Protection Coordinator – Humanitarian Support Personnel at OXFAM

 

Protection Coordinator – Humanitarian Support Personnel (INT3422)

Protection Coordinator – Humanitarian Support Personnel

What we offer:
Annual Salary and Benefits - £30,000 - £37,095 net per annum
Location: Home based deployed to various locations worldwide
Contract: Fixed term for 12 months, unaccompanied post.
Hours: Full-time - 36 hours per week. Part time work negotiable (e.g. working 10 out of 12 months per year)
Oxfam offers a wide range of benefits, including over 43 days holiday/TOIL per year, pension and medical cover, living and accommodation costs covered during deployments.
INTERVIEWS WILL TAKE PLACE ON A ROLLING BASIS AND MAY CLOSE BEFORE THE CLOSING DATE STATED.
Humanitarian Support Personnel Team Purpose:
To respond effectively and rapidly to major emergencies anywhere in the world, and enable communities to become more resilient to future shocks and stresses.
Team Purpose:

1. To lead the delivery of Oxfam's humanitarian strategy
2. To support lead countries and regions respond to category 1 and 2 humanitarian responses
3. To support country teams to build their humanitarian capacity        
4. To lead and coordinate the representation of Oxfam in global humanitarian bodies, processes and debates, including global partnership
5. To track humanitarian information, learning and knowledge developed in responses, research and global fora and ensure these are actively shared and managed internally and externally.

Job Purpose
The Protection Coordinator supports the integration of protection into emergency responses including running protection projects where relevant. The main purpose of this flexible resource is to ensure that protection issues are identified and responded to in an appropriate manner in line with global humanitarian and sectoral standards, and to lead on protection issues in humanitarian responses.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities
TORs will be drawn up for each specific deployment and may vary in terms of duration, responsibilities and activities. The post-holder may be required to carry out general project manager deployments depending on the personal profile, skills and experience of the post-holder.

• Promote collaborative working relationships with key internal stakeholders in regions (Regional Humanitarian Coordinators, Country Directors, country programme and partner protection staff) and Single Humanitarian Unit colleagues in the Delivery, Strategic Focus Areas, and Quality and Capacity teams to support the delivery of effective, high quality humanitarian programmes in line with  Oxfam’s vision for humanitarian preparedness and response
• Promote integrated, gender aware protection responses which demonstrate accountability to beneficiaries and are consistent with Oxfam policies and international quality standards
• Ensure that programme design and implementation is consistent with Oxfam’s quality and accountability standards, emergency guidelines and protocols, the Core Humanitarian Standard and that work meets Sphere Standards and other external quality commitments.

 Job Requirements:
 General responsibilities of this post will normally include some of the following key tasks:

1. To support the delivery of Oxfam's humanitarian strategy

• Support the delivery of Oxfam’s global humanitarian strategy in humanitarian responses and by carrying out specific projects/research(including between field deployments)
• Ensure all protection work includes a strong gender analysis and works to promote women’s rights and gender equity

2. Support category 1 and 2 humanitarian responses

• Carrying out protection analysis, develop the protection element of the response strategy and design appropriate interventions and approaches to protection in each specific context.
• Participating in field assessments in order to include protection issues, and/or carrying out specific protection assessments;
• Providing guidance to programme managers and advisers on meeting safe programming minimum requirements (in line with Sphere Protection Principles and the Core Humanitarian Standard);
• Supporting the integration of specific protection activities into a humanitarian response (eg. into advocacy, policy papers, coordination, information dissemination) including establishing internal referral processes
• Managing protection activities/projects where relevant;
• Managing projects/programmes, including developing programme plans and budgets, recruiting and managing staff, managing funding and donor requirements, monitoring and adapting programmes and reporting;

1. To support country teams to build their humanitarian capacity           

• Building the capacity of Oxfam and partner staff on protection inc. specific issues such as gender-based violence and durable solutions to displacement e.g. through mentoring, coaching, training;

1. To represent Oxfam to relevant humanitarian bodies

• Representing Oxfam in coordination meetings and working groups (Protection Cluster or Working Group, Refugee Co-ordination Group), and to donors, UN agencies, government officials, ICRC, national civil society and NGOs;

1. To track humanitarian information, learning and knowledge developed in responses, ensure these are actively shared and managed internally and externally.

• Managing protection information in line with Oxfam’s Responsible Data Policy and ICRC and Sphere minimum standards for dealing with sensitive protection information;
• Working with the in-country Policy Lead to provide community-based protection information for international advocacy and campaigning and in joint information gathering processes (eg. surveys)
• Providing guidance to country and humanitarian teams on Oxfam programme policy relating to protection issues;
• Documenting and sharing good practices and innovations on protection work.

6. Promote collaboration and ways of working across the confederation

• Contribute to the work of the global Protection Team including through specific projects of pieces of research, piloting of new approaches in field deployments, and gathering learning from humanitarian responses.

Person Specification:
Minimum requirements all HSP members are expected to fulfil:

1. Ability to deploy at short notice to areas affected by crisis and support the rapid scale up of humanitarian programmes.
2. Demonstrate Oxfam values and behavioural competencies.
3. Management skills; HSP deployments usually involve managing a team to deliver the work, HSP members will need to demonstrate management competencies, of international and multi-cultural teams, in difficult and stressful environments.
4. Behavioural skills; all HSP deployments require the individual to successfully work with and mentor others often under challenging circumstances.  HSP members should demonstrate competencies around “listening and creating dialogue” and “working with others” as well as networking skills.
5. Fluency in French

Documents

• HSP Protection Coordinator JD 2017.pdf (53.73 KB)

 

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