Job ID
45797
Job Title
Safeguarding & Protection Advisor
To work for
GOAL
Country
Syria
City
Aleppo
Field of Work
Social Services - Humanitarian/Disasters
Job Type
Full time
Military service
Not Specified
Minimum Education Level
Bachelor/ License Degree
Responsibilities
Duties and responsibilities Technical Support
Drive GOAL Syria’s approach to safeguarding and GESI through implementation, monitoring and review (as necessary) of GOAL Syria’s safeguarding and GESI Strategy, GESI Action Plan and Protection and Safeguarding annual action plan across programmes and activities.
Engage with GOAL Syria’s Technical Coordinators and other relevant programme quality support teams to provide technical GESI and Protection support across programming and activities throughout the project cycle and recommend adjustments or new activities as required.
Collaborate with the MEAL team to ensure the GESI, Protection and Child Protection perspective is included in data collection, monitoring, evaluation, analysis and learning processes to better understand and respond to the differentiated impacts of GOAL Syria’s programmes.
Link with partners to support integration of safeguarding and GESI across activities as wells as tools and approaches.
Provide GESI-related inputs to GOAL Syria’s annual planning, strategic planning and budgeting processes. Manage the budget for implementation of protection activities.
Supervise and support GOAL Syria Safeguarding & Protection Manager ensuring that external service mapping and referral pathways are in functioning for Protection, Child protection or GESI issues within the communities in which GOAL operates.
To ensure Complaints Response Mechanism (CRM) and whistleblowing procedures for sensitive cases are adapted to the context to ensure its access and availability to staff and project participants, including to the most vulnerable or under-represented such as children, women, displaced populations, other minority or marginalised groups.
Training & Capacity Strengthening:
Strengthen staff capacity on Safeguarding, GESI and Protection to ensure a clear understanding of key concepts through the development and delivery of trainings and awareness raising activities.
Support partners towards strengthening GESI and Protection capacity and approaches in programme delivery.
Share good practices and latest resources on GESI and Protection Mainstreaming with staff to support the strengthening of GESI integration in programming.
Review materials and oversee the implementation of awareness raising sessions to enhance Protection mainstreaming.
Drive the establishment of and provide support to a Safeguarding and Protection focal point network across GOAL Syria.
Business Development:
Provide support to proposal development and ensure that proposal design is informed by a sound GESI and Protection Mainstreaming analysis of the context while ensuring that a Protection Mainstreaming and Child Protection lens is applied appropriately.
Ensure that GESI considerations are integrated in the development of project logical frameworks and resources are allocated as appropriate in budgets.
Track and document project progress from the GESI perspective and contribute to project updates and periodic reporting.
Represent GOAL Syria as a focal point for GESI and Protection in engagements with donors or other partners at the country level.
Collaboration & Representation:
Provide strategic leadership, guidance and oversight to the Protection team in Syria, including setting goal, identifying priorities and planning implementation.
Represent GOAL Syria in GESI and Protection-related meetings, fora, working groups and networks.
Work with MEAL Coordinator to capture GESI and Protection-related success stories that can be communicated internally and externally to various audiences.
Collaborate and build/maintain relationships with local GESI-focused organisations and groups in the project areas.
Collaborate and engage with GOAL’s Global GESI Advisor, and GESI focal points from across GOAL teams globally.
The duties and responsibilities set out above are not exhaustive and the postholder may be required to carry out additional duties, within reason, and proportionate to their level of skill and experience.
Behaviours
Act as a representative of GOAL and demonstrate the highest standards of behaviour towards children and vulnerable adults both in your private and professional lives.
Collaboration: collaborative team player with the ability to work across teams and with partners.
Adaptability and flexibility: Ability to manage a large workload and multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines, and to continually reprioritise multiple tasks as a result of new information.
Work style: Highly organized team player, pro-active and with demonstrated strong personal initiative. Proven solid analytical, and communication skills.
Communication: Skilled communicator and ability to work effectively across multiple cultures, both inperson and remotely with diverse colleagues and stakeholders. Ability to communicate concepts and ideas in accessible formats for a variety of audiences.
Self-motivation: proactive and results-oriented individual who can work on personal drive and initiative.
Travel: Ability and willingness to travel within Syria to the field and GOAL offices in Aleppo, Idleb, and Damascus.
Drive GOAL Syria’s approach to safeguarding and GESI through implementation, monitoring and review (as necessary) of GOAL Syria’s safeguarding and GESI Strategy, GESI Action Plan and Protection and Safeguarding annual action plan across programmes and activities.
Engage with GOAL Syria’s Technical Coordinators and other relevant programme quality support teams to provide technical GESI and Protection support across programming and activities throughout the project cycle and recommend adjustments or new activities as required.
