Save the Children Jobs 2026: Project Assistant (Case Supervisor) in Myanmar
Save the Children is recruiting a Project Assistant (Case Supervisor) to support child protection activities in Central Myanmar. The position focuses on child protection case management, staff supervision, psychosocial support, and ensuring that vulnerable children and families receive appropriate and timely assistance.
This opportunity is suitable for candidates with experience in child protection, case management, community-based programming, and humanitarian response.
Job Overview
- Organisation: Save the Children
- Job Title: Project Assistant (Case Supervisor)
- Programme: Child Protection
- Location: Central Myanmar
- Job Grade: NAT 5
- Contract Type: Fixed-term
- Contract Duration: Listed as up to November 2026
- Working Arrangement: Full-time
- Application Deadline: 7 October 2026, at 11:00 UTC
About the Role
The Project Assistant (Case Supervisor) will support the implementation of Child Protection in Emergencies (CPiE) activities and supervise child protection caseworkers. The role involves strengthening caseworkers’ technical skills, providing regular coaching, monitoring case management practices, and promoting staff wellbeing.
The successful candidate will work closely with the Project Coordinator and the wider child protection team to ensure that case management services are delivered in accordance with established standard operating procedures and inter-agency guidelines.
The position also supports coordination between case management, mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS), and community-level child protection mechanisms.
Key Responsibilities
The Project Assistant will contribute to programme implementation, service quality, and community coordination.
Key duties include:
- Supervising, coaching, and supporting child protection caseworkers.
- Conducting weekly individual supervision sessions and case management team meetings.
- Reviewing case files and monitoring case documentation.
- Ensuring confidentiality, data protection, and appropriate information-sharing practices.
- Supporting high-risk and complex cases when required.
- Assessing caseworkers’ competencies and identifying training needs.
- Supporting mental health and psychosocial support activities for children and adults.
- Maintaining updated service mapping and referral information.
- Identifying children and families who may require case management support.
- Supporting cash safety planning, follow-up activities, and the safe delivery of cash-related assistance.
- Coordinating with Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) teams on data collection and monitoring.
- Preparing programme reports and contributing to training and workshop planning.
- Working with community members, service providers, and NGOs to identify and safely refer children at risk.
The role also carries significant child safeguarding responsibilities, including reporting concerns and helping prevent abuse, exploitation, neglect, and harm.
Qualifications and Experience
Applicants should demonstrate an understanding of child rights, child protection issues, and child development.
The essential requirements include:
- Proficiency in the relevant local language, both spoken and written.
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to prioritise tasks.
- Empathy and effective communication with children, young people, and families.
- Active listening, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
- The ability to coordinate with internal and external stakeholders.
- Basic computer skills, including Microsoft Word and Excel.
- A commitment to child safeguarding and the organisation’s values.
Desirable experience includes staff supervision, training and coaching, report writing, monitoring and evaluation, data analysis, and working in humanitarian or community-based programmes. Familiarity with gender equality, disability inclusion, displacement, and safer programming is also beneficial.
Child Safeguarding
The role involves frequent or intensive contact with children and young people. Candidates must be willing to comply with the organisation’s safeguarding policies, code of conduct, and relevant procedures.
The recruitment process includes background checks as part of Save the Children’s commitment to protecting children from abuse and harm.
How to Apply
Interested candidates should consult the original vacancy announcement and follow the official application instructions. Review the required experience, language requirements, contract duration, and location before submitting an application.
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Application deadline: 7 October 2026 at 11:00 UTC, according to the supplied vacancy information. Applicants should confirm that the vacancy remains open before applying.
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