Protection Expert Capacity Strengthening and Systems Engagement

Overview

Provides national-level technical expertise to strengthen GBV prevention and response systems and IRC’s engagement with national and local partners in Ukraine.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain effective technical engagement with relevant institutions and partner organizations.
• Conduct and coordinate institutional and partner capacity and needs assessments.
• Manage the technical engagement with the WPE partner portfolio.
• Design and deliver capacity strengthening activities for institutions and partner organizations.
• Develop and apply tools to monitor capacity strengthening results.
• Provide technical guidance and accompaniment to WPE partners.
• Initiate and technically guide programme interventions aimed at addressing identified institutional and system-level gaps.
• Maintain technical engagement with relevant public institutions and authorities.
• Contribute to the development and adaptation of technical guidance, SOPs, methodologies, assessment tools, training resources, and other technical products.
• Maintain and regularly update mapping of women-led organizations (WLOs), women’s rights organizations (WROs), and other relevant Ukrainian organizations working on GBV prevention, response, and women’s protection and empowerment.
• Work closely with the Partnerships Department to support partner identification and engagement.
• Facilitate connections, peer exchange, and learning opportunities among institutions, partner organizations, WLOs/WROs, and relevant professional networks.
• Monitor relevant institutional, policy, and regulatory developments affecting GBV prevention and response in Ukraine.
• Coordinate closely with Protection Technical Experts and other WPE team members.
• Document results, lessons learned, promising practices, and emerging needs from institutional and partner engagement.

Required Experience

• Minimum 7 years of progressively responsible professional experience in GBV programming, workforce development, capacity strengthening, systems strengthening, adult education, or professional learning initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience developing training curricula, learning programmes, facilitator guides, training packages, and capacity strengthening strategies.
• Proven experience designing and facilitating trainings, workshops, ToT programmes, mentoring initiatives, and professional development activities.
• Experience developing SOPs, technical guidance, methodologies, standards, and quality assurance frameworks.
• Experience working with government institutions, educational institutions, professional associations, accreditation bodies, or professional networks.
• Demonstrated experience supporting institutional strengthening and professional workforce development within humanitarian, development, social protection, health, education, justice, or related sectors.
• Experience engaging with national-level stakeholders and facilitating multi-stakeholder collaboration processes.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in social work, psychology, gender studies, education, adult learning, human rights, public administration, law or a related field.
• Additional qualifications in curriculum development, instructional design, adult learning methodologies, Training of Trainers (ToT), professional certification systems, capacity strengthening, or GBV programming are considered a strong asset.

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