GOAL’s mission is to work with the most vulnerable communities to help them respond to and recover from humanitarian crises, and to assist them to build transcendent solutions to mitigate poverty and vulnerability. 

GOAL is a non-for profit organization that has been working in Ethiopia for over 30 years across all the region of the country towards ensuring the poorest and most vulnerable in our world and those affected by humanitarian crises have access to the fundamental rights of life, including but not limited to adequate shelter, food and livelihoods, water and sanitation, nutrition, healthcare and education. GOAL implements a range of multi-sectoral development, resilience, recovery and humanitarian responses Programmes by being sensitive to cross-cutting issues including gender, accountably, child protection, HIV/AIDS.

We envision a world where poverty no longer exist, where vulnerable communities are resilient, where barriers to wellbeing are removed and where everyone has equal rights and  opportunities. GOAL Ethiopia’s main donors are Irish Aid, USAID/OFDA, EHF, ECHO and other private donors. 

The purpose of the role: to embed child protection from any actual and potential harm in all aspects of GOAL Ethiopia operation, the child protection officer will leverage their expertise to create a safe environment and safe intervention and workplace culture. The post-holder efforts are integral to fostering an inclusive and protective environment that aligns with our organization’s values, supporting the overall mission to optimize our impact on the communities we serve, particularly children.

Duties and Responsibilities

The Child Protection Officer (CP-Officer) is responsible for ensuring implementation of child protection activities designed to prevent and respond to child protection risks/concerns affecting crisis impacted children in target locations.

• He/she will facilitate project activities at a woreda level and make sure that the project is implemented in target woreda/locations in line with the agreement entered with Donors, respective government line offices/signatory bodies.

• The post holder is expected to provide guidance, mentoring and coaching community volunteer and CPC to enhance the quality of child protection case management and provision of psychosocial support services.

• In addition, he/she will ensure periodic and timely reporting of project activities as per donor and GOAL internal reporting requirements.

• Encourage good practice by promoting and championing the child protection policy and procedures.

• Regularly report to line manager and protection programme lead.

• Raising awareness of the code of conduct for working with children, parents and care givers.

• Respond appropriately to disclosures or concerns which relate to the well-being of a child.

• Provide technical support and coach sectoral government stakeholders and build their capacity in line with child protection project implementation.

• Shares lessons and insights from experiences and evaluation of programme and project effectiveness, feeding these into local, regional and Country networks.

• Maintain confidential records of reported cases and action taken.

• Provide technical and management support for the implementation, monitoring and reporting of child protection programs and ensuring that the interventions included in the child protection priority focus areas.

• Ensure effective and efficient management of financial resources, including reviewing and checking project budgets, monitoring expenditures, and implementing cost control measures.

• Identify, capture and develop case studies for the purpose of reporting, advocacy and influencing efforts.

• Organize and properly maintain database and information related to the program.

• Based on needs assessment, support and facilitate capacity building of front-line workers on violence, referral pathways, case management, community-based child protection systems, community mobilization, integration of multi-sectoral programming, and psychosocial support as per capacity building plans.

Job Requirements

Do you want to join an exciting organization that brings high level impact to the community and adds value to your professional advancement?  Then join us if you have:

Knowledge and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Sociology, Psychology, Social Work, Law, Community, Development or other related fields of social science studies.

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in implementing child protection in emergencies or other similar projects and clear understanding of child protection technical areas, International and national frameworks, such as case management, PSS, CBCPS, CFS and CFRM

• Experience of working with child survivors and at-risk children in NGO/INGO working system.

• Experience in organizing and facilitating capacity building training on key child protection topics for a range of target groups including government frontline workers and Social Workers.

Experience in community mobilization and conducting outreach activities

Desirable quality, skill and competence:

• Fluent spoken and written English, Afan Oromo, Somali and Amharic languages. 

• Experience in capacity building and mentoring.

• Good computer usage skills: e.g. MS Word, Excel, power point etc.

• Good interpersonal communication and problem-solving skills and flexibility

• Good understanding of Child Protection program approaches and practices

REMUNERATION and BENEFITS: 

• GOAL will pay a competitive basic salary based on the salary grading with addition benefits.

• A chance to develop tangible experience.

• Being part of a team who continue to make a real difference to the lives of the most vulnerable people.  

Commitments: 

GOAL’s recruitment procedure is fair and transparent which is also in line with the organization’s commitment to its integrity, honesty and culture. GOAL is committed to ensure that, its performance complies with the terms and conditions of relevant agreements, applicable laws & regulations. 

GOAL highly promotes Equality, diversity and inclusion and works with women and men, People with disabilities, and employees of various ages including youth, supports their empowerment and appreciates their achievements constantly. GOAL also encourages applications from diverse candidates including women, people with disabilities, people with diverse backgrounds, and youth to apply.

GOAL has zero tolerance to discrimination on the basis of gender, age, disability, ethnicity, religion, race, economic status etc . we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.

Hence, pre-employment background checks will be conducted, and employees are required to read, understand, sign and implement different polices including safe guarding and child protection policy, Protection from Sexual Exploitation and abuse policy, sexual harassment policy, code of conducts and any other rules and regulation of the organization. GOAL is strongly committed not to harm the people under its care.

GOAL Ethiopia is committed to safeguarding and promoting the safety of people who involves in its work and demands all staff exhibit the highest commitment. GOAL Ethiopia will verify skills and commitment of the candidate in the assessment process and perform Background reference check.

Child and adult safeguarding/PSEAH

Our mission is to protect vulnerable individuals, such as children and marginalized groups, from any form of harm or mistreatment. We ensure a safe environment by implementing safeguarding policies, training staff, addressing concerns promptly, and providing support to those in need, while upholding the dignity and rights of everyone involved.

You are welcome to include your sex (Male or female) and any disability issues in your CV (please note that this information will only be used to comply with affirmative action policy of the organization)

How To Apply

APPLICATION PROCEEDURE: 

Interested and qualified applicants need to submit ONLY once their non - returnable application with CV for one vacancy. The vacancy reference number along with the title & Duty station need to be written in the application letter 

• Applicants can directly apply online using www.ethioiobs.net 

GOAL strongly encourages female candidates to apply!

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for an interview and exam.

Shortlisted candidates will need to submit other supporting documents upon request at later stage.

GOAL is not able to contribute towards any costs incurred by candidates during the recruitment process