Child Protection Specialist

Forcier provides high-quality research in challenging and complex environments for clients who aim to make the world a better place. We are currently looking to recruit a Child Protection Specialist to help us with an upcoming multi-year opportunity starting in mid 2022. The right candidate will have 5+ years of experience in the Nutrition sector, preferably with some of that time being in Mozambique. They will also have had at least a one year deployment in a developing country.

Responsibilities

• Apply extensive contextual knowledge about the Mozambique to facilitate research.
• Provide input on tool design, fieldwork planning, and data analysis.
• Train field teams on research objectives, data collection tools, and ethical and safety protocols.
• Liaise with government officials and local communities to negotiate access on behalf of field teams.
• Provide quality assurance and quality control of quantitative and qualitative data collection.
• Provide analysis on qualitative and quantitative data related to the child protection sector

Requirements

• Master’s degree in international development, human rights, psychology, sociology, international law, and other social science
• 5+ years of professional experience in social development planning and management in child protection and/other related areas at the international level
• experience in child protection and related areas, program/project development and management in a UN system agency or organization is advantageous
• High level of written and spoken English
• Outstanding communication skills including emails and other written communication mediums