Türkiye: Child Protection Program Manager

“Hurras” is a Non-governmental Organization specializing in childcare and protection, and it works on preventing any case of violence, abuse, and exploitation cases, that children are exposed to in all environments, and that is by acting against it, and eliminating them through several events, such as education, rights, protection, training, and psychological support.

Purpose of the Position: 

Responsible for Managing and implementing the Network programs and projects in the fields of child protection and education, ensuring that budget targets are met, providing guidance, orientation, and readdressing to the field team in the executive aspect of the program activities, and managing relationships with partners and donors to ensure that relationships are maintained and developed.

Responsibilities: 

1. Managing, maintaining, and developing relationships with partner organizations as part of the strategic networking plan with these partners
2. Manage the writing project proposals process and develop the appropriate tools and mechanisms.
3. Manage all final project budgets and related files.
4. Manage the planning of the projects and programs, including time plans, an appropriate distribution of project resources, following up on plans during implementation, and proposing the required modifications.
5. Being aware of the studies and researches research on response, in addition to the response plans released by the international parties and coordination platforms, as well as being aware of the funding opportunities.
6. Follow up and manage the required reports from the departments and administration to partners/donors such as: “monthly reports - accident reports - systems reports - financial reports - protection reports - data reports” ensuring the quality and the documentation of the reports required, and work on building appropriate tools for the preparation of the reports.
7. Provision technical and administrative support to the program team as well as the field team, to ensure that activities of projects are implemented on time with high efficiency and the required quality.
8. Work with the MEAL team to design effective monitoring systems of the program activities, budgets, and expenditures.
9. Perform a regular and ongoing review of identified key risks and contingency plans related to the program and verify the effective risk management process with the field team.
10. Ensure the application and development of the standards, tools, and practices of the program planning, implementation, monitoring, and lessons learned, as well as the standards and tools related to the preparation of the required reports.
11. Cooperate with the Communication and Advocacy Department in supporting the advocacy strategy and contributing to obtaining the required information and ensuring a regular and mutual flow of information.
12. Cooperate with the HR Department in completing and developing the files related to the team's personnel: job description - job appraisal - training, capacity building, and career development.
13. Manage the archive of the programs and projects, system design, and tools required.

Required Work Experience and Qualifications: 

• University degree in Business Administration, or any other related field.
• 5 years of work experience in a related field of NGO.
• Extensive experience and background in the field of child protection.
• Valuable experience in capacity building.

Required Skills: 

• Ability to lead and supervise.
• Excellent English and Arabic communication skills (oral and written).
• High level of computer literacy (MS Office Word, Excel ).
• Strong skills in communication, coordination, and organization.
• High skills in analysis, conclusion, and extraction of lessons learned.
• High negotiation, persuasion, and problem-solving skills.

General Terms and Conditions: 

Hurras provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants.

Hurras believes in achieving diversity in its workforce, by encouraging all qualified applicants, female and male, People living with disabilities to apply for the vacancies announced.

All Hurras members (staff, volunteers, partners, and interns) are committed to Hurras policies such as Code of Conduct, Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Child Safeguarding Policy, Reporting Conflict of Interest, Reporting Misconduct, Reporting Sexual Exploitation and Abuse.

Child Protection Policy: 

Recruitment and selection procedures reflect our commitment to protecting children from abuse.
Hurras is committed to ensuring a child-safe environment and applying a zero-tolerance approach toward child abuse and exploitation.

Hurras's employees and volunteers are obligated to assume their responsibilities to protect children from harm and abuse and to ensure a safe environment for them during the implementation of the activities.

Discrimination, Abuse, and Harassment Policy: 

Hurras is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, respectful, and safe work environment for everyone free from any form of harassment, abuse, exploitation, or misconduct during work.

Hurras's employees and volunteers are obligated not to practice sexual exploitation and abuse, in exchange for the services they provide.

How to Apply: 

Interested applicants should fill out the application via the following link: https://tinyurl.com/2zpttb4h

All applicants must send an updated CV must be in English.

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

The application deadline is 25 June 2023.