The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is one of the world's largest international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGO), at work in more than 40 countries and 29 U.S. cities helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future and strengthen their communities. A force for humanity, IRC employees deliver lasting impact by restoring safety, dignity and hope to millions. If you're a solutions-driven, passionate change-maker, come join us in positively impacting the lives of millions of people world-wide for a better future.Background/IRC Summary:  The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is a private, non-political, non-profit, and non-religious organization. For over 90 years, we have been providing humanitarian assistance to communities affected by conflict and natural disasters in more than 40 countries. Since 2008, the IRC has been active in Myanmar, delivering humanitarian assistance in areas such as health, protection, water, and sanitation, specifically targeting families impacted by conflict and natural disasters. Job Overview/Summary: The Protection & Rule of Law Programming will aim to prevent and respond to the different protection concern among the individuals affected by massive earthquake in Myanmar targeting the injured, displaced, people who have lost legal documents, psychological distress, family separated, and at risk of rights violation.  It will focus on 1) protection risk assessment and monitoring for referrals, 2) information services in emergencies, 3) protection case management including Emergency Protection Assistance, 4) safe spaces for children, women, elderly and PwD to facilitate PFA and 5) protection capacity building including protection mainstreaming, humanitarian principles, PSEA etc. Major Responsibilities: Lead and provide guidance to the team on the protection concepts, workplan, targeting and budget management. Provide support in documenting the service mapping and regularly updating the service mapping.Implement case management including emergency protection assistance and MHPSS support through safe spaces.  Assess, analyze, plan the protection incident for child protection case management and emergency protection assistance.  Guide the Protection Monitors and Protection Outreach Focal Point on the child protection case identification, assessment, and referral as required. Liaise with the protection technical team at Yangon for needed support on capacity and programming. Manage documentation, reporting for all the protection response project.Provide key message orientation to the partners and protection team for protection information sharing.Provide referrals to the other sectoral services as identified. Promote protection mainstreaming standards and monitor in the services delivered by IRC and partners. Key Working Relationships: Position Reports to: Protection Team LeaderPosition directly supervises: Nil


Minimum Qualifications:Job Requirements:At least 2 years of protection programming experience in the field areas Bachelor’s degree in social work, law and social science Ability to critical thinking, timeliness, coordination and collaboration skillsAbility to handle individual and community interactions and discussions  Familiarity with program design, including log frames, budgeting and grants/report writing Familiarity with M&E system design and implementation, preferredMyanmar nationals with relevant skills sets and proven experience of working at international level are strongly encouraged.The IRC Core Values and Commitments.The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, Equality and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity Anti-Retaliation and Combating Trafficking in Persons.IRC is committed to ensuring that IRC staff are suitable to work with children and have the knowledge s/he needs to uphold and abide by the IRC’s Child Safeguarding Policy.Level of interaction with children: Frequent direct contact with children.IRC ensures that its staff must actively practice the roles and responsibilities related to client responsiveness, accountability to people in affected communities and must have competencies to solicits and listens to feedback and other’s perspectives, responds to feedback with maturity and sensitivity and takes appropriate decisions and makes changes to behavior or actions in response to feedback.IRC recognizes that gender equality is fundamental to the achievement of our organizational mission. As such, IRC is committed to the promotion of gender equality in all aspects of our operations and programs. Our organizational policies, procedures and actions demonstrate this commitment. 
Standard of Professional Conduct:The IRC and the IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in the IRC Way – our Code of Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, Accountability, and Equality.