Senior Program Manager - Protection
Humanitarian Policy and Practice Team
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Senior Program Manager, Humanitarian Practice and Protection
Full-time
Washington, DC
Director for Protection
Purpose:
Efforts to enhance protection of vulnerable populations affected by armed conflict, other
situations of unrest and instability, and natural disaster face significant policy and operational
challenges. The role of the Senior Program Manager for Protection is to work closely with
InterAction members to address these challenges and to provide leadership to strengthen
practice in key areas, including through policy and standards development and active
engagement with other actors and external fora.
Responsibilities:
1. Provide strategic leadership for and manage a new project to develop and promote resultsbased approaches to protection programming in close collaboration with the Protection
Working Group and in consultation with other Working Groups and members. This will
include facilitating an inter-agency collaborative process to collect and distil good practice,
and the development and dissemination of appropriate analytical, program design, and
monitoring and evaluation tools and guidance.
2. Support InterAction’s Protection and GBV Working Groups in the development and
implementation of their workplans, in particular to pursue and strengthen context-specific
policy and practice change, including through research and facilitation of information flow,
jointly drafting materials and policy briefs. Take on additional responsibilities to facilitate
Working Groups in conjunction with Protection team members, as needed.
3. Facilitate regular and strategic engagement by InterAction members with relevant U.S.
government offices and officials and UN entities on thematic and context-specific
protection objectives. Foster and maintain successful working partnerships, undertaking
outreach to relevant external stakeholders within the US government, UN entities, subject
matter experts, and others.
4. Initiate and facilitate efforts to help to ensure that protection considerations are included in
relevant context-specific and other thematic policy development and advocacy activities.
5. Undertake field visits, including jointly with InterAction members, to assess humanitarian
need and responses in contexts of concern, and develop and pursue recommendations to
address protection concerns.
6. Represent InterAction in external fora and inter-agency coordination mechanisms, such as
the IASC, the Global Protection Cluster and US government consultations, in close
collaboration with InterAction members.
7. Identify critical gaps, barriers, and opportunities to advance humanitarian protection and
work closely with HPP team members, Protection and context-specific Working Groups, and
other members to address them.
8. Other activities as required by the Director of Protection.
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Masters degree in a relevant field or equivalent work experience;
5-7 years experience in programs related to humanitarian protection in contexts of armed
conflict and/or natural disaster and with international humanitarian response more broadly;
Experience in developing and managing multi-sectoral humanitarian programs using a
results-based approach;
Experience with humanitarian impact measurement a plus;
Experience managing collaborative inter-agency program design and/or policy processes;
Knowledge of the international humanitarian coordination architecture and the UN system;
Knowledge of international humanitarian law, human rights law, and refugee law;
Familiarity with current issues related to humanitarian protection and key policy and
operational challenges to enhancing protection in practice;
Strong research, writing, organizational and verbal communications skills, including
presentation experience;
Experience and skills in designing and organizing events, such as workshops and policy
roundtables;
Strong interpersonal skills and experience managing, facilitating and representing the
interests of diverse constituencies;
Availability for domestic and international travel.
Physical Requirements:
There are no extraordinary physical requirements for the performance of the essential
functions of this position. InterAction will make reasonable accommodation to enable
individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
Salary & Benefits
InterAction provides competitive salaries and excellent benefits.
To Apply:
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Email cover letter and resume to jobapplications@interaction.org .
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Put “Senior Program Manager - Protection” on the subject line.
Position is open until filled but applications received prior to May 14 are preferred and
applications will be reviewed as they are received.
Due to the expected volume of interest, only candidates considered will be contacted.
All applicants must be able to provide documentation that they are legally eligible to work
in the United States (US citizenship or “Green Card”).
No phone calls please.
Thank you for your interest
Deadline: Open until filled, with applications preferred by 05/14/2012.
About InterAction:
InterAction is the largest alliance of U.S.-based international nongovernmental organizations
(NGOs), with more than 190 members working in every developing country. Members are
faith-based and secular, large and small, with a focus on the world’s most poor and vulnerable
populations. The U.S. public, foundations and others support the efforts of our membership via
funding totaling more than $13 billion a year, according to 2009 estimates. InterAction’s funds
come from dues and generous grants from others, such as foundations.
Using its collective voice, InterAction seeks to shape important policy decisions on relief and
long term development issues, including foreign assistance, the environment, women, health,
education and agriculture. Members are at the forefront in responding to humanitarian crises
and disasters worldwide and InterAction acts as a hub in these efforts.
Alliance members adhere to standards drawn up by InterAction, which aim to ensure
accountability and transparency in financial management, fundraising, governance and
program performance.