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Job Description and Requirements
Job Title:
Protection Manager – Turkiye/ Syria Emergency Response
Directorate/Cluster:
Programmes
Unit/Team:
Protection
Grade and Salary:
D
Contract Type:
Fixed Term – 16months
Location:
Amman, Jordan
Budget Holder:
Yes o No x
Reports to: (incl matrix reporting)
Senior Humanitarian Response Manager
Direct Reports :
n/a
Matrix Reports:
n/a
DBS (CRB) / Police Check:
Yes o No o
Background
ActionAid is responding to the humanitarian crises in Turkiye and Syria which has been classified as a Red Alert in the ActionAid Federation due to the escalating death toll of more than 50,000, with over 80,000 people injured in Türkiye and Syria. The earthquake has further exacerbated the situation for the 4.2M people in northwest Syria that were already relying on humanitarian assistance and suffering the consequences of the 12-year war.
Building on ActionAid’s existing partnerships and alliances in Turkiye and Syria, we are supporting a local partner-led humanitarian response focusing on providing immediate humanitarian relief, shelter, food and NFIs, emergency medical care, psychosocial first aid and creating safe spaces for women and girls to prevent and protect against gender-based violence.
ActionAid Arab Region (AAAR) is leading this response on behalf of the Federation with ActionAid International Humanitarian and Resilience Team (IHART) in line with ActionAid’s internal emergency classification policy.
In line with ActionAid’s humanitarian signature, target groups include the most vulnerable people, women, girls and young people.
Role Overview:
To assist partners/partner led initiatives in analysing the impact of conflict and displacement on women and girls in affected areas, and in undertaking an assessment of protection issues emerging out of the crisis
To assist partners/partner led initiatives in designing and integrating women’s rights in the emergency response and recovery programme using human rights-based approach and building on existing women’s rights work.
To support the partners/partner led initiatives to developing Women-Led Community-Based Protection (WLCBP) programming and to integrate it into the overall emergency response programme
To support the partners/partner led initiatives in strengthening the capacity of staff and partners in implement the emergency response programme with women’s rights and protection perspective
Areas of Responsibilities
Key Activities
Representation
In coordination with the Senior Humanitarian Response Manager and the Regional Protection and Nexus Programme Advisor:
Share regular protection trend analyses derived from desk reviews internally.
Liaise with partners, national and local authorities, NGOs, and other stakeholders to ensure complementarity and smooth implementation of protection activities.
Forge strong information and experience sharing relationships with protection teams between programme locations.
Strategy and Programme Development
Lead the development and/or updating of the response protection strategy in consultation with partners, managers and protection staff, and informed by engagement with all relevant stakeholders, secondary and primary reports, gap analysis etc.
Support the roll out of the strategy for the programme and provide inputs to, and advocate for, mainstreaming protection in proposals and interventions;
Ensure that ActionAid’s protection programming meets accountability obligations and is carried out in accordance with the Core Humanitarian Standards and other relevant internal and external standards focusing on the humanitarian signature and the WLCBP approach
Work with all partner and ActionAid programme teams and advisors to enhance the integration of protection activities in all areas of work.
Contribute to or lead the development of concept notes and proposals and partnerships. Identify and pursue funding and partnership opportunities, build donor and partner relationships, develop programmatic collaborations and partnerships with relevant local organizations and institutions.
Lead protection analysis, conduct surveys and thematic assessments to determine protection programming needs and program expansion and produce and disseminate survey/ assessment reports in a timely manner.
Provide technical guidance to managers in ensuring the adoption of safe and conflict-sensitive approaches in the response programmes, projects and activities.
· Actively work with partners and promote local and national partners’ roles in protection programming and support their work in ensuring quality implementation of protection activities at local and national levels.
Programmatic Implementation and Oversight
Support the implementation of protection project (s) that involves direct implementation and /or partner based implementation; ensure that the projects are implemented with quality and in timely manner and are aligned with the AA humanitarian signature and the WLCBP approach
Support managers and their teams with effective and quality oversight of planning, development, implementation, and reporting on protection programmes / activities in multiple donor grants.
Support the Senior Humanitarian Manager and Funding Advisors in drafting donor reports as relevant.
Support the Senior Humanitarian Manager in regular budget reviews, and drafting accurate budgets for new protection components and/or proposals.
