Child Protection and GBV Advisor (GLobal)

The Global Child Protection and GBV Advisor will lead on high quality technical and advisory support to child protection and gender-based violence programmes in Afghanistan, Yemen, Iraq, Jordan, Democratic Republic of Congo and Central African Republic. The Advisor will also support, together with other key staff members, the development of integrated Child Protection and GBV approaches alongside Psychosocial, Education-in-Emergencies and Food Security & Livelihoods programming and will also lead the implementation of the Child Protection and GBV Strategy. The Advisor ensures technical quality in programme design and development. The Advisor will have substantial experience and skill in conducting rapid emergency assessments, high-level interagency coordination, capacity building and competency development, monitoring and evaluation, and developing innovative approaches. This role is UK-based with expected travel up to 30% of the time (subject to security considerations).

Your role

The Child Protection and gender-based violence (CP/GBV) Global Advisor is responsible for setting strategic direction on child protection for War Child UK’s (WCUK) work in line with the global strategy and theory of change and providing guidance and technical support to WCUK child protection and gender based violence programmes.

A member or the head office-based Programme Quality team, the Global CP/GBV l Advisor provides hands-on support to WCUK specialists in War Child country programmes to develop, position and implement child protection and gender-based violence programmes in ongoing emergency responses, protracted crisis and conflict settings. The role includes field work though both deployments and capacity building missions to WCUK country offices with about 30% travel per year.

The Advisor contributes to external coordination efforts and initiatives to develop WCUK’s sector leadership and profile globally. The role also collaborates with staff in country programmes and at head office to develop strategies and proposals that will drive growth and quality in War Child’s child protection and gender-based violence work and that contribute to our global advocacy.

Your responsibilities in this role:

· Represent War Child UK at key technical, coordination and donor meetings, providing proactive leadership where necessary both at HQ and globally, including on the Steering Committee of the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action.

· Identify and support relevant partnerships and opportunities with donors, humanitarian agencies, academic institutions and private sector to develop War Child’s child protection and gender-based violence profile, funding opportunities and innovative approaches.

· Contribute to and ensure technical quality in the design of donor proposals.

· Provide capacity building support to staff members from country offices on CP and GBV priority areas including psychosocial support, case management, community level protection, children in armed conflict, alternative care and child labour.

· Provide capacity building and training to external partners and institutions on child protection in conflict , including MoD, FCDO, NATO in UK, and overseas

· Lead on child protection assessments and develop related CP and GBV strategy responses.

· Travel to insecure environments to assist in CP/GBV programme start-up, rapid needs assessment, monitoring and support and capacity building (depending on security).

· Ensure that relevant global advocacy messages and initiatives are informed by sector expertise.

· Oversee the quality and timely implementation of the overall CP/GBV response and that programmatic objectives are reached.

· Develop child protection and gender-based violence research initiatives in collaboration with research and academic institutions and think tanks.

· Develop and pilot-test innovative accountability feedback mechanisms.

Establish communities of practice, discussions fora and learning events to support cross-team learning, including in close collaboration with War Child Holland