore, World Vision does not hire staff whose background is not suitable for working with children or vulnerable adults, even if their role does not interact directly with them.

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