Protection Cluster Coordinator – Proactive Protection OHCHR Amman P4

We’re presently seeking a Protection Cluster Coordinator – Proactive Protection to assist the cluster coordinator in strengthening Proactive Protection strategies for a six-month term, with potential for extension. The assigned location will be in Jerusalem, with Amman as a potential alternative if necessary (for instance due to difficulty securing visas).The Protection Cluster Coordinator – proactive protection will be responsible for ensuring the membership and engagement with international and national organizations, including civil society on proactive protection contributes to the development of Protection Cluster priorities, and will play a role in developing technical capacity of members of the Protection Cluster around proactive protection interventions and actions.

The Protection Cluster Coordinator – Proactive Protection will work in partnership with OHCHR to provide leadership and facilitate processes that will ensure a well-coordinated, strategic, adequate, coherent, and effective proactive protection response within Palestine. The Proactive Protection Coordinator – proactive protection will have specific responsibility for coordinating proactive protection interventions and actions in Palestine, as requested by the Palestine Protection Cluster Coordinator.  Protection Cluster is informed by NGO perspectives, including, importantly, that of local partners and civil society. The Proactive Protection Coordinator – proactive protection will also be responsible for ensuring that membership and engagement with international and national organizations, including civil society on proactive protection contributes to the development of Protection Cluster priorities, and will play a role in developing technical capacity of members of the Protection Cluster around proactive protection interventions and actions. In response to the current humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the West Bank, NORCAP is seeking to enhance the protection of vulnerable Palestinian communities exposed to violence, coercion, and deliberate deprivation. This will be done through the placement of skilled experts focused on proactive protection in various organizations working in the field, in close coordination with the protection cluster. The Protection Cluster Coordinator – Proactive Protection will help develop this project while promoting other proactive protection efforts of protection cluster members and cluster areas of responsibility.