Protection Specialist Myanmar

NRC is looking for an analytical, influential, and strategic leader to join the team in Myanmar as Protection Specialist. If you are someone who enjoys setting strategic direction and quality assurance, mentoring and developing others, and influencing advocacy and coordination, then this is the role for you!

The Protection Specialist Myanmar is the strategic and technical lead for Protection programming at country level. The role holder is responsible for taking a lead role in the strategic leadership, technical quality, advocacy and coordination, and fundraising for the Protection thematic area.

What You Will Do

• Strategic Leadership: Developing the Protection strategy and contributing to integrated programming and to policy-level discussions.
• Technical Quality: Developing technical standard operating procedures, guidelines, tools, etc. Providing technical direction and project implementation support.
• Fundraising: Developing and revising funding proposals, budgets, and donor reports.
• Partnerships and Collaboration: Supporting the field teams to strengthen downstream partnership approaches with local NGOs; building networks with peer agencies; and developing strategic partnerships with relevant stakeholders.
• Advocacy and Coordination: Contribute to advocacy objectives through meaningful engagement in briefings, development of advocacy products, and coordination.
• Learning: Strengthening Protection monitoring and evaluation tools and systems, and supporting programme learning throughout the project-cycle.
• Regional Collaboration: Contribute to sub-regional, regional, and global strategic initiatives.
• Capacity Building: Providing training and building capacity of technical staff.

What You Will Bring

• Protection experience in a humanitarian/ recovery context.
• Market analysis, cash-based interventions, and market-based programmes knowledge.
• Myanmar and/or South and Southeast Asia context knowledge is an added advantage.
• Humanitarian donor interaction experience.
• Change management and scale-up experience.
• Capacity building track record is an added advantage.
• English fluency, both written and verbal.

What Makes This Position Attractive?

• The opportunity to join one of the most respected humanitarian actors in Myanmar that has a strong reputation with donors, embassies, clusters, and peer agencies.
• The chance to work with a diverse portfolio of donors and partners.
• Exposure to a diverse range of sectors and programming modalities.
• Meaningful work, with a high quality integrated programme, that that responds to the diverse needs, priorities, and concerns raised by beneficiary communities.

What We Offer

• Yangon, Myanmar duty station.
• 24 month contract duration.
• 30% travel, approximately.
• Grade 9 in NRC’s Salary Scale. NRC offers a competitive compensation and benefits package.
• 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.

The full Job Description can be found on our website.