Protection Team Leader

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Job Overview: In collaboration with the Senior Protection Manager and Protection Manger (Rakhine), the Protection Team Leader will be responsible for supporting the day-to-day implementation of protection programming in the Rakhine and supporting the continuous improvement of the protection monitors’ technical capacities. This will include identification of training needs, as well as coordination and delivery of some required training, and the day-to-day support and facilitation of teamwork among all protection monitors/mobilizers and focal points and community members. Protection monitoring is intended to lead to: 1) increased understanding of the protection environment, including vulnerability mapping, available services, and existing gaps impacting all communities in the area of coverage; and, 2) sharable reports detailing needed actions by the IRC, humanitarian, and government actors to address protection concerns/gaps. Information campaigns will be carried out to inform people in all communities in the area of coverage of available services and access. Information may be shared via a range of traditional and innovative modalities (information sessions, rights training, IEC materials, radio broadcasts, informational hotlines). The Protection Team Leader must also provide support to ensure that shelter and NFI needs assessments carried out by protection monitors are timely, comprehensive and accurate, and that follow-up distributions are conducted according to best practice in coordination with local level stakeholders with appropriate documentation.

Responsibilities:

· Take the lead on coordinating data collection, and support analysis, to feed into analytical monthly protection trend reports for the specified area of coverage in Rakhine, highlighting key protection issues and analyzing trends identified from protection monitoring and other recorded objective sources. This includes:

o Participating in quality assurance of monitoring conducted at field level.

o Supporting efforts to improve qualitative understanding of specific thematic issues; and,

o Regular review of data collected by the teams, and reporting systems contributing to drafting required reports.

· Provide direct supervision and support to field staff, including:

o Participation in monitoring and information missions;

o Regular reviews of written and oral information campaigns, review of information dissemination methodologies, develop strategies for improving information dissemination.

o Development of individual work plans, ensuring best practice standards are met, with a focus on building the management capacity of staff and empowering them to work autonomously.

· Provide a community-based protection “lens” on all protection monitoring reporting and information campaigns, assisting to ensure reporting and information dissemination.

· Acts as a focal point for protection network in area of operation on all relevant protection trends, by overseeing ongoing quality protection monitoring, information dissemination, case referrals, and supporting analysis of trends.

· With support from the Protection Manager lead implementation of emergency response pre-positioning in the specified area of coverage, in line with protection needs identified and prioritized by community members and other local stakeholders.

· Assess the training and capacity building needs of staff and partners and collaborate on the drafting and implementation of capacity building plans.

· Develop and maintain effective working relationships with key stakeholders in the specified area of coverage to ensure active coordination, collaboration, and information dissemination.

· Undertake other tasks as requested by supervisor.

Key Working Relationships:

Position Reports to: Protection Manager

Position directly supervises: Protection Monitors

Indirect Reporting:

Other Internal and/or external contacts:

Internal: Protection Coordinator, Senior Protection Manager, Protection Manager, Field Manager, Protection Information Officer and Protection monitors.

External: CSOs, NGOs, INGOs and community leaders/religious leaders in the specified area of coverage.

Remark: This position is opened only for Myanmar National.

Professional Standards: All International Rescue Committee workers must adhere to the core values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct . Our Standards are Integrity, Service, Equality and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Safeguarding , Conflicts of Interest, Fiscal Integrity, and Reporting Wrongdoing and Protection from Retaliation. IRC is committed to take all necessary preventive measures and create an environment where people feel safe, and to take all necessary actions and corrective measures when harm occurs. IRC builds teams of professionals who promote critical reflection, power sharing, debate, and objectivity to deliver the best possible services to our clients.

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