The Child Protection Senior Specialist is a technical advisory role providing high-quality, practical child protection expertise to War Child Alliance country offices and partners across all regions and country clusters, working under the strategic leadership of the Child Protection Lead. The role is a key day-to-day technical focal point for child protection programming in humanitarian, development and protracted crisis contexts, with particular responsibility for the introduction, rollout, implementation and quality assurance of War Child's child protection Evidence-Based Methodologies (EBMs): Seeds, VoiceMore and Stretch.
Key responsibilities:
- Provide child protection technical advice and accompaniment to country offices and partners on programme design, implementation, adaptation and quality assurance, including case management, systems strengthening and integrated programming.
- Support the rollout of Seeds, VoiceMore and Stretch: build awareness, assess suitability and readiness, and support planning and implementation.
- Deliver trainings and workshops, and provide coaching and mentoring to strengthen staff and partner competencies.
- Support contextualisation and adaptation of EBMs and improve training materials, implementation guidance and partnership packages.
- Support the transition towards 100% partner-led child protection programming, including partner assessment and tailored capacity-strengthening plans.
- Contribute technical inputs to strategies, proposals, donor engagement and programme reviews; monitor programme quality and capture learning with MEAL and other teams.
- Collaborate with Child Protection, MHPSS, Education, Humanitarian, MEAL, Research & Development and Partnerships colleagues, and participate in external technical forums.
Requirements:
- Academic background in Child Protection, Social Work, Social Sciences or a related field.
- Substantial experience providing technical advisory support to child protection programmes in humanitarian, development or protracted crisis settings, across different country contexts.
- Experience in programme design, implementation, quality assurance and capacity strengthening; designing and delivering training; coaching and mentoring staff and partners.
- Experience supporting rollout of structured methodologies or evidence-based interventions, and working with local and national partners.
- Strong knowledge of child protection programming, international standards and the Child Protection Minimum Standards, and community-based child protection approaches.
- Fluency in English; additional languages (e.g. Arabic, Dari, French, Spanish, Ukrainian) are useful.
This is a full-time, fixed-term, locally contracted position (Amsterdam office or remote in several countries, hybrid/remote); salary follows the applicable in-country scale. Preference is given to candidates residing in War Child locations with valid work authorisation; no relocation support is provided.
Qualified candidates are encouraged to submit their applications (CV and motivation letter in English) by 2 November 2026. We are reviewing submissions on a rolling basis, so early applications are strongly recommended. ________________________________________________________________________________
HOW TO APPLY:
Submit your CV and motivation letter in English via the War Child Alliance Personio application page by 2 November 2026. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, so early applications are strongly recommended. Only applications received via the website are processed.
https://war-child-alliance.jobs.personio.de/job/2689224/apply