The Protection and Women and Girls in Emergencies Program Officer (PPO) will supervise social workers and community-based volunteers and will oversee the planning, implementation, and monitoring of the program’s activities in the areas under his/her responsibility in NES (Hassakeh). He/she will ensure strict adherence to humanitarian principles, the organization’s policies, procedures, projects’ objectives and activities and donors’ requirements. He/she will closely supervise the provision of referral and/or case management services. He/she will finally ensure protection and gender are mainstreamed in other sectors during the projects’ activities implementation.
Planning and implementation of project activities
Under the supervision of the Program Manager, lead the planning and implementation of the organization’s Protection and WGiE activities – mainly awareness-raising, outreach and information dissemination, referral and case management, psychosocial support, Safety Audits, women’ empowerment, and links to vocational activities.
Regularly liaise with community members and leaders and local authorities in order to promote understanding and acceptance of the organization’s activities in protection and related fields.
Supervise the organization’s social workers and volunteers by assigning them clear tasks according to the program’s work plan and objectives, and continuing follow up.
In collaboration with the line manager, identify, prioritize, and mitigate protection risks in the area of operation.
Provide support to all departments in the geographic area specific to WG mainstreaming, with particular emphasis on helping analyze program implications for men and women in various communities and ways to address issues. The incumbent should ensure that the WG checklists are used and should be able to work with various departments on revising and revisiting the WG sensitive indicators for improved mainstreaming.
Design and implement trainings for counterpart and partners staffs on women and girls related topics and mainstream, including but not limited to advancing WG integration, humans right program management, WG inclusiveness toward more efficient and effective organizational operation
Develop bi-weekly, monthly and quarterly reports on PWGiE department activities.
Proactively share suggestions and recommendations on the program’s activities with the line manager and suggest adjustments if needed, in line with project objectives.
Contribute to the development of procurement plans and raise purchase requests when required.
Protection information management
Conduct specialized interviews and counselling as lead WGiE practitioner in program areas, and ensure sufficient referrals for and those at risk of protection issues. Contribute to the design and lead needs assessments to gather data, conduct baseline studies, and help share feedback findings with stakeholders.
Ensure protection risks (especially the ones related to Protection and WGiE) are continuously monitored in a safe, organized and ethical way, and prepare regular reports for the line manager. Carry out follow up as requested.
Ensure data related to case management and referrals are managed in a safe and ethical way, respecting the organization’s Data Protection policy and case management principles.
Monitoring, evaluation and reporting
Oversee the data collection process and ensures its accuracy.
Monitor project progress and quality through regular field visits, and contribute to the successful attainment of project targets in line with agreed indicators.
Monitor safe CP practices, including appropriate use and maintenance of inter-sector facilities and services.
Contribute in the design of M&E surveys with the line manager and the MEAL team and actively participate in conducting them and analyzing key findings.
Ensure age, WG and disability are appropriately mainstreamed in wider programming in the area, that internal referrals are functioning and effective, and mechanisms are communicated to beneficiaries and used in coordination with the MEAL team.
Ensure proper record-keeping of all activities, monitoring and reporting tools, and prepare weekly/monthly/quarterly activity reports on time.
Periodically collect data and regularly update individual monitoring files of the program beneficiaries, as well as attendance sheets and progress towards targets.
Keep proper records of expenditures and report on these to the line manager.
Team management and capacity building
Supervise a team of protection outreach workers, (psycho)social workers and case workers.
Ensure role and responsibilities among the team are well defined and understood.
Contribute to the development of the team’s capacity-building plan and ensure its implementation with the line manager.
Provide professional coaching and guidance for the team members. Conduct regular and specific meetings with case workers.
Participate in/lead the design and facilitation of trainings on technical protection topics (VAWG, case management, psychosocial support, etc.) for the program team, CO staff, and partners.
Ensure regular team’s meetings are held as well as effective communication and coordination.
Networking and coordination
Maintain liaison with local and camps’ authorities, I/NGOs and community-based organizations at the community level to ensure their cooperation and coordination for effective implementation of the program.
Represent the organization with local interlocutors, following the guidance of line manager, in the geographic area of responsibility and participate in inter-agency/local meetings when requested.
Participate in identifying new partners for Protection activities.
Ensure strong coordination with other the organization’s programs and the effective implementation of the internal referral pathway
- Bachelor's degree in social sciences, gender studies, international development, or a related field is preferred.
- Alternatively, a minimum of 3 to 5 years of experience in protection and gender in emergency contexts
- Minimum 3-5 year experience working with an INGO.
- Minimum two years previous experience in protection/VAWG/CP/MHPSS programs
- Previous experience in humanitarian project and team management.
- Commitment to and understanding of the organization’s core values and principles.
- Commitment to women and girls and human rights.
- Ability to work in unstable, uncertain or potentially dangerous environments, independently and in a team.
- Excellent reporting and data management skills.
- Strong management and coordination capacity and excellent interpersonal communication skills.
- Excellent skills MS Word, Excel, Outlook, Power point.
- Fluency in written and spoken Arabic and English, Kurdish will be an asset.
- Pro-active and helpful attitude, ready to take on variety of new tasks.
- Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions.
- Not afraid to pilot new ideas, fail, and learn from mistakes.
Safeguarding Commitments
The organization has a zero-tolerance approach toward sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, and child abuse. We will carefully examine allegations and investigate, and take appropriate disciplinary action where this is needed, taking into consideration the rights and interests of the survivor, consistent with the organization’s survivor-centered approach. We make very clear that sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, and child abuse in any form, perpetrated by our staff, partners or other related personnel, towards anyone, will not be tolerated.
We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, handicap, disability, or marital status.
All suitable candidates are required to submit their application through the link below:
https://forms.gle/Qh7iFQPsWnT9wNfV7
The closing date for application is 29th July 2025, at 4:00 PM
At all stage of the recruitment and selection process, the organization will not request for any candidate to provide any financial details, money transfers or payments to be considered for any position or selected for a role. The organization reserves the right to verify all information provided and conduct background checks regarding employment history. Any falsification of employment information, qualifications or experience will lead to immediate disqualification or contract termination.
Due to the number of applications received, only short-listed candidates will be contacted
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