• 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.