Protection from Violence Specialist 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

occupied Palestinian territory

Protection from Violence Specialist Palestine

Organization

• Norwegian Refugee Council

Posted 14 Sep 2026 Closing date 28 Sep 2026

Background

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has been present in Palestine since 2009. NRC implements programming directly and in collaboration with partners in five Core Competencies: Shelter & Site Management, Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH), Information Counselling and legal Assistance (ICLA), Protection from Violence (PfV) and Education. NRC Palestine implements programming both directly as well as through a wide network of partners. Last year, NRC served nearly 600,000 unique program participants. NRC’s programming in Palestine has a strong humanitarian, protection and resilience focus that looks to meet vital needs through sustainable solutions to increase early recovery outcomes through integrated programme responses. In this complex, challenging operating environment in Palestine, NRC is working to strengthen the quality, responsiveness, integration, and sustainability of our programmes. Protection from Violence is the newest program introduced into NRC Palestine’s program portfolio.

What We Are Looking For

A qualified, motivated Protection from Violence Specialist who will be tasked with leading the strategic direction of the program, quality, fundraising and advocacy for the PfV program within NRC Palestine. In addition, the PfV Specialist will be responsible for mentoring, training, and capacity building of PfV teams in the West Bank and Gaza Area Offices, who deliver services on the ground.

If you are a passionate, seasoned leader with extensive experience in Protection, capacity building, strategy development and programme quality, we would like to hear from you!

What You Will Do

The role will have the following 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.

Please download the detailed job description to learn more about the position.

What You Will Bring

• 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.

What We Offer

• Duty station: West Bank, Palestine or Amman, Jordan
• Travel: Approximately 10% to areas of operation.
• Salary/benefits: Grade 9 on NRC’s salary scale.
• NRC is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to diversity without distinction to age, gender, religion, ethnicity, nationality, and physical ability.
• 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.

Why NRC?

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. Our 15,000 staff work in crises across 40 countries, providing life-saving and long-term assistance to millions of people every year.

NRC currently has over 3,000 staff across the Middle East dedicated to assisting people affected by conflict in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Libya and Palestine. Its humanitarian interventions are based upon its programming expertise in the Core Competencies of Shelter, Education, WASH, Livelihoods and Food Security, and Information Counselling and Legal Assistance (ICLA) to vulnerable displaced people that were forced to flee.

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About

We are looking for people who are passionate about helping refugees and people forced to flee. Are you one of those people? If you are, NRC offers you the opportunity to:

• do demanding and professional work, often in challenging contexts.
• join a work culture that empowers every employee to share ideas and take responsibility.
• be part of a welcoming and supportive community committed to human dignity.

Learn more about NRC's operations in Palestine here.

Job details

• occupied Palestinian territory
• Norwegian Refugee Council
• Job
• Program/Project Management
• 5-9 years
• Protection and Human Rights

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