Job Description

Position: Deputy Protection Coordinator 
Job site: Yemen -Roving 
Reporting to (Hierarchical): Protection Coordinator 
Reporting to (functional): Protection Coordinator 
Dependant: Protection staff 
Contract: Fixed term
Status: Full time
Availability: ASAP

Job Purpose:

Support the Protection Coordinator in defining, supervising and implementing specific areas of protection programme. In close collaboration with the Protection Coordinator, provide technical guidance and advices to protection staffs ensuring that specific components of the programme are delivered according to internal guidelines and in line with international standards and principles, in order to achieve mission’s goals effectively, according to INTERSOS vision and values.

Duties and responsibilities:

Coordination and support:

• Contribute to design the protection strategy of the mission and provide technical support and assistance to its implementation
• In coordination with the Protection Coordinator, support to contextualize and adapt internal and global guidelines, guarantying these are rolled out and known by staffs
• Support and Supervise the Protection Project Referent in ensuring all key guidelines are followed and quality is ensured
• Liaise with Specialists to ensure that technical guidance on key thematic areas are developed and followed by the team
• Ensure cohesion and harmonization of protection activities and services across the different projects / implementation sites within the mission
• In coordination with the Protection Coordinator and Programme Protection Referent, deliver trainings and workshops to protection staffs to build their skills on specific protection topics identified with them
• Deliver trainings and workshops to non-protection staffs to build skills and knowledge of protection principles and enable staffs to mainstream protection in different sectors
• In coordination with the Protection Coordinator, assess protection needs and gaps of target populations in current and prospective areas of operations, periodically update the protection situation analysis and inform the programme accordingly
• Support the Protection Coordinator in providing ongoing strategic protection analysis and development of periodic trend reports (including aspects of conflict analysis, gender, and risk management) and lessons from programme experience to inform programme development, implementation and policy/advocacy work
• Support the Protection Coordinator in overviewing that protection data is collected, archived, processed, analysed and disseminated in ethical modalities, in line with internal data protection protocols by ensuring technical support to Protection Data Management Officers
• Under the supervision of the Protection Coordinator, undertake regular field monitoring visits and provide support  to monitor quality of programme implementation
• Develop tools for Monitoring of Protection activities and Interventions and work on developing analysis of findings that contributes to improving technical quality 
• Develop Protection resources for Protection Activities like curriculum and guidance notes
• Coach and mentor, the Protection Technical Referents and PAM’s and field teams to develop their technical expertise in delivering Protection interventions to the highest standard ensuring quality 
• Identify opportunities for new protection interventions and support assessments and developments of new project proposals
• Support the Protection Coordinator in the development of complaints mechanisms for beneficiaries and make sure complaints are addressed properly

Supervision and Staff Management:

• In coordination with the Protection Coordinator, organize ad hoc protection meetings with protection staffs to share challenges and priorities and develop action plans to address them
• Supervise technically the Programme Protection Referents to ensure capacity building needs of the field teams are identified and addressed through regular training and coaching
• Provide technical guidance to Protection Data Management Officers to ensure all Protection Standards are followed

Networking and Partnerships:

• Maintain collaborative relations with relevant clusters and related working groups at national and/or field level
• Attend cluster meetings and other coordination meetings regularly and ensure that the work of Intersos is shared with other humanitarian actors 
• In coordination with the Protection Coordinator, ensure that main protection concerns are brought to relevant stakeholders to advocate for respect of human rights and minimum protection standards.
• Network with Protection Specialists of other missions to share best practices and resources

Job Requirements:

• BA in relevant field (Social Science, Psychology, Social Work, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law or other fields related to social development and humanitarian work)
• Desirable Master degree (MA or LLM) in Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law or related subjects 
• Minimum of six years of relevant working experience in protection-related sectors, preferably within an INGO, and two years for higher education degree (Masters/LLM)
• Strong theoretical, technical and practical background in protection
• Fluent English and Arabic 
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and ability to work and integrate in a multicultural team
• Ability to work under pressure, flexibility
• Problem solver, dynamic, mature, proactive
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage efficiently multiple priorities, deadlines and tasks
• Solid time-management skills, resourcefulness and attention to details.
• Diplomatic skills in networking with partners, authorities and donors
• Experience in complex emergency setting involving internal displacements
• Reporting skills, experience with monitoring tools and systems, data collection and analysis 
• Capacities in developing training program in specific thematic areas
• Excellent computer literacy (word, excel and internet)