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