# Protection Specialist

**Company**: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
**Location**: Adjumani
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Social Care
**Industry**: Non-profit

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## Description

The Protection Specialist will lead IRC's protection work in Adjumani and the wider West Nile area, providing technical oversight to consortium protection partners and line-managing Protection Officers.

Key responsibilities include:

- Providing technical leadership and supervision to Protection Officers and partner protection teams

- Ensuring integrated protection screening, protection overrides, case management, MHPSS, legal aid, community-based protection, and referral systems meet global and national standards

- Building and maintaining strong relationships with OPM, UNHCR, district authorities, national partners, refugee-led organizations, and humanitarian actors

- Leading the design, delivery, and quality of ReSET protection and referral activities

- Providing technical input to proposal development, donor reporting, and program learning

The Specialist will also work closely with the Cash and Voucher Assistance Specialist, the Disability and Inclusion Specialist, and the MEAL Manager.

Requirements include a university degree in social work, sociology, law, human rights, public health, or a related field, with a postgraduate qualification desirable.

## Skills

### Required
- protection
- case management
- MHPSS
- legal aid
- community-based protection
- referral systems
- safeguarding
- risk management

### Nice to have
- GBV case management
- child protection case management
- legal assistance
- representation
- civil documentation
- Housing, Land and Property support

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