Who we are
SOS Children’s Villages Ethiopia is an International Non-governmental organization and a member of SOS Children’s Villages International Federation. We started our humanitarian work in Ethiopia with the opening of our first Village in Mekelle, Northern part of Ethiopia in 1974. Since then, we have expanded our programs to different regions where there are significant needs for intervention and where we believe we can work in partnership with all relevant actors to bring sustainable positive outcomes for children’s and young people.
Today, we have grown significantly to meet the persistent challenges that confront Ethiopian children who have lost parental care and those that are at risk of losing their parental care. Working in close collaboration with international donors, local government and community based organizations across seven program locations; we aspire that every child grows up with love, respect and security.
Why we need you?
Under the supervision of the NC-Nexus Field Project Coordinator, the Gender and Protection Officer is responsible for leading the planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of gender and protection related CORE project interventions within the project area. The Gender and Protection Officer will ensure that gender equality, child protection, safeguarding, and PSEA are mainstreamed across the NC-HDP CORE Program. The incumbent will coordinate protection case management, GBV/CP referral pathways, and capacity building for community-based protection structures.
The incumbent is required to carry out his/her duties following the SOS CV Safeguarding policies and regulations, the Code of Conduct, the values-based competency frame “Living our Values” and any further international and local regulation that influences safeguarding at SOS CV.’
What we provide?
An amazing work environment that promotes personal growth through providing professional space to grow and advance your career!
Your role?
Project Implementation
- Conduct protection and PSHEA risk assessments, including mapping of referral services.
- Train community facilitators, case workers, and school protection clubs on GBV/CP response.
- Support the Moyale One Stop Center and Youth-Friendly Center with case management, dignity kits, and psychosocial services.
- Lead community awareness on harmful traditional practices (child marriage, FGM, etc.).
- Strengthen community complaint and feedback mechanisms for accountability and protection.
- Ensure gender and protection considerations are integrated into all humanitarian, development, and peace activities.
- Ensure integration of humanitarian actions with development and peacebuilding activities.
- Monitor service delivery quality, ensure accountability to affected populations, and report regularly to the NC-Nexus Field Project Coordinator.
Capacity Strengthening:
- Undertake field visits to partners and facilitators to oversee implementation, including provision of on-site feedback and supportive supervision on required improvements, and generate field visit reports with timely and appropriate follow-up on action points.
- Lead training of community volunteers and other relevant community partners, and ongoing capacity strengthening through mentoring and supportive supervision and encourage the development of peer networks and learning opportunities, including through review meetings.
Partner Management:
- Under the supervision of the NC-Nexus Field Project Coordinator, the Gender and Protection Officer, liaise and maintain relationships with the partners’ communication partner, with whom the organization has joint ambition/plans/teaming agreement
- Ensure that all supported project activities from Partners are appropriately planned and delivered, and report on progress monthly.
Representation & Advocacy & Organizational Learning:
- Ensure that SOSCV and partner’s work is coordinated with other agencies and the Government's efforts and support Interagency Coordination forums, advocating for the specific needs of children. This may involve supporting coordination working groups within the project supported communities, local government.
- Contribute to communications and media work as required through collection of data and information and sharing with the team leads.
- In cooperation with the MEAL Team, support data quality assessments and support community volunteers to effectively document and report community mobilization activities using appropriate tools.
Monitiorin and Evaluation
- Ensure timely and accurate data collection, entry, analysis, and reporting to inform project planning, learning, and decision-making.
- Coordinate community feedback and accountability mechanisms, including complaint response systems, to ensure program responsiveness and community engagement.
- Contribute to documentation of lessons learned, best practices, success stories, and case studies for internal learning and external sharing.
- Support capacity building of project staff and community volunteers on MEAL tools, data management, and learning processes.
- Ensure MEAL findings and recommendations are integrated into planning and implementation for continuous improvement of project quality and impact.
- Oversee participatory vulnerability mapping, targeting, and registration of project households in collaboration with community facilitators.
- Support the rollout of the NC-HDP MEL framework at woreda and kebele levels, ensuring data-driven adaptive programming.
- Document lessons learned, success stories, and challenges to inform program refinement and donor communication.
Reporting and documentation
- Engage communities in identifying challenges, prioritizing needs, and co-developing sustainable solutions aligned with project objectives.
- Document and disseminate community-driven success stories, lessons learned, and best practices to inform adaptive programming.
- Prepare and submit timely community activity reports, highlighting achievements, challenges, and recommendations for improvement.
- Coordinate and facilitate quarterly review and planning meetings with community representatives, partners, and stakeholders to track progress and encourage collective learning.
- Support proposal development and donor reporting processes by gathering and synthesizing community-level insights and feedback.
- Ensure effective utilization of program budgets, resources, and logistics in line with SOS CVE standards.
- Provide oversight for prepositioned humanitarian supplies, WASH inputs, and livelihood assets to ensure accountability and timely distribution.
Cross-Pillar Integration
- Humanitarian pillar: Ensure timely delivery of nutrition, WASH, protection, and education interventions for vulnerable households.
- Development pillar: Facilitate establishment of Community Development Associations, value chain development, and livelihood initiatives.
