Humanitarian Assistance Officer (Senior Protection Technical Advisor) (U.S. Citizens only)

Overview

Lead efforts to protect women and girls in humanitarian contexts.

You have:

• Must have significant experience in humanitarian protection.
• Expertise in developing protection strategies for women and girls.
• Ability to engage with multiple stakeholders including government agencies.
• Strong communication abilities for public speaking and report writing.
• Experience in coordinating humanitarian responses and providing technical guidance.

The Senior Protection Technical Advisor will lead BHA’s work on protecting women and girls and their access to humanitarian assistance. The incumbent will serve as a senior, expert source of information on and analysis of protecting women and girls in emergencies issues for BHA; using an inclusive approach, craft a strategy that will guide BHA’s approach to protecting women and girls; provide expert technical recommendations on all issues relating to humanitarian protection, particularly protecting women and girls; provide direction for BHA on new and cutting edge methodologies and coordinate team engagement and learning on protecting women and girls; scale the adoption of evidence-based protection interventions within the Agency and externally; build and synthesize evidence across multiple countries, regions, sectors, and programs to assess and influence USAID’s work and that of other actors; employ strong communications and interpersonal skills to develop productive relationships within BHA, particularly country response teams, and within the wider U.S. Government interagency; lead the development of new systems, guidelines, tools and staff resources to frame the design and implementation of protection programming; prepare TPQ senior management and BHA senior leadership, when necessary, to speak on protection issues before UN bodies, NGOs, Congress, the interagency, media, and academic institutions; represent BHA at donor and coordination meetings on protecting women and girls in emergencies issues;; respond to relevant congressional and public inquiries and speak to various visiting groups about protecting women and girls in emergencies. The incumbent will sign-up for and serve as needed multiple times throughout the year on Washington-based Response Management Teams (RMTs), which provide services and support to Disaster Assistance Response Teams (DARTs) deployed in response to disasters.

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