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Protection Cluster Roving Field Coordination Advisor - South Sudan

Juba

  • Organization: NRC - Norwegian Refugee Council
  • Location: Juba
  • Grade: Mid/Senior level - Mid/Senior - Internationally recruited position
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Operations and Administrations
    • Legal - Broad
    • Legal - International Law
    • Human Rights
    • Coordination
    • 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 Roving Field Coordination Advisor will provide additional support to the cluster and its coordinators by undertaking the cluster coordination role in delegated field areas, and with a focus to strengthen that relationship and coordination between the national protection cluster and field-level protection coordination fora.

Job description

The Protection Cluster Roving Field Coordination Advisor’s main role is to provide both surge capacity for field coordination to enhance protection response in the most sensitive and critical crises, and support to the cluster coordination team on streamlining communication and coordination between the nation level cluster and state, POC site and deep-field cluster coordination levels. The RFCA is expected to spend about 60% of her/his time in the field

Protection Cluster meetings, information exchange and representation:
• Provide coordination, advice and guidance to ensure coordination and information exchange between national cluster and field clusters
• Support protection cluster by contributing to the development and monitoring implementation of strategic documents
• Attend national protection cluster meetings when not in the field, and other relevant forum upon request from the protection cluster co-coordinator

Support to state and field-level Protection Clusters:
• Advise and assist protection partners in the field (with the support of UNHCR and/or NGO protection cluster focal point) in enhancing the coordination of the protection response by providing practical guidance and technical support to field partners
• Establish and ensure field cluster coordination and meeting facilitation where needed
• Advise on and ensure effective protection analysis and monitoring, and streamlining data and information reporting to the national level on protection concerns
• Support field partners in coordinating with other clusters in the field
• Identify needs/opportunities for support from the national-level protection cluster,

Protection tools and trainings:
• Provide capacity-building to the partners on protection and response coordination
• Facilitate the delivery of trainings in relevant international legal frameworks and protection guidelines and standards to cluster partners and relevant counterparts, including local authorities
• Promote, facilitate and deliver training workshops on protection mainstreaming and Centrality of Protection with field partners and other clusters in the field to ensure adherence to relevant protection standards and guidelines
• Advise on and ensure that tools and methodologies used by field partners include conflict sensitive and gender sensitive approaches

Protection information, analysis, policy and advocacy:
• Advise and support field partners in developing and conducting effective local advocacy
• Advise on and support the establishment of an information collection and analysis systems to identify and address field based protection concerns through state and field-level clusters and partner organisations, in accordance with the guidance from the protection cluster information management working group

Qualifications

• Post graduate degree in international law, social sciences or related field
• Minimum of 3-5 years good experience working on protection related issues in humanitarian emergencies, such as field coordination, program management and/or provision of technical advice to field teams
• Excellent understanding of protection issues in emergency and displacement situations
• Detailed knowledge of humanitarian and protection principles, guidelines for humanitarian assistance
• Sound understanding of and experience in working with protection cluster or sector coordination
• Strong coordination, representation skills and inter-personal skills, working well both in teams and independently
• Strong analytical, planning and drafting skills
• Self-motivated and excellent observer of protection issues
• Able to work under pressure and good at timely decision making
• Excellent written and spoken English

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: Roving - South Sudan
• Travel: Juba based with 60% travel in South Sudan
• Contract Period: 12 months
• Salary/Benefits: Grade 8 in accordance with NRC's general directions
• NRC may be required to verify the identity of its 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.

Miscellaneous info

  • Travel: More than 150 days travel
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