Protection Coordinator

The Protection Coordinator based in the DRC Türkiye country office provides technical oversight to the Protection programme including strategy and proposal development, reporting, technical guidance, and support to staff and partners. The role leads protection analysis, partnerships, coordination, and advocacy efforts at the country level.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical oversight for the overall protection portfolio focusing on protection analysis, partnerships, and multi-partner coordination.
• Shape and operationalise DRC’s localisation approach to protection programming and collaborate with CSOs, national and grassroots organisations including refugee-led organisations.
• Lead multi-partner protection monitoring analysis efforts aligned with the Protection Analysis Framework tailored to Türkiye context.
• Lead development and implementation of country level protection strategy.
• Oversee development, harmonisation, adaptation and rollout of internal policies, guidelines, tools, SOPs related to protection interventions.
• Act as reference point for Economic Recovery colleagues for Protection Mainstreaming and integrated programming.
• Technically supervise and provide guidance to protection staff including Protection Programme Officer and Protection Analysis Officer.
• Participate in recruitment and performance management of protection technical staff.
• Identify protection sectoral technical gaps and deliver capacity building plans for protection staff.
• Lead and contribute to design and finalisation of protection sectoral interventions in proposals and projects.
• Provide technical review of proposals including protection interventions and/or mainstreaming.
• Maintain oversight of protection programme implementation including budgets and indicators in collaboration with HoP, MEAL, Grants & Partnerships, and Finance.
• Participate in protection programme/project review meetings including grant opening, review and close out.
• Lead development of quality assurance systems with MEAL team and ensure application throughout programme cycle.
• Ensure protection interventions comply with established policies, guidance and SOPs.
• Lead self-assessment based on Protection Programme Quality Framework and contribute to annual Protection Survey.
• Represent DRC and contribute to protection sector coordination fora at country level.
• Lead DRC’s protection sector coordination and collaboration with government, civil society, NGOs, and UN.
• Engage in protection-related advocacy efforts nationally and regionally.
• Promote integrated programming and ensure internal coordination and harmonisation of protection interventions across sites and sectors.
• Perform other duties as requested by line manager.

Requirements

• University degree in law, social science, political science, international development, or related field.
• Minimum 5 years of demonstrated technical experience in the international protection sector preferably with an (I)NGO and/or UN agencies.
• Minimum 3 years of experience leading, managing or providing technical advice/support to a protection programme including legal counselling, case management and protection monitoring programming.
• Very strong technical writing skills.
• Documented skills in project development and design for protection programmes, preferably in a multisectoral setting.
• Experience in protection strategy development including SOPs, training materials and action plans.
• Strategic thinker with ability to understand humanitarian, political and human rights situation in relevant context.
• Proven strong analytical thinker and problem solver.
• Experience with technical supervision of teams.
• Experience in providing technical guidance and developing and providing learning activities.
• Experience working with key institutional donors such as ECHO, DANIDA and SIDA on protection.
• Experience in driving protection partnerships including with refugee-led organisations, national partners, local/government authorities, UN organizations and coordination networks.
• Full professional proficiency in written and spoken English.
• Turkish and/or Arabic proficiency an added value.
• Experience in advocacy for protection is a strong asset.
• Experience working on mixed migration programming is a strong asset.

Skills

• International Protection
• Legal Counseling
• Case Management
• Protection Monitoring
• Technical Writing
• Project Development
• Protection Programme Implementation
• Protection Strategy Development
• Standard Operating Procedures Implementation
• Training Material Development
• Technical Supervision
• Learning Activity Development
• Donor Relations
• Partnership Development
• Advocacy for Protection
• Mixed Migration Programming
• Protection Coordination
• Strategic Analysis
• Human Rights Analysis

Languages

English, Turkish, Arabic