Protection Coordinator Full Time NEW

PROTECTION COORDINATOR – DR CONGO (INT10853)

Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty.

Do you have experience in developing and implementing strategies for protection programs, including monitoring, evaluation, learning, and accountability?

Do you have experience providing technical support and guidance to protection teams, project managers, and partners in both humanitarian and development contexts?

Can you demonstrate expertise in analyzing protection issues, including conflict dynamics, gender considerations, and risk management?

If so, we’d like to hear from you!

The Role

The Protection Coordinator is responsible for providing strategic leadership, technical expertise, and operational oversight to ensure the effective implementation, quality, and accountability of Oxfam’s protection programs. The role involves designing and managing protection strategies, supporting program teams, building staff capacity, and ensuring alignment with Oxfam’s mission and donor requirements.

What we are looking for:

We are looking for Protection Coordinator to:

• Responsible for developing and implementing the mission’s Protection strategy, as well as ensuring the quality of current and future Protection programme/projects in the definition, monitoring, implementation, and evaluation phases.
• Ensure good programme/projects cycle management, monitoring, evaluation, learning and accountability.
• Lead the development of Protection annual programme strategy, budget and funding plan as contribution to the annual Country Operating Plan.
• Provide technical support to the Protection teams, and to the Protection Project Managers, in a functional relationship.
• Program Quality: Provide technical guidance on protection for both humanitarian and development programs, strategically analysing protection issues, including conflict dynamics, gender, and risk management, to ensure the quality, coherence and direction of programs and policies in particular to Protection Program Managers, and their teams, and partners and ensure the quality and effectiveness of the mission’s Protection program(s).
• Responsible for designing, developing, and writing high quality new proposals and budgets with the provincial programme team.
• Responsible for producing good quality and timely donor reports.
• Identify gap in staff technical capacity.
• Develop technical modules and train/reinforce staff capacities/competencies and Oxfam partner’s staff.
• Support Project Managers in the recruitment of Protection technical staff.
• Represent Oxfam’s Protection sector to partners, donors, national authorities and local stakeholders, Protection Clusters and meetings. Contribute to the smooth flow of information from the Protection sector.
• Direct contact with Protection donors to ensure strategic alignment and effective financial support for protection activities.
• Responsible for developing alliances with other agencies to improve coordination and adopt complementary approaches.
• Ensure coordination and engagement across contracts, programmes, donors and protection actors.

An ideal candidate for the role will also be / have:

Technical Skills, Experience & Knowledge:

ESSENTIAL

• University or Master’s degree in humanitarian project management, science, business, political or social sciences, law or any related field
• 5 to 10 years of experience of programme/project management including in humanitarian work and protection response, preferably in field protection interventions in conflict or insecure environments.
• Strong understanding of global protection principles and standards, relevant international law bodies, and significant experience in safe programming in protection programs and protection monitoring.
• A solid conceptual and practical understanding of protection issues and approaches in humanitarian contexts, including the constraints, sensitivities, and risks associated with this work.
• Proven experience in conducting analyses and strategic approaches for response in complex humanitarian environments, preferably in a leadership role.
• Experience and understanding of community-based protection at the field level, including the constraints, sensitivities, and risks associated with this work.
• Ability to represent Oxfam in protection forums at national, regional, and global levels, if necessary.
• Fluent in written and spoken French, English is a plus.
• Proven experience of managing budgets, staff, and funding of the programme.
• Proven decision-making capability, working with significant levels of autonomy.
• Proven ability to work creatively, innovatively, and effectively with limited direct supervision.
• Strong drive to achieve results.
• Ability to influence and negotiate with internal and external actors.
• Good communication skills to audiences at different levels, ensuring understanding.
• Commitment to humanitarian principles and action as well as Oxfam’s aims and objectives such as equal opportunity, gender policies and code of conduct.
• Sensitivity to cultural differences, and the ability to work in a wide variety of cultural contexts.
• Sensitivity to the needs and priorities of disadvantaged populations

DESIRABLE:

• Knowledge of DRC (or programme area) in terms of its political, economic and social trends
• Good understanding of the key development and humanitarian issues in the region.

Please see the attached job description for the full responsibilities that the Protection Coordinator will undertake and the required skills and competencies.

Location: Goma

Job Type: Fixed Term, 12 months

We offer

This role will give you an opportunity to make a difference in humanitarian context, to act as key contributor to Oxfam humanitarian response in DRC, to work with a group of passionate people that are specialists in their fields etc, training and development, offers fair pay and competitive benefits package.

Our values and commitment to safeguarding

Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults and beneficiaries with whom Oxfam GB engages. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.

The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organization.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. Oxfam GB also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organization and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.

How to apply

This is an opportunity for an exceptional, dedicated, and highly motivated professional, with a strong commitment to Oxfam’s values and beliefs.

If you believe you are the candidate we are looking for, please upload your up to date CV and download the full job description and apply online at https://jobs.oxfam.org.uk/jobs/vacancy/protection-coordinator-int10853/22981/description/

About us

Oxfam is a global community who believe poverty isn’t inevitable. It’s an injustice that can be overcome. We are shop volunteers, women’s right activists, marathon runners, aid workers, coffee farmers, street fundraisers, goat herders, policy experts, campaigners, water engineers and more. And we won’t stop until everyone can live life without poverty for good.

Oxfam GB is a member of international confederation of 21 organizations working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development and campaigning, in more than 90 countries.

A thriving diverse Oxfam:

It’s people power that brings about change. To play our part as a global organization working to overcome poverty and inequality, we need equality, diversity and inclusion across our community of staff, partners and volunteers. Together, we’re committed to becoming a more diverse workforce, better able to tackle the global challenges that face our world today.

To do that:

• We need to dismantle the unequal power structures that exist everywhere, this including Oxfam and the wider development and charity sectors.
• We need an inclusive Oxfam where everyone can bring who they are to our work and feels celebrated for the differences they bring.
• We want and need everyone, and that means we need you.

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