# Protection Technical Expert (WPE)

**Company**: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
**Location**: Mykolaiv
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Social Care
**Industry**: Non-Profit

**Apply**: https://theirc.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External_Careers/job/Mykolaiv-Ukraine/Protection-Technical-Expert--WPE-_JR00004847-1?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_15cedbe0-7f1

## Description

The Protection Technical Expert (WPE) provides regional technical expertise and coordination support to strengthen gender-based violence (GBV) risk mitigation, protection analysis, and localization efforts across designated areas of operation.

Key Responsibilities:

- Lead and support GBV risk analyses, safety audits, protection assessments, and contextual analyses across programme locations to identify risks affecting women and girls, inform programme adaptation, and support evidence-based local advocacy efforts.

- Represent IRC in GBV, Protection, and inter-agency coordination mechanisms at regional level, including the GBV Workstream, Protection Cluster, and relevant technical working groups.

- Maintain and regularly update service mapping, referral pathways, and referral directories to ensure safe, ethical, and timely referrals for GBV survivors.

- Establish, strengthen, and maintain strategic relationships with specialized GBV service providers, local authorities, women-led organizations, civil society organizations, and community-based actors.

- Support partnership development and localization efforts through regular engagement, technical support, and capacity strengthening of local partners and women-led organizations.

- Conduct partner monitoring visits and support programme quality assurance processes to ensure adherence to survivor-centred principles, GBV guiding principles, donor requirements, and IRC technical standards.

- Contribute to the design, coordination, and implementation of awareness-raising and community outreach initiatives.

- Provide technical guidance and mentoring on GBV programming, survivor-centred approaches, psychosocial support, safe referrals, and GBV risk mitigation to IRC teams and partner organizations.

- Monitor emerging protection trends, service gaps, and contextual developments, and provide regular analysis and recommendations to inform programme strategy and decision-making.

Job Requirements:

- Master's degree in social work, psychology, law, human rights, gender studies, social sciences.

- Specialized training and certifications in Gender-Based Violence (GBV), Protection, Case Management, Psychosocial Support (PSS), and/or humanitarian programming are considered a strong asset.

- Minimum 5 years of progressively responsible professional experience in GBV prevention, risk mitigation, and response programming within humanitarian and/or development settings.

- Demonstrated experience conducting GBV risk analyses, safety audits, assessments, and contextual analyses.

- Experience supporting partner-led implementation and providing technical oversight and capacity strengthening to local partner organizations.

- Proven experience representing organizations in inter-agency coordination mechanisms.

Benefits:

- Competitive salary

- Purposeful job and development opportunities

- English classes and unlimited online training courses

- Life Insurance

- Medical insurance for staff and family members

- Free psychological support to employees and their family members

- 30 calendar days of annual vacation

- Up to 10 days of paid medical leave

## Skills

### Required
- GBV programming
- protection analysis
- localization efforts
- psychosocial support
- case management

### Nice to have
- Ukrainian
- English

---

Source: [Apply at theirc.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com](https://theirc.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External_Careers/job/Mykolaiv-Ukraine/Protection-Technical-Expert--WPE-_JR00004847-1?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)