Protection Adviser - Yemen

Job description

• Develop protection initiatives, including protection monitoring, strengthening community-based mechanisms and specialised service provision, with a particular focus on preventing and addressing gender-based violence
• Lead and manage the Mixed Migration Manager, and provide strategic direction for cross-border and/or multi-country initiatives
• Take a leadership role in the design, delivery, reporting and monitoring standards for protection projects; and provide technical support to ensure effective integration in all Core Competencies, as well as quality implementation
• Coordinate protection assessments and protection monitoring activities and help program staff ensure protection is a core element of all project plans
• Support the development of a plan to improve protection within the Yemen country programme
• Champion the efforts to mainstream gender sensitivity into NRC Yemen’s ways of working both at the work-place and in NRC programmes, around all the stages of Project Cycle management.
• Develop and deliver capacity building activities to build the capacity of field staff to understand and deliver safe programming, based on NRC’s Protection Policy and training materials
• Represent NRC at relevant protection coordination meetings, events and forums, and take an active role in advocating key protection issues affecting displacement-affected communities

Qualifications

• Advanced university degree in social work, social science, political science or related subject
• At least 3 years’ experience in working in a protection-related field with a demonstrated understanding of humanitarian principles and minimum protection standards, humanitarian coordination mechanisms, applying protection standards to vulnerable communities, referral services and protection service delivery, including protection monitoring.
• Strong experience working in protection in a humanitarian/recovery context
• Experience working in complex and volatile contexts
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Experience undertaking assessments and supporting others to do so
• A well-developed understanding of gender-based violence and projects that respond to it
• Highly developed writing skills to enable the preparation of relevant reports, case studies and tools that document protection-related issues
• Experience in mainstreaming protection concepts within a humanitarian operation
• Advanced computer skills, especially in Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook
• Fluency in English. Knowledge of spoken Arabic an advantage.
• Ability to deliver lively trainings in English (and Arabic is an advantage)

Personal qualities

• Self-motivated, passionate and ready to inspire others on NRC's mandate and our work in protection and advocacy
• Diplomatic and able to conduct discussions on sensitive topics wit diverse groups
• Ability to mentor and support other colleagues in relation to protection mainstreaming
• Ability to work under pressure and with limited supervision in a challenging environment
• Pro-active, goal-oriented and results driven
• Flexible and creative
• Ability to multitask and work with short deadlines

We offer

• Duty Station: Aden (50%) / Sana'a (50%)
• Travel: 60%
• 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**