Job ID
49649
Job Title
Protection and Inclusion Officer
To work for
TDH Italy / Terre des Hommes- Italy
Country
Syria
City
Damascus
Field of Work
Humanitarian/Disasters
Job Type
Full time
Minimum Education Level
Bachelor/ License Degree
Responsibilities
1. Technical Support and Program Quality
- Provide day-to-day technical support for protection and inclusion activities across the Syria program, including PSS, child protection, and inclusion activities.
- Support the adaptation and application of technical approaches, tools, activity guidance, and implementation materials in line with approved project documents and organizational standards.
- Contribute to context analysis, needs assessments, stakeholder mapping, and identification of emerging protection and inclusion needs and risks.
- Help ensure that protection interventions are age-appropriate, conflict-sensitive, inclusive, accountable, and aligned with safeguarding standards and humanitarian principles.
- Alert the Program Manager, Project Managers, and Program Coordination Officer to technical risks, implementation concerns, and opportunities for improvement.
2. Program Design, Planning and Implementation Support
- Support the technical preparation of protection activities across the portfolio, including child protection, psychosocial support, and inclusion-related interventions.
- Contribute to the development or adaptation of session plans, guidance notes, tools, implementation materials, checklists, and other technical resources needed for quality implementation.
- Review and provide comments on activity plans, implementation modalities, and technical schedules prepared within projects to support coherence, feasibility, and quality.
- Work closely with Project Managers to help ensure that protection and inclusion activities are implemented in line with approved proposals, workplans, and donor commitments.
- Respect and reinforce the agreed structure whereby operational tasking to field teams is channeled through the Program Coordination Officer and Field Coordinators.
3. Quality Follow-up and Field Support
- Conduct regular technical follow-up, field visits, spot checks, and coaching sessions to support implementation quality and consistency across locations.
- Identify technical gaps, implementation bottlenecks, quality concerns, and practical support needs affecting protection outcomes, and propose corrective actions.
- Provide technical guidance and practical follow-up support to program and field teams in coordination with Project Managers, the Program Coordination Officer, and Field Coordinators.
- Promote practical learning, reflection, adaptation, and quality improvement across protection and inclusion activities.
4. Child Protection, PSS and Inclusion Components
- Support the implementation and quality follow-up of child protection activities in line with child safeguarding principles, best interests of the child, confidentiality, and child-sensitive approaches.
- Support the implementation and quality follow-up of psychosocial support activities, including structured and non-structured PSS approaches where relevant and in line with approved methodologies, available technical guidance, and organizational standards.
- Support the integration and quality follow-up of inclusion activities so that project approaches are accessible, participatory, non-discriminatory, and responsive to the needs of children and adults with diverse vulnerabilities and capacities.
- Help ensure that inclusion considerations are reflected in targeting, outreach, communication materials, activity design, referrals, and feedback mechanisms.
- Flag protection and inclusion risks observed during implementation and propose safe, appropriate, and context-adapted mitigation measures.
5. Coordination with Program Structure, Sectors, and Field Line
- Collaborate closely with Project Managers on technical planning, deliverables, reporting inputs, and proposal content related to protection and inclusion.
- Coordinate functionally with the Program Coordination Officer, who is responsible for translating the consolidated programme plan into field execution and coordinating Field Coordinators.
- Provide technical inputs to the Program Coordination Officer for sequencing, feasibility, workload balancing, and field implementation arrangements.
- Coordinate with Field Coordinators through the agreed structure to support activity preparation, implementation quality, field problem-solving, and technical follow-up.
- Follow up with relevant sector coordination mechanisms, technical working groups, and protection-related forums, and ensure that sector guidance, standards, referral pathways, and key updates are shared with program teams and reflected in implementation.
- Avoid bypassing the agreed operational line for routine field tasking, while remaining available for field-level coaching, technical support, and quality follow-up in coordination with the Program Coordination Officer and relevant Project Managers.
