Country: Uganda
Closing date: 28 Jun 2018
About HIJRA:
Humanitarian Initiative Just Relief Aid (HIJRA) is an international humanitarian and development organization that positively contributes towards improving the living standards and conditions of those adversely affected by disasters and conflict in the Horn, East & Central Africa by implementing WASH, Health, Education, Livelihoods, Community service & development and Protection programs in the region for a period of more than 20 years.
HIJRA with funding from the UNHCR in Uganda is implementing a multi-Sectoral Program for refugees in Kyangwali settlement (Hoima district), Nakivale settlement (Isingiro district) and Matanda Transit Center (Kanungu district). HIJRA, in a strategy to expand existing program implementing team, is now seeking for a qualified person willing to offer Humanitarian services in the position of Head of Protection to be based in Kampala (60%)and Field Offices (40%).
Job Summary:
1.The Head of Protection will be responsible for managing the implementation of the protection monitoring, community based protection, and information dissemination project in the field offices of Nakivale, Kyangwali and Matanda.
2. The incumbent will also provide technical support to the program teams to mainstream protection across interventions and oversee the implementation of stand-alone Protection programming (Regular Programming and Emergencies).
- To support the development and implementation of HIJRA’s humanitarian work by providing specialist advice and support on humanitarian protection.
- This will include implementing mainstreaming protection in the humanitarian response, supporting safe programming and undertaking gender-sensitive community-level protection activities in particular, protection monitoring and information dissemination and referrals guided by HIJRA’s policies and guidelines for managing information and the relevant professional standards in protection work.
Reporting Relationships:
The post holder will be responsible to the Country Program Manager.
Duties:
Project Implementation:
- Ensure the delivery of protection activities and provide technical support to the Protection Team Leader and Officers to undertake their responsibilities in line with their role and responsibility;
- Join field protection officers in monitoring and analyzing protection issues affecting populations in area of HIJRA operations;
- Analyze protection concerns arising from HIJRA’s humanitarian response, provide recommendations on addressing them and throughout the process of addressing the protection concerns s/he must support continuous support to the relevant teams;
- Provide specialist protection advice and support to HIJRA’s humanitarian response in areas of operation, including regarding humanitarian access and engagement with armed non-state actors and ensuring independence and impartiality in providing services;
- Monitor protection issues affecting IDPs and host population in areas of operation;
- Provide technical and analytical advise to manager in developing safe programming and conflict-sensitive approaches to the humanitarian response;
- Provide capacity-building on protection;
- Ensure program staff members are fully trained on existing referral systems and relevant SOPs;
- Organize and prepare protection analysis, if and when required, and draft the reports;
- Build proposals to ensure appropriate funding and response for protection activities; Review proposals to ensure protection is integrated and mainstreamed
- Support the management to strategize, plan for and ensure appropriate integration and mainstreaming of protection throughout the humanitarian response in affected areas.
- Provide technical support to all Protection sectors in integrating protection within their programmatic tools.
- Support Protection Team Leaders and Officers in preparing and organizing community consultations and community based orientation sessions;
- Lead and supervise assessment teams during thematic surveys, needs assessment and data collection for protection-related research.
· Oversee the identification, creation and initiation of programs relevant to the organizations work and act as the technical advisor to the country program manager
· Ensures program growth by participating in the development of new project initiatives.
· Lead assessments for emergency or longer-term programming in existing or new project locations
· Stay abreast of developments in the humanitarian environment in Uganda and provide timely analysis on key issues on a regular basis
Representation and Coordination:
- Develop lines of communication and close collaboration with the teams and contribute to a coordinated humanitarian response;
- Liaise with logistic and procurement to ensure protection activities have the required resources in good time. Complete and keep records of the necessary paperwork;
- Represent HIJRA with key protection actors such as, UNHCR, IOM, OPM and actively participate in the Protection Cluster and relevant Areas of Responsibility.
- Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEAL) and reporting
- To represent HIJRA in key relevant coordination meetings and working groups according to the needs of the project and upon the request of the line-manager;
- To ensure that HIJRA sectoral approach is diffused in key local humanitarian forums;
- To ensure the coordination of the intervention with other humanitarian actors intervening in the same sectors;
- To support capacity building of humanitarian actors and partners in technical approaches;
- To represent HIJRA vis-a-vis external stakeholders;
- To contribute to partnership identification and development.
Reporting:
- To provide weekly reporting on the activities implemented to the line manager;
- To develop activity reports and program follow-up documents as required;
- To develop the technical reports to donors and contribute to providing specific information when required;
- To ensure information sharing to and from external coordination for HIJRA intervention sectors and monitor regular reporting to clusters and working groups;
- To provide technical inputs and collaborate with surveys, assessments and monitoring reports conducted by the M&E department;
Competencies, Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- A Master’s degree in Law – including International Law -, Political Science, Social Science, Peace and Conflict Studies or a related discipline;
- Strong understanding of gender-related aspects of protection work. Commitment to gender equity, diversity and equal opportunities;
- Excellent written and verbal communication;
- Fluency in English;
- Experience managing diverse staff/teams including in complex and challenging environments;
- Experience of capacity-building and training of colleagues and partners;
- A minimum of 3 years involvement in humanitarian response work, preferably in field-based protection work in conflict or insecure environments;
- Strong conceptual and practical understanding of protection issues and specifically HIJRA’s approach to and role in protection work including advocacy;
- Understanding of the Protection Cluster and other protection coordination mechanisms and the roles and mandates of key protection actors;
- Analytical skills and strategic thinking, including experience developing written analysis and strategies for protection;
- Willingness to travel to field up to 40%
Personal Competencies:
- Proven managerial and representation experience
- Strong communication skills
- English mandatory (oral and written)
- Strong writing and reporting skills
- Knowledge of Microsoft applications.
- Ability to work under pressure
- Good coordination skills
- Strong interpersonal and intercultural skills
How to apply:
Application Process:
Qualified National Candidates are requested to submit an Application letter and Curriculum Vitae including telephone and emails contacts of three referees including your current/most recent employer.
Applications, addressed to the:
Country Program Manager
Humanitarian Initiative Just Relief AID (HIJRA)
P.O. Box 37703, Kampala, Uganda
Should be sent by email to: vacancies.ug@hijra.or.ke.
The subject line should read Head of Protection.
Applications must be submitted not later than close of business on 28th June, 2018. Only successful applicants will be contacted.
For more information regarding the organization please visit our website www.hijra.or.ke. HIJRA is an equal opportunity employer.
Please note that interviews will be done on a rolling basis given the urgency of this position.