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Protection Adviser - South Sudan

Juba

  • Organization: NRC - Norwegian Refugee Council
  • Location: Juba
  • Grade: Mid/Senior level - Mid/Senior
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Emergency Aid and Response
    • Protection / Human Rights
    • Protection Officer (Refugee)
  • 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 Norwegian Refugee Council in South Sudan is looking for a Protection Adviser to join their team. The Protection Adviser provides specialist expertise and is responsible for strategic advice, programme development, technical support and capacity building to country and programme management on protection. The Protection Adviser works closely with NRC field, programme and management teams as well as external protection actors.

Job description

• Provide strategic leadership in the development of the NRC South Sudan Protection and Inclusion Strategy
• Ensure compliance with and implementation of NRC’s Protection Policy and global protection standards and tools within the Country Office and across programmes/core competencies.
• Provide technical leadership, guidance and support on protection. Develop tools, guidance, and procedures to address protection needs, and ensure implementation together with programme and operational teams.
• Facilitate training, capacity building and mentoring of field staff on minimum protection standards, protection mainstreaming and implementation of Protection Inclusion and Gender within NRC Programming.
• Lead programme and proposal development for integrated or stand-alone protection projects
• Contribute to fundraising to ensure adequate attention is paid to the protection response.
• Represent NRC in Protection cluster, land coordination forum and other relevant coordination platforms
• Build strategic partnerships with key national and international stakeholders, as well as with relevant government ministries to promote inclusive programming, gender equity and protection mainstreaming.
• In addition to Protection programming, the role will support Information Counselling & Legal Assistance (ICLA) programming through provision of guidance to the country ICLA Strategy; and lead programme and proposal development for ICLA projects, as required.

Qualifications

• Minimum first level University Degree/Bachelor’s Degree in relevant and related field.
• Minimum 3 years of protection working experience in a humanitarian/recovery context within, preferably with an international NGO
• Exposure to Information Counselling & Legal Assistance (ICLA) and Housing Land & Property (HLP), highly desirable
• Proven experience in emergency relief operations is a strong advantage
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal; knowledge of local languages is a strong advantage
• Computer skills (primarily MS Office applications), especially Microsoft Excel.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of global protection standards and international law.
• Experience developing and delivering training (Protection and preferably HLP and Inclusion).
• Previous experience working in South Sudan, advantageous
• Knowledge of rural South Sudan is an advantage
• Previous experience working in complex and volatile contexts
• Ability to mobilize local communities and work closely with local leaderships and authorities

Personal qualities

• Good communication, interpersonal, negotiation and representation skills
• Proven ability to live and work in hardship duty stations within a sometimes unstable and stressful local environment
• Ability to work under stressful conditions, meet deadlines and travel extensively to any location in South Sudan at short notice to support field operations
• Highly reliable, mature and able to work independently as well as in a team
• Ability to work within different cultural contexts, with a high level of cultural sensitivity

We offer

• Duty Station: Juba, South Sudan
• Travel: regular field travel
• Contract Duration: 12 months
• Salary & Benefits: NRC offers a competitive compensation package
• NRC may be required to verify the identity of its partners and check that its partners have not been involved in illegal activity. NRC reserves the right to use electronic screening tools for this purpose.

*Females are highly encouraged to apply*
This vacancy is now closed.