Background

SOS Children’s Villages is an independent, non-governmental international development organization which has been working to meet the needs and protect the interests and rights of children since 1949.

The Humanitarian Action enables and supports local national offices (NOs) or partners when needed or on request, in pursuing their mission as set out in the SOS Children’s Villages International Humanitarian Policy. The Humanitarian Action Service is ensured by an agile team of deployable senior humanitarian experts having an executive role to Member Associations aiming at reinforcing their capacities, ensure a timely start-up of response or scale-up of humanitarian operations. This includes internal coordination of various funding streams or humanitarian appeals particularly in case of large-scale responses, as well provision of support for disaster preparedness, recovery and prepositioning of new innovative approaches and partnerships opportunities on the ground or internationally. Furthermore, the department would initiate institutionalization of Humanitarian Development and Peace nexus approach through deliberate integration of short-term lifesaving and long-term recovery actions in the time of acute and protracted crisis response, whereby the HA and the existing long term development program teamwork hand in hand and make sure that the affected communities are received an uninterrupted services in case of major crisis.

The Humanitarian Action Advisor (CPiHA) ensures that child protection is systematically integrated into SOS Children’s Villages’ humanitarian programming. The role provides technical leadership and quality assurance across the project cycle, supports proposal development, and builds the capacity of Member Associations to deliver inclusive, child-centered, and gender-responsive interventions. By driving innovation, piloting new approaches, and representing SOS CV in key coordination forums, the Advisor helps strengthen programme quality, accountability, and visibility in the protection sector.

Responsibilities

• Lead the integration of Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPiHA) standards, child protection principles, gender equality, and inclusive approaches throughout programme design, implementation, monitoring, and reporting.
• Review humanitarian project proposals and related documentation to ensure compliance with the Child Protection Minimum Standards (CPMS), providing technical recommendations where required.
• Develop, adapt, and maintain operational guidance, tools, and standard operating procedures (SOPs) to support the consistent application of CPiHA across humanitarian programmes.
• Monitor and enhance the quality of child protection interventions through field missions, technical reviews, and follow-up actions.
• Provide technical guidance to Member Associations (MAs) during project inception and implementation, ensuring robust safeguarding measures, gender mainstreaming, and conflict-sensitive approaches.
• Support the development of programme indicators and Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) frameworks in collaboration with the MEAL Advisor to effectively measure protection-related outcomes.
• Promote innovation in child protection programming by testing new approaches, documenting lessons learned, and supporting their replication and scale-up.
• Design and deliver targeted training, coaching, and technical support to MA and regional teams based on identified capacity gaps and programme monitoring findings.
• Facilitate cross-learning and peer exchange through webinars, case studies, communities of practice, and dissemination of lessons learned and promising practices.
• Strengthen staff competencies in child safeguarding gender analysis, and the prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA).

Qualifications

• MBA/MSc/MA

Experience

• 5 years

• Lead the integration of Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPiHA) standards, child protection principles, gender equality, and inclusive approaches throughout programme design, implementation, monitoring, and reporting.
• Review humanitarian project proposals and related documentation to ensure compliance with the Child Protection Minimum Standards (CPMS), providing technical recommendations where required.
• Develop, adapt, and maintain operational guidance, tools, and standard operating procedures (SOPs) to support the consistent application of CPiHA across humanitarian programmes.
• Monitor and enhance the quality of child protection interventions through field missions, technical reviews, and follow-up actions.
• Provide technical guidance to Member Associations (MAs) during project inception and implementation, ensuring robust safeguarding measures, gender mainstreaming, and conflict-sensitive approaches.
• Support the development of programme indicators and Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) frameworks in collaboration with the MEAL Advisor to effectively measure protection-related outcomes.
• Promote innovation in child protection programming by testing new approaches, documenting lessons learned, and supporting their replication and scale-up.
• Design and deliver targeted training, coaching, and technical support to MA and regional teams based on identified capacity gaps and programme monitoring findings.
• Facilitate cross-learning and peer exchange through webinars, case studies, communities of practice, and dissemination of lessons learned and promising practices.
• Strengthen staff competencies in child safeguarding gender analysis, and the prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA).

• MBA/MSc/MA