Child Protection Officer - Beirut

War Child is looking for a:

Child Protection Technical Officer

War Child (WC) is an independent and impartial international non-governmental organization investing in a peaceful future for children and young people affected by armed conflict. WCH works to enable adults and empower children and young people affected by armed conflict to bring about positive and lasting changes in their lives. Our activities seek to maximize children and young people’s participation in both project activities and broader decision affecting their lives, those who have previously been excludes from participating in such decision-making. As an organization, we are committed to promote, strengthen, and support the meaningful participation of children and young people.

Your challenge

Assist in designing child protection capacity building plans for staff and partners

Deliver child protection sessions, trainings and briefings, including tailored trainings where needed and feasible, to staff and partners.

Provides ongoing and necessary technical support, guidance and advice to program staff and partners in the field of child protection, including child safety

Delivers safeguarding briefings when needed to external visitors and new staff, in coordination with the SG focal point.

Coordinate with other team members, mainly PSS and Education teams, to ensure that child protection connects and is mainstreamed in other WCH areas of work

Represent WCH externally, in relevant platforms/networks focused on child protection themes, including CPiEW and PSS committee

Contribute to the development/revision of child protection materials developed in working groups/platforms/networks

Referral focal point : receive cases in need of CP services assess them and do the proper referrals.

Your profile

Necessary experience:

At least one year of experience in delivering trainings;

Psychosocial Support experience is an add value

Able to support individual cases in need of immediate CP intervention

Knowledge and experience working on RIMS platform

Knowledge of current principles and practices of safeguarding- PSEA and Child Protection;

Understanding of child rights (programming) in conflict and post conflict environments

Strong critical analysis and strategic thinking skills;

Planning and coordination ability;

Monitoring and Evaluation ability;

Ability to provide (creative/interactive) trainings;

Excellent communication skills; ability to give and receive feedback;

Affinity with children and young people;

(Cultural) sensitivity;

Result-oriented;

Require skills:

Experience in Child Protection domain and Psychosocial Support

 Experience in working in complex contexts

Prior experience and proven capability in training and capacity development

Experience in conducting counseling and awareness sessions

Fluency in English and Arabic both written and verbal

Experience in collecting information and writing reports.

Handling insecure environments

Planning and delivering results

Communicating with impact and respect

Analyzing

Coping with change

Demonstrated experience in monitoring and evaluation of projects

Nice to have skills

Art intervention skills

Good knowledge on inclusion

Previous experience working in camps.

Good experience working with vulnerable  children ( Child Labor cases)

Job Location:                              Beirut, Lebanon

Starting date:                               as soon as possible

How to apply

Interested and qualified candidates are invited to apply before the 14th of January, 2024, using the Below mentioned link.

The safety of children is essential to War Child. War Child does not tolerate or accept any form of abuse. 
This subject is addressed in our recruitment and selection procedures.