Protection Analysis & Monitoring Adviser - South Sudan

Juba

Organization: NRC - Norwegian Refugee Council
Location: Juba
Grade: Mid/Senior level - Mid/Senior
Occupational Groups:
- Monitoring and Evaluation
- 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 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.

NRC is looking for a Protection Analysis & Monitoring Adviser to provide dedicated support to the protection cluster in South Sudan on information management, and particularly protection analysis and monitoring.

Job description

• Provide technical leadership for the information management working group
• Provide technical advice to the protection cluster on analysis and monitoring data to contribute to effective strategic analysis, decision-making and action
• Provide practical guidance and support to state level Protection Clusters on issues including protection needs assessments, protection analysis, protection monitoring and other relevant information management issues
• Enhance monitoring, tracking, documentation and information sharing on protection concerns between state level and the national cluster
• Review, update, run and monitor the protection cluster’s protection monitoring system including a protection, gender and conflict sensitive analysis lens
• Explore possibilities to harmonize methodologies and tools used by protection cluster partners to facilitate data collection, sharing, consolidation and analysis
• Design and facilitate training at both national and field levels on protection analysis and monitoring methodologies and tools to ensure adherence to relevant standards and guidelines
• Build capacity of protection cluster partners (with a focus on local partners),

*A full Job Description is attached to the advert*

Qualifications

• Post graduate degree in international law, social sciences or related field
• Minimum of 3-5 years experience working on protection related issues in humanitarian emergencies and provision of technical advice to field teams
• Excellent understanding of protection issues in emergency and displacement situations
• Excellent knowledge and experience on protection analysis and monitoring principles, standards, methodologies and tools
• Experience in training facilitation and capacity-building
• Strong analytical and drafting skills
• Previous experience in South Sudan an advantage
• Excellent written and spoken English

Personal qualities

• Strong inter-personal skills, working well both in teams and independently
• Self-motivated and excellent observer of protection issues
• Able to work under pressure and good at timely decision making
• Proven ability to live and work in hardship duty stations within a complex, volatile and stressful local environment

We offer

• Duty Station: Juba, South Sudan
• Travel: Travel within South Sudan will be required
• 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.