Overview
The Protection Officer will provide strategic, technical, and managerial coordination for IOM Guinea’s Protection portfolios, ensuring high-quality implementation and alignment with IOM policies and international standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate the implementation of IOM Guinea’s Protection portfolios.
- Manage the full implementation of protection programmes, including planning, budgeting, donor compliance, reporting, and monitoring.
- Provide technical support and guidance to protection teams.
- Contribute to the development of new protection and/or MHPSS project proposals.
- Supervise and provide technical guidance to the mission’s protection and MHPSS teams.
- Ensure effective workload planning, performance management, mentoring, and capacity development of protection teams.
- Promote the consistent application of harmonized tools, methodologies, and approaches.
- Coordinate and monitor quality implementation of protection case management, MHPSS support, and referrals.
- Ensure protection and MHPSS interventions adopt a rights-based, Age Gender and Diversity (AGD)-sensitive and survivor-centred approach.
- Contribute to the development, revision, and coordination of the implementation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
- Establish, maintain, and strengthen working relationships with relevant government institutions, UN agencies, NGOs, and civil society organizations.
- Coordinate the development and operationalization of referral pathways.
- Represent IOM in relevant national and sub-national coordination mechanisms, technical working groups, and inter-agency fora.
- Plan and coordinate capacity building of staff and partners on protection.
- Coordinate closely with Protection from Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (PSEAH) Officer.
- Support the reinforcement of government and partner technical capacities.
- Ensure high-quality donor and institutional reporting of protection activities.
- Coordinate knowledge management, learning, and documentation of good practices.
- Ensure donor visibility and compliance with IOM and donor communication requirements.
- Perform other duties as may be assigned.
Required Experience
- At least five years of relevant professional experience with a Master's degree (or higher), or seven years of relevant professional experience with a University degree.
- Experience in designing protection, counter-trafficking and related support programmes in various contexts.
- Experience in coordination, community-based approaches that are customized to address a range of vulnerabilities across diverse groups to prevent main risk factors such as human trafficking, re-migration.
- Professional experience in direct implementation of protection programming in contexts of migration or displacement.
- Experience of working in the field and familiarity with the region will be an advantage.
- Proven experience in managing multi-project protection and/or MHPSS portfolios, including supervision.
Qualifications
Master’s degree (or higher) in Political or Human Sciences, International Relations, Public Administration Management, or a related field from an accredited academic institution; or, University degree in the above fields.
