Description
The Senior Protection Manager (Protection Information) provides technical leadership in protection information management, including the production, analysis, and use of protection data to strengthen evidence-based programming, protection strategies, and long-term protection outcomes.
Major Responsibilities:
- Lead responsive information services, including collaborating with stakeholders to identify information needed, developing contents of information packages, and working with stakeholders on information dissemination.
- Coordinate with local organizations and community leaders to implement responsive information activities that address protection needs, raise awareness, and promote informed decision-making and rights among refugees.
- Utilize the Multi-Purpose Community Center (MPCC) as an information hub, supporting information dissemination, feedback mechanisms, and community engagement.
- Serve as focal point to manage and maintain system administration for IRC's digital information tools, social media, and direct communication channels.
- Facilitate regular protection information analysis, including protection monitoring, protection analysis, and producing reports.
- Implement protection monitoring exercises, including tool revision, collaborating with MEAL team on sampling strategies, and data collection methodologies.
- Work with MEAL team to identify and facilitate the process to determine information management exercises needed and develop information management plans.
- Support Protection and Empowerment Coordinator and IRC senior management in the development of position papers and other information products.
- Lead the capacity development of IRC staff and partners on Protection Information.
- Ensure documentation of lessons learned, best practices, and case studies to inform program learning, donor reporting, and technical guidance.
Program Management and Development:
- Develop and manage project spending plans, ensuring expenditures for protection information management exercises and responsive information activities remain on track and compliant with IRC and donor requirements.
- Support the Protection and Empowerment Coordinator in business development, proposal development, and donor reporting processes.
Program Strategy:
- Engage with IRC's Technical Advisor on Violence Prevention and Response Unit to provide meaningful technical support and guidance into program design, implementation, and research.
- Analyze trends, risks, and emerging protection issues to inform adaptive programming in collaboration with other Senior Protection Managers.
Partnership and Coordination:
- Work closely with other protection staff to identify partners' technical capacity-building needs and provide appropriate support.
- Represent Protection and Empowerment Program to national and local stakeholders.
Job Requirements:
- A university degree in social science, development, humanitarian studies, communication, or related fields.
- Minimum 5-7 years of experience in protection programming, information management, humanitarian analysis, or related technical fields.
- Strong communication skills in written, verbal, and presentation in English and Karen/Burmese, knowledge of Thai language an asset.
- Proven experience in qualitative and quantitative data collection, analysis, and reporting.
- Proven experience with Canva for designing social media graphics, infographics, and presentations.
- Demonstrated understanding of and ability to maintain confidentiality and respect for clients/beneficiaries.