Child Protection Coordinator - Local Hire

About the role

Project HOPE, an international NGO, is recruiting a Child Protection (CP) Coordinator to lead and coordinate child protection activities under a funded healthcare project in Gaza. The role ensures safe, ethical and effective protection services for children, including case management, psychosocial support and prevention activities, and strengthens local capacity in a complex humanitarian context. The position is advertised contingent on award: recruitment proceeds as part of organizational preparedness but no formal offer is made until funding is confirmed.

Key responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership on child protection programming, including prevention of abuse, exploitation, neglect and violence, and advise program and operations leadership on CP strategies and policies.
• Develop program designs, implementation methods and field tools, and plan, schedule and supervise child protection activities in line with project objectives and donor requirements.
• Build robust case management systems, referral pathways and follow-up procedures, and track service delivery indicators.
• Ensure interventions are inclusive, culturally appropriate and tailored to children with disabilities and other vulnerable groups, and deliver them on time and within budget.
• Oversee compliance with Project HOPE guidelines, donor requirements and national child protection policies, and report accurately and timely to Gaza leadership, headquarters and donors.
• Maintain confidential child protection records, work with the M&E department on data collection and analysis, and lead assessments, monitoring visits and quality improvement initiatives.
• Support donor monitoring visits and external evaluations, and build CP staff capacity through training, mentoring and supportive supervision.
• Manage CP team staffing levels, lead and mentor CP officers, case managers and outreach staff, and manage performance through measurable objectives and continuous feedback.
• Support Gaza leadership in applying a risk management approach, identify programmatic, ethical and operational risks, maintain risk registers and incident reporting mechanisms, and uphold safeguarding, protection and confidentiality standards.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Social Work, Psychology, Child Development or a related field; Master's degree preferred.
• Minimum 3-7 years of progressive experience in child protection programming, preferably in humanitarian or emergency contexts.
• Demonstrated experience managing CP teams and supervising service delivery.
• Experience with donor-funded projects and with scalable interventions such as PM+, TRT, SH+ and EASE.
• Fluency in English and Arabic is required; international travel is expected.

Required skills

• Strong technical knowledge of case management, psychosocial support and prevention of abuse, exploitation and neglect.
• Experience with inter-agency child protection standards and tools (e.g., CPMS, CPIMS+).
• Analytical, reporting and coordination skills.