Job Opportunity in Jordan: Protection Advisor at IRC 2020

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is looking for a Protection Advisor to join the team and work in Amman, Jordan for 2020.

Major Responsibilities:

Technical Quality that promote Inclusive Approaches:

1. Establish programmatic technical standards to achieve high-level program delivery with partners in collaboration with WASH, Shelter, and Health technical staff.
2. Liaise with IRC’s Technical Units to ensure protection mainstreaming approaches are aligned with IRC’s global models and best practice, as much as possible with the contextual constraints.
3. Lead development of informal protection risk analysis at the start of the project using information from the sources that are available from partners.
4. Ensure implementation is guided by continuous analysis of gender and inclusion through safety, inclusion, and safeguarding audits.
5. Advise on development and implementation of program baseline and other programmatic monitoring, including output and outcomes.
6. Work with Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEAL) team to establish and track protection-sensitive output and outcome indicators.
7. Promote inclusion by identifying barriers that prevent individual and community participation due to disabilities or age in humanitarian programming, and also identify capacities for self-reliance.
8. Work with MEAL team to support partners to reinforce beneficiary feedback mechanism to ensure services are safe and accessible to women, people with disabilities, and elderly and ensure feedback.
9. Support on training and awareness raising to mitigate risks for exploitation, abuse, and/or sexual harassment of targeted populations when conducting assessments, distributions, and seeking beneficiary feedback.
10. Coordinate and network with IRC’s Whole of Syria Protection Co-Lead and other protection counterparts to understand key protection issues within Syrian context to inform program planning.

Partnership Coordination and Capacity building:

1. Support partnership engagement and communication to implement sub-grant agreements and complete program deliverables.
2. Drive adherence to IRC’s Partnership Excellence for Equality and Results System (PEERS) by understanding and guiding the IRC team and partners to apply key processes.
3. Collaborate with IRC’s Partnership Team to ensure sub-awards, Project Support Plans, and other required documents are established based on PEERS and US Government regulations.
4. Promote the use of E-learning platform to foster greater understanding and application of protection mainstreaming and inclusion approaches.
5. Facilitate systematic partner feedback on IRC's management of and performance in partnerships, as well as taking appropriate action in response to the feedback to ensure the smooth operation of the consortium.
6. Design, lead, and participate in relevant workshops and meetings to support coordination and collaboration, including quarterly partner monitoring visits and training events.
7. Other tasks as needed.

Qualifications:

1. University degree in relevant field is required.
2.  Over three years of relevant experience in technical level focused on protection, gender, and/or inclusion necessary within humanitarian context.
3.  Demonstrated experience working with partner organizations or using partnership approaches.
4.  Ability to conduct capacity strengthening activities focused on training, mentoring, etc.
5.  Works well in and promotes teamwork, comfortable in a multi-cultural environment, flexible and able to handle pressure with professional grace.
6.  Excellent organizational and time management skills with ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines.
7.  Excellent oral and written communication skills in English, Arabic language skills preferred.
8.  Familiarity with the political, social, cultural, humanitarian and donor context of Syria is ideal.
9.  Willingness to travel to Beirut or other countries as needed.

More about the IRC:

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) helps people whose lives and livelihood are shattered by conflict and disease to survive, recover and regain control of their future. It responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic well-being, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster.

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