# Senior Programme Officer - Protection

**Company**: International Rescue Committee
**Location**: Caracas
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Social Care

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## Description

The Senior Programme Officer - Protection will lead and oversee the implementation of Child Protection (CP) and Women Protection and Empowerment (WPE) interventions in response to the double earthquake emergency.

**Job Summary:** The Senior Programme Officer - Protection will ensure technical quality, compliance with protection standards, and effective coordination of activities targeted at vulnerable populations.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Implement CP and WPE activities in line with institutional and humanitarian standards

- Provide technical support and monitoring to programme activities

- Ensure budget execution and financial management

- Monitor programme progress and report on indicators and results

- Coordinate with stakeholders, including authorities, organisations, and community leaders

- Identify protection risks and needs, and propose timely responses

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor's degree in psychology, social work, social sciences, or related field

- At least 4 years of experience in managing and implementing CP and WPE programmes, preferably in humanitarian or emergency contexts

- Experience in planning, monitoring, and budgeting

- Knowledge of protection standards and principles, including child protection and gender-based violence

- Excellent communication, organisation, and teamwork skills

**Work Environment:**

- Dynamic and changing work environment

- Frequent travel possible

**Professional Standards:**

- Adherence to IRC's core values and principles, including integrity, service, equality, and accountability

## Skills

### Required
- Child Protection
- Gender-Based Violence
- Programme Management
- Protection
- Humanitarian Response

### Nice to have
- Spanish
- Emergency Response
- Early Recovery
- Risk Management

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