Job Purpose
The Protection Coordinator role is primarily focused on leading an Oxfam team in direct implementation of protection activities and working with national organisations and authorities carrying out protection activities for internally displaced persons (IDPs) and host communities in Ukraine. The role will maintain a protection analysis of the situation which will help inform partner activities, and both partner and Oxfam advocacy and influencing work. The Protection Coordinator will identify, monitor and analyse the protection situation in coordination with counterparts in other refugee receiving countries and lead referrals to help individuals and families access protection services. A core component of the role is to provide technical leadership in developing and applying community-based protection approach in helping people access information and protection services and creating platforms for them to voice their protection concerns.
The post holder shall also work with local actors and provide them technical support in line with Oxfam’s feminist approach and goal of transformative partnerships. All team members will be expected to foster an appropriate working culture built on Oxfam’s values, respectful and cognizant of power imbalances internally and between Oxfam, our partners and the communities we serve and in line with Oxfam’s partnership principles. All Oxfam staff are expected to promote and use a safe-programming approach in all humanitarian responses, to be accountable for ensuring community participation shapes programme decisions, and actively seek a partnership approach and worked following feminist principles including strong awareness of power dynamics.
Please see the attached job description for the full responsibilities that the Protection Coordinator will undertake and the required skills and competencies.
Location: Based in Ukraine.
Job Type: Fixed Term, 6 months with possibility of extension. This is an unaccompanied post.