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.