Job Description

The Opportunity

Under the supervision of the Head of Program Operations, Project Manager is responsible for the overall management, coordination, and operational oversight of a multi-stakeholder programme aimed at preventing child labour and improving the wellbeing of children and families engaged in seasonal agricultural migration in Türkiye.

The role ensures effective partner-led implementation across provinces of origin and agricultural destination areas, while maintaining strong oversight of programme delivery, financial performance, safeguarding compliance, and results achievement.

The Project Manager works closely with implementing partners, government institutions, civil society organizations, communities, and private sector stakeholders to ensure continuity of child protection, education, and social protection services across migration cycles.

The position combines strategic programme management with strong operational control, ensuring that partner delivery, financial expenditure, and programme outputs are implemented in line with donor requirements, SCI standards, and agreed workplans.

In order to be successful you will bring/have:

• Minimum 4 years of relevant professional experience in programme or project management.
• At least 3 years of experience in child protection, child labour, education, social protection, or community development programmes.
• Experience working with seasonal agricultural workers, migrant populations, mobile children, or rural development programmes.
• Proven experience managing implementing partners in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Strong experience in budget management, financial oversight, and donor compliance.
• Strong knowledge of child protection systems, child labour prevention, safeguarding principles, referral pathways, and case follow-up mechanisms.
• Experience in monitoring, evaluation, accountability, learning, and results-based programme management.
• Experience supporting integrated programming across child protection, education, social protection, livelihoods, and community-based interventions.
• Strong coordination experience with government institutions, public service providers, and external stakeholders.
• Good contextual understanding of migration dynamics, public service access barriers, community structures, and child labour risks in relevant programme locations.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and high-quality report writing skills.
• Fluency in written and spoken English and computer literacy.
• Willingness to travel frequently to field locations.
• Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values, and principles.

Desired

• Master’s degree in a relevant field.
• Fluency in Arabic and/or Kurdish.
• Understanding of education continuity and barriers faced by mobile children.
• Knowledge of human rights due diligence, responsible sourcing, or supply chain sustainability.
• Experience working with private sector actors, agricultural value chains, labour intermediaries, agricultural employers, or producer groups.
• Familiarity with national and international child labour elimination frameworks.
• Good understanding of the Southeastern Türkiye context and/or West Black Sea region.

This position is planned for a roving role requiring frequent travel to other cities, therefore legal right to work in Türkiye is necessary at the time of application. Applications will be evaluated in a rolling basis.

The Organisation

We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

Save the Children is committed to create a truly inclusive, effective and representative organisational culture, encouraging equity and diversity among its employees and eliminating discrimination. Having a diverse profile of employees, different age groups, backgrounds, cultures, gender identities and expressions, sexual orientation etc., including a range of different experiences and capabilities helps us understand, represent and serve children better. Therefore all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, or age.

Application Information:

Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application, and include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations. A copy of the full role profile can be found at www.savethechildren.net/careers

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our global anti-harassment policy.