Responsibilities:
1. Develop, plan and implement protection strategy and provide strategic oversight, leadership,
and management of the Protection Unit, from staff management, recruitment, supervision,
resource mobilization and planning, monitoring the quality of activities and ensuring adaptation
of response.
2. Provide guidance and the elaboration and follow-up of work plans, monitoring, evaluation and
reporting system as well as operational administrative and financial management for the
protection aspects of relevant portfolios under Immigration and Border Governance, Cross
border Response, Preparedness and Response, Peace and Development coordination,
Migration management and Governance, Public Health projects and Provide guidance to Project
Managers (PMs) implementing protection programmes to maintain oversight of project cycles,
and ensure programmes are consistent with audit and donor requirements.
3. Lead in mainstreaming of protection across all IOM Ethiopia’s interventions in line with IOM
internal guidance into overall IOM response and decision-making.
4. In coordination with Headquarters (HQ) and RO (Regional Office) Protection Division (PXD),
advocate for and disseminate the protection division mandate, provide authoritative advice and
direction for training and capacity building sessions where needed in line with IOM and global
standards.
5. Develop and update an IOM Protection strategy based on a Protection Analysis, for IOM
Ethiopia that is inscribed with IOM country, regional and global strategic frameworks, and in
coordination with the PXD HQ, and RO Nairobi Emergency and Post Crises (EPC) and PXD
teams. Ensure coherent, consistent and complementary protection activities and approaches
within various programmes and projects. Regularly update the senior management on the
protection mainstreaming and key protection challenges arising in various programme and
advise on course of actions to be taken to address them.
6. In link with PXD HQ, Global MHPSS, and RO Nairobi as relevant, and in close cooperation
with the protection project managers, oversee the updating of Standard Operating Procedures
(SOPs) and ensure the continuous review and adaptation of the SOPs and other tools for
protection, child protection and gender-based violence (GBV) casework, Mental Health and
Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) programmes, and community engagement strategies. Oversee
the endorsement and good application of a multi-partners referral pathway for critical incidents
case management and for child protection including unaccompanied and separated children
(UASC).
7. In coordination with relevant programme managers, oversee and ensure the integrity and
quality of the response for persons with specific needs and vulnerabilities, including
unaccompanied and separated children (UASC) and ensure the development and
implementation of early identification procedures, referral pathways, trends analysis and risk
mitigation.
8. Ensure the recruitment of qualified Protection team including Protection (directly) and
MHPSS(in coordination with MHPSS HQ) and organigram based on the Protection analysis and
strategy, assessment of risks, needs of the population, staffing requirements and programme
capacities. Establish a delegation of tasks for the overall management of the IOM protection
team.
9. Ensure regular collaboration and communication among all protection colleagues, including
protection officers and caseworkers; MHPSS teams; interpreters/cultural mediators and child

protection specialists and the rest of the IOM Ethiopia’s teams. Maintain regular communication
with the protection experts in IOM Headquarters (HQ-PXD) and RO Nairobi EPC and PXD to
ensure the operations priorities and protection issues are also flagged globally.
10. Actively participate in internal and multi-partners senior management coordination meetings.
Liaise with key protection partners including the implementing partners. Represent IOM and the
Protection portfolio in coordination fora and other meetings, in coordination with IOM EPC and
PXD RO and HQ who represent the Organization in regional and global level protection
platforms.
11. Liaise and coordinate all matters related to protection with other IOM missions as needed,
and more specifically support as required the Protection team and operations in Sub Offices.
12. Provide strategic advice, guidance and expertise to partners and team members and all
mission staff, including overseeing training on protection-related matters, including protection
mainstreaming in all the responses; protection principles; child safeguarding and child
protection; accountability to affected populations (AAP); gender-based violence (GBV)
prevention and response; prevention of sexual abuse and exploitation (PSEA); disseminate
tools and guidance to build a protective environment.
13. Serve as the mission PSEA focal point for the mission and work with the PSEA national
officers, programme managers and project developers to ensure appropriate PSEA integration
into programme design and implementation. Act as PSEAH focal point for the mission ensuring
high-level support to PSEAH activities and integration into programmes.
14. Establish and strengthen partnerships with key stakeholders on Protection-related matters
through potential new joint or integrated activities, or ensuring the implementation of ongoing
coordination or joint activities.
15. Make strategic recommendations, provide advice and regular updates on the implications of
established programme, policies and needs, on plans, priorities and strategic objectives to the
Head of Programmes, and prepare reports covering protection-related activities; briefing,
statistical/narrative reports and background notes including specific information requested by
IOM, the Donor, Governments, and other entities. Ensure all reporting requirements are met in a
timely manner.
16. Perform such other duties as may be assigned.
Required Qualifications and Experience:
Education
• Master’s degree in Political or Social Sciences, International Development, Law and/or
International Relations, or a related field from an accredited academic institution with seven
years of relevant professional experience; or,
• University degree in the above fields with nine years of relevant professional experience.
Experience
• Specific experience working within the humanitarian protection sector, including established
programme coordination, representation, and managerial responsibilities;
• Proven experience managing a complex emergency, humanitarian, and transitional
programming;
• Demonstrated experience in implementing and supervising case management programmes,
including through remote support;
• Proven experience in the field of prevention of and response to sexual and gender-based
violence;
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• Experience in the management of counter-human trafficking projects and/or in conducting
complex case management;
• Demonstrated experience in advocacy on sensitive matters;
• Experience in liaising with governmental authorities, and other national/international
institutions;
• Demonstrated experience in working with multisectoral coordination system in Nexus
(Humanitarian, development, peacebuilding);
• Extensive experience in coordinating activities with various stakeholders both at the global
level and in the field, including with implementing partners;
• Professional experience in the humanitarian and development fields relating to migration,
refugee, and IDP issues, showing increasing levels of responsibility; and,
• Professional experience should include fieldwork in multiple duty stations.
Skills
• In-depth knowledge of the broad range of migration-related subject areas dealt with by the
organization;
• Excellent donor liaison and fundraising skills;
• Excellent track record of effective working relationships with the private sector, government
officials, and UN agencies;
• Proven leadership and negotiation skills, particularly in a multi-stakeholder and multi-cultural
environment;
• Sound knowledge of financial and business administration and management
practices/principles;
• Sound and proven understanding of internal and international migration issues as they relate
to migration policies;
• In-depth knowledge of UN and bilateral donor programming; and,
• Knowledge of IOM project development procedures (including PRIMA) and processes.
Languages
IOM’s official languages are English, French, and Spanish. All staff members are required to be
fluent in one of the three languages.
For this position, fluency in English is required (oral and written). Working knowledge of another
official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish) is an advantage.
Proficiency of language(s) required will be specifically evaluated during the selection process,
which may include written and/or oral assessments.