Myanmar Protection Coordinator

 

DRC has been providing assistance to people in need in Myanmar since 2009. DRC is currently engaged in humanitarian response in Rakhine and Kachin, and in Kayah in the South-East. In Rakhine, activities are targeting local vulnerable populations as well as the around 140.000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) that had to flee waves of violence in 2012. DRC implements a multi-sector response, delivering shelter, community infrastructure, Water Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH), Non-Food Items (NFIs), livelihoods and protection (including child protection) assistance, to Internally Displaced People (IDPs) and conflict-affected populations. DRC furthermore serves as the Camp Management agency for approximately 56,000 IDPs in rural Sittwe. The main operational areas in Rakhine are Sittwe, Pauktaw and Mrauk-U Townships. DRC’s protection programme in Rakhine, which started at the very onset of the violence, refers today to a broad spectrum of sectors in IDP camps as well as host/affected villages. It includes regular protection monitoring and related referrals, reporting and advocacy work, individual protection assistance to the most vulnerable and awareness raising/trainings for government officials and community leaders on rights of IDPs and conflict affected populations. DRC also works in the GBV and Child Protection subsectors.  DRC coordinates through the Protection Working Groups in Sittwe and Yangon.  

 

 

The Protection Coordinator will lead initiatives focused on enhancing DRC’s protection activities and promotion of durable solutions by providing technical and programmatic support to the field teams. The Protection Coordinator will be the technical and strategic coordinator on Protection for DRC Myanmar ensuring DRC has a consistent and clear approach to protection across the country.

• Provide technical support to field programmes and ensure quality protection analyses, country protection strategy and protection responses 
• Lead the drafting of a country level protection strategy and work to raise the protection profile of DRC in Myanmar 
• Provide technical support to field offices and protection staff, particularly in the following programmatic areas: Child Protection, GBV, General Protection Monitoring 
• Ensure country capacity on Protection Information Management (PIM) is of a good quality and standard with a particular focus on strong and action oriented protection monitoring 
• Provide support to adapt the Protection Monitoring tools as needed to develop a framework to monitor progress towards attainment of durable solutions in Myanmar 
• Support country level analysis and compilation of the monthly base level Protection Monitoring Reports 
• Provide trainings and capacity building to staff, particularly on protection monitoring and case management, including development/finalisation of standardized training material to be used across all sites 
• Participate in the recruitment processes of senior Protection staff  
• Ensure other DRC programs and projects adhere to protection principles through protection mainstreaming trainings and technical support to other sectors 
• Contribute to and coordinate the design, implementation and evaluation of protection related programming to secure follow on or expansion of funding for the protection program as per identified needs and in a standardized manner across programmes 
• Undertake onsite visits to monitor the quality of activities implementation and provide technical advice to field project staff as necessary 
• Organise and facilitate regular sector meetings with the country Protection teams to enhance programmatic coherence and regular exchange of information and lessons learnt 

• Contribute to and lead in developing DRC and or joint policy position papers/ briefs and advocacy messaging on thematic protection issues 
• Represent DRC at the Yangon Protection Working Group and sub cluster working groups, ensuring that issues from the field are raised and addressed 
• When requested, represent DRC at other working groups for the purpose of protection mainstreaming 
• Consolidate the Myanmar wide protection advocacy strategy, based on existing state level strategies 
• Ensure that DRC staff are aware of and up to date on key protection advocacy issues relevant to Myanmar, in particular those pertaining to Durable Solutions 
• Preparation of briefing notes and advocacy papers as relevant, and on the request of the CD, attendance at meetings/ briefings with key identified stakeholders