6. MEAL, Data Provision, Reporting and Learning
- Work closely with MEAL to define and review protection and inclusion indicators, data collection tools, monitoring questions, and means of verification.
- Support the quality and consistency of protection-related monitoring frameworks and reporting requirements.
- Ensure timely and accurate provision of protection-related data, activity evidence, technical clarifications, and means of verification required for internal and donor reporting.
- Support MEAL in compiling, validating, interpreting, and presenting protection-related data for monitoring products, internal updates, donor reports, dashboards, and other reporting requirements.
- Review monitoring results, beneficiary feedback, accountability findings, and lessons learned related to protection and inclusion activities and use them to support quality improvement.
- Provide technical inputs to internal reports, donor reports, assessments, case studies, lessons learned documents, and other program documentation.
- Support Project Managers in ensuring that protection and inclusion activities are properly documented, evidenced, and reflected in program reporting.
7. Proposal Development and Program Growth
- Contribute technical inputs to concept notes, proposals, assessments, log frames, theories of change, budgets, and implementation arrangements for new and existing projects.
- Help ensure that proposals related to protection, child protection, PSS, and inclusion are evidence-based, realistic, and aligned with beneficiary needs and donor priorities.
- Support the identification of gaps, opportunities, and practical approaches that can strengthen the protection and inclusion portfolio.
- Contribute to technical donor discussions, proposal reviews, and program development processes when requested by the Program Manager or Country Director.
8. Capacity Strengthening and Team Support
- Identify technical capacity gaps among program and field staff working on protection and inclusion activities.
- Support the design and delivery of practical orientation, coaching, on-the-job support, refresher sessions, and technical capacity-strengthening initiatives.
- Support Field Coordinators, focal points, volunteers, and project teams to understand and apply technical standards, facilitation approaches, safeguarding requirements, and inclusion principles.
- Promote consistent technical understanding across different locations and projects through harmonized tools, messaging, and guidance.
9. Safeguarding, Risk Management and Representation
- Support the integration of safeguarding, PSEA, child protection principles, confidentiality, informed consent, ethical conduct, and accountability into all protection and inclusion activities.
- Identify technical, contextual, reputational, and safeguarding risks related to protection interventions and propose mitigation measures.
- Raise serious technical concerns, safeguarding risks, quality incidents, or implementation issues to the Program Manager through the appropriate line and coordinate closely with relevant departments as required.
- Represent Terre des hommes Italia in technical meetings, sector coordination forums, partner discussions, or working groups related to protection, child protection, PSS, or inclusion when delegated.
10. Final Responsibilities
- Undertake any other relevant tasks requested by the Program Manager and consistent with the role.
- Contribute to a working environment based on respect, integrity, accountability, collaboration, and adherence to Terre des hommes Italia policies and values.
- Act at all times in line with the agreed departmental structure, communication flow, and operational framework established for the Syria delegation.
- Provide day-to-day technical support for protection and inclusion activities across the Syria program, including PSS, child protection, and inclusion activities.
- Support the adaptation and application of technical approaches, tools, activity guidance, and implementation materials in line with approved project documents and organizational standards.
- Contribute to context analysis, needs assessments, stakeholder mapping, and identification of emerging protection and inclusion needs and risks.
- Help ensure that protection interventions are age-appropriate, conflict-sensitive, inclusive, accountable, and aligned with safeguarding standards and humanitarian principles.
- Alert the Program Manager, Project Managers, and Program Coordination Officer to technical risks, implementation concerns, and opportunities for improvement.
2. Program Design, Planning and Implementation Support
- Support the technical preparation of protection activities across the portfolio, including child protection, psychosocial support, and inclusion-related interventions.
- Contribute to the development or adaptation of session plans, guidance notes, tools, implementation materials, checklists, and other technical resources needed for quality implementation.
- Review and provide comments on activity plans, implementation modalities, and technical schedules prepared within projects to support coherence, feasibility, and quality.
- Work closely with Project Managers to help ensure that protection and inclusion activities are implemented in line with approved proposals, workplans, and donor commitments.
