Protection Officer

Legal

Overview

Lead protection activities in emergencies and provide guidance to the team.

You have:

• At least 3 years of protection programming experience in the field areas.
• Bachelor’s degree in social sciences, law, social work.
• Ability to critical thinking, timeliness, coordination and collaboration skills.
• Familiarity with community mobilization, team mobilization.
• Familiarity with M&E system design and implementation, preferred.
• Good English language skill (both oral and written).

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, psychological distress, family separated, and at risk of rights violation. It will focus on 1) protection risk assessment and monitoring for referrals, 2) information services in emergencies, 3) protection case management including Emergency Protection Assistance, 4) safe spaces for children, women, elderly and PwD to facilitate PFA and 5) protection capacity building including protection mainstreaming, humanitarian principles, PSEA etc.

Main Responsibilities:

- Lead the overall protection activities like service mapping, protection monitoring and information sharing. - Provide guidance to the team and partners on the protection 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 on time. - Liase with Emergency Protection manager for clear deliverables for the team . - Manage documentation, reporting for all the protection response project. - Provide project management support to the partners as required. - Promote protection mainstreaming standards and monitor in the services delivered by IRC and partners. - Support NFI distribution in the field including the identification of beneficiaries - Document Protection information in coordination with MEAL team.

Qualifications

What should you have?

Minimum Requirements

- At least 3 years of protection programming experience in the field areas - Bachelor’s degree in social sciences, law, social work - Ability to critical thinking, timeliness, coordination and collaboration skills - Familiarity with community mobilization, team mobilization - Familiarity with M&E system design and implementation, preferred - Good English language skill (both oral and written)

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