Senior Protection Manager (Women Protection and Empowerment)

The Senior Protection Manager provides senior-level operational leadership and technical oversight for all Women’s Protection & Empowerment programming in South Kordofan. The role ensures quality and compliance with IRC and global GBV standards, supervises teams, and coordinates with other sectors in a volatile emergency context.

Responsibilities

• Provide overall leadership and oversight of WPE programming in South Kordofan, ensuring safe survivor centered and contextually appropriate service delivery.
• Ensure high-quality implementation of GBV case management, PSS, referrals, and emergency response services, with a strong focus on CRSV.
• Translate country-level WPE strategies into effective field-level implementation plans.
• Adapt programming in response to evolving security, access, and displacement dynamics.
• Ensure adherence to global GBV standards, IRC policies, and WPE SOPs.
• Oversee ethical and secure use of GBVIMS, including data quality, confidentiality, and trend analysis for operational decision-making.
• Ensure risk mitigation measures are integrated across all WPE activities.
• Directly supervise WPE Officers, Case Workers, Outreach Workers, and other WPE staff based in South Kordofan.
• Promote a supportive, accountable, and learning-oriented team culture.
• Lead recruitment, onboarding, performance management, and staff development in coordination with HR and senior management.
• Provide ongoing coaching, mentoring, and technical support, with attention to staff wellbeing and burnout prevention.
• Represent IRC WPE programming in South Kordofan in inter-agency coordination mechanisms, including GBV sub-cluster and Protection meetings.
• Maintain effective working relationships with health partners, local authorities, UN agencies, and national NGOs.
• Strengthen referral pathways and inter-sectoral integration at field level.
• Escalate operational challenges, protection trends, and access constraints to senior management.
• Oversee implementation of WPE grants in South Kordofan, ensuring alignment with approved work plans, budgets, and indicators.
• Track expenditures in coordination with Finance and Operations to support timely and compliant implementation.
• Contribute to donor and internal reporting, ensuring accuracy and quality of field-level inputs.
• Support proposal development, revisions, and budgeting for South Kordofan-based WPE programming.
• Identify emerging needs, gaps, and opportunities for expansion or adaptation of services.
• Support preparedness for scale-up or rapid response in response to new displacement or access opportunities.
• Lead and manage partnerships with local and national NGOs and service providers in South Kordofan, ensuring coordinated, survivor-centered GBV programming aligned with IRC standards, safeguarding, and agreed workplans.
• Provide technical oversight and capacity strengthening to partners through mentoring, joint monitoring, and supportive supervision, particularly in GBV case management, referrals, PSS, and ethical information management.
• Monitor partner performance and manage risks, ensuring timely reporting, quality service delivery, and effective integration within GBV referral pathways.
• Monitor and assess safety and security risks affecting WPE teams in South Kordofan.
• Ensure compliance with IRC security protocols and safeguarding policies.
• Promote a strong duty-of-care culture for all staff.
• Perform other duties as assigned to support IRC’s emergency response and protection objectives.

Requirements

• Master’s degree or equivalent in public health, social sciences, gender studies, international development, or a related field.
• At least 3-5 years of experience in GBV/VAWG programming, including significant experience in emergency and conflict settings.
• Demonstrated experience managing field-based teams and direct implementation in insecure environments.
• Strong technical expertise in GBV case management, CRSV response, and survivor-centered programming.
• Experience using GBVIMS and ensuring ethical data management.
• Proven experience in grant implementation, reporting, and donor compliance.
• Strong leadership, communication, and coordination skills.
• Ability to work under pressure in volatile contexts.
• Fluency in English required; Arabic strongly preferred.

Skills

• GBV Programming
• eVAWG Programming
• Emergency Response
• Conflict Settings
• Field Team Management
• Insecure Environment Management
• GBV Case Management
• CRSV Response
• Survivor-Centered Programming
• GBVIMS
• Ethical Data Practices
• Grant Implementation
• Donor Compliance
• Reporting
• Leadership
• Coordination
• Public Health
• Social Sciences
• Gender Studies
• International Development

Languages

English, Arabic