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About the Role

The Child Protection Technical Advisor – Surge Roster provides short-term technical assistance, advisory support, and capacity strengthening for child protection and Ending Violence against Children (EVAC) initiatives. This role supports Field and Regional Offices operating in stable development contexts, offering services in person or virtually. By applying, candidates express interest in future opportunities related to humanitarian responses and development programs.

Responsibilities

Provide technical support to assess child protection/VAC risks, drivers of violence against children, and strengths and gaps within child protection systems, programmes, and services.
Conduct child protection/VAC assessments, situation analyses, and landscape reviews.
Facilitate root cause analyses and identify priority drivers of violence against children.
Map child protection systems, stakeholders, and service delivery mechanisms.
Undertake baseline studies, capacity assessments, and contextual analyses.
Analyze programme data and evidence to inform programme design and improvement.
Provide technical expertise to support design, adaptation, and strengthening of EVAC programmes and interventions that address VAC.
Develop or refine EVAC theories of change, technical approaches, and programme and indicator frameworks.
Design EVAC projects, programmes, indicators and implementation plans.
Adapt evidence-based models and tools to local contexts.
Support integration of child protection across sectors and programmes.
Incorporate sustainability, systems strengthening, and community ownership approaches into programme design.
Provide technical guidance to support EVAC programme quality, implementation effectiveness, and continuous improvement.
Review programme implementation and technical quality.
Support adaptation and implementation of evidence-based PROTECT interventions.
Develop quality assurance plans, tools, and improvement measures.
Identify opportunities to strengthen programme performance and impact.
Provide technical support for monitoring, evaluation, research, and evidence-generation activities that strengthen EVAC programme effectiveness and accountability.
Design monitoring, evaluation, and learning frameworks and systems.
Develop or adapt assessment and data collection tools.
Conduct baseline, midline, endline, and evaluation studies.
Analyze quantitative and qualitative data and generate evidence-based recommendations.
Support operational research, learning studies, and evidence-building initiatives.
Provide training, coaching, mentoring, and technical accompaniment to strengthen the capacity of child protection staff.
Design and facilitate EVAC technical learning events and training programmes.
Deliver refresher training on PROTECT (or any sub-component of PROTECT).
Provide coaching, mentoring, and technical accompaniment.
Support competency assessments and workforce development planning.
Provide technical expertise to support policy, systems, and practice changes that strengthen the protection and well-being of children.
Support evidence-informed EVAC advocacy and influencing strategies.
Develop technical recommendations and EVAC policy messaging.
Represent World Vision office at external EVAC-related events, conferences, decision-making forums.
Provide technical expertise to support EVAC resource mobilization and investment opportunities in child protection.
Contribute technical input to grant proposals, concept notes, and donor submissions.
Support EVAC programme design workshops, including theory of change and problem analysis processes.
Draft or review technical narratives and programme frameworks.
Support consortium development and proposal collaboration processes.
Provide technical support to document, synthesize, and disseminate evidence, learning, and promising practices from EVAC programming.
Develop case studies, success stories, technical briefs, and learning products.
Prepare technical reports, evidence summaries, and research publications.
Document promising practices, innovations, and lessons learned.
Review technical documents and knowledge products for quality and technical rigor.

Requirements

A minimum of 5 years of experience with a mix of home country and international experience in the field of child protection / EVAC
Demonstrated understanding of child protection / EVAC principles, standards and best practices
Experience mentoring and coaching staff to improve CP/EVAC technical quality, as well as mainstreaming in key sectors such as Education, Food Security and Livelihoods, WASH, Health & Nutrition etc.
Experience in donor related project design and proposal development, including grant acquisition with public and private donors
Demonstrated experience in developing and facilitating CP/EVAC training across different cultures and language contexts including developing curriculum, session plans and training materials.
Knowledge and understanding of how to apply a child protection systems approach
Strong understanding of global strategies and frameworks to end violence against children
Knowledge on legal international conventions related to child protection
Extremely strong planning and project management skills
Strong inter-personal communication and collaboration skills
Strong negotiation, networking, liaison, and donor engagement skills
Ability to work in a cross-cultural environment
Affirm core documents, observe conduct compatible with Christian principles, serve at a high level of professional ethics and strive to act in accordance with cultural sensitivities.
Regular attendance with team and office devotions, chapel and prayer gatherings are expected.

Skills

Child protection
Ending Violence against Children (EVAC)
Technical assistance
Advisory support
Capacity strengthening
Surge capacity
Assessment
Situation analysis
Landscape review
Root cause analysis
System mapping
Baseline studies
Programme data analysis
Programme design
Theory of change development
Indicator framework development
Project design
Implementation planning
Evidence-based model adaptation
Cross-sectoral integration
Sustainability
Systems strengthening
Community ownership
Quality assurance
Monitoring
Evaluation
Research
Learning frameworks
Data collection tools
Quantitative data analysis
Qualitative data analysis
Operational research
Training design
Facilitation
Coaching
Mentoring
Technical accompaniment
Competency assessment
Workforce development
Advocacy
Policy development
Resource mobilization
Proposal development
Grant writing
Concept note development
Donor submissions
Consortium development
Technical documentation
Knowledge product development
Case study development
Success story writing
Technical brief writing
Learning product development
Technical report writing
Evidence summary writing
Research publication
Promising practice documentation
Innovation documentation
Lessons learned documentation
English communication
French communication (preferred)
Arabic communication (preferred)
Spanish communication (preferred)
Portuguese communication (preferred)

Location

Will depend on the requesting office’s specific Terms of Reference

Work Type

Short-term
In person
Virtual

Experience Level

Minimum of 5 years of experience

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in child protection, social work, international development, child development, or other relevant degree.

About the Company

World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organisation with a mission centred on following Jesus Christ in service to the world´s most vulnerable children.
Focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life.
Helps children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by Christian faith.
Has over 31,000 staff working in nearly 100 countries.

Equal Opportunity

Local and International Applicants (IA's) Accepted