PfV Program Lead – Palestine

ReliefWeb; Palestine (TX); On-site; USD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Duty station: West Bank, Palestine or?

Travel: ~10%

Salary/benefits: Grade 9

Equal opportunity employer

Job summary

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is seeking a Protection from Violence Specialist to lead the PfV program in Palestine, overseeing strategy, quality, fundraising, and advocacy. The role includes mentoring PfV teams across West Bank and Gaza and remote coaching as needed.

Ideal candidates will bring extensive Protection experience, strong cross-cutting skills, and the ability to coordinate with regional advisors and multi-agency partners. Fluency in English is required, Arabic is an advantage.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years of experience with Protection programming in a humanitarian/ recovery context.
• A bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (law, social sciences or related disciplines). An advanced academic qualification will be an added advantage.
• Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts.
• Expertise in the field of Protection.
• Excellent understanding of key technical standards (IASC, protection mainstreaming, IHL, gender and humanitarian principles, donor markers on gender and disability etc.) and a demonstrated ability to integrate them into programming.
• Knowledge of the Palestine humanitarian context.
• Experience with scale-up of projects and emergency contexts.
• Experience in the design and delivery of team capacity strengthening, including remote coaching, mentoring and training.
• Experience with remote management and working modalities.
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal.
• Previous experience of coordinating multi-agencies forum.
• Knowledge of Arabic language, written and verbal, is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Analyse response data to produce succinct analytical Protection reports, to be shared with both external and internal stakeholders, highlighting key protection trends and concerns.
• Collaborate with other relevant internal partners, including access and advocacy colleagues and promote alignment, integration and multi-sectoral analyses and responses.
• Maintain strategic relationship with Regional Protection and Thematic Advisors to receive technical support in implementation of the PfV program including support in aligning in-country programme with Global guidelines and SOPs.
• Ensure in-country technical standards, guidance notes, and programming resources for protection of civilians programming align with NRC global standards and are adapted to the context in each Area Office.
• Assess training and development needs within the Protection from Violence teams, develop capacity building plan and implement the plan with the support of the Protection from Violence Managers or Coordinators, develop training materials based on relevant programme guidelines and SOPs and roll-out training to the Civilian Self-Protection and Individual Response Services teams.
• Any other tasks as delegated by the line manager.

Skills

Protection programming

Capacity building

Remote coaching

Donor compliance

English fluency

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is seeking a Protection from Violence Specialist to lead the PfV program in Palestine, overseeing strategy, quality, fundraising, and advocacy. The role includes mentoring PfV teams across West Bank and Gaza and remote coaching as needed.

Ideal candidates will bring extensive Protection experience, strong cross-cutting skills, and the ability to coordinate with regional advisors and multi-agency partners. Fluency in English is required, Arabic is an advantage.