Overview
Provide strategic leadership, technical expertise, and coordination for protection programming, focusing on Child Protection and Gender-Based Violence in humanitarian and development contexts. Strengthen the organization's protection portfolio to prevent, mitigate, and respond to protection risks for vulnerable populations.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide strategic leadership, technical expertise, and overall coordination for stand alone, integrated and mainstreamed protection programming.
- Play a critical role in strengthening the organization’s protection portfolio.
- Ensure programs effectively prevent, mitigate, and respond to protection risks faced by children, adolescents, women, and other vulnerable populations.
- Design, guide, and ensure the quality implementation of protection interventions.
- Ensure protection programs are evidence-based, rights-based, survivor-centered, and child-sensitive.
- Address both immediate protection needs and the underlying factors that increase vulnerability to abuse, exploitation, neglect, and violence.
- Provide technical guidance and capacity building to program teams, partners, and government stakeholders.
- Conduct needs assessments, program monitoring, and evaluation within protection programming.
- Facilitate trainings and workshops, and mentor staff and partners.
- Contribute to Plan International’s global efforts to ensure safeguarding and GEI.
Required Experience
- Minimum 5 years of progressive professional experience.
- 3 years on a senior level experience in protection programming, including Child Protection and/or Gender-Based Violence in humanitarian or development contexts.
- Demonstrated experience in designing protection strategies, developing project proposals, and leading protection interventions.
- Proven experience providing technical guidance and capacity building to program teams, partners, and government stakeholders.
- Experience working with government institutions, UN agencies, NGOs, and humanitarian coordination mechanisms at national or sub-national levels.
- Experience in needs assessments, program monitoring, and evaluation within protection programming.
- Demonstrated experience in training facilitation, workshop organization, and mentoring of staff and partners.
- Experience working with major humanitarian donors and understanding donor compliance and reporting requirements.
- Strong ability to work effectively in complex, multi-cultural, and fast-paced humanitarian environments.
- Willingness to travel frequently to field locations.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, Sociology, Psychology, Gender Studies, Law, Human Rights, Political Science, or other relevant social science fields.
- Master’s degree preferred.
