Child Protection Officer

Good Neighbors is an international, non-profit humanitarian organization that plans, implements and raises funds for the provision of services in child education, community development, health, sanitation, and disaster relief projects. Currently Good Neighbors has been operating in 37 countries, supporting approximately 17 million people, including more than 10 million children.

Good Neighbors International in Vietnam (GNI) is implementing Community Development Projects (CDP) based on child sponsorship in 3 provinces; Tuyen Quang, Hoa Binh, and Thanh Hoa. GNI is working in main areas as child sponsorship and education, water and sanitation, income generation, etc. in 9 CDPs and is managing almost 10,000 sponsored children.    

Job title: Child Protection Officer (CP Officer) 

Effective date: February 2017
Department: Sponsorship Service Division (SSD)
Location: Head Office, Hanoi
Reports to: CP Team leader, SSD Manager
Type of contract: Full time

1. KEY WORKING RELATIONSHIPS

Internal: Country Director, Managing Director, SSD Manager/Officers, CP team leader, Admin-Finance Manager/Officer,  Project Manager, Field Officers

External: GNI’s Donors, Partners, Governmental Officials, INGOs, Communities

2. MAIN DUTIES

• Design and develop programs related to Child Protection Sector in CDPs;
• Build up standards, guidelines, regulations related to sectors managed by the team; and instruct CDPs staff to follow;
• Provide technical support to CDP during making plan and implementing activities of Child protection Sector;
• Push CDPs to implement the activities timely and effectively; Conduct - regular or when requested - field trip to monitor project activity related to sector she/he manages;
• Participate in designing, monitoring and evaluating all programs of CP Team;
• Other tasks assigned by Manager and Team Leader.

3. QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED

Education

• University degree or higher in Social work or relevant fields
• Work experience
• At least 1 year relevant working experience
• NGO or counselling centre (Youth centre) working experience is preferable;

Skills

• Ability to gather and analyse statistical data and generate reports
• Good English language skills in writing & speaking;
• Good skill in computer use (Microsoft office)
• Ability to work independently and with the team;
• Good organizing skills and interpersonal skills;

Attitude

• Sociable, responsive, committed
• Teamwork
• Accountable

Nationality: Vietnamese

4. HOW TO APPLY

Interested candidates are invited to send their application (including a letter of motivation and a CV with a portrait photo attached) to Human Resource Division via the email address [email protected] or to the Head Office address: Good Neighbors International in Vietnam, 17th Floor, Block A, Song Da Building, My Dinh I, Nam Tu Liem, Hanoi no later than 20th January 2017. We are very sorry that only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interviews.