Child Protection Officer x3 – Gaziantep

The Opportunity

The Child Protection Officer will be based in Gaziantep but will cover Kahramanmaraş, Adıyaman and near districts supporting Save the Children’s Türkiye Office Earthquake Emergency Response aiming to support host and refugees communities in the region. The Child Protection Officer will conduct and help manage the relevant project activities, support project planning, and work with the Child Protection project manager, CP technical specialist to support project implementation. This role will be responsible for, where relevant, building the technical capacity of partner staff and ensuring quality and timely delivery of the Child Protection activities. The Child Protection Officer will assist the Project Manager with the start up, implementation, and monitoring of child protection activities through SC reponse and, where possible, a partner, including: psychosocial support services, individual support to vulnerable children, legal counselling activities, referral to child protection services, training of partner facilitators, and building awareness on child protection issues.

In order to be succesfull you will bring/have:

• A degree in social sciences, psychology, sociology, community development or related field
• At least 2 years of experience in child protection programmes, psychosocial support, social work and community mobilisation
• Previous experience in working with children
• Good technical understanding of child protection and community based approaches
• Knowledge of Child Rights, Child Protection Minimum Standards and other international recognised tools
• Experience in working through a partner organization in a complex stakeholder environment
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to work with limited supervision and strong ability to take initiative
• Able to work to tight deadlines and under pressure
• Excellent team player
• Ability to write clear and well-argued assessment and project reports
• Fluent in Turkish and English – written and spoken
• Computer literacy including the use of Microsoft Word and Excel

Desirable:

• Fluent in spoken Arabic
• Experience in working with NGOs
• Experience in working with refugees

Position holder will be based in Gaziantep, therefore legal right to work in Turkey is necessary at the time of application.

The Organisation
We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.
Save the Children is committed to create a truly inclusive, effective and representative organisational culture, encouraging equity and diversity among its employees and eliminating discrimination. Having a diverse profile of employees, different age groups, backgrounds, cultures, gender identities and expressions, sexual orientation etc., including a range of different experiences and capabilities helps us understand, represent and serve children better. Therefore all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, or age.

Application Information:
Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application, and include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations. A copy of the full role profile can be found at www.savethechildren.net/careers

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our global anti-harassment policy.