- Peace pillar: Support GPDI-led peacebuilding activities, conflict resolution structures, and social cohesion platforms.
CHILD PROTECTION
- Responsible to ensure that all beneficiaries are receiving ongoing, age-appropriate verbal or written information in relevant languages about SOS Children’s Villages Child Protection Policy and Code of Conduct.
- Ensure that all support is provided on the best interest of the child.
- Responsible for taking part in raise awareness raising sessions and capacity building training in relation to CS and Code of Conduct and to prevent and protect children and young people from all forms of abuse, abandonment, exploitation, violence and discrimination
- Support children and young people to make them understand the CS risks and protection mechanisms
- Responsible for reporting any CS suspicion, concern, allegation or incident immediately, following Child Safeguarding reporting procedures. CS reports should be made to the CS team at program level and/or to the respective line manager
SAFEGUARDING
- Ensure adherence to SOS CV policies such as the Code of Conduct, Safeguarding Standards and others as well as the minimum standards of humanitarian relief
- Ensure that all support is provided in the best interest of the child.
- Responsible for taking part in awareness-raising sessions and capacity building training in relation to Safeguarding and Code of Conduct and to protect children and young people from all forms of abuse, abandonment, exploitation, violence and discrimination
- Support children, young people and program participants to make them understand the Safeguarding risks and protection mechanisms
- Ensure proper safeguarding procedures and policies are in place to protect program participants’ children, young people, adults and other stakeholders.
- Be vigilant about any possible form of abuse/harm, neglect, harassment, or exploitation against, children, youth and adults in personal and professional lives.
- Report any Incident Management Team or concern within 24 hours to the Incident Management Team, focal person or concerned party through the defined channels for reporting the allegation
Job Requirements
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Then check out our criteria’s:
Must Criteria
- Bachelor’s degree (master’s preferred) in Gender Studies, Sociology, Law, Social Work, or related field.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in child protection, GBV, or safeguarding roles.
- Familiarity with Ethiopia’s protection systems, humanitarian standards (Sphere, CPMS), and donor compliance.
- Strong training, facilitation, and community engagement skills.
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills in English; proficiency in Amharic and/or Affan Oromo is required; Somali language is an advantage.
Competencies – Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
Understanding the organization and commitment to its vision and mission: able to clearly communicate SOS Children’s Villages Who We Are (Vision, Mission & Values), “Living our Values” policies and strategies in all areas.
- Child rights & child development: Working knowledge in all areas of child rights, child protection, child development, family & community development, and rights-based programming in a developing country.
- Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting: experience in preparing structured report and using evidence to support the program.
- Community Engagement and Capacity Building: ability to build and maintain partnership with stakeholders such as schools, community and government stakeholders.
- Networking and Relationships Building: ability to build, maintain and leverage networks with local government, NGO communities’ leaders and other relevant stakeholders.
- Accountability and Result Orientation: ensure the ownership of task and meets deadlines effectively and monitor progress and communicate concerns proactively.
- Collaboration: driven to work with others, able to build partnerships and teamwork internally and externally.
- Advocacy & Influence: Competence in linking grassroots mobilization with policy and advocacy efforts.
- Training & Facilitation: Skills in delivering training to community volunteers, partners, and stakeholders, using participatory and adult-learning methods.
- Partnership Management: Effective coordination, communication, and relationship-building with implementing partners and community leaders.
- Advocacy– Ability to influence community norms around education and child protection.
- Inclusive Education – experience in ensuring gender, disability, and crisis-sensitive approaches in education programming.
- Integrity: able to state views openly and act in line with beliefs, maintain the organization’s values, maintain deadlines and commitments; have ethical standards, ability to gain the trust of co-workers, and desire to be of service.
- Communication: high-level written and verbal communication/presentation skills; ability to interact effectively with partners and staff at all levels; ability to represent the organization externally; exceptional ability to communicate consistently, clearly, and effectively with a range of stakeholders.
- Software: - Computer literacy (MS Office and MS Project, and other statistical softer wares such as STATA, and SPSS)
Core Competency (these competencies are relevant for every co-worker):
- Kindness: Act with empathy towards everyone he/she works with.
- Continuous Learning: Make an effort to learn, understand and grow as a person, admitting your own mistakes.
- Inclusiveness: In any actions show respect and care for others.
- Initiative: speak up when things are not right, do not hesitate to act, and adapt to change when necessary.
- Results Orientation: look for solutions and focus on desired results.
How to Apply
Excited to take on a new Challenge...
Then send us your application (application letter, detailed CV containing contact details of their references) electronically through SOS Children Villages Application portal (ICIMS)
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Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
SOS Children’s Villages in Ethiopia holds strict child safeguarding principles and a zero-tolerance policy for conduct of sexual harassment, exploitation, and abuse in the workplace and other places where the organization’s activities are rendered. Parallel to technical competence, recruitment, selection, and hiring decisions will give due emphasis to assessing candidates value congruence and thorough background checks, and police clearance reference check processes.
SOS Children's Villages in Ethiopia provides equal employment opportunities to all co-workers & qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, ancestry, national origin, age, disability, marital status, or class.
