Child Protection Advisor at Save the children (Athens)

Save the children seeks for:
- Child Protection Advisor

Qualifications and experience
Essential:
- Minimum of 5 years of child protection experience preferably in the context of mixed migration flows, children on the move and children separated from their families, including in Europe;
- Significant experience working in an emergency response contexts or fragile states;
- Good team leader and team member skills, including the ability to be part of and organise, support, manage and develop a small team;
- Good knowledge of and experience in using established inter-agency standards and guidelines in child protection, such as the Inter-agency Guiding Principles on Unaccompanied and Separated Children, Alternative Care Toolkit in Emergencies, IA Case Management Guidelines and others;
- Understanding and experience of working on children on the move, unaccompanied and separated children, and mixed migration issues, preferably in the European context;
- Experience in designing and delivering training on child protection, including strengthening the capacity of key stakeholders to prevent and respond to child protection issues;
- Experience of working with partners and of using a participatory approach as well as of coordinating responses with a range of actors, including Government authorities, national/local organisations, NGOs, UN;
- Ability to achieve results and maintain consistent high standards of professional behaviour and achievement, including when working alone;
- Ability to manage stress, be flexible and accommodating in difficult and frustrating working circumstance;
- Fluency in written and spoken English;
- Commitment to and understanding of child rights, as well as of Save the Children's aims, values and principles;
- Knowledge of International and European Human Rights and Humanitarian law, asylum and migration policies.
- EU Residents or holders of valid EU work permit preferred (evidence will be requested)

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