- Respect and reinforce the agreed structure whereby operational tasking to field teams is channeled through the Program Coordination Officer and Field Coordinators.
3. Quality Follow-up and Field Support
- Conduct regular technical follow-up, field visits, spot checks, and coaching sessions to support implementation quality and consistency across locations.
- Identify technical gaps, implementation bottlenecks, quality concerns, and practical support needs affecting protection outcomes, and propose corrective actions.
- Provide technical guidance and practical follow-up support to program and field teams in coordination with Project Managers, the Program Coordination Officer, and Field Coordinators.
- Promote practical learning, reflection, adaptation, and quality improvement across protection and inclusion activities.
4. Child Protection, PSS and Inclusion Components
- Support the implementation and quality follow-up of child protection activities in line with child safeguarding principles, best interests of the child, confidentiality, and child-sensitive approaches.
- Support the implementation and quality follow-up of psychosocial support activities, including structured and non-structured PSS approaches where relevant and in line with approved methodologies, available technical guidance, and organizational standards.
- Support the integration and quality follow-up of inclusion activities so that project approaches are accessible, participatory, non-discriminatory, and responsive to the needs of children and adults with diverse vulnerabilities and capacities.
- Help ensure that inclusion considerations are reflected in targeting, outreach, communication materials, activity design, referrals, and feedback mechanisms.
- Flag protection and inclusion risks observed during implementation and propose safe, appropriate, and context-adapted mitigation measures.
5. Coordination with Program Structure, Sectors, and Field Line
- Collaborate closely with Project Managers on technical planning, deliverables, reporting inputs, and proposal content related to protection and inclusion.
- Coordinate functionally with the Program Coordination Officer, who is responsible for translating the consolidated programme plan into field execution and coordinating Field Coordinators.
- Provide technical inputs to the Program Coordination Officer for sequencing, feasibility, workload balancing, and field implementation arrangements.
- Coordinate with Field Coordinators through the agreed structure to support activity preparation, implementation quality, field problem-solving, and technical follow-up.
- Follow up with relevant sector coordination mechanisms, technical working groups, and protection-related forums, and ensure that sector guidance, standards, referral pathways, and key updates are shared with program teams and reflected in implementation.
- Avoid bypassing the agreed operational line for routine field tasking, while remaining available for field-level coaching, technical support, and quality follow-up in coordination with the Program Coordination Officer and relevant Project Managers.
6. MEAL, Data Provision, Reporting and Learning
- Work closely with MEAL to define and review protection and inclusion indicators, data collection tools, monitoring questions, and means of verification.
- Support the quality and consistency of protection-related monitoring frameworks and reporting requirements.
- Ensure timely and accurate provision of protection-related data, activity evidence, technical clarifications, and means of verification required for internal and donor reporting.
- Support MEAL in compiling, validating, interpreting, and presenting protection-related data for monitoring products, internal updates, donor reports, dashboards, and other reporting requirements.
- Review monitoring results, beneficiary feedback, accountability findings, and lessons learned related to protection and inclusion activities and use them to support quality improvement.
- Provide technical inputs to internal reports, donor reports, assessments, case studies, lessons learned documents, and other program documentation.
- Support Project Managers in ensuring that protection and inclusion activities are properly documented, evidenced, and reflected in program reporting.
7. Proposal Development and Program Growth
- Contribute technical inputs to concept notes, proposals, assessments, log frames, theories of change, budgets, and implementation arrangements for new and existing projects.
- Help ensure that proposals related to protection, child protection, PSS, and inclusion are evidence-based, realistic, and aligned with beneficiary needs and donor priorities.
- Support the identification of gaps, opportunities, and practical approaches that can strengthen the protection and inclusion portfolio.
- Contribute to technical donor discussions, proposal reviews, and program development processes when requested by the Program Manager or Country Director.
8. Capacity Strengthening and Team Support
- Identify technical capacity gaps among program and field staff working on protection and inclusion activities.
