Overview
The role provides technical leadership to ensure that protection is integrated across all humanitarian programming, strengthening safe and inclusive approaches. It also strengthens programme safety, compliance, and ethical integrity.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide strategic technical guidance on protection mainstreaming, safe programming, inclusion, safeguarding integration, and accountability to affected populations
- Ensure protection principles are embedded across WASH, Food security, Livelihoods, Emergency response, and Recovery programming
- Strengthen identification, analysis, and mitigation of protection risks, gender-based vulnerabilities, exclusion risks, and safeguarding concerns
- Ensure strong integration of: safeguarding, protection standard, community accountability systems, and ethical programming
- Support programmes and partners to comply with international protection frameworks, donor standards, and organisational safeguarding systems
- Strengthen accountability to affected populations (AAP).
- Provide structured technical accompaniment and support to partners.
- Strengthen partner capacity in protection mainstreaming, safeguarding, safe programming, inclusion, and accountability systems
- Promote localisation and equitable partnership models.
- Provide technical input into concept notes, proposals, programme frameworks, and emergency response plans
- Ensure protection considerations are embedded from programme inception.
- Strengthen programme design quality across humanitarian portfolios.
- Support preparedness planning, emergency assessments, response planning, and contingency systems
- Ensure protection considerations are central during rapid-onset and protracted emergencies.
- Provide technical support during humanitarian responses.
- Support integration of protection indicators within MEAL systems, research agendas, accountability frameworks
- Contribute to monitoring, evaluations, technical learning, and programme reviews
- Document lessons learned, innovation, and best practice.
- Facilitate technical learning and protection knowledge sharing across countries, partners, and humanitarian portfolios
- Strengthen consistency of protection approaches across the Cluster.
- Promote cross-functional collaboration with Gender Justice, WASH, FES, PQK, and Safeguarding systems
Required Experience
5 years of relevant experience in protection, safeguarding, humanitarian programming, including experience working with partners. Proven experience in multi-country or regional systems, protection mainstreaming, partner support and technical coordination.
Qualifications
Master’s degree in Social Work, Human Rights, Development Studies, Social Sciences or related discipline.
