World Vision International (WVI) began emergency relief operations in Afghanistan in 2001 by addressing the urgent needs of children and families affected by natural disasters and decades of conflict. More than a decade later, World Vision Afghanistan’s (WVA) programs have expanded to development sectors such as health, nutrition, WASH, child protection, and education, empowering women to engage in civil and social change through interfaith partnership.

WVA targets the most vulnerable in its interventions; including children, women, Internally Displace Persons (IDPs), and returnee refugees, as well as the most impoverished and marginalized families. These priorities have been chosen to contribute to our Goal of: “Improved survival and well-being of Afghan girls and boys, building the foundations for a better future for Afghan children and their communities.” 

Our work is well established in Herat, Badghis, Ghor, and Faryab provinces in the western region of Afghanistan. We work closely with all levels of society including children, parents, teachers, village councils, religious leaders, ministries, provincial departments, and other national and international agencies.

The Protection and Education Sector lead will provide technical support and guidance to the WVA national office to develop, implement, monitor, evaluate, and document its protection and education strategy and programs. S/he will be an integral member of the program and operations team and will ultimately be a key player in contributing to WVA’s overall goal of helping children develop to their full potential. The position is also responsible for providing technical leadership to World Vision Afghanistan’s Protection, advocacy, and education programming, including Humanitarian Protection, and Child Protection and leading the National Office’s advocacy initiatives across all sectors and programming.

The position holder acts as an advisor to senior management in designing the protection, advocacy, and Education strategy that fits within the broader Humanitarian Strategy by ensuring timely consultation with affected populations, including children, adolescents, and youth. In addition, the holder will lead the resource mobilization efforts for the protection and education sectors to achieve strategic directions set out in WVA’s Protection and Education Sectors Strategy.

Strategy Alignment & Program Development

• Lead the development and alignment of WV Afghanistan Protection and education Technical Approaches and Technical Programs with the National Office Strategy and Our Promise.
• Ensure Protection and Education considerations are mainstreamed into all World Vision Afghanistan Sector Strategies and technical approaches and proposals.
• In coordination with the programme development team, take the lead in designing new protection, and education-specific projects and provide technical inputs to all new project proposals/concept notes. 
• Together with the PDQ team, meet donors to preposition for new program ideas and models based on evidence.
• Conduct regular situational analysis of the sector and give recommendations back to WV Afghanistan management to make decisions on future priorities.
• Ensure the participation of Women, Men, Girls, and Boys (children, adolescents, and youth) in developing and implementing strategies that address crucial protection priorities, including participatory assessments.
• In close collaboration with the Ministry of Education (MoE).  MoSA, CPAN and other education players at the national and provincial levels, identify innovative approaches that will increase access to quality education for all children in primary and secondary school, especially for girls.

• Maintain the membership in the National preschool/ECD Steering committee and technical working group and contribute substantial technical inputs to the development/revision of the government preschool curriculum and teachers’ training toolkit development

Project Implementation, Monitoring and Reporting

• Provide leadership to ensure the overall technical quality of all WV Afghanistan Protection and education programming, both through direct efforts and through mentorship and coaching of field-based Projects; 
• Ensure all programming and implementation follows WV Afghanistan’s standard technical approaches to each sub-sector, uptakes donor, international and country-specific guidance, minimum requirements, and global best practices.
• Support DM&E to develop assessment, monitoring & evaluation tools to measure Education, Protection, and Safeguarding issues including providing technical support; Build staff capacity on the use of Protection tools (i.e., Safety Audit).
• Work with DM&E to strengthen accountability mechanisms that ensure reporting channels are accessible to different gender, age, ethnic and disability groups
• Review grant progress reports and M&E reports are ensuring compliance with WV expectations and donor requirements. 
• Provide technical leadership to Education, Protection and other sector-related research, case studies, learning reviews, and publications for WV Afghanistan, and as part of WV Regional / Global initiatives relevant to Afghanistan or fragile contexts.
• Advice and support WVA Zone and Project Managers who directly manage and implement protection and education projects to ensure quality implementation that meets International and WV standards and donor requirements. 
• In conjunction with the M&E focal persons, lead action research and impact assessments and recommend changes to achieve quality impact.  
• Strengthen good relationships with existing donors, and explore potential donors who focus on the education and protection sectors. 
• Assess the capacity of primary school and other education personnel and develop/improve teacher training curriculum/ modules and training accordingly.
• Lead in developing, adapting, and contextualize teaching and learning materials. 
• Provide guidance/support to FRAMES consortium and other projects that have Protection programming, ensuring that WVA and all partners implement protection interventions in line with industry and donor standards.

Conduct periodic supportive supervision initiatives to FRAMES and DAWAM consortium to provide technical backstopping and monitoring

Advocacy, Networking and External Engagement

• Provide ongoing, quarterly context analysis on national ministerial changes/humanitarian context and/or opportunities for policy influence, particularly on protection and education sectors, in coordination with technical coordinators
• Plan and implement relevant Protection and Education advocacy initiatives at a national level with support from leadership   
• Engage in regional and global coordination around the It takes a World Campaign 
• Lead or Support the implementation, documentation, and reporting of initiatives relating to the takes a World Campaign with Regional office engagement 
• Review, further develop and implement WVA’s education and protection advocacy strategy.
• Analyse government’s education policies that may further or constrain efforts of increasing net primary education enrolment and develop strategies/actions to respond to them
• Build relationship with the RO, SO and GC in areas related to protection and education

Showcase the good practices of WVA in protection and education programme to internal and external audience that promote the good work and reputation of WVA

Organizational and Staff Capacity Building

Provide technical support to recruit protection and education-related and other technical staff (i.e., JD review based on existing standard JDs, technical short-listing, technical interviews, etc).

• Develop and revise protection and education capacity building plans and share with P&C
• Review, update, and, where necessary, develop contextualized training or other guidance material for protection and education field staff based on project needs and assessment findings.

Facilitate key Protection, Mainstreaming, and Child Protection training packages as recognized by cluster/sub-cluster

Required Education, training, license, registration, and/or Certification

• Master’s degree in early childhood care and development, international education, International Relations, Humanitarian Protection, Human Rights, Social Work; Master’s Degree is strongly preferred.
• Certification or other similar demonstration of capacity to facilitate trainings and provide coaching and supervision to key Protection, Child Protection and Violence Against Women technical packages (i.e. Protection Mainstreaming Minimum Standards, Child Protection Minimum Standards, GBViE Minimum Standards, PSEA, Community Based Complaints and Reporting Mechanisms), Humanitarian advocacy/international humanitarian law

Excellent written and speaking English and i, with fluency of one of the local languages

Required Professional Experience,

• Minimum 5 years of experience in a technical position related to child education, early childhood development and protection in humanitarian settings, with a comprehensive experience in both child protection and GBV technical sectors strongly preferred.

Required Language(s)

Excellent English communication skills (both oral and written) knowledge of the local language. 

Required travel and/or work environment accommodations.

The position requires ability and willingness to travel up to 60% domestically to project sites; with occasional international travel.

Position’s physical requirements

Physically fit in good health situation

The application closing date is 09-Jan-2025. Qualified applicants can apply for the position by filling in the online application form in WV Career portal. applicants can also attach their CV and cover letter in the online system. Please note that only the applications received through the online portal will be considered for this position.

Applicants can login to WV online application system by copying and pasting the following link into their web browser

Female Candidates are highly encouraged to apply

Submission Email:

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