CESVI Foundation is inviting applications for the Protection Specialist position, offering the flexibility to work fully remotely or from its headquarters in Bergamo, Italy. This international humanitarian role supports protection programmes across Sudan, Myanmar, Ukraine, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe, providing technical leadership, quality assurance, and capacity building for country teams working with vulnerable populations.
About CESVI
CESVI is an independent Italian humanitarian organization founded in 1985. The organization works across the globe to protect vulnerable communities, promote human rights, and support sustainable development through emergency response and long-term development programmes.
The Protection Specialist will report directly to the Global Protection Advisor and will contribute to strengthening integrated protection programming across multiple humanitarian contexts.
Position Details
- Organization: CESVI Foundation
- Position: Protection Specialist
- Location: Fully Remote or Headquarters (Bergamo, Italy)
- Contract Duration: 6 months (renewable)
- Expected Start Date: September 2026
- Salary: €2,400–€2,600 gross per month
- Travel Requirement: At least 30% international travel
- Application Deadline: 23 August 2026
Key Responsibilities
The successful candidate will:
- Support the design and implementation of General Protection, Child Protection, and Gender-Based Violence (GBV) programmes.
- Strengthen case management systems while ensuring confidentiality, ethical standards, and compliance with standard operating procedures.
- Develop and adapt protection guidelines, tools, and SOPs.
- Improve Cash for Protection processes, including eligibility, documentation, and risk management.
- Deliver training, coaching, and mentoring to country teams and local partners.
- Conduct protection needs assessments and risk analyses.
- Promote protection mainstreaming across Health, WASH, Shelter, Livelihoods, and Climate Change programmes.
- Coordinate with protection teams, information management specialists, and humanitarian coordination groups.
- Support proposal development, monitoring systems, donor reporting, dashboards, and thematic reports.
- Ensure compliance with CESVI safeguarding, Child Protection, GBV, and PSEAH policies.
Eligibility Requirements
Applicants should possess:
- A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Social Sciences, Law, International Development, Gender Studies, or a related field.
- At least 3 years of professional experience in the protection sector.
- At least 3 years of experience with international NGOs or United Nations agencies in humanitarian or displacement settings.
- Demonstrated experience in GBV, Child Protection, or humanitarian case management.
- Experience working with humanitarian coordination mechanisms and national authorities.
- Experience delivering capacity-building activities and professional training.
- Strong analytical, reporting, organizational, and communication skills.
- Ability to work independently in complex humanitarian environments.
- Excellent written and spoken English and Spanish.
Preferred Qualifications
Preference will be given to candidates with:
- Experience working in emergency response settings.
- Knowledge of additional United Nations official languages.
Why Join CESVI?
This role offers the opportunity to:
- Support humanitarian programmes across multiple countries.
- Work remotely while contributing to global humanitarian responses.
- Mentor and strengthen local protection teams and women-led organizations.
- Gain experience across child protection, GBV, psychosocial support, and community-based protection.
- Travel internationally and collaborate with humanitarian professionals across diverse contexts.
Safeguarding Commitment
CESVI maintains a zero-tolerance policy toward exploitation, abuse, harassment, and safeguarding violations. Successful candidates will undergo safeguarding and background checks as part of the recruitment process.
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, so early submission is strongly encouraged. Due to the large number of applications received, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
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