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• Coordinate the implementation and monitoring of programs ensuring
  that identified protection needs, including an Age, Gender and Diversity
  (AGD) approach, are adequately addressed.
• Design, deliver and monitor programs on an AGD basis to address
  identified protection needs.
• Ensure participatory, community-based protection and AGD approaches
  are included in the strategies and plans of the country operation.
• Provide technical guidance and support to HIJRA and partners on all
  protection related issues.
• Develop and implement a child protection plan as part of the
  protection strategy ensuring programs use a child protection systems
  approach.
• Implement and oversee Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for all
  protection/solution activities.
• Coordinate the design, implementation and evaluation of protection related
  programming with implementing and operational partners.
• Develop and implement a program of results-based advocacy through a
  consultative process with sectoral and/or cluster partners.
• Coordinate capacity building initiatives for communities and individuals
  to assert their rights.
• Ensure that the perspectives, capacities, needs and resources of the
  persons of concerns are reflected in the protection strategy, planning
  processes and operations plan addressing the specific protection needs of
  women and men, children, youth, older persons, and persons with
  disabilities.
• Coordinate the promotion of international refugee law principles and
  standards and also refugee legislation or policies ensuring that all
  sectors and clusters fulfil their responsibilities mainstreaming
  protection.
• Provide policy guidance and operational support to HIJRA on all
  protection related issues.
• Provide legal advice and guidance on protection issues to internal
  and external interlocutors; ensure legal assistance is accessible to persons
  of concern; liaise with competent authorities to ensure the issuance of
  personal and other relevant documents to persons of concern.
• Support a consultative process with government counterparts at local
  levels, partners and persons of concern to develop and implement
  integrated strategies that address the key protection priorities,
  including, for example, child protection, education and solutions
  approaches.
• Actively contribute to the Protection team’s information management
  component which: provide disaggregated data on populations of concern and
  their problems; researches, collects and disseminates relevant protection
  information and good practices to enhance protection delivery and provide
  technical advice if necessary.
• Through relationships with persons of concern, authorities and
  network of partners stay abreast of political, social, economic and
  cultural developments that have an impact on the protection environment
  and provide advice to senior management.
• Support persons of concern to develop structures that enhance their
  participation and protection.
• Perform any other duties as may be assigned by the Field Program
  Coordinator.

• The applicant must hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Law, Human Rights,
  Community Development or other related discipline;
• Relevant professional experience of Five (5) years, two of which
  should have been at managerial level preferably in emergency and/or
  development context;
• Prior experience or familiarity with persons of concern (including
  internally displaced persons and refugees-returnees) would be a distinct
  advantage;
• Familiarity with guidelines on Protection Support in emergency
  settings.
• Familiarity with international protection and human rights legal
  standards.
• Good spoken and written English and relevant computer skills.
• Full respect for client/organization confidentiality.
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills and respect for people with
  special needs and other vulnerability.
• Ability to work in a multicultural context as a flexible and respectful
  team player.
• Experience in managing a team;
• Excellent analysis and reporting, communication and organization
  skills;
• Respect for applicable rules and procedures;
• Ethical and transparent decision-making;
• Ability to work with minimal supervision and under pressure;

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