BACKGROUND: The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees required to flee from war or disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home.

The IRC Yemen began its programs in October 2012. Since establishing its presence in the South of Yemen, in the Red Sea Coastal city of Aden, the organization has grown from just an implementing small project to handling large scale emergency and relief operations. Following the war which broke out in Yemen in March of 2015 and the humanitarian disaster, which was crafted by the same, IRC launched one an emergency response program in the southern governorates of Aden, Lahj, Abyan, Shabwah and Aldhalea. Currently IRC Yemen is operating in eight governorates in the south and north of Yemen and Sana’a and Hodeidah in the North through direct programming and through local partnerships, in Health, WASH, Nutrition, Economic Recovery Development, Education, Child Protection, Gender and Women Well-being .

Scope of work:

The Roving Integrated Protection Manager will oversee the Women well-being (WWB) and Child Protection programs, providing strategic leadership and ensuring the execution of program activities across various sites, in alignment with IRC’s standards and technical guidelines. This role involves direct leadership over IRC staff and partners, focusing on the effective implementation of protection strategies to enhance the safety and dignity of communities we serve.

Job summary:

The Roving Integrated Protection Manager will provide overall leadership of the WWB and Child Protection programs. S/he will provide regular technical support and monitoring visits to WWB and CP teams working in all program areas to ensure that interventions are technically sound, take into account international best practices, and are appropriately meeting the needs of survivors in target communities. This position is responsible for programmatic resource development, and advocacy related to IRC’s WWB  and CP response and Consortium partners. The Integrated Protection Manager supervises the WWB Program Senior officer and the Child Protection Senior officer .

Working relations:

Position reports to: Consortium coordinator Indirect reporting: WWB coordinator and Senior CP Manager Position directly supervises: WWB Senior officer and CP Senior officer

Main responsibilities:

Ensure the technical quality of all IRC WWB and CP programming with consortium partners.  Provide technical and management leadership to the WWB and CP programs in accordance with best practice and IRC policy.  Foster a collaborative and positive work environment – one that encourages learning and professional growth for WWB and CP teams. Design and Lead on protection assessment in various location as required in order to determine protection gaps and needs and inform program development. Actively develop and maintain effective working relationships with key stakeholders, including donors, government actors, UN agencies, international and local NGOs, and other relevant actors. Responsible for the overall implementation of WWB and CP grants under the consortium.  Support implementation and ensure adherence to grant work plans, spending plans and monitoring and evaluation plans. Work closely and coordinate with IRC Operations, Finance and Grant departments to ensure compliance with grant requirements. Support development and maintenance of effective and efficient oversight, support, quality control and reporting systems and processes. Ensure high-quality IRC and donor reports on activities, indicators and achievements.

Partner Management

Ensure partner mapping across the response, foster positive relationships and identify areas for collaboration with local actors. Ensure collaborative program design processes that fully leverage the perspectives, experience and expertise of local actors, where possible based on collaborative needs assessment processes. Provide technical support, mentorship and supportive supervision to implementing partners. Ensure regular performance monitoring of partners to achieve the set WWB and CP program objectives. Explore with partners potential capacity strengthening support, including system strengthening for government partners, and organizational development for civil society partners, and identify needed resources (in collaboration with the Partnership Lead). Promote and apply the IRC’s Partnership Excellence for Equality and Results system (PEERS).

Coordination & Representation

Actively develop and maintain effective working relationships with key stakeholders, including donors, government actors, UN agencies, international and local NGOs, and other relevant actors. Regularly attend GBV sub-cluster meetings and the CP sub-cluster meetings at appropriate levels to feed in IRC priorities from the field. Lead high-level advocacy with peer agencies, government, and other stakeholders to promote delivery of inclusive and high quality response services Coordinate with other IRC sectors (i.e., protection, health, and livelihood programs) to provide relevant input and support enhancing the protection and empowerment of women and girls as well as child protection.

Monitoring responsibilities

Oversee all internal reporting.  Quality collection of data towards donor and internal indicators. All donor reporting. Quality case management data collection and storage.

Other duties:

Consistently and proactively monitor/assess the safety and security of field teams, promptly reporting concerns or incidents to IRC management and liaising with other external parties as required to maintain/enhance the security environment. Other duties as assigned by the supervisor to enable and develop IRC programs.