Emergency Response Team Senior Protection Coordinator
The IRCs Emergency Preparedness and Response Unit (EPRU) leads or oversees IRCs global emergency preparedness and response activities. The mission of the EPRU is to help meet the immediate survival needs and reduce suffering in conflict or disaster affected populations during the acute phase of an emergency. The EPRU also works in protracted emergencies, where the risk to life may be reduced but the population is still subjected to rights abuses and a lack of basic services. The EPRU is also charged with enhancing the IRCs global and country level emergency preparedness capacity. The Emergency Response Team serves as the standing team of specialized professionals ready to deploy to an emergency within 72 hours.
Protection Programs at the IRC The IRC Protection team is part of the IRC’s Governance and Rights Unit (GRU). The GRU works in a range of complex contexts to establish and re-establish the interface between citizens and state institutions, with a view to promoting social dividends, realizing people’s rights and improving the quality of services delivered to the population. The Protection programs aim to ensure full respect for the rights of crisis affected populations. In emergency settings, these interventions may range from protection monitoring and reporting, promoting rights awareness and ensuring access to remedies in case of rights abuse, to supporting protection coordination and promoting the incorporation of protection principles into all humanitarian emergency interventions.
SCOPE OF WORK: The IRC ERT staff is expected to be deployed in the field, either in an emergency or roving capacity, for up to 75% of the time (9 months a year) and must be able to deploy to the site of an emergency within 72 hours of notification.
Members of the ERT are deployed to either support existing country programs in their emergency response, or to initiate a new program in the crisis zone. The overall responsibility of the team is to rapidly and effectively design, develop and manage the IRC’s on-site humanitarian response to meet the immediate needs of the affected population. The ERT is also responsible for supporting the transfer of responsibilities and knowledge to longer-term staff to ensure the continuity of IRC programming and operations.
The ERT Senior Protection Coordinator (SPC) is a member of the Governance and Rights Unit (GRU) and the Emergency Response and Preparedness Unit (EPRU) and will provide the first line of protection response in crisis situations. During emergency deployments ERT staff will work under the direction of IRC’s Emergency Field Director or designated country emergency lead. During times with no acute emergency deployment the SPC will report to the Senior Technical Advisor in the Protection team of the Governance and Rights Unit.
RESPONSIBILITIES: Emergency Response • Be prepared to be deployed within 72 hours; emergency deployments take precedence over other duties; • Ensure high quality and timely assessments of the protection needs in large scale/complex emergencies and provide prioritized recommendations for protection program interventions to the ERT emergency lead; • Design protection program responses and strategy, including identifying geographic areas of intervention, in coordination with a range of internal and external actors, in particular the ERT Women’s Protection and Empowerment Coordinator and the ERT Child Protection Coordinator; • Develop technical proposals and budgets for international donors, work in close collaboration with IRC grants and finance staff to finalize proposals and respond to any requests for additional information; • Directly manage and/or supervise Coordinators in managing grant/program implementation including staff recruitment and training, workplan development, procurement and inventory planning, and budget management; • Prepare high quality and timely donor and management reports on grants and sector activities • Design and implement appropriate monitoring and evaluation systems; ensure consistent reporting and analysis of results to enhance program effectiveness and quality; • Ensure compliance with IRC policy and procedures throughout the program team and activities • Represent the IRC at and coordinate with the Protection Cluster, other agencies, local government, donors and other stakeholders to promote best protection practices; • In close collaboration with country management and global advocacy units, identify, develop and implement strategies to address IRC advocacy priorities; • Support media and communications activities as requested by the ERT in-county emergency lead; • Assess and provide input on post emergency strategies and transition plans for IRC programming; • Provide a comprehensive handover to successor, including ensuring transfer of all related documentation, program monitoring data and staff performance information. Emergency Preparedness • Research and communicate new approaches and best practices in emergency protection response programming; • Represent IRC in inter-agency and global forums and initiatives on emergency-related protection work; • Lead the development of protection-related emergency preparedness and response strategies and tools in collaboration with EPRU and GRU Protection/Rule of Law staff; • Work with country programs to implement protection emergency preparedness and response strategies in selected IRC countries; • Lead or participate in the development and management of of global funding proposals to support emergency preparedness. Non-emergency • Provide technical support to existing country programs remotely and through in-country visits or short-term deployments; • Undertake technical assessments or evaluations of large scale-complex protection programs • Assist in the development and launch of new protection-related policies, Guidance Notes and protection training materials; • Lead the design and implementation of emergency components of the Governance and Rights Unit’s strategic documents and work plans.
REQUIREMENTS: • Post graduate degree in international law, social sciences or related field; • 6+ years experience developing and managing protection or rule of law related projects including 3 years in emergency/conflict areas; • Demonstrated ability to work effectively with the protection cluster, peer agencies, local governments and community leaders and develop multi-stakeholder support for humanitarian priorities and advocacy initiatives; • Demonstrated ability to identify, recommend and adopt new or changes in technical standards and best practice approaches to ensure rapid, consistent, high quality emergency protection response strategies and programs; • Experience managing large, complex donor funded programs and grants; including staff management, budget oversight, monitoring and evaluation systems, and technical input to proposal-budget development and donor reports; • Demonstrated understanding of emergency funding mechanisms.
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