IRC Integrated Protection Coordinator Jobs in Uganda
Job Overview
IRC Uganda is currently looking for a strategic leader for its ongoing protection and rule of law and women’s protection and empowerment activities and to potentially build its child protection activities with a geographic focus in the West Nile, Acholi, Karamoja and Southwestern sub-regions and in Kampala.
The ideal candidate has strong technical capacity in two or three of the protection sectors: protection and rule of law, women’s protection and empowerment and child protection programming. The candidate has practical experience working in an emergency and protracted crisis contexts, coordination and networking skills, the capacity to innovate and solve problems efficiently and provide strategic direction to IRC Uganda protection programming.
Major Responsibilities
Program Development and Design, including Business Development
• Ensure an integrated protection strategy, is developed and updated as required with input from frontline staff and in close collaboration with the country leadership and WPE, PRoL and CP Technical Advisors.
• Develop and promote an integrated protection partnership strategy aligned with the Uganda SAP and IRC’s global partnership ambitions.
• Promote joint work across the three teams (CP, WPE and PRoL) to enhance the quality of programming and a holistic approach to addressing the needs of families.
• Support partners as equals to design and implement protection interventions, and ensuring appropriate budget resourcing for partner project delivery, including project support and capacity sharing activities.
• Ensure all designed projects use the IRC theories of change and that outcomes are evidence-driven and evidence-generated.
• Develop and/or input into protection assessments and protection analysis for the purpose of program development.
Program Quality and M&E
• Ensure projects and activities are of high technical quality, meet humanitarian standards, mainstream protection, align with IRC’s Outcomes and Evidence Framework, and respond to community and monitoring feedback.
• Ensure that all interventions are in compliance with Uganda’s Refugee Act and Constitution as well as relevant international laws including International Refugee Law and Human Rights Law; and Humanitarian law.
• Ensure protection mainstreaming and adherence to global good practice including GBV MS and CPMS during design and implementation of all project activities.
• Ensure that monitoring and evaluation systems are effectively designed, measure protection outcomes, and integrated into all stages of the project.
• Contribute to the technical interpretation of M&E data and apply output and outcome indicator findings to improve program quality.
• Liaise with PRoL, WPE and CP Technical Advisors regularly and proactively, and pursue technical guidance as needed.
• Stay abreast of developments in the IRC Violence Prevention and Response Unit (VPRU) and global working groups related to new tools and guidelines.
• Promote and apply IRC’s Partnership Excellence for Equality and Results system (PEERs), ensuring that IRC’s partnership principles, skills and approaches are applied by staff across projects with partners.
Partnership Management
• Ensure collaborative program design processes that fully leverage the perspectives, experience and expertise of local actors, where possible based on collaborative needs assessment processes.
• Support Partner Identity and Background Review (Vetting) checks and Partner’s Project Capacity Review (PPCR) of potential partners, as relevant.
• Promote and actively practice full partner participation in project decision making, including any project adaption based on data.
• Lead timely and effective partnership project review and reflection (monitoring), identifying appropriate follow up actions.
• Review partnership project reports and provide feedback as appropriate.
• Ensure that supported partner projects are consistent with humanitarian and sector principles and standards.
• Support partners whenever possible in coordination with other entities such as government, UN, other humanitarian actors and coordination mechanisms.
Representation, coordination and advocacy
• Coordinate with CD, DDP and other technical coordinators to forge connections and strategic partnerships with key government counterparts
at the Office of the Prime Minister and Local Government; UNHCR and other UN, I/NGOs, human rights actors and other sub-national government actors.
• Represent the IRC in high level and strategic meetings involving protection actors such as protection working group meetings, inter-agency coordination meetings, and bilateral meetings.
• Ensure representation and active participation by program managers in district and settlement sector working group meetings.
• Regularly coordinate with internal program and operational stakeholders, the PRoL, WPE and CP Technical Advisors, and other IRC colleagues.
• Identify advocacy opportunities together with the DDP and Communications and Advocacy Coordinator and based on information received from the field.
Human Resources Management
• Coach, train, and mentor protection staff with the aim of strengthening their technical capacity, exchanging knowledge within the team, and providing professional development guidance.
• Support the development of sound performance objectives among staff and provide regular feedback on staff progress toward realizing those objectives.
• Ensure ongoing training and targeted capacity building of staff.
• Support recruitment of PRoL, WPE and CP staff, as relevant.
• Support Field Coordinators to ensure that program managers and deputy coordinators put capacity development plans in place for the PRoL and WPE (and potentially CP) teams based on documented capacity needs assessments exercise.
• Maintain open and professional relations with team members, promoting a strong team spirit and providing oversight and guidance to enable staff to successfully perform in their positions.
• Ensure timely completion and submission of interim and annual employee performance reviews.
• If/as required, identify staff performance issues and works with Human Resources to document and address these in accordance with the National Staff Employment Policies.
• Responsible for adhering to IRC’s Global HR Operating Policies and Procedures.
Requirements
The Integrated Protection Coordinator will need to meet the requirements below:
• Degree or equivalent in social work, psychology, social science, human rights, law, humanities or other related degree or demonstrate strong comparable work experience in relevant sector.
• At least 5 years’ experience implementing protection, rule of law, child protection and/or GBV programming in an emergency or complex emergency context and demonstrable understanding of the relevance of international humanitarian law and human rights law to humanitarian action.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct needs assessments and propose context-appropriate solutions based on analysis of needs and gaps.
• Demonstrated experience in capacity building and mentoring.
• Demonstrated leadership and facilitation skills, with strong coordination, diplomacy, and networking skills.
• Experience in working with and coordinating with the UN, bilateral donors, international and local NGOs and other stakeholders.
• Strong interpersonal, intercultural, communication and problem-solving skills.
• Strong team and people leadership, management, organizational and development skills.
• Strong program and budget management skills including planning and reporting across multiple grants.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, effective in representation and liaison with external parties;
• Excellent analytical, writing skills and fluency in English.
• Familiarity with key donor regulations such as UNHCR, BPRM and ECHO.
• Strong commitment to humanitarian work and values.
• Works well in and promotes teamwork, comfortable in a multi-cultural environment, flexible and able to handle pressure effectively and productively.
How to Apply
For more information and job application details, see; IRC Integrated Protection Coordinator Jobs in Uganda
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