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Protection Lead (INT11886)

Oxfam GB via Oxfam GB
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Salary
Per the Oxfam Syria Salary Scale
Location
Damascus, Syria
Type
Contract
Deadline
23 Oct 2026
Closes today
Job Description
  • Conduct ongoing protection analysis, including risks, coping capacities, conflict analysis and risk management
  • Lead the country protection strategy across programming, advocacy and partnerships
  • Build relationships with government bodies such as MOSAL, civil society and other stakeholders on social protection and systems
  • Build the capacity of protection staff and partners in line with Oxfam and global standards
  • Lead the technical design of protection components in donor proposals, including logframes, theories of change and indicators
  • Support high-quality protection implementation and give ongoing technical support to field teams
  • Help programme teams develop work plans, tools, SOPs, referral pathways and guidance
  • Review programme designs to confirm protection outcomes are achieved
  • Commission or conduct learning reviews and evaluations, and apply the learning
  • Keep current on the Syria protection sector and its network
  • Support the Deputy Country Director and Programme Coordinator in integrating protection into humanitarian and early recovery proposals
  • Develop reporting tools and support M&E of protection activities with the MEAL Manager
  • Help identify new protection partners
  • Represent Oxfam in UN, INGO and NGO protection coordination forums
  • Link humanitarian protection with social protection and longer-term development
  • Contribute to regional and global protection work
  • Work with EFSVL, WASH and Gender staff to integrate protection across programmes
  • Provide technical input to recruiting protection staff for Syria
  • Build team capacity on safe programming and support risk analysis of team and partner activities
  • Take part in country planning, strategy development and reviews
Requirements
  • Advanced degree in international development or a gender-related field, or equivalent relevant experience
  • Experience working in the Syrian crisis
  • At least 5 years in humanitarian and development work, ideally field-based protection in conflict or transition settings, including a senior advisory role
  • Proven experience in protection analysis and giving strategic advice to staff or partners
  • Strong conceptual and practical grasp of protection standards and key sector issues
  • Experience with community-based protection
  • Ability to represent Oxfam with sector groups, NGOs, donors and local authorities
  • Excellent written and verbal communication
  • Understanding of protection work with a strong focus on gendered aspects of conflict and abuse
  • Experience building the capacity of staff and partners
  • Fluent English
  • Fluent Arabic (desirable)
  • Knowledge of protection programming in early recovery contexts (desirable)
  • Conflict analysis and participatory research skills (desirable)
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