# Protection Manager **Company**: International Rescue Committee (IRC) **Location**: Maracaibo **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Social Care **Industry**: Non-Profit **Apply**: https://theirc.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External_Careers/job/Maracaibo-Venezuela/Gerente-de-Proteccin_JR00005322?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_9ed56f37-ea9 ## Description The Protection Manager will lead the strategic implementation of Child Protection (CP) and Prevention and Response to Gender-Based Violence (GBV) programs nationwide, based in Zulia, ensuring technical quality, effective implementation, and compliance with humanitarian and protection standards. **Main Responsibilities:** - Provide technical leadership and oversight to CP and GBV programs, ensuring adherence to technical, institutional, and humanitarian standards. - Supervise direct implementation and implementation through partners, providing technical support, capacity building, programmatic monitoring, and quality assurance. - Manage project budgets, ensuring efficient resource utilization, expenditure tracking, and timely identification of deviations. - Lead operational and strategic planning, ensuring goal achievement, indicator tracking, and donor commitments. - Oversee procurement, contracting, logistics, and resource management for program activities. - Ensure community activities, safe spaces, case management services, psychosocial support, and prevention and community strengthening initiatives meet quality and coverage standards. - Conduct regular monitoring visits to verify service quality, identify risks, and provide technical support to teams and partners. - Lead capacity-building efforts for teams and partners through training, mentoring, technical supervision, and continuous follow-up. - Ensure accurate data collection, analysis, and reporting for internal reports, donor reports, and evidence-based decision-making. - Represent the organization technically in coordination forums, clusters, working groups, and other relevant national spaces. - Maintain effective coordination with government institutions, partner organizations, and humanitarian actors to strengthen referral pathways and service complementarity. - Analyze trends, risks, and protection gaps, promoting context-adapted response strategies. - Ensure integration of protection, gender, age, diversity, inclusion, and accountability towards affected populations across interventions. - Uphold safeguarding policies, child protection, PEAS/PSEA, secure information management, and humanitarian principles. **Coordination & Representation:** - Lead technical coordination with partners, service providers, authorities, and humanitarian actors to ensure integrated, timely, and quality responses in CP and GBV. - Represent the organization in national and subnational humanitarian coordination spaces, including clusters, areas of responsibility, working groups, and other relevant platforms. - Strengthen referral and counter-referral mechanisms between protection, health, psychosocial support, legal assistance, and other relevant sectors. - Foster strategic relationships with government authorities, partner organizations, donors, community leaders, and other key actors to promote articulation, complementarity, and sustainability of interventions. **Program Development:** - Identify opportunities to strengthen and expand CP and GBV interventions based on identified needs and protection gaps. - Contribute to designing new proposals, strategies, and programmatic initiatives aligned with institutional and humanitarian priorities. - Promote documentation of lessons learned, good practices, and innovations to enhance program quality and impact. **Monitoring & Evaluation:** - Supervise achievement of programmatic indicators, goals, and results, identifying progress, challenges, risks, and improvement opportunities. - Ensure data quality, integrity, and timely use, overseeing accurate collection, analysis, and reporting according to institutional and donor requirements. - Lead monitoring of intervention quality and impact through visits, performance reviews, and result analysis. - Utilize evidence, data, and community feedback to inform decision-making, adaptive management, and continuous program improvement. **Other:** - Proactively monitor and evaluate team security and protection; promptly report concerns or incidents to IRC administration, in liaison with community leaders and external groups as needed. - Perform other tasks as assigned by the immediate supervisor to enable and develop IRC programs. ## Skills ### Required - Child Protection - Gender-Based Violence - Program Management - Technical Leadership - Capacity Building - Monitoring and Evaluation - Coordination and Representation --- Source: [Apply at theirc.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com](https://theirc.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External_Careers/job/Maracaibo-Venezuela/Gerente-de-Proteccin_JR00005322?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)