Child Protection and MHPSS Officer

World Vision International (WVI)—a leading international non-governmental organization — is looking for Child Protection and MHPSS Officer.

World Vision’s focus is helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith. Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

World Vision is committed to safeguarding children and adult beneficiaries believe every stakeholder and every member of the communities we work with has the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation and expects all employees, interns, volunteers and all WV affiliates share the same commitment. WV takes diligent measures to screen out all people who might seek to use WV to harm children or adult beneficiaries, or whose past actions indicate an unacceptable risk of such harm. Therefore, our recruitment policy and procedures include extensive identification checks prior to employment or engagement with WV in order to ensure safeguarding to the fullest extent.

Join a highly motivated team of world-class international and local humanitarian professionals to establish, build, and grow World Vision’s presence in Ukraine. You will work alongside global professionals, improving your knowledge, skills, and abilities in a multinational organization that will prepare you for work in the world’s best-in-class companies in the future.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITES

Technical Support

• Provide feedback of Child Protection and MHPSS programme approaches, tools, methodologies, and technical documents to ensure quality, consistency, and compliance with organizational and donor requirements.
• Support implementation and application of relevant standards and guidance, including CPMS, Inter-Agency Case Management Guidelines, and IASC MHPSS Guidelines.
• Contribute to identifying technical implementation challenges and support follow-up actions agreed with Technical Advisor and project teams.
• Support integration of Child Protection, MHPSS, safeguarding, inclusion, disability, and gender considerations across programme activities.
• Track and sharerelevant Protection sector updates, guidance, tools, and good practices for dissemination to project teams and partners.
• Provide implementation information and lessons learned for proposal development when requested.
• Support engagement with partners, government entities, clusters, working groups, and other stakeholders.
• Support implementation of child and adolescent participation approaches within programme activities and feedback mechanisms.
• Support safeguarding strengthening initiatives and partner compliance with safeguarding requirements in collaboration with the Safeguarding Specialist.

Project Implementation and Partner Support

• Support partners in implementing project activities according to approved workplans, budgets, indicators, and donor requirements.
• Monitor progress against targets and support timely delivery of planned activities and outputs.
• Review partner reports and supporting documentation and ensure timely submission of quality reports.
• Support development and tracking of implementation plans and activity schedules.
• Monitor project risks, delays, and implementation gaps and support follow-up actions.
• Provide day-to-day technical support to implementing partners and field teams.
• Support budget utilization monitoring and alignment between planned activities and expenditures for partners and WVI activities.
• Support partners to prepare reports (5ws, ITT, narrative monthly, interim reports).
• Develop and maintain operational implementation plans based on approved project designs and DIPsSupport coordination meetings with partners and relevant stakeholders as delegated by the Project Manager.

Capacity Strengthening

• Maintain partner capacity strengthening plans in Child Protection and MHPSS.
• Organize and support trainings, orientations and technical learning sessions.
• Adapt and contextualize technical guidance, tools, and training materials for the Ukrainian context.
• Support delivery of World Vision Child Protection approaches, project models, and technical methodologies.

Programme Monitoring, Learning, and Field Support

• Support monitoring activities in coordination with the MEAL/OPS/TA team.
• Conduct regular field visits and technical monitoring of partner implementation.
• Review monitoring data, assessments, evaluations, and programme performance information.
• Follow up on recommendations from monitoring visits, evaluations, audits, and technical reviews.
• Document lessons learned, good practices, implementation challenges, and improvement actions.
• Prepare technical monitoring updates and contribute to programme.

KNOWLEDGE/QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE ROLE

Required Professional Experience

• Minimum three (3) years of relevant professional experience in Child Protection, social services, humanitarian response, or community-based programming.
• Experience supporting the implementation, monitoring, and reporting of Child Protection and MHPSS interventions in humanitarian and/or development settings.
• Experience working with vulnerable children and families affected by displacement, conflict, violence, or other protection concerns.
• Experience working with local partners, service providers, community-based organizations, or government stakeholders. Experience delivering or supporting trainings, mentoring, coaching, or capacity-strengthening initiatives.
• Experience conducting needs assessments, service mapping, and identifying protection risks and service gaps.
• Experience participating in coordination mechanisms, referral networks, or multi-stakeholder platforms.
• Experience using monitoring data and programme evidence to support quality improvement and decision-making.

Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification

• Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, Psychology, Child Protection, Humanitarian Studies, Sociology, Community Development, or another relevant field; or an equivalent combination of education and professional experience.
• Valid certificate of good conduct.
• Possess Police Clearance Certificate

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications

• Knowledge of the Ukrainian child protection system, social service provision, referral mechanisms, and relevant legislation.
• Understanding of child protection case management, child protection systems strengthening, community-based child protection, adolescent programming, and family strengthening approaches.
• Knowledge of MHPSS approaches and their integration within child protection programming.
• Understanding of humanitarian principles, Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS), Sphere Standards, CPMS, and relevant inter-agency guidance.
• Knowledge of results-based management, logical frameworks, monitoring and evaluation approaches, and evidence-based programming.
• Understanding of safeguarding, child participation, inclusion, disability inclusion, and gender equality principles within humanitarian programming.

Skills and Competencies

• Strong verbal communication, presentation, facilitation, and interpersonal skills.
• Strong written communication and report-writing skills.
• Strong analytical, assessment, problem-solving, and data interpretation skills.
• Strong community engagement and stakeholder relationship-management skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams), Power BI, and digital data collection platforms (e.g., Kobo).
• Ability to translate evidence, monitoring findings, and lessons learned into programme improvements.
• Ability to work effectively in complex, dynamic, and rapidly changing environments.
• Cross-cultural sensitivity, professional maturity, adaptability, and resilience.
• Good organizational and planning skills, including coordination of trainings, workshops, and meetings.
• Ability to seek, incorporate, and act upon feedback to improve programme quality and capacity-strengthening efforts.

Additional Information

• Official employment according to Ukrainian labour law
• Medical insurance
• WVI Institutional trainings
• Travel up to 25% is likely
• Only candidates with Ukrainian citizenship or authorization to work in Ukraine will be considered
• Submit resume and cover letter IN ENGLISH using the  link Child Protection and MHPSS Officer

World Vision UCR is committed to safeguarding children and adult beneficiaries. We believe every stakeholder and every member of the communities we work with has the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation and expects all employees, interns, volunteers and all WV UCR affiliates share the same commitment. WV UCR takes diligent measures to screen out all people who might seek to use WV UCR to harm children or adult beneficiaries, or whose past actions indicate an unacceptable risk of such harm. Therefore, our recruitment policy and procedures include extensive identification checks prior to employment or engagement with WV UCR in order to ensure safeguarding to the fullest extent.