- Where
- Kinshasa, Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The
- Level
- Senior
With 75 years of experience, our focus is on 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 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!
Employee Contract Type:
Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)
Job Description:
PURPOSE OF POSITION
This Purpose of Position will be used in the WVI or local Careers site, and if applicable, advertisements. Please describe the role in 2-3 concise sentences. Focus on the core of what this role is supposed to achieve. Describe the purpose of this position and how this position contributes to achieving department objectives and the management and performance of others.
The Senior Protection and Safeguarding Advisor provides strategic leadership, technical oversight, and quality assurance for World Vision DRC’s Protection and Safeguarding portfolio across development and humanitarian programming. The position leads the design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and continuous improvement of interventions aimed at preventing and responding to violence, abuse, exploitation, and neglect affecting children and vulnerable populations.
The role ensures alignment with World Vision’s Protection and Safeguarding standards, national and international protection frameworks, donor requirements, and programme quality standards. The incumbent promotes integrated and evidence-based programming, strengthens organizational safeguarding culture, and ensures that protection outcomes are embedded across sectors and responses.
As the national technical lead for Protection and Safeguarding, the Senior Protection and Safeguarding Advisor provides strategic guidance, capacity strengthening, quality assurance, external representation, and technical support to field operations, national programmes, emergency responses, and partnerships. The position also contributes to business development, resource mobilization, policy influence, and organizational learning to enhance protection outcomes and safeguard the well-being of children and vulnerable communities throughout the Democratic Republic of Congo.
S/he will serve as the focal point for Child protection and Safeguarding, working closely with all WV sectors and departments to ensure the full implementation of national and international Safeguarding and Child protection standards across the office.
S/he is responsible for building a culture of safeguarding, where staff are informed and empowered to discuss key issues, report, and take action on safeguarding violations, making World Vision a safe place for all.
S/he coordinates and leads the investigations related to Child protection and Safeguarding in collaboration with the Safeguarding and Child protection Coordinators (at zonal level) as well as the WV South Africa Regional Office.
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES
List statements describing the final results of this position and method of accomplishments, and how results/performance are reviewed and measured. Begin with the most important accountabilities.
% Time
Major Activities
End Results Expected
30%
Child Protection Technical Leadership and Technical Programme Implementation Quality Assurance
a. Lead the design of the technical approach and programme to address violence against children issues using a solid root cause analysis process and involving multi-sectoral programming if required; Lead integration of child protection into other sector’s technical approaches and programmes
b. Oversee adaptation and contextualisation of the Child Protection & Advocacy Project Model for quality implementation according to national and international standards, guidance, and legislation; Lead the development of contextualized programming guidelines and tools to support field teams in the adaptation of the project models at field/local level.
c. In…