Emergency Protection Manager

Legal

Overview

Lead protection response efforts for earthquake-affected individuals.

You have:

• At least 4 years of protection programming including child protection experience in the field areas.
• Bachelor's degree in social sciences, law, social work, Masters preferred.
• Ability to critical thinking, timeliness, coordination and collaboration skills.
• Familiarity with program design, including log frames, budgeting and grants/report writing/language skills.
• Familiarity with M&E system design and implementation, preferred.

Job Description

Background: The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is a private, non-political, non-profit, and non-religious organization. For over 90 years, we have been providing humanitarian assistance to communities affected by conflict and natural disasters in more than 40 countries. Since 2008, the IRC has been active in Myanmar, delivering humanitarian assistance in areas such as health, protection, water, and sanitation, specifically targeting families impacted by conflict and natural disasters.

Background of Protection Response: Protection & Rule of Law Programming will aim to prevent and respond to the different protection concern among the individuals affected by massive earthquake in Myanmar targeting the injured, displaced, people who have lost legal documents, psychologically distressed, children separated from their families, violence survivors and those at higher risks of violence.

The program broadly focuses on conducting regular protection risk assessments, provision of responsive information services in emergencies, protection case management with Emergency Protection Assistance (inclusive of women and children), provision of psychosocial support through safe spaces for children, women, elderly and PwD and capacity building of relevant staff and organizations (with the support of Protection Coordinator/Technical Advisors) on specific protection areas for instance protection mainstreaming, humanitarian principles, PSEA, child protection, GBV/women protection, case management, MHPSS etc.

Main Responsibilities

- Lead the overall portfolio for the protection earthquake response in the targeted areas. - Provide guidance to the team and partners on the protection (general and CP) interventions, workplan, targeting and budget management. - Monitor the interventions on a periodic basis to provide feedback on the quality of the programming to the team and partners on time. - Support program quality by guiding the team and partners on the protection program SOPs, tools and guidance. - With guidance from the Protection Coordinator, establishes a monthly. - Support staff under supervision in providing accurate/up-to-date information on service provision and availability to the monitored population – and identification and assessment of particularly vulnerable or at risk individuals and families during monitoring or outreach and other activities by the team. - In coordination with the PROL Coordinator conducts evidence-based advocacy initiatives with local authorities, other organizations (NGOs), UN Agencies, enabling wider groups to access needed services. - Reports any serious protection concern or rights violation to the Protection Coordinator. - Liaise with Response Leader, Protection technical team in Yangon and other IRC sectors for managing the challenges and providing quality, integrated programming. - Liaise with the protection technical team at Yangon for needed support on capacity and programming. - Manage reporting (financial, narrative, etc.) for all the protection response projects including orientation to the team regularly. - Provide project management support to the team and partners as required. - Lead the local coordination at required cluster and other coordination mechanism in coordination with Response leader - Promote protection mainstreaming standards and monitor in the services delivered by IRC and partners - Manage procurement and NFI distribution in the field including the identification of beneficiaries - Approve the cases for Emergency Protection Assistance and case management in collaboration with Protection Specialist in Yangon - Document Protection information in coordination with MEAL team.

Qualifications

What should you have?

Minimum Requirements

- At least 4 years of protection programming including child protection experience in the field areas - Bachelor’s degree in social sciences, law, social work, Masters preferred - Ability to critical thinking, timeliness, coordination and collaboration skills - Familiarity with program design, including log frames, budgeting and grants/report writing/language skills - Familiarity with M&E system design and implementation, preferred.

Myanmar nationals with relevant skills sets and proven experience of working at international level are strongly encouraged.

The IRC Core Values and Commitments. The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, Equality and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity Anti-Retaliation and Combating Trafficking in Persons. IRC is committed to ensuring that IRC staff are suitable to work with children and have the knowledge s/he needs to uphold and abide by the IRC’s Child Safeguarding Policy. Level of interaction with children: Frequent direct contact with children. IRC ensures that its staff must actively practice the roles and responsibilities related to client responsiveness, accountability to people in affected communities and must have competencies to solicits and listens to feedback and other’s perspectives, responds to feedback with maturity and sensitivity and takes appropriate decisions and makes changes to behavior or actions in response to feedback. IRC recognizes that gender equality is fundamental to the achievement of our organizational mission. As such, IRC is committed to the promotion of gender equality in all aspects of our operations and programs. Our organizational policies, procedures and actions demonstrate this commitment.

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Added 1 year ago - Updated 1 year ago - Source: rescue.org