- Support the design and delivery of practical orientation, coaching, on-the-job support, refresher sessions, and technical capacity-strengthening initiatives.
- Support Field Coordinators, focal points, volunteers, and project teams to understand and apply technical standards, facilitation approaches, safeguarding requirements, and inclusion principles.
- Promote consistent technical understanding across different locations and projects through harmonized tools, messaging, and guidance.
9. Safeguarding, Risk Management and Representation
- Support the integration of safeguarding, PSEA, child protection principles, confidentiality, informed consent, ethical conduct, and accountability into all protection and inclusion activities.
- Identify technical, contextual, reputational, and safeguarding risks related to protection interventions and propose mitigation measures.
- Raise serious technical concerns, safeguarding risks, quality incidents, or implementation issues to the Program Manager through the appropriate line and coordinate closely with relevant departments as required.
- Represent Terre des hommes Italia in technical meetings, sector coordination forums, partner discussions, or working groups related to protection, child protection, PSS, or inclusion when delegated.
10. Final Responsibilities
- Undertake any other relevant tasks requested by the Program Manager and consistent with the role.
- Contribute to a working environment based on respect, integrity, accountability, collaboration, and adherence to Terre des hommes Italia policies and values.
- Act at all times in line with the agreed departmental structure, communication flow, and operational framework established for the Syria delegation.
Qualifications
- University degree in psychology, social work, sociology, education, humanitarian studies, or another relevant field.
- At least 2-4 years of relevant professional experience in protection programming, including experience with child protection, PSS, inclusion, or closely related areas.
- Good command of Arabic and working knowledge of English.
- At least 2-4 years of relevant professional experience in protection programming, including experience with child protection, PSS, inclusion, or closely related areas.
- Good command of Arabic and working knowledge of English.
Specific Vacancy Requirements
- Demonstrated experience supporting implementation, quality follow-up, and reporting of protection-related activities.
- Good understanding of child protection principles, inclusion approaches, safeguarding, confidentiality, and humanitarian protection standards.
- Experience working with MEAL on indicators, data collection tools, reporting inputs, or protection-related evidence is an asset.
- Previous experience following up with sector coordination mechanisms, technical working groups, or referral pathways is an asset.
- Specialized training in PSS, child protection, case management, inclusion, or related fields is strongly preferred.
- Experience supporting or facilitating structured PSS activities is an advantage; however, where highly specialized PSS interventions are implemented, additional technical supervision or specialist support may be required.
- Strong coordination, organization, communication, and drafting skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively within a matrix structure and respect agreed reporting and communication lines.
- Good understanding of child protection principles, inclusion approaches, safeguarding, confidentiality, and humanitarian protection standards.
- Experience working with MEAL on indicators, data collection tools, reporting inputs, or protection-related evidence is an asset.
- Previous experience following up with sector coordination mechanisms, technical working groups, or referral pathways is an asset.
- Specialized training in PSS, child protection, case management, inclusion, or related fields is strongly preferred.
- Experience supporting or facilitating structured PSS activities is an advantage; however, where highly specialized PSS interventions are implemented, additional technical supervision or specialist support may be required.
- Strong coordination, organization, communication, and drafting skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively within a matrix structure and respect agreed reporting and communication lines.
Salary and Benefits
- As per TdH-Italy salary scale.
- Urgent notice: Due to the urgent need for this position, recruitment will be closed upon reaching a successful candidate.
- Urgent notice: Due to the urgent need for this position, recruitment will be closed upon reaching a successful candidate.
About us
Terre des Hommes Italy is a Italian organization based in Milano with an office in Damascus. Terre des Hommes Italy aims to improve the quality of life of children in difficult circumstances all over the world, regardless of race, faith and/or political orientation and to have their rights as laid down in the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child, protected and assured.
Terre des hommes Italy is carrying out several humanitarian project in Syria.
Terre des hommes Italy is carrying out several humanitarian project in Syria.
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Posted On
Jul 14, 2026
Expiry Date
Aug 13, 2026
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