NRC is looking for a Protection Specialist to join the Afghanistan mission. The role holder will lead the protection competency within NRC’s programmes and lead the protection position vis-à-vis coordination and decision-making fora.
Responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership: Developing the Protection strategy and contributing to integrated programming. Leading on the merge of Protection and Site Management.
Fundraising: Developing and revising funding proposals, budgets, and donor reports.
Technical Quality: Developing technical standard operating procedures, guidelines, tools, etc. Providing technical direction and project implementation support.
Learning: ensure key learnings are extracted and incorporated. Strengthening Protection monitoring and evaluation tools and systems, and supporting programme learning throughout the project-cycle.
Coordination and Representation: Represent the organization in external coordination forums/ liaise and collaborate with authorities and other key stakeholders .
Advocacy and Coordination: Contribute to advocacy objectives through meaningful engagement in briefings, development of advocacy products, and coordination.
Capacity Building: Providing training and building capacity of technical staff.
Requirements:
Senior management experience in a humanitarian/recovery context.
Protection service delivery, including case management, implementation experience.
International Humanitarian Law, Human Rights, and Protection of Children in Armed Conflicts knowledge.
Civilian self-protection expertise.
Site management exposure.
Complex and volatile context exposure.
Afghanistan context exposure and knowledge, pertaining to displacement and humanitarian needs.
