Education and Child Protection Advisor

About the role

World Vision Malawi's Education and Child Protection Advisor provides technical leadership for education and child protection work across 28 Area Development Programmes in 16 districts, delivered with local partners through sponsorship-funded, grant-funded and humanitarian programming, including Education in Emergencies and child protection in emergencies. The role sits in the Business Development and Impact unit's technical team, working closely with MEAL, Communications, other sector advisors and Operations, and combines technical quality with resource mobilisation through donor positioning, opportunity development and proposal co-design.

Key responsibilities

• Build and maintain a stakeholder map of government ministries, donors, UN agencies and NGOs, and prepare an annual engagement plan with coordination forums, meetings and partnership documents.
• Provide technical guidance, quality assurance and learning support across programmes, including sector guidance, assessment tools, report review and safeguarding risk escalation.
• Contribute to context analyses, needs assessments and programme design, co-designing with partners and developing theories of change, results frameworks and proposals.
• Represent World Vision Malawi in education and child protection coordination forums and ministry working groups, and respond to data requests.
• Assess and support local partners, including due diligence, capacity assessment, onboarding and memoranda of understanding.

Required profile

• Master's degree in Education, Social Work, Child Protection, Social Sciences, International Development or a related field; a relevant bachelor's degree with substantial additional experience may be considered.
• At least 5 years of progressively responsible experience in education and/or child protection programme design, technical advisory, programme quality or partnership development.
• Demonstrated experience in donor and government engagement, needs assessment, proposal design and sector coordination, and experience working with local partners in grant-funded, sponsorship-funded and/or humanitarian programmes.
• Knowledge of Malawi's education system and child protection context, policies and coordination mechanisms, and of safeguarding, inclusive and gender-responsive approaches.

Required skills

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and standard programme design and reporting tools.
• Strong facilitation, analytical, writing and relationship-building skills.