Integrated Emergency Protection Coordinator

About the role

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is running a multisectoral emergency response in Ituri and North Kivu provinces, following recurrent Ebola outbreaks and the ongoing humanitarian crisis in eastern DRC. The Integrated Emergency Protection Coordinator provides strategic, technical and operational leadership for all protection interventions, ensuring risks are identified, mitigated and addressed through safe, accountable and survivor-centred programming. The role covers Child Protection, GBV, MHPSS, Protection Monitoring, Community-Based Protection and Protection Mainstreaming, and supervises protection teams, budgets and grants.

Key responsibilities

• Lead protection programming, integrate GBV, Child Protection, MHPSS, Cash for Protection and Community-Based Protection, and lead protection risk analysis and trend analysis
• Ensure all activities follow humanitarian standards, IASC guidelines, IPC measures and the Do No Harm principle
• Oversee implementation in all operational locations, develop work plans, supervise quality through field visits and lead adaptive management
• Directly supervise Senior Protection Officers and Protection Managers, set performance objectives, run performance reviews and build staff capacity
• Represent IRC in the Protection Cluster, Child Protection, GBV and MHPSS working groups, and with provincial and health authorities
• Lead protection grants, conduct monthly budget versus actual reviews, support proposals and prepare monthly, quarterly and final reports
• Run MEAL systems, track indicators, ensure accountability mechanisms work and promote client feedback
• Ensure safeguarding compliance, confidential handling of protection information and mitigation of security and programme risks

Required profile

• Master's degree in Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Human Rights, Psychology, Social Work, Public Health, International Development or Humanitarian Affairs
• At least 5 years of progressive experience in humanitarian protection programming, including at least 3 years in a senior coordination or management role
• Demonstrated experience managing GBV, Child Protection and MHPSS programmes
• Experience managing multi-donor grants and large teams, and working in humanitarian coordination mechanisms; emergency and outbreak experience highly desirable
• Fluent French and professional English; Swahili highly desirable

Required skills

• GBV, Child Protection, MHPSS, Case Management, Community-Based Protection and Cash for Protection programming
• Ebola response, IPC, Sphere Standards and IASC Protection Policy
• Strategic planning, team leadership, budget management, proposal writing, advocacy and negotiation