Global Protection Technical Advisor

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What do we believe?

Demonstrate Biblical Integrity

At Samaritan's Purse, the Gospel is the center of all we do! We start each day with a time of devotions and prayer for each other, our staff, and volunteers who serve around the world. As a faith-driven organization, our Statement of Faith shapes every aspect of our global work.

Please take time to review the following link as you consider working with us: https://www.samaritanspurse.org/our-ministry/statement-of-faith/

What is the opportunity?

Respond with Compassionate Action

We are seeking a Global Protection Technical Advisor to join our team Internationally or from our North Wilkesboro office. Through humanitarian work, the goal and purpose of Samaritan's Purse are to help people in Jesus' name and share the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

In the role of Global Protection Technical Advisor,you will have the opportunity to:

• Maintain a personal, active relationship with Jesus Christ and is a consistent witness for Jesus Christ.
• Provide high-quality technical advice, accompaniment and mentoring to staff on all aspects of Protection across humanitarian contexts, with a particular focus on Psychosocial Social Support (PSS) interventions and strengthening the family, including through remote and in-country support, through the development and disseminations of guidelines, tools, and training materials.
• Maintain strong relationships with Protection sector and Program managers in country offices as well as other staff providing technical input during the span of the entire program cycle. This includes supporting and reviewing needs assessments, program design, the technical implementation of projects, monitoring and evaluation and lessons learned.
• Facilitate capacity building of staff members on PSS, child protection, protection mainstreaming, and community level protection.
• Provide technical guidance on the integration of appropriate protection mainstreaming, psychosocial support interventions, child protection themes for all other sectoral interventions.
• Stay abreast of sectoral best practices, minimum standards, developments and trends, and research.
• Travel, to undertake above tasks, including insecure operating environments.
• Other duties as assigned.

What are the qualifications?

Serve with Excellence

As a qualified candidate, you will have the following skills and experience:

• Relevant graduate/post-graduate degree (Social work, Public Health, Psychology, International Development etc.), relevant humanitarian training, and 5 years' experience in the humanitarian sector in a programmatic role with experience internationally; or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Experience from humanitarian and development contexts, especially in implementation of protection programs and/or mainstreaming protection principles and implementation of PSS programs into humanitarian programming.
• Experience working with individuals and groups at risk or victims of abuse, exploitation and violence.
• Experience of working in humanitarian or insecure settings.
• Experience supporting skills building and capacity strengthening, including developing training materials, providing training to a range of audiences, and providing accompaniment/mentoring.

What are the benefits?

Walk in Bold Faith

Samaritan's Purse is proud to offer a competitive benefits package, including:

• On-site Medical Clinic (staff and dependents)
• Medical, prescription, dental & vision insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Long-term and Short-term disability insurance
• Paid Family Medical Leave
• Term Life Insurance
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• 10 paid holidays
• 12 vacation/personal days
• 10 sick days

Type: Full-time

Department: Projects

Location: International or North Wilkesboro, NC

Language Requirement: English

Travel: Approximately 100 days/year