Consultant Protection Specialist – Jordan

The Center for Victims of Torture (CVT) in Jordan (“CVT Jordan”) is seeking a Consultant to help assess and guide integrated services for marginalized groups from a Protection perspective.

Organization:

CVT is a US-headquartered international non-profit dedicated to providing trauma healing services to survivors of war and other violations. CVT works toward a future in which these violations cease to exist and victims have hope for a new life. In Jordan since 2008, CVT has offered rehabilitative care to refugee survivors of torture and war trauma. Specialized interdisciplinary services include mental health counselling, physiotherapy, and social work/case management. CVT also provides supportive interventions, including trauma resilience workshops, parenting workshops, and peer-to-peer support. In addition to providing intensive internal capacity development for Jordanian clinicians, CVT also conducts external trainings for universities, government ministries, and partner NGOs.

Context

CVT Jordan social workers have reported an increase in clients experiencing urgent protection needs, including but not limited to gender-based violence (notably sexual violence and domestic violence). These clients often represent marginalized and vulnerable groups, including women and children experiencing abuse; LGBTQI+ individuals; and individuals experiencing exploitation. The needs of these clients go beyond the MHPSS-focused services and referrals that the team currently provides. CVT Jordan aims to build and strengthen its understanding of how its programming can better integrate and/or connect to specialized protection services, thereby providing enhanced support for marginalized or vulnerable groups at risk of abuse or exploitation. While some work has been done to understand current gaps in identifying and addressing related protection needs, CVT currently seeks a Consultant Protection Specialist to assist with: (1) assessing CVT Jordan’s capacity to incorporate more specialized protection programming; (2) identifying gaps and barriers to the above; (3) developing a workplan, with recommendations, to strengthen CVT programming in this area; and (4) providing technical guidance, training, and tools to support accomplishing workplan goals as appropriate.

Scope of Work

To accomplish the above, it is expected that the Consultant will seek to:

1. Assess the CVT Jordan team’s attitudes, knowledge, and skills in working with marginalized and vulnerable groups with urgent protection needs
2. Conduct basic awareness sessions to improve the understanding protection principles as they relate to these cases for CVT clinical and social work staff
3. Assess CVT Jordan’s current system of care, from screening to follow-ups, including specialized and supportive interventions, for marginalized or vulnerable groups with urgent protection needs
4. Develop a 6-month work plan to enhance CVT protection services for marginalized and vulnerable groups with urgent protection needs; integrate protection services within specialized trauma rehabilitation programming; the plan should identify a clear strategy for developing capacity among team members to better understand, identify, and respond to protection considerations and needs.
5. Based on the protection landscape in Jordan and team capacity, determine prioritization between the different protection areas of responsibility as appropriate.

Expected tangible and measurable output(s)/deliverable

1. Gap analysis report that identifies the key gaps on CVT Jordan response for marginalized group (SGBV, LGBTQI+ TIP and CP), and includes gaps on system, staff knowledge and skills, and monitoring and evaluation
2. Report-out for entire CVT Jordan team to share findings of gap analysis
3. Work plan and road map to enhance and scale up CVT Jordan intervention for marginalized groups
4. Workshops with CVT Jordan managers to discuss the current gaps and needs
5. Workshops with CVT HQ and Jordan senior management team to discuss the assessment findings and next steps
6. Final report with recommendation

Education:

University degree in relevant area of study.

Work experience, capacities, knowledge and skills:

Applicants should have 7+ years of experience working in protection programming in the humanitarian sector, ideally including some experience in Jordan; focus on gender-based violence and child protection is an advantage. Additional applicant experience, capacities, knowledge, and skills would ideally include: experience conducting capacity assessments, gap analyses, and team workplanning; experience developing guidelines, standard operating procedures, and/or policy documents; familiarity with MHPSS responses in emergency and post-conflict settings; work experience in the Middle East and North Africa; and excellent communication and drafting skills. Fluency in oral and written English is required. Arabic language is an advantage.