Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty.
In March 2022, Oxfam launched its response to the influx of refugees and other people forced to flee from Ukraine in Romania, Moldova and Poland. A Programme Management Unit (PMU) was established to provide leadership, oversee, support and provide technical assistance to the response in the affected countries. The PMU is led by the Organizational Lead and includes dedicated advocacy and influencing capacity; business support functions, and a programme quality team with technical support on gender in emergencies, protection, cash and voucher programming, monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL), and safeguarding. Oxfam is supporting a partner-led humanitarian response for the assistance and protection of refugees and other vulnerable people from Ukraine and the communities, organisations and authorities that are hosting and supporting them in neighbouring countries.
The Role:
TEAM PURPOSE:
The Ukraine Crisis in Poland Response Team is composed of national and international staff with wide experience in developing and implementing EFSVL, Protection, Safeguarding, and Gender programmes. The Protection Coordinator will ensure strategic, programme technical support to partners and programme quality assurance. The Protection Coordinator will work directly with Oxfam partners’ staff and other stakeholders to ensure accountability and demonstrate the impacts of the response interventions.
JOB PURPOSE:
Management, coordination, support and implementation of Protection programme and particularly DEC,SHO and Appeals supported programmes in specific location of Poland. Provide implementation, operational oversight of the programme in Poland
Please see the attached job description for the full responsibilities that the Protection Coordinator will undertake and the required skills and competencies.
Location: Poland
Job Type: Fixed Term, 12 Months
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Support the Programme Coordinator in
- Developing the protection element of the response strategy and design appropriate interventions and approaches to protection in conjunction with partner organizations
- Participating in field assessments in order to include protection issues, and/or carrying out specific protection assessments.
- Supporting the integration of specific protection activities into a humanitarian response (e.g. into advocacy, policy papers, coordination, information dissemination) including establishing internal referral processes
- Managing protection activities/projects where relevant (noting that this is a partner-led response and Oxfam direct implementation will be minimal)
- Ensure programmes are safe, are sensitive to gender and other power dynamics and ensure that they are informed by the community to benefit from the work.
- Building the capacity of Oxfam and partner staff on protection including specific issues such as gender-based violence and durable solutions to displacement e.g. through mentoring, coaching, training.
- Lead in planning, reporting of the protection component.
- Lead budgeting and ensure a compliant and timely spending.
Support protection partner organizations in;
- Carrying out technical capacity assessments on protection and identify capacity-building and technical support requirements and how they can be fulfilled
- (where required) Managing their protection projects/programmes, including developing programme plans and budgets, recruiting and managing staff, managing funding and donor requirements, monitoring and adapting programmes and reporting
- Scenario planning and preparedness including innovation means to build surge capacity
- Delivering high quality protection responses in line with global standards including ICRC Professional Standards for Protection
- Coordinating with international refugee response forums and networks.
- Provide support and coordinate the activities of field-based Protection staff. This includes giving technical support to programme design and implementation, carrying out technical visits, supporting proposal and report writing processes.
Analysis and Problem Solving
- Promote collaborative working relationships with key internal stakeholders
- Promote integrated, gender aware protection responses which demonstrate accountability to beneficiaries and are consistent with Oxfam policies and international quality standards
- Support the protection response by carrying out or contributing to learning processes, studies or research as required including supporting programme policy development ensuring that partner organisations are fully involved in leadership of such work
- Ensure all protection work includes a strong gender analysis and works to promote women’s rights and gender equity as appropriate
- To track humanitarian information, learning and knowledge developed in responses, research and global fora and ensure these are actively shared within Oxfam teams and with partners
- Working with the Advocacy and Policy Lead to provide protection information for international advocacy and campaigning and in joint information gathering processes (e.g. surveys)
- Ensure protection programmes are safe, are sensitive to gender and other power dynamics and ensure that they are informed by the community to benefit from the work. Support Safeguarding and Accountability to Affected Populations within the country humanitarian response programme.
Impact
- Facilitate and support access of partners to global humanitarian bodies, processes and debates, including global partnerships, in coordination meetings and working groups (Protection Cluster or Working Group, Refugee Co-ordination Group), and to donors, UN agencies, government officials, ICRC, national civil society and NGOs;
- Provide guidance to partners on technical elements of protection programming and programme policy relating to protection issues incl. cash and vouchers in protection programming, community-based protection, protection advocacy
- Provide, or facilitate access to, technical support to partners on generic humanitarian standards, requirements, approaches and tools such as safeguarding, safe programming, data rights and ethical use of digital tools, working safely and ethically with volunteers etc as required
- Facilitate access of protection partners to Oxfam’s protection peer groups of Oxfam and partner protection staff and their active participation in the network
- Documenting and sharing good practices and innovations on protection work.
- Foster an appropriate working culture built on Oxfam’s values. (for all) respectful and cognizant of power imbalances internally and between Oxfam, our partners and the communities we serve.
Other
- Eager and required to adhere to Oxfam’s principles and values (click here) as well as the promotion of gender justice and women’s rights (click here).
- Understanding of and commitment to adhere to equity, diversity, gender, child safety and staff safety health and wellbeing principles.
- The post holder expected to be familiar with and abide by the Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS), NGO/Red Cross Code of Conduct, the People in Aid Code, Oxfam International procedures and other regulatory codes (e.g. InterAction Field Co-operation Protocol, including safeguarding.
What we are looking for:
We’re looking for a candidate who cares about Oxfam’s mission to end poverty and is personally aligned to our feminist principles and values of empowerment, accountability and inclusion in all you do.
An ideal candidate for the role will also be / have:
Essential
- A minimum of 4 years involvement in humanitarian and protection response work, preferably in field-based protection work, technical advisory role in conflict and refugee and IDP setting.
- Knowledge of and demonstrated commitment to Oxfam’s values, mission and work including feminist approach to humanitarian responses, and Oxfam’s partnership principles
- Emergency response experience working in situations of displacement including in insecure and unpredictable environments
- Excellent technical knowledge and understanding of protection including issues relating to displacement, prevention and response to human trafficking and gender-based violence, legal protection
- Understanding of protection services and referral mechanisms. Experience working with and in support of national organisations, including community groups, local and national NGOs and federations, networks and platforms
- Enhanced and demonstrable collaboration and networking skills
- Excellent understanding of gender in conflict and disasters including the ability to analyse gender issues in a protection context and incorporate gender into all key responsibilities.
- Technical knowledge and understanding of protection including relevant international standards (e.g. International Humanitarian Law, Refugee Law)
- Understanding of advocacy, policy, campaigning and influencing for protection
- Demonstrable project management experience
- A proven capacity for mentoring, facilitation, training, capacity building and coaching;
- Excellent written and spoken English.
Desirable
- Understanding of Oxfam’s approach to protection
- Expertise in conflict sensitivity and social cohesion
- An advantage if the candidate is able to communicate effectively in relevant languages including Ukrainian and Polish.