Technical Program Quality

• Ensure WV’s programs adhere to the Syria Response Strategy in protection, gender and conflict sensitivity
• Ensuring WV’s programs adhere to international standards and tools, including upholding IHL, Do No Harm, Protection/Child Protection/GBV standards
• Ensure Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) lens application in WVSR Strategy and all sector interventions
• Grant acquisition and resource mobilization in the Protection and relevant sectors, with a specific focus on gender, women empowerment and addressing negative social norms.
• 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

Program Development

• Work with the Grant Acquisition team, Operations, Technical Advisers and MEAL in program development and proposal writing by providing inputs and reviewing technical information to draft standalone protection concept notes/proposals. Key areas to focus on will be Child Protection (CP), GBV, MHPSS, Community Based Protection and referral structures.
• Create awareness raising materials and process with beneficiaries
• 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)
• Work with MEAL to develop assessment, monitoring & evaluation tools to regularly assess and monitor Gender, protection and Safeguarding risks. Build staff capacity on use of Protection tools (i.e., Safety Audit, Protection Risk Analysis).

Coordination, networking, fundraising

• Represent World Vision at Protection sector coordination/donor meetings in Türkiye, Jordan, and Syria
• 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
• 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 and monitoring tool.
• 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 and gender 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
• Support and provide leadership in WV’s GESI initiatives and learning event at regional and global level

Management and capacity building

• Manage directly the technical protection staff based in different locations
• 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.
• Increase GESI understanding to ensure adequate knowledge across staff on basic GESI principles, mechanisms, and language.
• Develop on going remote training materials for staff in Jordan, Syria and Türkiye implementing GBV, PSS, CP etc.
• 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

Other duties as required by direct supervisor

Requirements:

Required Professional Experience

• At least 5 years’ experience in working in a protection-related field.
• Experience in emergency programming, remote management and protection programming in the Middle East strongly preferred.
• Experience in emergency programming, remote management and gender programming in the Middle East strongly preferred.
• Experience of developing and delivering training on key protection, child protection and GBV protocols/minimum standards (required).
• Experience mentoring and coaching staff to improve safeguarding and GESI technical quality, as well as protection mainstreaming in key sectors such as Livelihoods, WASH, Health & Nutrition etc.
• Demonstrated experience leading proposal development or resource mobilization process with key donors such as ECHO/EC, BHA, UNICEF, UNHCR, etc.
• Experience working in complex and volatile contexts
• Excellent in collaborating with external partners (UN, NGO, local actors, other) and with internal counterparts across WV; Ability and skills to actively participate in technical working groups, and contribute/take lead to refine approaches and high technical standards in collaboration with the clusters/WGs and other members.
• Experience in undertaking assessments in humanitarian contexts and supporting others to do so.
• Experience in advocacy

Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification

• University degree in social work, social science, international development, political science, law or related subject. Masters strongly preferred.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Arabic will be an advantage.

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications

• 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 Türkiye, inside Syria, Lebanon, Jordan & Iraq can be an advantage.

Travel and/or Work Environment Requirement

• Periodic travel between Türkiye and Jordan. Work in intense & dynamic setting.

Language Requirements

• Strong verbal and written English skills. Arabic is preferably