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Protection Analysis & Monitoring Advisor - HR - South Sudan

Juba

  • Organization: NRC - Norwegian Refugee Council
  • Location: Juba
  • Grade: Mid/Senior level - Mid/Senior - Internationally recruited position
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Legal - Broad
    • Human Resources
    • Accounting (Audit, Controlling)
    • Legal - International Law
    • Human Rights
    • Monitoring and Evaluation
    • Civil Society and Local governance
    • Emergency Aid and Response
    • Protection / Human Rights
    • Protection Officer (Refugee)
    • Animal Health and Veterinary
  • Closing Date: Closed


The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a non-governmental, humanitarian organization with 60 years of experience in helping to create a safer and more dignified life for refugees and internally displaced people. NRC advocates for the rights of displaced populations and offers assistance within the shelter, education, emergency food security, legal assistance, and water,sanitation and hygiene sectors.

The Norwegian Refugee Council has approximately 5000 committed and competent employees involved in projects across four continents. In addition, NRC runs one of the world’s largest standby rosters -NORCAP, with 650 professionals, ready to be deployed on 72 hours notice when a crisis occurs

The South Sudan Protection Cluster (PC) works in-country as a platform for dialogue and coordination involving over 40 organizations that carry out protection-related activities across South Sudan, with a focus on Jonglei, Unity, Upper Nile and Central Equatoria states. These organizations include humanitarian actors from UN agencies, international NGOs and national NGOs working on issues related to community protection, gender-based violence, child protection, protection of civilians, rule of law, mine action, and housing, land and property (HLP). According to the 2017 Humanitarian Response Plan for South Sudan, the 43 Protection Cluster’s partner organisations are targeting 3.1 million people in need of protection assistance, for a total budget of 88.2 million USD.

To support its partners, the PC team in Juba ensures the overall coordination of protection activities by developing planning and strategy documents, and provides a platform for discussions on approaches, priorities and gaps to ensure effective service delivery and inform strategic decision-making by the Humanitarian Coordinator/Humanitarian Country Team (HC/HCT). The protection cluster is coordinated by UNHCR – as the lead agency of the protection sector, and by NRC as the NGO co-coordinator of the protection cluster in South Sudan. As cluster co-coordinator, NRC contributes to enhancing the coordination and decision-making by: Strengthening NGO participation; providing diversity in management, facilitation, technical and programming expertise and geographical access; promoting inclusive cluster priorities and approaches; and facilitating outreach and advocacy.

Job description

As delegated and overseen by the Protection Cluster NGO Co-coordinator, the Protection Analysis and Monitoring Advisor’s (PAMA) main role is to provide dedicated support to the protection cluster in South Sudan on information management, and particularly protection analysis and monitoring.

Protection Cluster meetings, information exchange and representation:
• Provide technical leadership for the information management working group
• Advise the protection cluster coordinators and SAG with analytical reports of the protection analysis and monitoring data to contribute to effective strategic analysis, decision-making and action by the protection cluster
• Advise the cluster on IRNAs and other collective rapid assessment to ensure that protection is effectively taken into consideration in the methodologies and tools for data collection and analysis
• Ensure direct coordination and collaboration with REACH, IOM DTM teams and other stakeholders on relevant protection data collection and reporting processes
• Attend protection cluster meetings and other relevant forum upon request from the protection cluster co-coordinator

Support to state and deep field levels Protection Clusters:
• Provide practical guidance and support to state level Protection Clusters on issues including protection needs assessments, protection analysis, protection monitoring and other relevant information management issues
• Enhance monitoring, tracking, documentation and information sharing on protection concerns between state level and the national cluster

Protection tools and capacity development:
• Review and update the protection cluster’s protection monitoring system (protection context and needs analysis as well as risk and incident reporting), including a protection, gender and conflict sensitive analysis lens
• Explore possibilities to harmonize methodologies and tools used by protection cluster partners to facilitate data collection, sharing, consolidation and analysis
• Develop and support the implementation of a protection information sharing protocol
• Ensure adequate monitoring and reporting mechanisms are in place to monitor and evaluate the Protection Cluster’s information management system
• Run and monitor the cluster’s protection monitoring system in collaboration with the protection cluster’s IMO (UNHCR)
• Design and facilitate training at both national and field levels on protection analysis and monitoring methodologies and tools to ensure adherence to relevant standards and guidelines
• Build capacity of protection cluster partners (with a focus on local partners),
• Ensure monitoring follow-ups and refreshers during field visits

Qualifications

• Post graduate degree in international law, social sciences or related field
• Minimum of 3-5 years’ experience working on protection related issues in humanitarian emergencies and provision of technical advice to field teams
• Excellent understanding of protection issues in emergency and displacement situations
• Strong inter-personal skills, working well both in teams and independently
• Self-motivated and excellent observer of protection issues
• Able to work under pressure and good at timely decision making
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Excellent knowledge and experience on protection analysis and monitoring principles, standards, methodologies and tools
• Experience in training facilitation and capacity-building
• Strong analytical and drafting skills
• Previous experience in South Sudan an advantage
• Proven ability to live and work in hardship duty stations within a complex, volatile and stressful local environment

Education field

  • Social sciense
  • Law

Education level

  • College / University, Bachelor's degree

Personal qualities

• Managing resources to optimize results
• Analyzing
• Influencing
• Handling insecure environments

We offer

• Duty Station: Juba, South Sudan
• Contract Period: 12 months
• Salary/Benefits: Grade 8 in accordance with NRC's general directions
• This position may involve some travel
• An approved health certificate will be required before commencement of contract
• NRC may be required to verify the identify of it's partners and to check that its partners have not been involved in illegal activities. NRC reserves the right to use electronic screening tools for this purpose.
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