Protection Officer

Country: Syrian Arab Republic Organization: World Vision Closing date: 2 Nov 2026 About World Vision For more than 75 years, World Vision has been committed to making a positive and lasting difference in the world. We have become a global leader in improving and transforming the lives of children, their families, and their communities. We help children, families, and communities overcome poverty and injustice, irrespective of religion, race, ethnicity, or gender. Every child deserves a life rich in meaning and purpose. We work with the most vulnerable children in the world so they can experience life in all its fullness. Location: Syria - Raqqa Job purpose: The Protection Officer is responsible for the technical and day-to-day implementation of protection activities within the project, ensuring that interventions are relevant, inclusive, safe, conflict-sensitive, and aligned with approved project objectives, protection standards, workplans, and donor requirements. The position supports the planning, monitoring, quality assurance, and reporting of protection interventions, while providing technical guidance to protection facilitators, volunteers, partners, and other relevant field staff. The Protection Officer also works closely with relevant protection stakeholders, communities, authorities, and other project sectors to identify and respond to protection risks and promote safe, dignified, and inclusive support to children, adults, and vulnerable groups. Major Responsibilities: 1. Protection Programme Implementation and Technical Support: • Support the planning and implementation of protection activities in line with the approved project design, DIP, performance framework, protection standards, and relevant humanitarian principles. • Provide technical guidance to protection case workers, PSS and ERW facilitators, volunteers, partner staff, and other field teams involved in protection activities. • Ensure protection interventions respond to identified protection risks, needs, vulnerabilities, and barriers to accessing services. • Support the adaptation of protection activities to the local context and the specific needs of children, women, persons with disabilities, displaced populations, and other vulnerable or marginalized groups. • Promote safe, inclusive, gender-sensitive, child-sensitive, and conflict-sensitive approaches throughout protection programming. • Ensure that activities are implemented according to the principles of Do No Harm, confidentiality, informed consent, dignity, participation, and non-discrimination. 2. Protection Monitoring, Risk Identification and Referrals: • Support the identification and monitoring of protection risks, concerns, trends, and barriers affecting children, adults, and vulnerable groups. • Conduct or support protection assessments, community consultations, focus group discussions, key informant interviews, and other relevant data collection activities. • Identify individuals or groups requiring additional or specialized protection support and facilitate referrals through established referral pathways. • Maintain updated information on available protection and other relevant services and referral mechanisms. • Ensure referrals are conducted safely, confidentially, and in accordance with established procedures. • Monitor emerging protection concerns and communicate significant risks or trends to the Project Coordinator/Area Manager and relevant programme teams. • Support protection risk mitigation measures and follow up on identified protection concerns within the scope of the position. 3. Monitoring, Quality Assurance and Capacity Building: • Develop and follow up on protection activity plans, schedules, and field implementation plans. • Monitor participation, coverage, quality, and progress against agreed protection indicators and targets. • Conduct regular field visits and provide technical feedback and recommendations to improve protection activities. • Support the collection, review, verification, and analysis of protection-related data and ensure that information is accurate and timely. • Identify implementation gaps, protection risks, and emerging needs and propose appropriate corrective actions. • Identify capacity-building needs among protection staff, volunteers, partners, and community structures. • Support the delivery of training, coaching, mentoring, and awareness sessions on relevant protection topics, including protection principles, safeguarding, PSEA, referral mechanisms, and safe programming. 4. Coordination and Stakeholder Engagemen: • Coordinate with relevant Protection Sector/Sub-Sector actors, authorities, partners, community representatives, service providers, and other stakeholders as required. • Participate in relevant protection coordination meetings, working groups, technical discussions, and inter-agency coordination mechanisms. • Engage with communities to understand protection concerns, priorities, barriers, and feedback and ensure that programme responses are appropriate and context-sensitive. • Support community-based protection mechanisms and promote meaningful participation of women, men, girls, boys, persons with disabilities, and other potentially marginalized groups. • Coordinate with other project sectors to ensure protection is appropriately mainstreamed across programme interventions, including Education, WASH, FSL, Health, Nutrition, and other relevant sectors.. • Support the identification and strengthening of referral pathways and linkages with specialized services. 5. Reporting, Documentation and Learning: • Prepare regular protection activity updates and contribute to project reports, donor reports, situation updates, and other programme documentation. • Maintain comprehensive and secure records of protection activities, including attendance, training, monitoring, assessments, community consultations, referrals, and field visits, in accordance with data protection requirements. • Document protection trends, challenges, achievements, good practices, lessons learned, and success stories while ensuring confidentiality and protection of sensitive information. • Support the implementation of community feedback and response mechanisms and ensure relevant protection-related feedback is appropriately followed up. • Support the preparation and review of protection-related proposals, budgets, activity plans, indicators, and project documents as required. • Coordinate with MEAL colleagues to support data quality, monitoring, accountability, and learning processes. • Ensure protection documentation is maintained in accordance with organizational, donor, safeguarding, and data protection requirements. Knowledge/Qualifications for the Role .Required Professional Experience: • At least 2–3 years of relevant experience in protection, humanitarian, development, or community-based programming, preferably with an NGO or humanitarian organization. • Experience implementing or monitoring protection, child protection, community-based protection, protection monitoring, awareness-raising, or referral activities is desirable. • Experience working with children, families, displaced populations, vulnerable groups, and communities affected by conflict or displacement. • Experience providing technical support, coaching, mentoring, or capacity building to staff, volunteers, community structures, or partner organizations. Experience working with Protection Sector/Sub-Sector coordination mechanisms, referral networks, local authorities, service providers, or other humanitarian actors is an advantage. .Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification: • Bachelor's degree in Social Work, Psychology, Sociology, Human Rights, Law, International Development, Social Sciences, or another relevant field. • Additional qualifications or training in Protection, Child Protection, GBV, PSEA, Safeguarding, Humanitarian Action, Human Rights, or related areas are an advantage. .Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications • Good knowledge of Protection programming principles and approaches relevant to humanitarian and/or development contexts. • Understanding of barriers to protection access and participation, particularly for vulnerable and marginalized children. • Knowledge of child safeguarding, child participation, inclusion, gender, and conflict-sensitive programming. • Good monitoring, data collection, analysis, and reporting skills. • Strong communication, facilitation, interpersonal, and coordination skills. Ability to work effectively with partners, community representatives, education .Travel and/or Work Environment Requirement The position requires ability and willingness to travel to other WV project sites when needed .Physical Requirements: • Ability to effectively coordinate with staff and key stakeholders ensure successfully program implementation. .Language Requirements: Arabic, English How to apply If you meet our requirements, please submit your resume via the link below; only applications submitted via our link are accepted. " https://sy-koboviews.lmms.org/x/QmaaUGHl " This Advertisement is strictly for World Vision International use, and it should not be copied and used in other websites without WVI written consent. Qualified females and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. We believe in equal opportunities for all applicants. We look at every candidate's merit, qualifications, and professional skills. 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