Collaborate with the MEAL team to ensure the GESI, Protection and Child Protection perspective is included in data collection, monitoring, evaluation, analysis and learning processes to better understand and respond to the differentiated impacts of GOAL Syria’s programmes.
Link with partners to support integration of safeguarding and GESI across activities as wells as tools and approaches.
Provide GESI-related inputs to GOAL Syria’s annual planning, strategic planning and budgeting processes. Manage the budget for implementation of protection activities.
Supervise and support GOAL Syria Safeguarding & Protection Manager ensuring that external service mapping and referral pathways are in functioning for Protection, Child protection or GESI issues within the communities in which GOAL operates.
To ensure Complaints Response Mechanism (CRM) and whistleblowing procedures for sensitive cases are adapted to the context to ensure its access and availability to staff and project participants, including to the most vulnerable or under-represented such as children, women, displaced populations, other minority or marginalised groups.
Training & Capacity Strengthening:
Strengthen staff capacity on Safeguarding, GESI and Protection to ensure a clear understanding of key concepts through the development and delivery of trainings and awareness raising activities.
Support partners towards strengthening GESI and Protection capacity and approaches in programme delivery.
Share good practices and latest resources on GESI and Protection Mainstreaming with staff to support the strengthening of GESI integration in programming.
Review materials and oversee the implementation of awareness raising sessions to enhance Protection mainstreaming.
Drive the establishment of and provide support to a Safeguarding and Protection focal point network across GOAL Syria.
Business Development:
Provide support to proposal development and ensure that proposal design is informed by a sound GESI and Protection Mainstreaming analysis of the context while ensuring that a Protection Mainstreaming and Child Protection lens is applied appropriately.
Ensure that GESI considerations are integrated in the development of project logical frameworks and resources are allocated as appropriate in budgets.
Track and document project progress from the GESI perspective and contribute to project updates and periodic reporting.
Represent GOAL Syria as a focal point for GESI and Protection in engagements with donors or other partners at the country level.
Collaboration & Representation:
Provide strategic leadership, guidance and oversight to the Protection team in Syria, including setting goal, identifying priorities and planning implementation.
Represent GOAL Syria in GESI and Protection-related meetings, fora, working groups and networks.
Work with MEAL Coordinator to capture GESI and Protection-related success stories that can be communicated internally and externally to various audiences.
Collaborate and build/maintain relationships with local GESI-focused organisations and groups in the project areas.
Collaborate and engage with GOAL’s Global GESI Advisor, and GESI focal points from across GOAL teams globally.
The duties and responsibilities set out above are not exhaustive and the postholder may be required to carry out additional duties, within reason, and proportionate to their level of skill and experience.
Behaviours
Act as a representative of GOAL and demonstrate the highest standards of behaviour towards children and vulnerable adults both in your private and professional lives.
Collaboration: collaborative team player with the ability to work across teams and with partners.
Adaptability and flexibility: Ability to manage a large workload and multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines, and to continually reprioritise multiple tasks as a result of new information.
Work style: Highly organized team player, pro-active and with demonstrated strong personal initiative. Proven solid analytical, and communication skills.
Communication: Skilled communicator and ability to work effectively across multiple cultures, both inperson and remotely with diverse colleagues and stakeholders. Ability to communicate concepts and ideas in accessible formats for a variety of audiences.
Self-motivation: proactive and results-oriented individual who can work on personal drive and initiative.
Travel: Ability and willingness to travel within Syria to the field and GOAL offices in Aleppo, Idleb, and Damascus.
Qualifications
Requirements (Person Specification) Essential :
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, such as gender/inclusion studies, development or humanitarian studies, social sciences or a related field.
• At least five years of progressively responsible experience working on GESI in an advisory role, with a focus on planning, implementing and monitoring of programmes – ideally in an NGO environment.
• Experience of working with and/or developing GESI tools, approaches and methodologies, including working with data, analyses and assessments.
• Experience in designing and/or delivering GESI training and capacity strengthening workshops for various stakeholders and audiences.
• Experience of driving GESI initiatives across teams and departments.
• Fluency in English and Arabic as GOAL Syria working language.
• Ability and willingness to travel within Syria to the field and GOAL offices in Aleppo, Idleb, and Damascus.
Desirable
• Postgraduate degree in an area related to gender and/or inclusion.
• Understanding of or previous experience working within the Syria crisis, and the context of Idleb, Aleppo, and other governorates.
• Skilled in GESI research design, trend analysis and development of learning materials.
• Experience in resource mobilisation for GESI activities and programming.
• Technical knowledge of GOAL Syria programming areas, e.g. emergency response, cash and vouchers, WASH, shelter, etc.
• Experience representing an organisation externally with technical networks, donors, academia and in other contexts, and building relationships with stakeholders.
