الوصف الوظيفي:CARE Palestine (West Bank/Gaza) is looking for committed professionals to the values of Transformation, Integrity, Diversity, Equality, and Excellence for a 6 months contract with possibility of extension, to fill the following vacancies:
Safer Programming Officer
CARE Palestine with support of local partners, is providing humanitarian assistance to vulnerable populations in the West Bank and Gaza. The core sectors of CARE’s work include the restoration of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) services, shelter, protection, Sexual Reproductive and Maternal Health (SRMH) services, and women’s economic justice. CARE programmes mainstream protection and gender in all diversities, with a focus on specific needs of women and girls, recognizing that they are disproportionately affected by disasters.
Start Date: 15 November 2026
Position Location: two positions - Gaza and West Bank
Length of Contract: 6 months initial contract with possibility of extension depending on availability of funds, performance of the individual. The position will be full-time.
The Safer Programming Officer will support and strengthen ongoing safer programming assessment, analysis, action planning, and action follow-up. The role will work with program teams in the hub to provide hands-on support in project locations, assist in the implementation of project based risk assessments and action plans, and offer training and resources to CARE teams, partners and communities.
This position will uphold CARE’s Core Values namely, Transformation, Integrity, Diversity, Equality, Excellence, promote CARE’s mission and vision, programme principles to enhance programme impact. Ensures modelling of CARE’s values among staff and be committed to women and girls’ empowerment.
Responsibilities:
1) Risk Assessment and Action Planning:
Support PMs and partners to roll out project and location-level risk assessments, mitigation measures and the audit tool, including information on patterns of harm and abuse, and identify safeguarding risks associated with program implementation.
Maintain an action tracker showing the responsible owner, deadline, status, evidence of completion and escalation pathway, and support follow-up on implementation.
Ensure sector checklists are up to date and rolled out.
Consolidate actions into workplans, and set deadlines with clear follow-up and escalation pathways.
Feed into CO-level safer programming risk assessment and safeguarding audit as required.
Ensure survivor-centered service mapping, confidential referral pathways and community reporting mechanisms are up to date and regularly reviewed, and confirm safe information management linkages to PSEA networks and the GBV sector are active.
2) Training, Awareness of Responsibilities and Capacity Strengthening:
Review CARE Safer Programming and Safeguarding training materials, act as the resource person for program colleagues in the hub, and flag adaptation needs.
Deliver trainings and awareness sessions to focal points, program staff, partners, related personnel and communities.
Ensure that project participants are consulted on safeguarding risks and reporting channels; review, design and disseminate culturally appropriate safeguarding awareness materials in consultation with affected populations.
Establish a regular meeting and coaching schedule with field teams.
Work with HR and Supply Chain focal points to review induction materials and ensure regular orientation and refresher coverage for staff, partner staff and related personnel (consultants, suppliers, vendors, community and daily workers, enumerators, contractors and volunteers).
Provide co-facilitation and technical backstopping of training as required.
Conduct orientation sessions for project participants to ensure they understand and can access all reporting mechanisms for SHEA/child protection concerns.
3) Coordination and Reporting:
Work closely with MEAL teams to integrate safeguarding indicators into logframes, design, monitoring and survey tools, and learning frameworks.
Contribute to project kick-offs and donor reporting as required.
Participate in FAM monthly case review meetings only on a strict need-to-know basis to receive anonymized trends and actions relevant to prevention and risk mitigation. The Officer does not conduct case management or investigations.
Attend PSEA network meetings, maintain a single hub action plan, and feed back key action points and next steps to the Program Lead.
Support SMT in quarterly performance review meetings with the Regional Management Unit, and support CARE USA reporting on safeguarding and safer programming and the PIIRS process as required.
Work closely with GBV and protection colleagues to ensure survivor response services are mapped in each project location, so that survivors have access to functioning referral pathways.
Work closely with the communication team to ensure staff obtain full informed consent when collecting stories and images.
4) Partnership Support:
Support the review of the safeguarding components of partners’ due diligence and capacity plans to confirm that all documentation is in place, and facilitate updates and scheduled reviews.
Review partners’ safeguarding assessments and capacity action plans, and support partners to update them as needed in consultation with CARE project managers.
Support PMs to introduce safeguarding capacity assessments to new partners, provide feedback and assist in developing capacity strengthening plans.
Ensure regular follow-up on action planning, and facilitate scheduled reviews.
متطلبات الوظيفة:Qualification:
Required:
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, or equivalent experience in a relevant field.
• Technical qualifications related to protection, safeguarding, PSEA, protection mainstreaming, AAP, referral pathways, confidentiality and data protection.
• At least three to four years of humanitarian program experience.
• Strong experience and understanding of core humanitarian principles.
• Expertise in applied safeguarding in extreme environments, and understanding of emergency response programming in very constrained environments.
• Excellent communication and community engagement skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to quickly build rapport and work as part of a team.
• Proven integrity and sound judgement, and ability to handle sensitive and confidential information appropriately.
• Ability to work regularly in project and partner locations within the respective hub, subject to access and security constraints.
• Willingness to be hands-on and take on workload in collaboration with others – gap-filling and moving projects forward.
• Fluency in Arabic is required; good working knowledge of English is required.
تفاصيل الوظيفة:المسمى الوظيفي: Safer Programming Officer
آخر موعد للتقديم: 09.11.2026.
المكان: قطاع غزة، رام الله والبيرة، الخليل، جنين
طبيعة العمل: مكتبي أو ميداني (مقر العمل)
نوع الوظيفة: دوام كامل
المستوى المهني: متوسط الخبرة
الدرجة العلمية: البكالوريوس
الخبرة: 3 سنوات
عدد الشواغر: 2
التصنيف: التنمية الاقتصادية والتعاون الدولي حقوق الإنسان والمساواة بين الجنسين والحماية
آلية التقديم:Interested applicants are encouraged to send their CV by e-mail to
wbg.carejobs@care.org to the attention of the HR Department no later than Monday, 09.11.2026, indicating the correct job title and the hub applied for (Gaza / West Bank) is a MUST in the subject line and cover letter.
Applications received after this date or that do not meet the qualifications above will not be considered. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for an interview.
Applications from female candidates are strongly encouraged.