Emergency Protection Coordinator Consultant At FHI 360

Background

FHI 360 is harnessing its four decades of development experience to provide humanitarian assistance in crisis-affected countries. FHI 360’s Crisis Response Team (CRT) meets the urgent needs of people whose lives are jeopardized by conflict, disaster or displacement. FHI 360’s Crisis Response Team is looking to rapidly respond to the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti’s southern peninsula on August 14^th, 2021. The FHI 360’s Crisis Response Team is preparing to deploy an emergency response team to implement health, WASH, and protection programming to assist the earthquake victims.

Scope of Work

In this particular context, the Crisis Response Team requires the services of a highly skilled Emergency Protection Coordinator Consultant to support HQ CRT to conduct preliminary assessments and scalable mapping exercises to design and implement an anticipated protection program. The Emergency Protection Coordinator will engage with cluster leads, government of Haiti officials, health facility-based personnel and other NGO partners to discuss the pressing needs and challenges of the impacted area. The consultant will participate in start-up activities to help launch a fully integrated protection program. The consultant must also have a strong background in humanitarian programming and experience with rapid startups.

Specific Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Lead the team’s efforts in the Protection sector during the startup and implementation phase, ensuring the programming design meets the technical standards
• Conduct CP and GBV sector needs assessments, provide technical guidance on appropriate emergency activities and devise sector-specific response strategies focusing on community engagement in CP and GHV prevention activities, CP and GHV Case Management and Psychosocial support (SHLS approach for Child Protection).
• Develop partnerships with local service providers, implementing partners, and local government entities as well as attend protection cluster meetings.
• Work with operation staff to ensure commodities are procured, handled and managed properly.
• Implement protection start-up activities, including identification of staff and program sites, meeting with authorities, clusters, and partners, and designing and implementing activities.
• Develop project proposal and determine resources needed for the Protection Sector activities.

Deliverables:

• Lead the start-up of protection-related activities in the areas of intervention**
• Implement programmatic strategy for the protection sector**
• Develop project proposals and plans to determine scheduling, budget, procedures, staffing, and allotment of resources needed for projects

Location of Work

Southern Haiti
Important Note: Applicant should research COVID-19 measures and the associated risks of this location before submitting an application.

Travel

Level of Effort: 10 weeks with possible extension
Period of Engagement: Mid-September
Travel and accommodations are provided

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or its International Equivalent, in Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Public Health and International Development is required; Master’s is strongly preferred
• At least 8 years of professional work experience in managing humanitarian response initiatives
• Experience establishing startup operations/projects in new countries highly preferred
• Skilled in developing responsive, evidence-based program designs
• Demonstratable experience designing and leading technical assessments using appropriate methodologies; strong background in monitoring and evaluation preferred
• Field experience in GBV and CP in emergencies with knowledge of the safe healing and learning spaces (SHLS) approach, social behavior change communication (SBCC) for protection programs and building staff capacity
• Experience coordinating complex programs with the UN cluster/sector system, experience as a cluster co-lead is preferred
• Knowledge of use of and training staff on the use of CPIMS and GBVIM
• Prior experience in a non-governmental organization (NGO), government agency or related industry experience
• Sensitivity to cultural diversity and understanding of the political, contextual, and ethical issues in assigned area
• Fluency in verbal and written English and French required.