• Strong IT skills, including Microsoft Outlook and Office package.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, such as gender/inclusion studies, development or humanitarian studies, social sciences or a related field.
• At least five years of progressively responsible experience working on GESI in an advisory role, with a focus on planning, implementing and monitoring of programmes – ideally in an NGO environment.
• Experience of working with and/or developing GESI tools, approaches and methodologies, including working with data, analyses and assessments.
• Experience in designing and/or delivering GESI training and capacity strengthening workshops for various stakeholders and audiences.
• Experience of driving GESI initiatives across teams and departments.
• Fluency in English and Arabic as GOAL Syria working language.
• Ability and willingness to travel within Syria to the field and GOAL offices in Aleppo, Idleb, and Damascus.
Desirable
• Postgraduate degree in an area related to gender and/or inclusion.
• Understanding of or previous experience working within the Syria crisis, and the context of Idleb, Aleppo, and other governorates.
• Skilled in GESI research design, trend analysis and development of learning materials.
• Experience in resource mobilisation for GESI activities and programming.
• Technical knowledge of GOAL Syria programming areas, e.g. emergency response, cash and vouchers, WASH, shelter, etc.
• Experience representing an organisation externally with technical networks, donors, academia and in other contexts, and building relationships with stakeholders.
• Strong IT skills, including Microsoft Outlook and Office package.
Specific Vacancy Requirements
Accountability within GOAL
A commitment to GOAL values and GOAL’s integrity framework is critical to working with GOAL. Any candidate offered a job with GOAL will be expected to adhere to the following key areas of accountability:
• Comply with GOAL’s policies and procedures with respect to the safeguarding, code of conduct, health and safety, confidentiality, do no harm principles and unacceptable behavior protocols.
• Report any concerns about the welfare of a child or vulnerable adult or any wrongdoings within our programming area.
• Report any concerns about inappropriate behavior of a GOAL staff or partner.
Safeguarding
Children and vulnerable adults who come into contact with GOAL as a result of our activities must be safeguarded to the maximum possible extent from deliberate or inadvertent actions and failings that place them at risk of abuse, sexual exploitation, injury and any other harm. One of the ways that GOAL shows this ongoing commitment to safeguarding is to include rigorous background and reference checks in the selection process for all candidates.
A commitment to GOAL values and GOAL’s integrity framework is critical to working with GOAL. Any candidate offered a job with GOAL will be expected to adhere to the following key areas of accountability:
• Comply with GOAL’s policies and procedures with respect to the safeguarding, code of conduct, health and safety, confidentiality, do no harm principles and unacceptable behavior protocols.
• Report any concerns about the welfare of a child or vulnerable adult or any wrongdoings within our programming area.
• Report any concerns about inappropriate behavior of a GOAL staff or partner.
Safeguarding
Children and vulnerable adults who come into contact with GOAL as a result of our activities must be safeguarded to the maximum possible extent from deliberate or inadvertent actions and failings that place them at risk of abuse, sexual exploitation, injury and any other harm. One of the ways that GOAL shows this ongoing commitment to safeguarding is to include rigorous background and reference checks in the selection process for all candidates.
Salary and Benefits
Based on GOAL salary scale
About us
Established in 1977, GOAL is an international
humanitarian and development agency,
committed to working with communities
to achieve sustainable and innovative early
response in crises, and lasting solutions to
poverty and vulnerability. GOAL has worked in
over 60 countries and has responded to almost
every major humanitarian disaster. We are
currently operational in 18 countries.
GOAL has been working in Syria since 2013, responding to the acute needs of conflict-affected communities. GOAL is working in Idleb, Aleppo, Hama, Homs and Latakia Governate, and expanding to other governorates both through direct implementation and through partners, delivering food, non-food programming to highly vulnerable populations, Nutrition, ERMS, Shelter, and WASH through support to Water units and working closely with the General Water Directorate and the line ministry (Ministry of Energy).
humanitarian and development agency,
committed to working with communities
to achieve sustainable and innovative early
response in crises, and lasting solutions to
poverty and vulnerability. GOAL has worked in
over 60 countries and has responded to almost
every major humanitarian disaster. We are
currently operational in 18 countries.
GOAL has been working in Syria since 2013, responding to the acute needs of conflict-affected communities. GOAL is working in Idleb, Aleppo, Hama, Homs and Latakia Governate, and expanding to other governorates both through direct implementation and through partners, delivering food, non-food programming to highly vulnerable populations, Nutrition, ERMS, Shelter, and WASH through support to Water units and working closely with the General Water Directorate and the line ministry (Ministry of Energy).
Required employees number
1
Posted On
Dec 09, 2025
Expiry Date
Jan 08, 2026
CV Language
English
