Assistant Protection Cluster Coordination Officer (National Expert)

The Assistant Protection Cluster Coordination Officer supports protection analysis, coordination, and community-based responses in southern Ukraine. The role involves monitoring displacement trends, supporting protection coordination, and strengthening local capacity to address protection risks.

Responsibilities

• Support protection monitoring, analysis, and reporting to enable timely and evidence-based humanitarian decision-making.
• Provide technical support to protection partners and community-based organisations on data collection related to protection monitoring, displacement, evacuations, and population movements.
• Build and maintain relationships with local authorities, national organisations, civil society actors, and community groups to strengthen protection responses.
• Analyse protection and displacement data to identify emerging risks, protection gaps, trends, and opportunities for response and advocacy.
• Support data management activities, including assessments, surveys, profiling exercises, data visualisation, mapping, and information analysis.
• Monitor legal, policy, and operational developments affecting the protection environment and provide actionable analysis to partners.
• Support implementation of protection principles, standard operating procedures, guidance, and referral pathways to strengthen protection-centred responses.
• Contribute to capacity strengthening initiatives for local partners and support effective implementation of the 2026 Protection Response Plan.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of experience in the humanitarian sector, including significant experience in protection operations, protection monitoring, community-based protection, or protection coordination within national or international organisations.
• Experience working in humanitarian emergencies or conflict-induced displacement contexts, including an understanding of displacement dynamics, population movements, and inter-sectoral coordination.
• Proven experience in data management, analysis, and the use of evidence to inform programming, operational decision-making, advocacy, and policy development.
• Experience delivering training, mentoring, and capacity-building support to diverse teams and local partners, including community-based organisations and volunteer groups.
• A university degree in political science, social sciences, international studies, or another relevant field.
• Fluency in English and Ukrainian is required; Russian is an advantage.

Skills

• Protection Operations
• Protection Monitoring
• Community-Based Protection
• Protection Coordination
• Humanitarian Emergency Operations
• Displacement Dynamics
• Population Movement Analysis
• Inter-sectoral Coordination
• Data Management
• Data Analysis
• Evidence Based Programming
• Operational Decision-Making
• Advocacy
• Policy Development
• Training Delivery
• Mentorship
• Capacity Building
• Community Engagement

Languages

English, Ukrainian, Russian