Protection Coordinator, Kyiv – Ukraine (INT10142)

Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty.

In March 2022, Oxfam launched its response to the influx of refugees and other people forced to flee from Ukraine and Poland. A Programme Management Unit (PMU) has been established in Poland to provide leadership, oversee, support and provide technical assistance to the response in the affected countries. The PMU is led by an Operational Lead and includes dedicated advocacy and influencing capacity; business support functions, and a programme quality team with technical support on gender in emergencies, protection, monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL), and safeguarding.

The Role:

TEAM PURPOSE: To effectively lead, manage and drive the Oxfam partner-led response in Northern and Eastern Ukraine with other stakeholders across Oxfam.

Oxfam humanitarian response in Ukraine is in line with its feminist approach and goal of transformative partnerships. All team members will be expected to foster an appropriate working culture built on Oxfam’s values, respectful and cognizant of power imbalances internally and between Oxfam, our partners and the communities we serve and in line with Oxfam’s partnership principles.

All Oxfam staff are expected to promote and use a safe-programming approach in all humanitarian responses, to be accountable for ensuring community participation shapes programme decisions, and actively seek a partnership approach and worked following feminist principles including strong awareness of power dynamics.

JOB PURPOSE:

The Protection Coordinator role will lead on Oxfam’s protection work for Northern and Eastern Ukraine, in collaboration with the Protection Coordinator covering programmes in Southern Ukraine. Oxfam’s intervention in Ukraine is partner-led, and therefore the Protection Coordinator will mostly lead on protection work through local partners. The responsibilities of the Protection Coordinator will include working alongside Oxfam partners implementing protection programs and activities, leading on the protection analysis, providing technical support to the partners, co-developing projects, undertaking capacity-building and coaching, and creating synergies between partners and with other Oxfam sectors. The role includes continuous coordination with other coordinators working with partners in Ukraine (Cash&FAS Coordinator, PHP Coordinator, Partnership and MEAL Coordinators, Gener coordinator). Beyond Oxfam Ukraine team, the Coordinator will also work closely with the Programme Management Unit Protection Advisor, and be part of a broader protection team in the Ukraine response (Ukraine, Poland, Romania and Moldova). The Protection Coordinator should also be an active member of relevant coordination mechanisms, such as the Protection Cluster, the GBV sub-cluster, among others.

Key counterparts :

• Protection Coordinator (Southern Ukraine)
• Partners implementing Protection programs
• Advocacy & Policy Advisor
• Gender Coordinator
• Cash & Livelihood, WASH Coordinators
• MEAL and Partnership Coordinators
• Programme Management Unit Protection Advisor

Please see the attached job description for the full responsibilities that the Protection Coordinator will undertake and the required skills and competencies.

Location: Ukraine, Kyiv and Kharkiv

Job Type: Fixed Term, 09 Months

What we are looking for:

We’re looking for a candidate who cares about Oxfam’s mission to end poverty and is personally aligned to our feminist principles and values of empowerment, accountability and inclusion in all you do.

Essential

• Knowledge of and demonstrated commitment to Oxfam’s values, mission and work including feminist approach to humanitarian responses, and Oxfam’s partnership principles
• Emergency response experience working in situations of displacement including in insecure and unpredictable environments
• Excellent technical knowledge and understanding of protection including issues relating to displacement, prevention and response to human trafficking and gender-based violence, legal protection
• Understanding of community-based approaches, protection services and referral mechanisms
• Experience working with and in support of national organisations, including community groups, local and national NGOs and federations, networks and platforms
• Enhanced and demonstrable collaboration and networking skills
• Excellent understanding of gender in conflict and disasters including the ability to analyse gender issues in a protection context and incorporate gender into all key responsibilities.
• Technical knowledge and understanding of protection including relevant international standards (e.g. International Humanitarian Law, Refugee Law)
• Understanding of advocacy, policy, campaigning and influencing for protection
• Demonstrable project management experience
• A proven capacity for mentoring, facilitation, training, capacity building and coaching;
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Key Attributes:

• Ability to demonstrate sensitivity to cultural differences and gender issues, as well as the commitment to equal opportunities.
• Ability to demonstrate an openness and willingness to learn about the application of gender/gender mainstreaming, women’s rights, and diversity for all aspects of development work.
• Commitment to Oxfam’s safeguarding policies to ensure all people who come into contact with Oxfam are as safe as possible

Minimum requirements all staff are expected to fulfil:

• Demonstrate Oxfam values and behavioural competencies.
• Behavioural skills; to be able to successfully work with and mentor others often under challenging circumstances and to demonstrate competencies around “listening and creating dialogue” and “working with others” as well as networking skills.

Desirable

• Understanding of Oxfam’s approach to protection
• Expertise in conflict sensitivity and social cohesion
• An advantage if the candidate is able to communicate effectively in relevant languages including Ukrainian

How to apply:

As part of your online application, please upload your up to date CV and Cover Letter explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile.

Our values and commitment to safeguarding

Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults and beneficiaries with whom Oxfam GB engages. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.

The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. Oxfam GB also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organisation and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.

About us

Oxfam is a global community who believe poverty isn’t inevitable. It’s an injustice that can be overcome. We are shop volunteers, women’s right activists, marathon runners, aid workers, coffee farmers, street fundraisers, goat herders, policy experts, campaigners, water engineers and more. And we won’t stop until everyone can live life without poverty for good.

Oxfam GB is a member of international confederation of 21 organisations working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development and campaigning, in more than 90 countries.

A thriving diverse Oxfam:

It’s people power that brings about change. To play our part as a global organisation working to overcome poverty and inequality, we need equality, diversity and inclusion across our community of staff, partners and volunteers. Together, we’re committed to becoming a more diverse workforce, better able to tackle the global challenges that face our world today.

To do that:

• We need to dismantle the unequal power structures that exist everywhere, this including Oxfam and the wider development and charity sectors.
• We need an inclusive Oxfam where everyone can bring who they are to our work and feels celebrated for the differences they bring.
• We want and need everyone, and that means we need you.