Protection officer

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Preliminary Job Information

Preliminary Job Information

Job Title :PROTECTION OFFICER NORTH
Country & Base of posting: OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY, RAMALLAH AND TUBAS
Reports to: EMERGENCY COORDINATOR
Creation/Replacement : NEW POSITION (3 MONTHS WITH POSSIBILITY OF RENEWAL)

General Information on the Mission

Context
GVC – Gruppo di Volontariato Civile, is a non-governmental, secular, and independent organization, founded in Bologna in 1971. We are active in international development aid projects with complex action strategies: from humanitarian aid to populations suffering from conflicts and natural disasters to reconstruction, hygiene, and food security; from rural development to education, to the protection of women's and children's rights.
In over forty years of activity, GVC has operated in all parts of the world, carrying out thousands of projects. We collaborate with public institutions, cultural associations, cooperatives, and Italian and European NGOs, organizing seminars, conferences, exhibits and festivals, laboratories in school and training courses for teachers. We produce educational materials and carry out communication activities on sensitive issues such as differences, human rights, women's issues, sustainable trade, and biodiversity.
BACKGROUND: since 1967, occupation and political stagnation have directly affected the socio-economic situation of the Palestinian population in the West Bank. The movement restrictions policy are severely limiting Palestinians’ access to essential services and markets, and leading to serious and negative impact upon all aspects of their lives, and mainly their livelihoods.
Palestine is a sui generis case for aid delivery and cooperation, due notably to the occupation and the fragmentation of the territory. Efficiency and performance of development cooperation continue to be challenged by the Israeli occupation of Palestine, in all sectors NGOs are involved in. Palestine is divided into the Gaza Strip (under the control of de facto authorities not recognized by the international community), East Jerusalem (a de facto annexation by Israel also not recognized) and the West Bank (over which the Palestinian Authority (PA) has entire control only on Area A, i.e. 18% of the West Bank). The PA has therefore only a very limited authority, both in terms of territory and legal jurisdiction.
The situation of the PA remains challenging, with the persistence of a systemic fiscal crisis and crisis of political legitimacy following the suspension of the Palestinian Legislative Council in 2007 and the absence of national elections subsequently. In July 2013 direct talks were resumed between Israelis and Palestinians in the context of the Middle East Peace Process with the ambitious aim of achieving -agreement on all final status issues within nine months. The failure of the peace talking and the operation “Protective Edge” leaded to a more tense escalation, for which international NGOs are challenged to respond with innovative and sustainable cooperation strategies.
GVC’s development strategy in the country
The consolidation of the PA institutional infrastructure open to foster democratic participation of civil society, through the improvement of representative processes and the implementation of specific effective tools to promote dialogue. These criteria should lead any kind of intervention, preparing both decentralized institution and civil society to better advocate for a final recognition of Palestinian statehood.
GVC focuses strategically on 4 main sectors for its development program, namely:
-Food Security
-Local Development and Governance
-Integrate Water Resource Management
-LRRD: Linking Relief, Rehabilitation and Development

Job Description

Tasks and Responsibilities

Technical monitoring and supervision of the GVC Community-based Protection Approach (CPA) in Tubas Office
In close collaboration with the Social Team and the MEAL officer, the Protection Officer will manage, mainstream and assure consistency of the implementation of GVC Community-based Protection Approach in all targeted communities (North of West Bank) – including the technical supervision of:
-The data field analysis
-The Protection Response Plan
-The Community Response Plan
-Changing session
-Narrative analysis
-Development of CPA tools
-AoB.

Technical review of the Protection Tools produced by other Partners
-Technical Protection Review of Protection Community Profiles, Protection Responses Plans, Narrative analysis etc.
-Providing Technical advices to Partners to improve the Protection analysis
-Linking Internal Protection Analysis with other Protection Guidelines / Standards

Stakeholders Policy Analysis
In close collaboration with the GVC Advocacy and Policy department, the Protection officer will take part to:
-Stakeholders Mapping
-Stakeholders Strategies Analysis
-Linking the Stakeholders Analysis with Internal strategies

Protection data review
-Data cleaning
-Coordination with relevant stakeholders
-Design of Procedures of data collection / data cleaning

Protection data analysis
-In close collaboration with the Advocacy and Policy department, producing deep Protection data analysis reflecting the Coercive environment impact on the communities; the changes occurred following the Intervention etc.

Other tasks
-Support to the North Team in the implementation of an early warning, reporting and referral mechanism related to Settlers related attacks
-AoB

Report to

-Emergency Coordinator
-North Area Manager
Accountable to
-Emergency Coordinator
Works in coordination with

-Tubas Area Manager
-MEAL officers
-Field Coordinator
-Social Coordinator
-IT Manager
-Project Manager
-Protection officer in Hebron

Duty Station

Ramallah and Tubas. Frequent travels in West Bank

Core and Functional Competences

Required knowledge and skills

-An advanced university degree or equivalent in the field of Protection or Political Science, Development Studies, International relations, Project Management.
-Minimum of 3 to 5 years of relevant working experience in related fields with a focus in the area of Protection / Data analysis.
-Previous work experience with international NGOs will be preferred.
-Valid and clean driving license
-Excellent command in spoken and written English
-Computer skills, in particular MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook, MS Project
Required Personal Characteristics

-Ability to think strategically and conceptually and to translate these into concrete results.
-Ability to identify, initiate and maintain good relationships with partner organisations and national authorities including building professional relationships with senior decision-makers and influencers / leaders.
-Proven organisational skills and ability to effectively manage multiple tasks while fostering quality, team spirit and positive working relationships with colleagues.
-Strong interpersonal relationships and demonstrated ability to leverage business networks and partnerships for continued growth.
-Ability to work under pressure.
-Demonstrates integrity by modeling the NGO values and ethical standards.
-Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability.
-Treats all people fairly without favoritism

Application process

Starting date: As soon as possible
Application: Interested candidates should send their CV and Cover Letter to: