Protection Support Officer - Mosul

Job Description

The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, IRC offers life-saving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in more than 40 countries and in 22 U.S. cities, IRC restores safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted by conflict or disaster. IRC leads the way from harm to home.

CONTEXTUAL BACKGROUND

The IRC established programs in Iraq in 2003 to address the overwhelming needs of displaced people in Iraq and the neighboring countries. Since re-establishing its presence in Iraq in November 2007, the IRC has been assisting thousands of internally displaced families in the northern, central and southern governorates in the sectors of protection, gender-based violence (GBV), education, economic recovery, child Protection and emergency humanitarian assistance. Working in coordination with the humanitarian community in Iraq, the IRC's assistance and emergency programs address the needs of war-affected Iraqi internally displaced persons (IDPs) and Syrian refugees from several operational bases in the country, and include both camp-based and urban-based assistance. IRC operates throughout Iraq, with the main office in Erbil and field offices in, Baghdad, SAD, Anbar and Mosul.

Major Responsibilities:

- Responsible about cash advance and liquidation, at the beginning of each month prepare cash advance for the team, complete approvals, follows up with finance, and at the end of each month coordinate about closing these payments and doing the liquidation. - Assisting the protection program and other staff in raising PRs and provide them with estimated prices as required. - Work in close relation with the Administrative officers for the PRs follow-up. - Work on the open protection related PRs and prioritize the urgent ones; Ensure that the items requested are delivered to the requester(s). - Follow up with finance department and field coordinator about all pending and approved payments. - Coordinate with IT Officer and Protection Manager regarding procurement of IT related equipment for the Protection program. - All procurement requests related are processed in timely and transparent way. - Ensure that all medium to large procurement requests are properly tendered within the available vendor base. - Working closely with HR about program staff leaves, timesheets, clearances, daily attendance, ID badges, facilitations letters, PME’s. - Prepare and update an excel sheet shared with the Logistic department for supplying and distribution protection staff with stationary, attendees sheet, procurement plan. - Update the main information about IRC Protection Staff on a Tracking Sheet including : staff name, position, location, ID number, T7, original start date, end date, contract renewal date, end date, monthly gross salary, end of probation period, performance evaluation, mobile number, IRC email, personal email /update weekly. - Work closely with Protection manager and HR with everything related to change status process for the program staff. - Minutes of Meeting: support the Protection Manager in taking minutes during meetings if necessary. - Translation of reports and materials training (AR to EN). - Any other duty as requested by the Protection Manager and /or Protection Coordinator or Sr Protection Manager.

Key Working Relationships:

Position Reports to: protection Manager. Position directly supervises: Guards and Cleaners for the protection program.

Indirect Reporting: Protection Coordinator, Field Coordinator. Other Internal and/or external contacts:

Internal: IRC sectors

External: IRC guests

Qualifications

Job Requirements:

- University Degree with 2 years of relevant working experience.

- At least 1 year of prior professional experience in a similar post, working with vulnerable communities in the NGO sector. - Familiar with the protection work. - Ability to work independently and part of a team. - Good interpersonal, organizational, and time management skills. - Ability to maintain the highest degree of discretion. - Ability and willingness to work and travel throughout Iraq. - Strong written, oral Arabic and intermediate English language. - Strong organizational and computer skills, practically with Word and Excel. - Detail oriented and ability to multitask. - Female candidates are very encouraged to apply.

Working Environment: the position will be based in Mosul.

Standards of Professional Conduct:

The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, 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, and Anti-Retaliation.

Gender Equality

IRC is committed to narrowing the gender gap in leadership positions. We offer benefits that provide an enabling environment for women to participate in our workforce including maternity leave, gender-sensitive security protocols and other supportive benefits and allowances. Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

Attention Returning National Candidates:

IRC strives to attract, motivate and retain qualified national staff in our programs. We strongly encourage national or returning national candidates to apply for this position. If you are a national of the country in which this position is based and are currently located outside of your home country and possess over two years of international work experience, IRC has introduced an attractive remuneration package. The package includes competitive compensation, return flight to post, shipping allowance, temporary housing and a relocation allowance. Certain restrictions may apply.

Notice to all Job Seekers

IRC implements an equal employment opportunity policy and our recruitment process is based on merit.

Applicants and/or successful interview candidates (both internal and external) are not required to pay any fees at any stage of the recruitment process.

If anyone asks you for any financial or non-financial favors to help you secure a job at IRC, kindly report to iraq.hr@rescue.org.

ملاحظة لكل الباحثين عن وظيفة

تعتمد لجنة الانقاذ الدولية سياسة فرص عمل متساوية وان عملية التوظيف لدينا تعتمد على الجدارة .

لايتوجب على المتقدمين لاي وظيفة او المؤهلين للمقابلات (سواء كانوا موظفيين حالين او متقدمين من خارج المنظمة) دفع اي مبلغ مالي خلال اي مرحلة من مراحل التوظيف.

اذا قام اي شخص بطلب اي خدمة مالية او غير مالية لقاء مساعدتكم في تأمين فرصة عمل داخل المنظمة ،يرجى الابلاغ عن ذلك الى iraq.hr@rescue.org