Senior Cluster Child Protection Specialist, SEEDS, VoiceMore, Stretch

War Child

Child Protection Senior Specialist ensuring effective implementation of War Child's evidence-based methods for children's protection. Overseeing thematic quality assurance and supporting partners across various countries.

Posted 6/27/2026full-timeAmsterdam • 🇳🇱 NetherlandsSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Ensure the effective coordination, coherence and consistent implementation of a specific portfolio of War Child’s Evidence-Based Methods (EBMs) in a thematic area across an assigned cluster of partners and countries.
Responsible for translating strategies, standards and methodologies into contextually relevant thematic/EBM support to partners, ensuring that EBM implementation is feasible and achieves high quality and impact.
Oversee EBM quality assurance, partner onboarding, thematic guidance, and adaptive learning within a cluster.
Connect thematic and EBM strategy to practice by guiding, aligning and line managing the Child Protection Specialists supporting countries and partners in that cluster.
Maintain cluster-level oversight of thematic quality assurance for EBM integration, implementation and scaling by partners, ensuring high-quality delivery of EBMs.
Coordinate thematic support provided by Specialists within a cluster, ensuring prioritization and advising on resource allocation.
Ensure operationalization of thematic and EBM guidance and standards to guarantee contextual relevance to tailored support to countries and partners.
Lead and/or facilitate adaptive learning cycles for EBMs at cluster level, ensuring learning agendas are developed and executed, lessons learned are documented and findings inform practice and strategic direction.
Strengthen organisational and partner capacity in Child Protection EBMs, through training, mentoring and scalable learning approaches.
Represent and build up the profile and reputation of War Child's EBM Care System Portfolio and thematic expertise externally in the appropriate fora, strengthening sector engagement, inter-agency collaboration and organisational credibility, and contributing to shaping policy and sector discourse.
Contribute to the learning agenda for EBMs within your portfolio including gather and sharing learnings on partner experiences and feedback.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Relevant academic background in Child Protection or a closely related field.
Relevant experience in the thematic area, including in humanitarian or post‑conflict contexts.
Experience working with partners on co‑creation and delivery of programmes.
Demonstrated experience in programme design, needs assessment, learning cycles and quality assurance.
Experience developing methods, tools, guidelines, training and learning materials.
Experience facilitating trainings, workshops and virtual learning.
Programme or grant management experience is an asset.
Fluency in English is required for this role.
Additional languages may be useful depending on stakeholder groups and organisational context, e.g. Arabic, Dari, French, Spanish, or Ukrainian.

Benefits

Comp & perks

This vacancy is open to internal candidates only.
We operate in a global context, with team members based across multiple countries.
War Child currently works in Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, Colombia, DR Congo, Germany, Jordan, Lebanon, the occupied Palestinian territory, South Sudan, Sweden, Syria, Uganda, Ukraine (registration in progress), and Yemen.
We also have offices in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
Preference is given to candidates who reside in one of these locations and hold valid work authorisation.
War Child does not provide relocation support.
This is a locally contracted position.
Salary and secondary employment conditions are aligned with the applicable in-country salary scale, and local terms and conditions will apply.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Evidence-Based MethodsProgramme DesignNeeds AssessmentQuality AssuranceTraining DevelopmentFacilitationLearning CyclesGrant ManagementThematic GuidanceAdaptive Learning

Soft Skills

LeadershipCollaborationCommunicationMentoringCapacity BuildingStrategic ThinkingProblem SolvingResource AllocationStakeholder EngagementInter-Agency Collaboration