Overview
The Senior Programme Associate (Protection Mainstreaming) role focuses on implementing protection mainstreaming activities within Movement Operations in the United States, ensuring standards are met and promoting access for all populations.
Key Responsibilities
- Undertake protection mainstreaming activities in relation to Movement Operations activities in the United States of America.
- Spearhead and manage initiatives that promote meaningful and sustained access for all relevant populations.
- Regularly review and advise on the accessibility of processes and premises.
- Enhance accountability mechanisms including complaints and feedback mechanisms (CFMs).
- Provide relevant training as needed.
- Advance and support the implementation of RMM and USRAP protection mainstreaming principles and minimum standards.
- Monitor, collect and report feedback on their implementation.
- Ensure dissemination and understanding of the principles and minimum standards among personnel.
- Facilitate targeted capacity‑building measures.
- Contribute to the design of new guidance and tools.
- Engage with Movement Operations colleagues on support provided to vulnerable individuals.
- Ensure visual materials, communications materials, and other materials and tools are fit for purpose.
- Liaise with the Protection Mainstreaming team on data collection, management, and protection.
- Conduct risk analysis exercises to assess the accessibility, safety and suitability of IOM processes, ground transportation, IOM premises, third-party premises and other spaces.
- Work closely with the Senior Movement Operations Coordinator and USRAP Protection Mainstreaming team to resolve accessibility issues.
- Ensure all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), training and guidance given to ground transportation companies and third-party premises take accessibility into account.
- Provide briefings to personnel, companies and premises as requested.
- Oversee and continuously strengthen the performance of community feedback mechanisms (CFMs).
- Ensure that CFMs have multiple channels and that community feedback is recorded in a structured manner.
- Improve outreach efforts and work to record CFM metrics.
- Provide capacity building on CFMs.
- Collaborate with management to address issues that are raised.
- Facilitate day to day management of prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA) activities in United States airport offices and related processes and premises.
- Ensure CFMs accessible to individuals arriving to the United States are inclusive of PSEA measures.
- Ensure all airport office staff are aware of PSEA-related protocols.
- Provide regular, effective PSEA training to all staff working in airport offices in the United States.
- Serve as an ongoing resource for aiport office personnel seeking advice on issues related to PSEA.
- Design, deliver and evaluate protection mainstreaming knowledge-building initiatives for airport office personnel.
- Support and provide training on protection mainstreaming topics in the United States as requested.
- Ensure learners are furnished with the tools necessary to link the training to their daily work.
- Ensure that all operational SOPs, trainings, tools, and materials utilised throughout the United States are designed to ensure they are accessible to all personnel and beneficiaries.
- Promote coordination, collaboration and documentation of best practices and lessons learned.
- Contribute to the design and strengthening of USRAP, RMM and institutional monitoring approaches.
- Advise on monitoring mechanisms and brief monitoring teams on protection mainstreaming risks and trends.
- Share relevant information about the concerned populations.
- Strategize monitoring mechanisms based on the working landscape of the United States of America.
- Make connections with relevant community-based organisations (CBOs) and civil society organisations (CSOs) if needed.
- Ensure that national-level protection mainstreaming activities are growing more closely aligned between Movement Operations and other IOM areas of work.
- Participate in relevant mission-level, regional and global meetings related to protection mainstreaming.
- Maintain and promote the confidentiality and integrity of all relevant paperwork.
- Alert the direct supervisor or management of any non-compliance to SOPs or codes of conduct.
- Perform other relevant duties as assigned.
Required Experience
- At least 5-7 years of relevant experience in such areas as protection mainstreaming, migrant assistance, refugee resettlement, monitoring and evaluation, diversity, equality and inclusion, social work.
- Experience planning, facilitating, and evaluating training required.
- Prior experience with protection analysis and/or the production of reports preferred.
- Experience with USRAP programs is preferred.
- Experience with processing systems such as MiMOSA and iGATOR is preferred.
- Experience working in a multi-cultural setting.
Qualifications
- University degree in international relations, political science, or a related field from an accredited academic institution with five years of work experience; or,
- Completed secondary education with seven years of relevant working experience.
