Protection Lead
Job Description
Title: Protection Lead
Company Name: ActionAid Bangladesh
Vacancy: --
Location: Cox's Bazar
Salary: Negotiable
Experience:
∎ 5 to 7 years
Published: 23 May 2024
Education:
∎ Master’s degree preferably in Social Science / Gender Studies / Development Studies and relevant field.
Requirements:
Additional Requirements:
∎ At least 5-7 years of professional experience programme/project management and advocacy on protection and livelihood with a reputed organization.
∎ Good understanding of and experience in designing and implementing humanitarian response programme particularly protection programme particularly in refugee context.
∎ Strong program/technical, project management, advocacy, and budget management skills
∎ Proven knowledge of Protection, Gender, SRHR, Women, and child rights issues.
∎ Policy advocacy and campaign.
∎ Sound in participatory development process and HRBA.
∎ Understanding of Govt. working system and activities.
∎ Ability to manage multifunctional team.
∎ Excellent in both written and oral communication in Bengali and in English.
∎ Comprehensive understanding of and experience in designing and implementing Humanitarian Response Programmes, particularly in the context of protection, especially within refugee settings.
∎ Robust programme, project management, advocacy, and budget management skills.
∎ Expertise in crafting proposals and collaborating with major institutional donors, UN agencies, and Trust & Foundations.
∎ Demonstrated knowledge of issues related to Protection, Gender, SRHR, Women, and Child Rights.
∎ Proficient in Partnership management with a solid understanding of Policy advocacy and campaign strategies.
∎ Sound familiarity with participatory development processes and a Human Rights-Based Approach (HRBA).
∎ Understanding of governmental working systems and activities.
∎ Ability to effectively lead multifunctional teams.
∎ Excellent written and oral communication skills in both Bengali and English.
∎ At least 5-7 years of professional experience programme/project management and advocacy on protection and livelihood with a reputed organization.
∎ Good understanding of and experience in designing and implementing humanitarian response programme particularly protection programme particularly in refugee context.
∎ Strong program/technical, project management, advocacy, and budget management skills
∎ Proven knowledge of Protection, Gender, SRHR, Women, and child rights issues.
∎ Policy advocacy and campaign.
∎ Sound in participatory development process and HRBA.
∎ Understanding of Govt. working system and activities.
∎ Ability to manage multifunctional team.
∎ Excellent in both written and oral communication in Bengali and in English.
∎ Comprehensive understanding of and experience in designing and implementing Humanitarian Response Programmes, particularly in the context of protection, especially within refugee settings.
∎ Robust programme, project management, advocacy, and budget management skills.
∎ Expertise in crafting proposals and collaborating with major institutional donors, UN agencies, and Trust & Foundations.
∎ Demonstrated knowledge of issues related to Protection, Gender, SRHR, Women, and Child Rights.
∎ Proficient in Partnership management with a solid understanding of Policy advocacy and campaign strategies.
∎ Sound familiarity with participatory development processes and a Human Rights-Based Approach (HRBA).
∎ Understanding of governmental working systems and activities.
∎ Ability to effectively lead multifunctional teams.
∎ Excellent written and oral communication skills in both Bengali and English.
Responsibilities & Context:
∎ Provide strategic direction and comprehensive technical support to the Protection programme, ensuring alignment with the protection sector’s objectives and indicators, protection principles, and ActionAid’s Women-led Protection approach, grounded in feminist principles.
∎ Ensure project deliverables and activities are of superior quality, adhere to humanitarian standards, mainstream protection, and align with the Protection Programme Framework.
∎ Lead the implementation and review of service quality to ensure programming reflects best practice standards.
∎ Develop, update, and ensure the quality implementation of internal Standard Operating Procedures for protection programming, in consultation with the line manager and operational team members.
∎ Support Managers and Coordinators of relevant projects in adapting their programme activities in accordance with agreed processes and principles, ensuring the mainstreaming of protection across all project activities, and successfully implement projects to achieve protection outcomes.
∎ Participate in monitoring and evaluation exercises, project reviews, and annual sectoral reviews with government and other counterparts, and prepare reports on results for necessary actions/interventions at higher levels of programme management, as well as with donors.
∎ Conduct comprehensive needs assessments within targeted communities to identify existing vulnerabilities, resources, and capacities related to protection and livelihood.
