الوصف الوظيفي:Position: Integrated Protection and Gender Coordinator
Duty Station: Hebron with frequent travel across West Bank
Reporting to: Head of Programmes
Start Date: ASAP
Contract: 6 months initial contract, open to renewal
Salary: between 7650 ILS – 9000 ILS per month depending on experience
WeWorld is an independent Italian organization that has been working in international cooperation and humanitarian aid for 50 years. Present in 27 countries with more than 120 projects, WeWorld operates in the following areas of assistance: humanitarian aid (prevention, emergency relief and rehabilitation), food security, access to water, health and hygiene, education, human rights (gender equality, prevention and combating violence against children and women, migration), global citizenship education, quality teaching and international volunteering. WeWorld works mostly with girls, boys, women and youth, actors of change in every community for a fairer and more inclusive world. WeWorld supports people overcoming emergencies and guarantees a life with dignity, opportunities, and a better future through human and economic development programs, in the framework of the 2030 Agenda.
Since 2020, WeWorld has rapidly expanded its operations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, leading to a need for additional personnel to assist its current emergency operations, and to lead the future expansion in the development area.
Purpose of the Role:
The Integrated Protection and Gender Coordinator is responsible for ensuring the effective design, implementation, and monitoring of protection-oriented interventions within WeWorld, facilitating the definition of the integrated protection and gender strategy in-country, promoting protection and gender mainstreaming across programmes and projects as well as safe, confidential and effective referral pathways through high-quality referral system and solid SOPs, under the guidance of Global Protection and Community Engagement Expert and in close collaboration with other programme sector leads in the mission, other relevant staff members and external stakeholders.
The Integrated Protection and Gender Coordinator performs a cross-cutting role within the oPt mission, with a variety of functions and tasks. She/he is responsible for mentoring, training and building the technical capacities of the staff operating on the ground, particularly protection officers and community engagement officers, in coordination with the CEA Coordinator.
Main Tasks and Responsibilities:
Programme Design and Management
Design a comprehensive integrated protection and gender strategy in the oPt, contributing to the overall in-country programmatic strategy and in line with regional and global strategies and priorities, consistently to international standards.
Provide strategic direction, leadership and overall technical management of WeWorld’s integrated protection response in West Bank and Gaza, ensuring high program quality and appropriately phased scaling up of interventions.
Ensure technical programme quality and alignment with global core standards, including the Inter-Agency Minimum Standards for GBV in Emergencies Programming and the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action.
Mainstream protection across the main humanitarian sectors of WeWorld’s interventions in the oPt, prioritizing ‘do no harm’, meaningful access and participation, safety and dignity, empowerment, and accountability, in close collaboration with the CEA Coordinator and the MEAL Department.
Lead and directly contribute to the design, implementation, and coordination of WeWorld’s emergency integrated protection and gender programming, focusing on women and girls’ protection and empowerment interventions.
Support the Head of Programmes in resources mobilization and seeking new funding opportunities for integrated protection and gender type of interventions.
Manage, strengthen and monitor the proper functionality of WeWorld’s IPA referral system in the oPt, proposing simplification and improvements, in cooperation with the Data Analyst and the Digital Solutions Manager in the mission.
Act as WeWorld’s Referral Focal Point for the WBPC, supporting the implementation of the Consortium’s multi-sector referral mechanism in line with the related ToR, understanding and promoting complementarities with the IPA.
Promote alignment with WeWorld’s Code of Conduct, PSEAH and Safeguarding (including Child Safeguarding) policies on a programmatic level, in collaboration with the oPt Safeguarding Focal Point.
Ensure Disability Inclusion is mainstreamed across WeWorld interventions in the oPt and meaningful access to assistance is guaranteed for all, especially the most vulnerable and marginalized groups and individuals.
Dedicate a specific focus and efforts on identifying and plan for the most effective mitigation of potential and actual gaps and obstacles to inclusion across all intervention sectors and areas.
Technical and Operational Support
Ensure technical program quality and alignment of other macro-sectoral interventions with global and minimum standards, including the Inter-Agency Minimum Standards for GBV in Emergencies Programming and the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action.
Ensure high-quality implementation and monitoring of the strategic oPt Protection Roadmap, in coordination with the Global Protection and Community Engagement Expert, enriching it with context-specific insights and technical inputs.
Promote inter-sectoral referrals such that individuals can claim their rights and access the entire minimum package of services across sectors.
