Protection & Rule of Law (PRoL) Technical Advisor, Asia

• Remain abreast of their region’s contextual developments and provide strategic advice on portfolio development, orientation
• Provide support and guidance to country programs in the development and implementation of violence prevention and response sectoral strategies
• Substantially contribute to the development of proposal theories of change and log frames as relevant and needed
• Support the in-country technical lead in analyzing relevant information including available M&E and client responsiveness data, to prepare for design meetings/conversations
• Advise on program modalities and strategic partnership development based on evidence, scale considerations, and how we can best support, complement, and reinforce local systems
• Provide technical guidance on country and regional partnership strategies including strategic partnerships with governments, multilateral organizations, private sector, CBOs etc.
• Advise on and/or provide hands-on support on assessments, including application and contextualization of technical standards
• Participate in project design meetings for all relevant proposals (remotely or in person)
• Review and validate design meeting decisions around technical design quality, including alignment of narratives, log-frames, and budgets, to IRC standards and outcomes
• Promote and support design collaboration with partners and clients
• Support country teams in their strategic technical dialogue and engagement with critical stakeholders (donors, peer organisations, policy-makers, academia etc.)
• Act as the technical entry point to gender equality and diversity inclusion in programs questions by provide guidance and orientation to country teams to relevant internal and external resources, learning and best practices

• Support country programs and other stakeholders with the identification of skillsets required for quality protection programming incl. but not limited to recruitment and mentoring of technical staff
• Assess program quality and inform improvements, providing follow up support to country programs as needed
• Collaborate with country program colleagues to monitor and analyze key indicators to inform periodic review, program adaptation, and course-correction as needed
• Provide technical capacity strengthening through ongoing mentoring, coaching, and trainings with country program focal points
• Support advocacy and policy reform/ implementation processes through solid positioning of key issues and solutions
• Support country teams in their strategic technical dialogue and engagement with critical stakeholders (donors, peer organisations, policy-makers, academia etc.)
• Promote integrated outcomes for clients through collaboration across the VPR specialized areas and other sectors

• Document learnings from program activities and sharing takeaways and opportunities
• Contribute to integrated context-relevant protection analysis, ensuring thematic risk analyses are available, integrated and by leveraging and triangulating quantitative and qualitative data from diverse sources
• Share cross-contextual learnings with country program staff across the region and with other relevant counterparts
• Collaborate with the Quality in Emergencies team and Emergencies and Humanitarian Action Unit (EHAU) counterparts during emergency classifications to support country programs to assess, design and implement high quality programming in acute emergency situations
• Collaborate with other technical advisors within the region to promote integrated programming leadership
• Refresh the sectoral evidence-base in collaboration with global and regional staff to influence approaches
• Contribute to the delivery of VPRU strategic priorities
• Maintain currency with sectoral best practices through continual learning and development D

• A minimum of 6-8 years of relevant experience in implementing and/or managing Protection & Rule of Law programs, with on the ground programmatic experience in a service delivery organization, NGO or comparable international agency required.
• Experience and familiarity with related donors, peer agencies and national contexts required, preferably in humanitarian, post-crisis, or climate impacted contexts.
• Demonstrated expertise in technical program design, monitoring and evaluation, with the ability to turn concepts and strategy into measurable action.

• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Strong organizational and time-management skills; proven ability to prioritize and deliver projects on time and independently.
• Demonstrated ability to navigate a dynamic, cross-functional, global team structure in a large multi-national organization.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong analytic problem-solving skills.
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Office suite.
• Ability to manage and work through change in a proactive and positive manner.

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