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. Working within the Business Development and Impact unit, the role combines technical quality with resource mobilisation through donor positioning, opportunity development and proposal co-design.

Key responsibilities

• Maintain a stakeholder map of government ministries, donors, UN agencies and NGOs, and track policies, funding priorities and engagement plans
• Build relationships with government counterparts, prepare meetings, and develop collaboration opportunities and partnership documents
• Provide technical guidance, lead technical consultations and support quality, safe, inclusive and gender-responsive learning and protection environments
• Work with MEAL colleagues on assessment, monitoring and learning tools, and review programme and donor reports for technical accuracy
• Contribute to context analyses, needs assessments, theories of change, results frameworks and proposal design, and co-design programmes with partners
• Represent World Vision Malawi in education and child protection coordination forums and clusters, and respond to data requests
• Assess and support local partners, and draft and follow up 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 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

Required skills

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