Smithson

Child Protection Specialist

  • Mosul
  • Smithson
  • Posted date: 18 hours before
  • End date: 2026-06-14

Job Title: Child Protection Specialist

Job In Mosul

Company: Smithson

Start Date: 2026-05-31

End Date: 2026-06-14




Job Description

1. Background

The Child Protection Specialist will provide technical support and quality assurance for child protection and child resilience activities implemented by the organization. The role focuses on strengthening safe, age-appropriate, inclusive, and community-based services for children, caregivers, and frontline staff.

2. Purpose of the Role

The purpose of this role is to ensure that all child protection interventions are technically sound, safe for children, aligned with humanitarian and development standards, and responsive to the needs of vulnerable children.

3. Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership and Program Quality

  • Provide technical guidance for child protection and child resilience activities.
  • Ensure activities are age-appropriate, gender-sensitive, disability-inclusive, culturally respectful, and safe for children.
  • Support the development of SOPs, referral forms, safeguarding guidance, training materials, and activity plans.
  • Advise the project team on child protection risks and practical mitigation measures.

Case Management and Referral Support

  • Strengthen safe identification, assessment, case planning, referral, follow-up, and case closure procedures.
  • Support case workers through coaching, technical review, and case conferencing where appropriate.
  • Ensure confidentiality, informed consent or assent, data protection, and do-no-harm principles.
  • Map and update referral pathways for health, legal, education, psychosocial, disability, and social support services.

Psychosocial Support and Child Resilience

  • Support structured psychosocial support, life skills, social-emotional learning, and resilience-building activities.
  • Guide facilitators working in child friendly spaces, schools, community centers, or outreach settings.
  • Promote caregiver engagement, positive parenting, family strengthening, and safe community support.

Safeguarding and Risk Management

  • Ensure staff, consultants, volunteers, and partners understand child safeguarding and PSEA requirements.
  • Support safe recruitment, codes of conduct, reporting mechanisms, and child-safe activity planning.
  • Identify safeguarding risks and recommend mitigation actions.

Capacity Building

  • Assess capacity gaps among staff, facilitators, volunteers, and partners.
  • Design and deliver training on child protection, safeguarding, case management, psychological first aid, referral pathways, and safe communication with children.
  • Provide mentoring and on-the-job coaching to frontline staff.

Coordination and Reporting

  • Coordinate with government departments, schools, community leaders, service providers, and NGOs.
  • Participate in protection, child protection, MHPSS, education, or safeguarding coordination meetings.
  • Prepare technical inputs for donor reports, monthly reports, learning briefs, and project reviews.


4. Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor degree in social work, psychology, sociology, education, law, public health, humanitarian studies, or a related field.
  • At least 5 years of relevant experience in child protection, case management, MHPSS, safeguarding, education in emergencies, or community-based protection.
  • Strong understanding of child protection principles, best interests of the child, confidentiality, referral pathways, child safeguarding, and do-no-harm.
  • Experience working with vulnerable children, caregivers, communities, local authorities, and service providers.
  • Ability to prepare clear reports, tools, and guidance documents in English. Arabic or Kurdish is an advantage depending on the location.

5. Contract Conditions

  • The position is contract based and does not automatically create a permanent employment relationship.
  • Payment may be monthly, milestone based, or deliverable based, according to the signed contract.
  • The contractor must submit agreed deliverables, timesheets, invoices, or activity reports as required.
  • The contractor must comply with the organization’s code of conduct, child safeguarding policy, PSEA policy, confidentiality rules, and security procedures.

6. Safeguarding Statement

The organization has zero tolerance for child abuse, sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, harassment, discrimination, and any form of harm against children or vulnerable people. The selected candidate will be required to sign and comply with the organization’s safeguarding and code of conduct policies. Background checks and reference checks may be required before contract signature.

 
 
 

Please send your CV to careers@smithson.co. Kindly write the job title in the subject line.



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