Protection Officer

Scope of Work

The Protection Officer will be responsible for contributing to the delivery of lifesaving interventions for new arrivals and vulnerable populations through coordinated Protection, Multi-Purpose Cash Transfers (MPCT), and Epidemic Preparedness and Response (EPR), ensuring safe and accountable referrals. It supports gap-filling across points of entry, transit, reception centres, and high-caseload settlements, while promoting an area-based, “one team” approach that enhances efficiency, strengthens local partnerships, and enables adaptive responses to emerging crises such as influxes and disease outbreaks.

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• Protection monitoring, identification of protection concerns and facilitation access to services through the referral system to the beneficiaries; Individual protection assistance, awareness-raising, and advocacy for the rights of forcibly displaced and stateless persons.
  
• Contribute the project planning and implementation on the field level, monitor protection activities/projects to ensure alignment with implementation plans and quality standards.
  
• Document case studies, best practices, and lessons learned from the cases handled by the protection staff.
  
• Ensure protection case management is done according to established standards while respecting the principle of confidentiality. Identify, conduct and follow up referral.
  

Monitoring and Evaluation

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• Contribute to the daily quality implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of projects and interventions.
  
• Identify, document and disseminate relevant project success, challenges and follow up on implementation of project’s action points.
  
• Assist in participatory needs/vulnerability/capacity and risk assessments of affected communities.
  
• On request, perform any other additional duties assigned by the supervisors in order to allow the organization to function optimally.
  

Coordination and representation

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• Collaborate with relevant internal and external technical experts on protection sector-relevant issues.
  
• Represent IRC in protection meetings and all coordination platforms as required and draft relevant minutes and communicate as required.
  
• Ensure integration with other IRC sectors.
  
• Maintain strong relationships with local partners, government authorities, and humanitarian actors to enhance collaboration and effective implementation.
  

Experience, Education and technical competencies

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• University degree, preferably in Social work, sociology, law, Human Rights, or related field.
  
• 3-5 years of experience in protection programming, including GBV, Child Protection, or Protection Monitoring.
  
• Experience working with vulnerable populations, such as New arrivals, Asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants, in displacement settings.
  
• Proven ability to work in teams, interpret budgets, and coordinate with multi-stakeholders.