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Protection Advisor - Syria

Amman

  • Organization: NRC - Norwegian Refugee Council
  • Location: Amman
  • Grade: Mid/Senior level - Mid/Senior - Internationally recruited position
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Legal - Broad
    • Legal - International Law
    • Human Rights
    • Women's Empowerment and Gender Mainstreaming
    • Civil Society and Local governance
    • Emergency Aid and Response
    • Information, Counselling & Legal Assistance
    • Protection Officer (Refugee)
    • Human rights
    • 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

In the Middle East, NRC has over 3,000 staff dedicated to assisting people affected by conflict in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Palestine. Its humanitarian interventions are based upon its programming expertise in the Core Competencies of Shelter, Education, Water and Sanitation Hygiene, Food Security, along with Information Counselling and legal Assistance (ICLA) to forcibly displaced people. 

The Syrian Crisis is well into its sixth year, but the level and intensity of conflict in the country remains high.  Humanitarian and protection needs continue to grow inside Syria as a result of the ongoing conflict and consequent complex emergency situation in which displacement is both massive and widespread.

NRC’s programming in Syria has a strong protection and resilience focus that ensures integrated programme responses that meet diverse needs of vulnerable populations. NRC’s response to the complex challenges of the operating environment in Syria is to focus its resources upon continually strengthening the effectiveness of its directly implemented activities and those enabled through partnership with local actors.

NRC Syria Response Office (SRO) is now looking to recruit an experienced Protection Advisor based in Amman, Jordan to ensure minimum protection standards and core humanitarian principles are institutionalised and integrated within all programme, support and partner-implemented activities. The successful candidate will be a university graduate with at least 5 years’ experience working in the field of protection or human rights, ideally in a complex and volatile humanitarian or recovery context.

Role and responsibilities

The Protection Advisor will be responsible for supporting the Country Management Group (CMG) with context analysis on key protection trends and protection advice in relation to NRC’s Syria response.

The position will be part of the Programme Unit and work closely with the field Area Managers, security and programme teams. The Advisor will provide advice on humanitarian principles and protection issues in relation to NRC’s current and planned areas of activity in Syria. S/He will support project teams to identify, monitor and reduce protection risks faced by beneficiaries, partners and staff in relation to humanitarian programming in Syria.

The Protection Advisor will also oversee continuing institutionalisation of protection mainstreaming within the NRC Syria Response, in line with NRC's Protection Policy, global protection standards and the 2017 Syria Response Protection Mainstreaming Strategy. The Protection Advisor will lead the review and further development of the existing strategy, aligned to the 2018-2020 Country Strategy. 

The Protection Advisor will work closely with the Protection Mainstreaming Coordinator and Partnership Advisor to continue the development and application of NRC’s protection mainstreaming tools, providing guidance and technical support to NRC staff and NRC partner organisations. This role will have a large responsibility in the provision of capacity building through trainings and awareness raising sessions on minimum protection standards. The Advisor will work with the Protection Mainstreaming Coordinator to support Area Managers and Project Manager to fulfil their responsibilities for protection mainstreaming by developing the capacities of a cadre of protection mainstreaming focal points within NRC sectoral teams and within partner organisations to ensure quality in NRC's programme response, ensuring integrated and robust protection outcomes for all interventions.

Generic responsibilities

  • Provide analysis and advice regarding key humanitarian protection trends and risks and monitor how they interact with NRC’s current and planned activities in Syria.
  • Ensure compliance with NRC (global and national) policies and procedures, handbooks and guidelines and/or propose new initiatives to bridge gaps and implement these.
  • Institutionalise and further develop systems that address Protection needs and follow up on their implementation with the Head of Programme, Area Managers, Project Managers, and other members of the Programme Unit.
  • Support the training, capacity building and mentoring of field staff and partners on minimum protection standards including primarily: safety, dignity and ‘do no harm’, meaningful access and responsiveness to diverse needs and accountability to affected populations.
  • Develop policies and tools and provide technical advice in relation to identifying ‘red lines’ and supporting application of humanitarian principles and protection standards in programme development and implementation.
  • Review proposals and budgets to ensure that adequate attention is paid to the protection response and adherence to humanitarian principles.
  • Identify, analyse and evaluate key processes and gaps on protection and humanitarian principles in the team activities and provide guidance and support to programme management on policies and recommendations.

Additional Information:

Candidates are encouraged to apply early as applications may be screened before the vacancy deadline.

Duty Station: Amman, Jordan

Duration: We offer up to a 24 month contract

For full position description, please see the job description attached below:

 

 

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