Overview
Support the coordination, planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of IOM Venezuela’s protection and humanitarian programming, with a focus on earthquake-affected populations.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate and monitor the implementation of protection projects and activities.
- Support the development, revision and monitoring of project workplans, procurement plans, spending plans and implementation schedules.
- Supervise and provide guidance to Protection Associates, programme support staff, consultants and field teams.
- Monitor programme expenditures and support budget tracking, financial forecasting and expenditure verification.
- Support the preparation of donor reports, project updates, situation reports, concept notes, project proposals and other programme documentation.
- Coordinate the collection, consolidation and analysis of programme data, indicators, beneficiary information and activity results.
- Ensure that programme activities comply with IOM policies, donor regulations, protection principles, AAP, PSEA, safeguarding and data protection standards.
- Liaise with implementing partners, community structures, local authorities, UN agencies, NGOs and other stakeholders.
- Contribute to project design, needs assessments, response planning and development of new programme initiatives.
- Support the development and implementation of monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL) activities.
- Review and validate implementing partner reports, activity documentation and supporting evidence.
- Identify operational challenges, implementation risks and bottlenecks and propose corrective actions.
- Support capacity-building initiatives for staff, partners and community actors.
- Participate in inter-agency coordination mechanisms, technical working groups and humanitarian forums.
- Prepare briefing materials, presentations and analytical summaries.
- Assist with other tasks, as needed.
Required Experience
- Minimum five years of progressively responsible experience in humanitarian, protection, migration, recovery or development programming.
- Experience supporting general protection, community-based protection and MHPSS child protection (CP), and gender-based violence (GBV) activities, including direct work with beneficiaries.
- Experience coordinating multi-sectoral projects funded by institutional donors.
- Experience supporting programme management, project monitoring, reporting, budgeting and implementation oversight.
- Experience supervising staff, consultants, volunteers or field teams.
- Experience coordinating with government counterparts, UN agencies, NGOs, community organizations and implementing partners.
- Experience preparing donor reports, workplans, budgets and project proposals.
- Demonstrated experience in information management, data analysis and results-based management.
- Experience supporting humanitarian responses, emergency operations or post-crisis recovery programmes is highly desirable.
- Knowledge of protection principles, protection mainstreaming, GBV risk mitigation, child protection, AAP, PSEA, disability inclusion and safeguarding is desirable.
- Experience working with IOM, the UN system or international organizations is an advantage.
- Good experience working with implementing partners (IPs).
- Understanding key issues related to data protection and knowledge of safe, confidential and ethical data collection and handling.
- Knowledge of the humanitarian and development context in Venezuela, particularly as it relates to protection challenges.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in development studies, political sciences, social sciences, gender studies, law, human rights, public administration, project management or other relevant field from an accredited academic institution with five years of relevant professional experience; or, High school diploma with seven years of experience. Master’s degree in the above-mentioned fields is an added advantage.
