# Protection Assistant

**Company**: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
**Location**: Caracas
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Social Care
**Industry**: Non-Profit

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## Description

The Protection Assistant will be responsible for identifying and responding to protection risks in emergency contexts, ensuring specialised support for high-vulnerability cases, and promoting community-based protection mechanisms.

**Main Responsibilities:**

- Identify, assess, manage, and follow up on child protection and gender-based violence cases.

- Provide psychosocial support and psychological first aid to people with protection needs.

- Ensure confidentiality, informed consent, safeguarding, and non-harm in all interventions.

- Facilitate safe and timely referrals to specialised services, including protection, health, legal support, and social assistance.

- Implement community-based activities to prevent and respond to child protection and gender-based violence.

- Identify protection risks, needs, and early warnings in intervention communities and report them promptly.

- Maintain accurate case documentation, records, and programme information.

- Coordinate with community actors, institutions, and humanitarian organisations to strengthen protection responses.

- Support information collection, indicator tracking, and activity reporting.

- Participate in field visits, community days, and other actions to promote safe environments for vulnerable populations.

**Requirements:**

- University degree in Social Work, Psychology, Social Sciences, or a related field.

- At least 2 years of experience in child protection programmes and implementing response protocols.

- Experience in case management, particularly with children, adolescents, and women.

- Knowledge of case management, referral pathways, protection principles, and safeguarding.

- Strong coordination, leadership, and capacity-building skills.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

- Strong organisational and time management skills.

- Analytical problem-solving skills.

- Proficiency in Microsoft Office.

- Ability to work effectively with stakeholders at all levels.

- Capacity to manage and adapt to change proactively and positively.

**Work Environment:**

- Dynamic and changing environment, typical of humanitarian emergency contexts.

- Based in the project office, with access to necessary operational and communication resources.

- Frequent travel and field visits to prioritised territories for activity monitoring, case follow-up, and coordination with partners.

- Ability to work in areas with difficult access and adapt to variable security and logistical conditions.

**Professional Standards:**

- Adherence to IRC's values and principles, including integrity, service, equality, and accountability.

- Commitment to safeguarding, conflicts of interest, fiscal integrity, and reporting wrongdoing and protection from retaliation.

## Skills

### Required
- case management
- psychosocial support
- protection principles
- safeguarding
- coordination
- leadership
- communication
- organisational skills
- analytical skills
- Microsoft Office

### Nice to have
- child protection
- gender-based violence
- community-based protection
- humanitarian response

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