Global Protection Technical Advisor

Samaritan's Purse; North Wilkesboro (NC); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site Medical Clinic

FSA

Disability insurance

Paid Family Medical Leave

Term Life Insurance

401(k) retirement savings plan

10 paid holidays

12 vacation/personal days

Job summary

Samaritan's Purse is seeking a Global Protection Technical Advisor to work from North Wilkesboro, NC or internationally. The role focuses on Protection across humanitarian contexts, with emphasis on psychosocial support (PSS) and family strengthening.

Travel may be required in insecure environments. The position requires graduate-level education in social work, public health, psychology, or international development and at least five years of humanitarian program experience.

Qualifications

• Relevant graduate/post-graduate degree in a humanitarian field.
• Experience designing and delivering protection programs.
• Experience training staff and partners in protection concepts.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality technical advice on Protection across contexts, focusing on PSS interventions and family strengthening.
• Mentor staff and partners; develop guidelines, tools, and training materials.
• Review needs assessments, program design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation; capture lessons learned.
• Collaborate with Protection sector and program managers in country offices and across projects.

Skills

PSS interventions

Capacity building

Mentoring

Staff development

Education

Social Work

Public Health

Psychology

International Development

Job description

Location: North Wilkesboro, NC, United States
Job ID: 17746
Date Posted: Sep 8, 2026

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What do we believe?

Demonstrate Biblical Integrity

At Samaritan's Purse, the Gospel is the center of all we do! We start each day with a time of devotions and prayer for each other, our staff, and volunteers who serve around the world. As a faith-driven organization, our Statement of Faith shapes every aspect of our global work.

We are seeking a Global Protection Technical Advisor to join our team Internationally or from our North Wilkesboro office. Through humanitarian work, the goal and purpose of Samaritan's Purse are to help people in Jesus' name and share the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

In the role of Global Protection Technical Advisor,you will have the opportunity to:

Maintain a personal, active relationship with Jesus Christ and is a consistent witness for Jesus Christ.

Provide high-quality technical advice, accompaniment and mentoring to staff on all aspects of Protection across humanitarian contexts, with a particular focus on Psychosocial Social Support (PSS) interventions and strengthening the family, including through remote and in-country support, through the development and disseminations of guidelines, tools, and training materials.

Maintain strong relationships with Protection sector and Program managers in country offices as well as other staff providing technical input during the span of the entire program cycle. This includes supporting and reviewing needs assessments, program design, the technical implementation of projects, monitoring and evaluation and lessons learned.

Facilitate capacity building of staff members on PSS, child protection, protection mainstreaming, and community level protection.

Provide technical guidance on the integration of appropriate protection mainstreaming, psychosocial support interventions, child protection themes for all other sectoral interventions.

Stay abreast of sectoral best practices, minimum standards, developments and trends, and research.

Travel, to undertake above tasks, including insecure operating environments.

Other duties as assigned.

What are the qualifications?

Serve with Excellence

As a qualified candidate, you will have the following skills and experience:

Relevant graduate/post-graduate degree (Social work, Public Health, Psychology, International Development etc.), relevant humanitarian training, and 5 years' experience in the humanitarian sector in a programmatic role with experience internationally; or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.

Experience from humanitarian and development contexts, especially in implementation of protection programs and/or mainstreaming protection principles and implementation of PSS programs into humanitarian programming.

Experience working with individuals and groups at risk or victims of abuse, exploitation and violence.

Experience of working in humanitarian or insecure settings.

Experience supporting skills building and capacity strengthening, including developing training materials, providing training to a range of audiences, and providing accompaniment/mentoring.

What are the benefits?

Walk in Bold Faith

Samaritan's Purse is proud to offer a competitive benefits package, including:

On-site Medical Clinic (staff and dependents)

Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Long-term and Short-term disability insurance

Paid Family Medical Leave

Term Life Insurance

401(k) retirement savings plan

10 paid holidays

12 vacation/personal days

Type: Full-time

Department: Projects

Location: International or North Wilkesboro, NC

Location: North Wilkesboro, NC, United States
Date Posted: Sep 8, 2026

Samaritan's Purse
PO Box 3000
Boone, NC 28607
828.262.1980.

Samaritan’s Purse is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charity. All contributions designated for specific projects shall be applied to those projects, and we may assess up to 10 percent to be used for administering the gift. Occasionally, we receive more contributions for a given project than can be wisely applied to that project. When that happens, we use these funds to meet a similar pressing need.