Overview
The Project Specialist – Prevention (Child Safeguarding) will support the planning, coordination, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of project activities focused on prevention, child safeguarding, and stakeholder engagement.
Key Responsibilities
- Support planning, coordination, implementation, and monitoring of project activities related to prevention, child safeguarding, awareness raising, regional coordination mechanisms, and stakeholder trainings.
- Act as the project-level technical lead on child safeguarding for all project activities involving direct or indirect contact with children and adolescents.
- Review and provide technical input to prevention methodologies, session plans, presentations, group activities, training materials, campaign content, and other tools involving minors.
- Support safeguarding risk identification and mitigation for activities involving minors.
- Contribute directly to prevention activities by preparing, delivering, or co-facilitating presentations, group activities, awareness-raising sessions, and structured engagements.
- Coordinate with partners, service providers, and vendors involved in prevention activities.
- Support the development and implementation of the media and awareness-raising campaign.
- Support the establishment and functioning of Regional Counter-Trafficking Coordination Mechanisms.
- Design, adapt, and deliver trainings and capacity-building activities for a wide range of stakeholders.
- Contribute to research, needs assessment, and technical analysis relevant to prevention and child safeguarding.
- Support monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and reporting by collecting and consolidating activity data and other documentation.
- Identify operational challenges, safeguarding risks, delivery shortfalls, and implementation bottlenecks, and propose corrective measures.
- Draft correspondence, meeting minutes, briefing notes, technical inputs, activity reports, training summaries, donor-reporting inputs, and other project documentation.
- Perform any other duties as assigned.
Required Experience
- Minimum two years of relevant professional experience in child protection, child safeguarding, education, youth work, protection, counter-trafficking, prevention programming, social services, community outreach, victim assistance or related fields.
- Experience contributing to prevention, awareness raising, training, community engagement, stakeholder coordination or similar project activities.
- Experience working directly or indirectly with children, adolescents, young people, families, vulnerable groups or frontline professionals.
- Experience supporting or facilitating workshops, presentations, group discussions, trainings or community-based activities.
- Experience liaising with governmental authorities, local institutions, civil society organizations, child protection actors, education stakeholders, law enforcement, service providers or other relevant stakeholders.
- Experience supporting project documentation, activity reporting, meeting notes, training materials, briefing notes or monitoring evidence.
- Experience in child safeguarding, child protection referral pathways, trauma-informed programming or safe engagement with minors is a strong advantage.
- Experience in counter-trafficking, victim protection, migration, social inclusion, youth empowerment, community safety or work with state-provided childcare institutions is an advantage.
- Experience working with intergovernmental organizations, United Nations agencies, NGOs, governmental institutions or donor-funded projects is an advantage.
- Experience working in a multicultural environment is an advantage.
Qualifications
High school diploma/certificate with four years of relevant experience OR Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, Psychology, Education, Child Protection, Human Rights, Social Sciences, International Relations, Migration Studies, Law, Criminology, Public Policy or a related field from an accredited academic institution with two years of relevant professional experience.