∎ Evaluate the effectiveness of advocacy campaigns by collecting feedback from stakeholders, assessing changes in community resilience indicators, and documenting success stories and lessons learnt for future advocacy efforts.
∎ Monitor and report on the utilisation of project resources (financial, administrative, and other assets), ensuring compliance with approved allocations, organisational rules, regulations/procedures, and donor commitments, standards of accountability, and integrity. Report on identified issues to facilitate timely resolution by management/stakeholders.
∎ Guide the preparation of sectoral progress reports for management, donors, and partners.
∎ Job Summary
∎ ActionAid Bangladesh (AAB) has been responding the Rohingya Crisis in Cox's Bazar since beginning of current influx in 2017 and working on Protection, Site Management and Site Development (SMSD), Disaster Management, WASH, and Food Security and Livelihood. Being a prominent protection actor in the Rohingya response programme, AAB is working on general protection, prevention of GBV, and for protection of GBV survivors. AAB also playing a greater role in Protection sector, GBV sub-sector and the GiHA working group. AAB is implementing numbers of projects on protection issues funded by UNHCR, UN Women and UNFPA.
∎ AAB is seeking for a competent Protection Lead, to lead its protection team under Rohingya Response Programme in cox’s Bazar. S/he will represent AAB in the relevant ISCG sectors and will have a leadership role. The incumbent will also be responsible for maintaining of ActionAid’s working standard and approaches, Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS), Monitoring, Evaluation and Accountability Framework in all projects in her/his portfolio. S/he will support the Resource Mobilization team for fundraising initiatives and represent ActionAid Bangladesh as and when required in the capacity of a coordination and collaboration.
∎ Key responsibilities include (not limited to)
∎ Programme Management, Advocacy, and Monitoring: Delivering Results
∎ Provide strategic direction and comprehensive technical support to the Protection programme, ensuring alignment with the protection sector’s objectives and indicators, protection principles, and ActionAid’s Women-led Protection approach, grounded in feminist principles.
∎ Ensure project deliverables and activities are of superior quality, adhere to humanitarian standards, mainstream protection, and align with the Protection Programme Framework.
∎ Lead the implementation and review of service quality to ensure programming reflects best practice standards.
∎ Develop, update, and ensure the quality implementation of internal Standard Operating Procedures for protection programming, in consultation with the line manager and operational team members.
∎ Support Managers and Coordinators of relevant projects in adapting their programme activities in accordance with agreed processes and principles, ensuring the mainstreaming of protection across all project activities, and successfully implement projects to achieve protection outcomes.
∎ Participate in monitoring and evaluation exercises, project reviews, and annual sectoral reviews with government and other counterparts, and prepare reports on results for necessary actions/interventions at higher levels of programme management, as well as with donors.
∎ Conduct comprehensive needs assessments within targeted communities to identify existing vulnerabilities, resources, and capacities related to protection and livelihood.
∎ Evaluate the effectiveness of advocacy campaigns by collecting feedback from stakeholders, assessing changes in community resilience indicators, and documenting success stories and lessons learnt for future advocacy efforts.
∎ Monitor and report on the utilisation of project resources (financial, administrative, and other assets), ensuring compliance with approved allocations, organisational rules, regulations/procedures, and donor commitments, standards of accountability, and integrity. Report on identified issues to facilitate timely resolution by management/stakeholders.
∎ Guide the preparation of sectoral progress reports for management, donors, and partners.
∎ Unit: Humanitarian Programme
∎ Contract Duration: December 31. 2025, with possible extension
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Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Salary and benefits: Competitive salary and benefits (such as mobile & internet allowances, medical benefit, group insurance coverage) will be offered to the deserving candidate
Employment Status: Contractual
Job Location: Cox's Bazar
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Company Information:
∎ ActionAid Bangladesh
∎ House # 8, Road # 136, Gulshan-1, Dhaka - 1212
Address::
∎ House # 8, Road # 136, Gulshan-1, Dhaka - 1212
Read Before Apply: Please apply only who are fulfilling all the requirements of this job
Application Deadline: 2 Jun 2024
Category: NGO/Development
Source: bdjobs.com
Deadline Expired on 2nd Jun 2024
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