Overview
The Child Protection Officer will support the coordination, implementation, and monitoring of humanitarian child protection interventions in the Dominican Republic, focusing on children affected by human mobility and other vulnerabilities. The role contributes to an integrated response that combines protection, health, nutrition, and WASH interventions.
Key Responsibilities
- Support to programme development and planning
- Programme management, monitoring and delivery of results
- Technical and operational support to programme implementation
- Networking and partnership building
- Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building
Required Experience
- A minimum of one year of professional experience in social development or humanitarian planning and management in child protection-related areas is required.
- Working experience managing ECHO/EC grants is considered a plus.
- Familiarity with the Dominican and Haitian civil society organization ecosystem is an advantage.
- Working experience with the Dominican Government is considered an asset.
- Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts is considered as an asset.
Qualifications
A completed Bachelor’s or first level university degree in one of the following fields is required: migration, international development, humanitarian action, human rights, psychology, sociology, political science, international law, public health or another relevant social science field.
