Protection Cluster Co-Coordinator Myanmar

What we are looking for

NRC is looking for a Protection Cluster Co-Coordinator to join the Myanmar mission. The role holder will work in partnership with UNHCR, to provide leadership and ensure a well-coordinated, strategic, coherent, and effective Protection response in Myanmar. He/she will be responsibility for ensuring that the Protection Cluster is informed by NGO perspectives, and for ensuring that the NGO membership is contributing to, and sharing, Protection Cluster responsibilities. The Co-Coordinator will contribute to the development of the active engagement and technical capacity of members of the Protection Cluster.

If you are a seasoned and adaptable executive who is analytically inclined; with strong interpersonal, networking, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills; the ability to build constructive relationships with external parties; and able to deliver results under pressure, then this is the role for you.

What you will do

• Planning and strategy development, including a cluster strategy.
• Humanitarian partners inclusion for the cluster.
• Humanitarian coordination mechanisms establishment and maintenance.
• Participatory and community based approaches in cluster needs assessment, analysis, planning, monitoring, and response.
• Monitoring, reporting, and analysis for the Protection Cluster.
• Advocacy and resource mobilisation.
• Capacity-building, guidance and facilitate trainings and workshops for staff, cluster partners, and relevant counterparts.
• Donor reporting.
• Protection documentation development.

What you will bring

• Advanced degree.
• Protection experience in a humanitarian assistance.
• Cluster systems, procedures, and governance structures expertise.
• Humanitarian response and coordination mechanisms, and humanitarian reform understanding.
• Protection matters within UN agencies exposure.
• Complex, and volatile context exposure.
• English fluency, both written and verbal.

What makes this position attractive?

• NRC has delivered humanitarian assistance and protection to vulnerable affected populations in Myanmar since 2008, following Cyclone Nargis. Over that time, NRC has evolved into a complex and mature mission with an excellent reputation for technical skill and delivery of programmes.
• NRC has hosted the Protection Cluster Co-Coordinator since 2021. This hosting arrangement is based on the agreement and collaboration with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. NRC, as the NGO Co-Coordination Agency, will appoint a Protection Cluster Co-Coordinator, full time. The Co-coordinator will be reporting to NRC for all contractual arrangements and will be accountable to the NGOs partners of the cluster.
• This role requires the ability to take into consideration the interests of NGOs while advocating or lobbying for any cause. The cluster is guided by the principles of neutrality, impartiality, and advocacy for all.
• This is an opportunity to join one of the most respected humanitarian actors in Myanmar that has a strong reputation with donors, embassies, clusters, and peer agencies, and the chance to work with a diverse portfolio of donors and partners.
• Meaningful work, with a high-quality integrated programme that responds to the diverse needs, priorities, and concerns raised by beneficiary communities.
• Female candidates are strongly encouraged to join our work culture that empowers every employee to share ideas and take responsibility.
• Learn more about NRC’s operation in Myanmar here.

What we offer

• Yangon, Myanmar duty station, subject to receiving appropriate documentation. The successful candidate will be expected to work from home/remotely for extended periods of time.
• 24-month contract duration (renewable, subjecting to funding, performance, and requirements).
• 25% travel, approximately.
• Grade 8 in NRC’s Salary Scale, with accompanying terms and conditions. NRC offers a competitive compensation and benefits package.
• NRC is an equal opportunities employer and aims to have staffing diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, nationality, and physical ability.
• We think outside the box, encourage ideas, and give responsibility to all employees at all levels. You will have many opportunities to be heard and take the initiative.
• Find out more about the benefits of working for NRC.

The full Job Description can be found on our website.