Senior Child Protection Case Management Specialist, oPt Country Program

**ORGANIZATIONAL BACKGROUND**

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home.

The IRC is continuing to scale up programming in the West Bank and Gaza working closely with partners and implementing directly in health and nutrition, protection, WASH, early childhood development, food security, and cash programming to meet the most critical humanitarian needs.

**Humanitarian Context**

Children constitute nearly half the population of the State of Palestine and face acute, overlapping child protection risks, including family separation, exploitation, child labour, child marriage, and all forms of abuse and neglect. The conflict that escalated on 7 October 2023 has caused catastrophic humanitarian consequences: nearly all of the 2.4 million children living across the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip are affected in some way (UNICEF, March 2025). In the Gaza Strip, more than 20,632 children have reportedly been killed as of November 2025, and 44,000 children have been injured, including more than 11,000 with life-changing injuries; more than 1.9 million people — 90 per cent of the population — have been displaced, often multiple times (UNICEF, Humanitarian Action for Children — State of Palestine 2026 Appeal, December 2025). Over one million children in the Gaza Strip require psychosocial support, and more than 150,000 children in the West Bank face barriers to accessing education (UNICEF, 2026 Appeal).

In the West Bank, some 33,000 Palestinians, including 14,000 children, remain displaced due to ongoing military operations (UNICEF, Humanitarian Situation Report No. 43, September 2025). At least 3.3 million people across the State of Palestine require humanitarian assistance (UNICEF, 2026 Appeal). Child protection services are severely overstretched, grave violations against children are at extreme and ever-increasing levels, and the capacity of national systems to respond has been critically degraded.

**CP AoR Coordination Environment**

The Child Protection Area of Responsibility (CP AoR) in the State of Palestine, established in 2008 and led by UNICEF, coordinates the inter-agency child protection response across both Gaza and the West Bank. A key CP AoR priority has been the strengthening of inter-agency child protection case management systems. The CP AoR established the Child Protection Case Management Task Force (CPCM TF) to standardise and coordinate case management approaches in line with the Child Protection Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Action (2019) and the Inter-Agency Guidelines for Case Management and Child Protection (2014). Significant progress has been achieved under dedicated technical leadership since May 2024, including reactivation of the Task Force, development of data protection protocols, revision of case management tools, and initiation of CP IMS+ (Primero) roll-out across partner organizations.

**Rationale for Establishing the Position**

As the existing consultancy arrangement concludes, continued technical leadership is essential to sustain CPCM TF results and complete key deliverables, including the CP IMS+ roll-out, finalisation of inter-agency SOPs, Gaza response coordination, and West Bank system strengthening. IRC, as an active CP AoR member with an established operational presence across the oPt, is positioned to host this role and deploy the incumbent fully to the CP AoR. This arrangement ensures inter-agency technical continuity under a stable hosting structure.

***Scope of Work:***

The Senior Child Protection Case Management Specialist provides expert technical leadership for inter-agency child protection case management across the State of Palestine, hosted by IRC and fully deployed to the Child Protection Area of Responsibility (CP AoR). The Specialist leads the CP AoR Case Management Task Force (CMTF), drives the update and roll-out of inter-agency Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and advances CP IMS+ (Primero) implementation across partner organizations. Following the successful development of SOPs, the CPCM specialist will work with the CP AoR and support the capacity building of Child protection actors. The position ensures coherent, sustainable inter-agency approaches to child protection case management across Gaza and the West Bank.

***Position Overview:***

The Specialist 's scope of work spans four interconnected areas:

- Technical advisory responsibilities for inter-agency case management systems, SOPs, and CP IMS+ across Gaza and the West Bank under the CP AoR
- Coordination responsibilit