The role of the Protection Manager is to develop, lead and support the protection programming. This includes providing strategic direction, contributing to fundraising, and capacity building of a protection team.

• Develop Protection strategy, technical guidance and Macro Logical Frameworks
• Compliance with and adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures
• Contribute to fundraising, develop and revise funding proposal, budgets and donor reports
• Identify gaps, challenges, creative solutions, and donors’ priorities
• Follow up on compliance with contractual commitments across Core Competencies (CCs), ensure high technical quality and synergies in project implementation
• Provide strong protection analysis and technical direction to CC leads and implementing staff
• Ensure that key learnings are extracted from CC implementation, and incorporate them in CC and staff development processes
• Provide systematic training and build capacity of technical staff
• Represent NRC in relevant fora/clusters, and with national authorities and donors
• Promote the rights of IDPs/returnees in line with the advocacy strategy

These responsibilities shall be adapted to the particularities of the job location and context, phase of operation, strategic focus and type of programme intervention. .

1. Provide protection inputs on proposals of all CCs to ensure protection from Violence and safe programming are mainstreamed from the design phase across NRC programming.
2. Ensure that protection monitoring, and evaluation systems are effectively designed and integrated into all stages of the NRC programs.
3. Develop evidence-based briefing notes, reports and strategies on protection issues and engagement with duty bearers to fulfil their responsibilities in collaboration with the Advocacy Coordinator.
4. Design and technically oversee protection components of all projects, to strengthen community-based protection mechanisms and humanitarian mediation as relevant and ensure protection programming is based on needs and adapted to each context.
5. Work with the protection cluster lead agencies to ensure coherence and harmonization of humanitarian protection standards and interventions in Cameroon.

QUALIFICATIONS

What you will bring:

• Minimum 4 years of experience within technical expertise area in a humanitarian/ recovery context
• Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
• Core competency (Protection) expertise
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
• Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile
• Fluency in English and French, both written and verbal

Context/specific skills, knowledge and experience:

• Knowledge of the context in Cameroon is an asset
• Experience in community based and participatory programme planning approaches, with operational based experience in humanitarian mediation projects,
• Good understanding of key technical standards (SPHERE, Inter-Agency Standing Committee , gender mainstreaming, International Humanitarian Laes, humanitarian principles etc.) with the ability to integrate into programming

Behavioral competencies

• Handling insecure environments
• Planning and delivering results
• Working with people
• Empowering and building trust
• Initiate action and change
• Analysing