Ensure a common implementation approach and effective coordination and collaboration with other protection-related activities, promoting harmonization across programme locations.
Work with regional, country and area management to ensure that all collected information is constructively used for programme development and advocacy purposes and that teams do not collect information which will not be used to improve rights holders and participants’ protection situation
Capacity building and technical support to ActionAid and Partner Staff
Develop Standard Operating Procedures, tools and guidance for the response protection programming together with partners in line with Actionaid’s WLCBP model and the humanitarian signature
Based on assessed needs, train and strengthen protection teams’ and partners’ capacities on relevant standards, and tools in protection interventions employing the WLCBP toolkit to align with the humanitarian signature and the WLCBP approach.
Ensure capacities are in place for teams to follow standards on interviewing techniques and communication, confidentiality, referral making, and data security controls.
Monitor, coach and mentor partner protection staff on relevant standards, and tools in protection interventions, as well as provide on the job training and adapt trainings/coaching to specific staff needs as relevant and required.
Support in recruitment of programme and protection staff as required.
Inform the response advocacy strategy, advocacy lead and global humanitarian signature lead as required. Work on new initiatives with evidence based protection input and recommendations.
PERSON SPECIFICATIONS
Education and Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree or higher qualification in international human rights, law, sociology, social work, political science or another relevant field
Essential Skills, Knowledge & Experience
Strong conceptual and practical understanding of protection issues from a feminist perspective and approaches in humanitarian contexts, including the constraints, sensitivities and risks associated with such work
Strong understanding of protection standards, key sectoral issues and processes including advocacy for protection
Proven experience in provision of technical advice and support to programmes, and skills in staff and partner development and training
Demonstrable understanding of the gender dynamics of protection work and ability to implement protection activities with an emphasis on the gendered aspects of displacement, conflict, violence and abuse.
Understand rights and gendered protection issues of refugees, IDPs, children and women, experience working with NW Syria and willing to live and work in NW Syria.
Proven analytical skills and strategic thinking, and ability to apply professional and ethical standards to data collection and analysis processes
Demonstrable knowledge of a broader understanding of feminist and community-based approaches to Protection in order to integrate ActionAids women’s leadership and community-based approach to Protection.
At least 3 years of proven international experience in humanitarian protection, advocacy work, and refugee law/IDP principles, with minimum 2 years in a specific protection position;
Familiarity with child protection, case management, community-based protection and protection monitoring programming (one or more of these areas) and ability to incorporate lessons learned from other similar experiences;
Understand rights and gendered protection issues of refugees, IDPs, children and women, and experience working with NW Syria;
Above average computer literacy
Identify priority activities and assignments, adjust priorities as required;
Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships in a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary environment;
Ability to work under pressure and travel throughout the region as required, working closely with partners and ActionAid team.
Language requirements
Fluency in Arabic. Fluency in English language, both written and verbal
People Management Responsibity
Approximate number of people managed in total
1- Team members
Individual contributor, no direct responsibility
for leading others.
No
1.5
Act as mentor in a team and /or coordinating a team
No
2- Team Leader
Coaches team members (at least three) in skills; leads, schedules, allocates and monitors work
No
2.5
Responsible for one team with its own and has another team reporting directly
No
3- Team managers:
Directs more than one team;
No
The postions direct multiple teams, each of which has a team leader in charge; determines team structure and roles of members
No
This Job Description covers the main tasks and conveys the spirit of the sort of tasks that are anticipated proactively from staff. Other tasks may be assigned as necessary according to organizational needs.
It is part of every staff member’s responsibility to contribute to ActionAid International culture and comply with organisation’s values and practice, which are:
Leading Innovation and Change Establish a culture of excellence in respective team that values experimentation and continuous improvement
Feminist Leadership: Championing feminist leadership principles and values including commitment to diversity and inclusion (race, gender, power). Must apply a decolonial, feminist lens to all humanitarian engagements operationally with countries and at regional and global levels to ensure that the work we do is deeply contextualized, is led by women, young people and communities with whom we work and harnesses contextual wisdom and knowledge.
AAI Values Practice: Ensure personal and team culture that demonstrates all of AAI values including: Mutual Respect, Equity and Justice, Integrity, Solidarity with People Living in Poverty and Exclusion, Courage of Conviction, Independence and Humility
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