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ORGANIZATIONAL BACKGROUND

The IRC and its partners are currently implementing nutrition, protection, food security, cash, and early childhood development interventions across West Bank and Gaza with presence in offices in Ramallah, Deir el Balah, and Amman.

Position Overview:

The Integrated Protection Coordinator is responsible for facilitating the design and delivery of high-quality protection services to address protection risks and barriers to humanitarian services, facing women, men, girls, and boys affected by violence and conflict, and ensuring services are inclusive and in line with IASC guidelines and humanitarian principles and standards. The position will be responsible for IRC’s emergency Child Protection (CP) and Women’s Protection and Empowerment (WPE) programming, and will contribute to identifying entry points for Protection and Rule of Law (PROL) when appropriate.
 

The Integrated Protection Coordinator reports to the Deputy Director for Programs (DDP). The position will work closely with program sector leads, MEAL Coordinator, Partnerships Coordinator, finance and operations departments.

Major Responsibilities:

Program Delivery and Management

  • Provide strategic direction, leadership and overall technical management of IRC’s protection response, inclusive of partnerships, ensuring high program quality and appropriately phased scaling up of interventions; based areas of highest impact, highest needs, emerging risks, and IRC’s added value; and alignment with minimum standards and approaches.
  • Lead and directly contribute to the implementation and coordination of IRC’s emergency protection response, including Child Protection and Women’s Protection and Empowerment programming and partnerships. Ensure appropriate and quality program design and implementation, with a specific focus on ensuring complementarity with partners and identifying and mitigating obstacles to safe and inclusive access across IRC’s multisectoral response.
  • In close collaboration with the Partnerships team, oversee IRC’s partnerships, ensuring co-design, regular exchange, mutual expertise and capacity sharing, and project performance monitoring to achieve program objectives.
  • Ensure – through program design and practice, team capacity and behavior – that client, especially the most marginalized and hard to reach, participate in the design and implementation of IRC programs, and that their access to services and programs is meaningful and safe.
  • Develop and/or adapt technical tools and approaches and deliver creative solutions to mitigate challenges and scale programs in a highly complex operating context to ensure continuity of CP and WPE services.
  • In close coordination with the MEAL department, design and implement appropriate monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems ensuring consistent reporting and analysis of results to improve program effectiveness and quality.
  • Conduct stakeholder and partner analysis: continually review existing actor mappings with a view to identifying key actors and establishing partnerships focused on the delivery of integrated and standalone protection services.

Grants, Financial Management and Business Development

  • Support in business development including project design (co-design with partners), proposal writing, budget development as relevant taking into consideration integration with other departments and partnership where feasible
  • Oversee the development and delivery of all internal and external reports in collaboration with the grants, programs, finance, and MEAL departments.
  • Collaborate with IRC grants and finance staff to finalize proposals and respond to any requests for additional information.
  • Ensure project implementation is on time, on scope, and on budget taking into consideration internal and donor compliance

Staff Management

  • Supervise the CP and WPE teams, ensuring adequate support and resources for frontline staff to receive appropriate technical guidance, on the job coaching and supervision
  • Comply with and ensure that new protection staff understand the IRC Code of Conduct and policies related to Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse and Child Safeguarding. This includes ensuring that staff and communities have knowledge of and safe, confidential access to reporting mechanisms and support services.
  • As relevant, coordinate performance management within the department and ensure a culture of high performance through staff engagement and accountability.
  • Maintain open and professional relations with team members, promoting a strong team spirit and providing oversight and guidance to enable staff to successfully perform in their positions.
  • Oversight of recruitment for the expansion of the protection teams

Coordination and Representation

  • Maintain effective working relationships with key actors, including donors, government actors, UN agencies, international and local NGOs, and other relevant actors.
  • Regularly attend and as required co-lead/facilitate emergency protection and other relevant coordination and task force meetings. Organize the protection team to ensure coordinated representation and information sharing across coordination structures in Gaza, West Bank, and others.

Other duties:

  • Consistently and proactively monitor/assess the safety and security of the team; promptly reporting concerns or incidents to Management, and when liaising with community leaders and other external parties as required to maintain/enhance the security environment for IRC programs
  • Other duties as assigned by the supervisor to enable and develop IRC programs
  • Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) within protection programming including; consulting on serious protection-related feedback/complaints, coordinating referral pathways, and using feedback/complaints data to inform program adjustments and operational decisions.

QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Education experience in social work, psychology, other related field, AND / OR equivalent work experience
  • At least six years’ experience working in the field of child protection and / or GBV and women’s protection programming at the Coordinator level or above required, with consistent track record managing multi-donor portfolios in acute emergency response, program and project start-up. Additional experience managing Protection and the Rule of Law programs highly desirable
  • Experience working with IRC and an understanding of IRC’s systems and processes is strongly preferred
  • Familiarity with key donor regulations such as but not limited to ECHO, SIDA, and UN
  • Experience in working with and coordinating with the UN, donors, INGOs and other humanitarian actors
  • Demonstrated experience in staff supervision, capacity building, project design and budget management
  • Genuine interest in and commitment to collaborating with local partners for effective and context-appropriate humanitarian response.
  • Demonstrated skills in effectively leading and building programs and/or operations in a high-pressure, fluid environment of limited resources. Leadership and team management skills are critical, including working in multi-cultural environments.
  • Exceptional English communication, writing and editing skills required, Arabic strongly preferred. Able to draft and edit detailed documents for donor submission with minimal oversight.
  • Previous experience in a conflict-affected or protracted crisis setting preferred.
  • Exceptional advance planning and organizational skills. Able to effectively prioritize and follow multiple activities and deadlines simultaneously. Highly organized with close attention to detail.

PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS

All International Rescue Committee workers must adhere to the core values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. Our Standards are Integrity, Service, Equality and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Safeguarding, Conflicts of Interest, Fiscal Integrity, and Reporting Wrongdoing and Protection from Retaliation. IRC is committed to take all necessary preventive measures and create an environment where people feel safe, and to take all necessary actions and corrective measures when harm occurs. IRC builds teams of professionals who promote critical reflection, power sharing, debate, and objectivity to deliver the best possible services to our clients.

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