Senior Officer- Protection

Save the Children invites applications for the above-mentioned position. We are committed to equal employment opportunities, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race, colour, ethnic origin, nationality, disability, age, or beliefs and religion. We are committed to diversifying our staff to better represent the communities we serve and actively welcome underrepresented groups to apply.

The Opportunity
The Senior Officer – Protection is responsible for leading integrated protection programming at field level, ensuring effective implementation, coordination, quality assurance and operational oversight of Child Protection, Gender-Based Violence (GBV), and General Protection interventions in assigned camps and host community locations.

The position plays a key role in strengthening both prevention and response components of protection programming through integrated case management, protection risk mitigation, community-based protection mechanisms, referrals, safeguarding compliance, and inter-agency coordination.

The Senior Officer – Protection provides direct operational leadership to multi-functional protection teams and ensures that protection interventions are survivor-centered, age-sensitive, gender-responsive, disability-inclusive, and aligned with humanitarian protection principles and international minimum standards. The role is also responsible for supporting protection mainstreaming across sectors, strengthening accountability to affected populations (AAP), monitoring protection risks and trends, and representing Save the Children in field-level protection coordination forums and external engagements.

The position works closely with Child Protection, GBV, General Protection, MEAL, Safeguarding, MHPSS, Education, Health, and Camp Management actors to ensure integrated and quality protection services for vulnerable children, adolescents, women, caregivers, and at-risk populations.

Qualifications and Experience

• At least 3 years’ experience within a development organisation, and at least two years’ experience in a management position.
• Experience working in child protection programmes.
• Experience in interviewing and reporting on development works.
• Experience in documenting, analysing and summarising qualitative data.
• Experience in providing/ facilitating training, meeting.
• Has a good working knowledge of using MS Office, and the internet.
• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant discipline such as social science, anthropology or development studies or any other relevant department.

The Organization
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 rights 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 workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

Application Information
Please apply using a cover letter and an up-to-date CV as a single document. Please also include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations

Only short-listed candidates will be invited for an interview

‘Save the Children promotes diversity in its workforce.’

We need to keep children safe, so our selection process 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.

Organization context

The Organization
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 workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.
Application Information:
Please apply using a cover letter and up-to-date CV as a single document. Please also include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations. A copy of the full role profile can be found at www.savethechildren.net/jobs We need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.