Ensure a holistic response to GBV cases is prioritized on the ground and mentor frontline -specialized and non-specialized- staff to follow standard operating procedures for safe and confidential referrals and disclosures’ reception.
Develop and/or adapt technical tools and approaches and deliver creative solutions to mitigate challenges in the operating context and facilitate day-to-day implementation.
Identify relevant capacity building opportunities to improve capacities of the protection staff related to gender-based violence and child protection through internal resources and external actors.
Ensure that the field and protection officers always apply the IPA component in the field in full respect of ‘do no harm’ and protection principles.
Ensure compliance of required procedures and recommended tools for the identification, assessment, monitoring, and referral of Persons with Specific Needs (PwSN).
Provide technical support and assistance to projects teams and mainly in assessments design, planning, implementation, and reporting guaranteeing high quality standards.
Participate in the identification and assessment of IPA cases and support/advise protection officers in monitoring of the referrals, in line with the IPA SOPs.
Ensure integrated protection and protection and gender mainstreaming in all WeWorld projects and proposals, and implementation of the projects.
Staff Management and Capacity Building
Recruit, on-board, and technically supervise protection teams, and provide targeted capacity building and professional development as needed, including technical guidance, on-the-job coaching and supervision, and capacity development plans on technical skills.
Develop work plans for integrated protection and gender activities, highlighting milestones and key deliverables.
Develop a plan to ensure a smooth and effective supervision of the implementation of the protection tools, proposing and creating new simplified ones, in compliance with minimum international standards.
Provide regular capacity building, mentoring and coaching to the protection officers and community engagement officers to ensure that integrated protection and gender components are implemented according to the minimum international standards and that referrals are conducted safely, confidentially and effectively.
Comply with and ensure that new protection staff are acquainted with WeWorld Code of Conduct and policies related to PSEAH and Child Safeguarding. This includes ensuring that staff and communities have knowledge of and safe, confidential access to reporting mechanisms and support services.
Communicate effectively with WeWorld’s project managers, Head of Programmes, Head of Operations, Global Protection and Community Engagement Expert, sharing information and discussing protection and gender gaps and concerns.
Assist in the coordination of visits and meetings related to integrated protection and gender issues on the ground in coordination with other projects teams.
Monitoring, Reporting, Research and Analysis
Strengthen sectoral monitoring and reporting capacities to capture disaggregated gender, age, disability data and other relevant characteristics to understand protection risks specific to the context, in close collaboration with MEAL Department.
Identify potential protection and gender risks and gaps in the current WeWorld’s humanitarian response in West Bank and Gaza Strip in other relevant sectors of action and develop a context-specific risk mitigation plan and related monitoring plan, with the support of the MEAL and Operations Departments.
Ensure that multi-sector risks are incorporated into protection risk analysis and that threats that increase the likelihood of harm to a population are duly addressed and monitored within WeWorld response.
Process and monitor IPA referrals on the IPA Information Management System, in cooperation with the protection officers, ensuring up-to-date reporting and analysis.
Conduct research and analysis on integrating gender-based violence interventions in humanitarian action and particularly WeWorld’s main sectors and modalities of intervention in Palestine, such as WASH, FSL, Shelter, Education/Child Protection, Cash and Voucher, including Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance.
Integrate protection analysis and information from Protection Cluster, sub-clusters and inter-sectoral technical working groups to reflect the different risks and barriers in accessing assistance (health, education, legal, financial etc.).
Contribute to an effective Incident Reporting mechanism within the West Bank Protection Consortium, actively supervising the reporting and monitoring of the disruption of donor-funded infrastructures in the West bank and East Jerusalem.
Prepare regular reports and briefings on integrated protection and gender-related findings and recommendations for internal and external purposes.
Enrich and regularly update WeWorld oPt service mapping, with focus on Protection, Health, including MHPSS, GBV, Child Protection sectors.
Develop and apply (integrated) protection and gender-tailored indicators for monitoring and evaluating the impact of programs and initiatives, in coordination with the MEAL Department.
Plan, elaborate and ensure effective protection analysis and gender, age and diversity disaggregation of data collected, in collaboration with the Community Engagement and Accountability Coordinator and the Research and Data Analysis Specialist, to inform programmatic decisions and reporting.
Support in donor engagement and reporting on integrated protection and gender-related topics.
Coordination, Representation and Communication
Represent WeWorld in the fora and coordination meetings organized by the Protection Cluster, GBV Area of Responsibility (AoR), Child Protection AoR in West Bank and Gaza Strip, duly coordinating WeWorld response and proactively proposing relevant initiatives in cooperation with other cluster’s partners and key stakeholders, paying a special attention in minimizing overlapping and duplication risks.
Networking and actively develop and maintain effective working relationships with key actors, including donors, government actors, UN agencies, international and local NGOs, and other relevant actors.
Work closely with key external stakeholders and increase partnerships with crucial service providers in the areas of intervention, including maintaining and creating strong referral pathways to support IPA effective implementation.
Ensure protection risks and concerns are brought to relevant fora to advocate for standards and procedures that systematize integrated protection and gender programming’s implementation, strengthening existent (formal and informal) coordination mechanisms on the ground.
Coordinate programme sector leads and cluster focal points’ support on finding opportunities for inter-sectoral integrations and applying the oPt Protection Roadmap, in consultation with project managers and frontline staff.
Coordinate with relevant stakeholders, including government agencies, NGOs, and community-based organizations, to ensure the achievement of effective and sustainable protection outcomes for the affected individuals and communities.
Coordinate with cross-sectoral areas of work, e.g. MHPSS via the MHPSS Technical Working Group, to incorporate data and indicators that are relevant to the cross-sectoral work stream within each project.
Referrals Focal Point:
Prevention
Defines PSEAH related training modules for programme staff focused on the activities to be implemented and detected risks;
Supports in conducting/organising refreshment training for programme staff focused on the activities to be implemented and detected risks;
Facilitates awareness raising events for the communities about PSEAH obligations, child safeguarding, reporting mechanisms and survivor assistance., coordinating with programme staff and MEAL;
Monitors that awareness raising material on PSEAH is present in the communities targeted by the implemented programmes /projects, contributes to the definition of awareness raising material and their dissemination at community level in coordination with programme staff;
Collaborates and contributes to PSEAH Partner assessment in coordination with the Partnership Development manager and raise awareness of partners on CoEC and PSEAH policies and mechanisms for reporting allegations;
Supports the managers in the assessment and mitigation of SEAH related risks at programmes /project level, reports the relevant seah/safeguarding risks detected and may contribute to suggest /define mitigation measures at project/programme level.
Other activities
Attends PSEA Network’s coordination meetings in country and coordinates with them and other relevant organisations to ensure the implementation of an effective PSEAH strategy throughout projects and programmes implemented in the Country (Programmatic focus), ensuring periodical reporting to the network as required;
Supports senior management in implementing other PSEAH-related activities, as appropriate;
متطلبات الوظيفة:Bachelors degree in a related field (social sciences, humanities, human rights, political sciences, or other relevant fields
Minimum experience of 3 years in same or similar role
Minimum experience of 3 years in an NGO
Previous coordinator experience
Proficiency in MS Office (Excel, Word, etc.)
Fluency in Arabic and English
Legal right to work in West Bank
Residence in or near the advertised duty station
Willingness to frequently travel to local communities
Willingness to travel to other WeWorld offices in West Bank upon request
تفاصيل الوظيفة:المسمى الوظيفي: Integrated Protection and Gender Coordination
آخر موعد للتقديم: 23.08.2026.
المكان: الخليل
طبيعة العمل: مكتبي أو ميداني (مقر العمل)
نوع الوظيفة: دوام كامل
المستوى المهني: متوسط الخبرة
الراتب: 7650 ILS – 9000 ILS
الدرجة العلمية: البكالوريوس
الخبرة: 3 سنوات
التصنيف: حقوق الإنسان والمساواة بين الجنسين والحماية
آلية التقديم:WeWorld is an equal opportunity organization and will not allow discrimination based upon age, ethnicity, ancestry, gender, national origin, disability, race, size, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, or any other status prohibited by applicable law. WeWorld has also a zero-tolerance approach to any harm to, or exploitation of, a child or a vulnerable adult by any of our staff, related persons or partners. Safeguarding checks are part of the selection process. WeWorld commitment to being a safe organization begins with the staff recruitment process which includes meticulous checks, such as criminal records checks or check disclosure of previous convictions, to ensure children and vulnerable people are safeguarded and abuse is prevented. WeWorld promotes a welcoming, diverse and discrimination- and harassment-free workplace and expects the highest standards of behaviour from all its staff, who are requested to adhere to the principles and behavioural rules defined in the CoEC and the Organisational Policies. The CoEC and all the internal policies can be found here:
www.weworld.it/en/about-us/transparency.
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