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Handicap International

Disability-focused humanitarian aid and empowerment

Oficial Técnico/a Senior de Protección

Social & Community ServicesConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • A university degree in areas such as social work, psychology, law, social sciences, or related fields.
  • At least three years of previous experience in the protection sector.
  • Specific knowledge of human rights, disability, and laws related to forced displacement.
  • Specialized knowledge of concepts and principles for including persons with disabilities.
  • Strong knowledge of differentiated service models and mainstreaming inclusive approaches for persons with disabilities and other social categories.
  • Ability to apply regulatory frameworks, international standards, and inclusion tools operationally.
  • Understanding of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, relevant national legislation, and the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Guidelines on the Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action.
  • Technical knowledge of designing, supervising, and implementing disaggregated data-collection processes, including validated international standards such as the Washington Group Questions.
  • Knowledge of international accessibility frameworks, including the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the New Urban Agenda, as well as accessibility-chain principles and definitions, universal design, universal accessibility, and reasonable accommodation.
  • Knowledge of international humanitarian architecture and coordination with Clusters.
  • Fluent Spanish, with excellent writing skills for technical and clinical reports.
  • English proficiency at B1 level.
  • Ability to ensure inclusive programming throughout the humanitarian project cycle and mainstream disability's social and human-rights model into humanitarian response.
  • Knowledge of safe programming and risk mitigation.
  • Knowledge of international standards, guidance, and legal frameworks concerning general protection, gender-based violence, and child protection.
  • Ability to analyze protection issues and develop protection strategies.
  • Knowledge of implementing interventions that provide protection against violence based on disability, gender, and age.
  • Ability to manage ethical issues, monitor emergency preparedness and response, and ensure information-system security.
  • Ability to adapt tools to inclusive approaches that incorporate disability.
  • Ability to synthesize, systematize, and prioritize qualitative operational and clinical data.
  • Ability to prioritize and manage personal time and human resources under their responsibility.
  • Technical and pedagogical leadership to support teams and foster staff development using the required inclusive approach.
  • Proficiency with office software and field data-collection platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical guidance, specialized expertise, and technical support to projects, programs, and partners in accordance with standards, technical frameworks, and sector guidance.
  • Provide appropriate technical guidance and support to project managers, partners, and specialists.
  • Carry out technical activities or ensure project activities comply with internal technical and quality standards, and recommend improvements as needed.
  • Adapt project technical documentation as needed in accordance with global technical standards.
  • Coordinate and collaborate with project partners as delegated by the specialist, project manager, or operations manager.
  • Propose research and study topics, conduct research as needed, and supervise data collection.
  • Contribute to drafting new proposals for opportunities within the technical area.
  • Develop protection-policy guidance so the country team can participate in overall design.
  • Lead the development, adaptation, and updating of methodologies, tools, standard operating procedures, and other technical instruments for protection interventions, ensuring suitability to the country's context, needs, and regulatory frameworks in coordination with the technical unit and project managers.
  • Ensure global, regional, and field technical specialists receive necessary information and collaborate with technical divisions as needed.
  • Coordinate with headquarters and the region to ensure effective capitalization, improve sector methodology globally, and gather scientific evidence; initiate or pilot innovative solutions to address key sector challenges.
  • Contribute to technical learning under the responsibility of the regional protection specialist, project manager, or country director, based on best practices.
  • Anticipate and prepare for adjustments to the nexus in the sector.
  • Contribute to evaluation terms of reference.
  • Contribute to technical staff recruitment processes in collaboration with the field specialist.
  • Deliver required technical training in the protection area.
  • Contribute to competency-updating plans for protection-sector professionals and, where appropriate, act as an external evaluator.
  • Contribute to developing a local talent pool in the sector by conducting technical interviews, making recommendations, and identifying training and guidance needs.
  • Collaborate on technical professional-development coordination and facilitate a community of practice with the technical division.
  • Disseminate HI's expertise and, when delegated, represent its technical expertise in relevant local, regional, and international networks and before local partners.
  • Coordinate and collaborate with project technical partners in cooperation with the field team.
  • Transmit and contribute to advocacy messages within the area of work.
  • Support drafting new protection content for the project to ensure its continuity or expansion within the technical area.
  • Contribute to planning activities and preparing associated tools and resources, and implement the action plan with support services and the technical unit.
  • Ensure regular activity reports and contribute to internal and external reports as requested by the project manager or operations management.
  • Help identify project areas requiring adjustments and propose adaptations.
  • Plan and supervise awareness-raising, training, and other activities requiring support.
  • Regularly analyze available protection information, including protection-monitoring results where applicable, and analyze context, risks, needs, and access barriers identified in projects; prepare regular reports to inform decisions and adaptations to interventions.
  • Support or implement program emergency-preparedness measures and, during emergencies, adapt working methods to contribute to an effective humanitarian response.

Desired Qualifications

  • Previous experience managing and providing technical direction for protection activities.
  • Previous experience working with persons with disabilities, especially in forced-displacement or humanitarian-crisis contexts.
  • Experience with intervention strategies and field project management.
  • Experience implementing projects with differentiated services for persons with disabilities.
  • Field experience with a national or international nonprofit organization.
  • Knowledge of intersectional and functional-diversity approaches.

About the Company

Handicap International

Disability-focused humanitarian aid and empowerment

Handicap International, also known as Humanity & Inclusion, is an international non-profit organization focused on disability. It works with people with disabilities in diverse settings—from conflict zones to development contexts—to improve their access to essential services, rehabilitation, livelihoods, and inclusion. The organisation delivers aid and support through programmes in about 60 countries and responds to emergencies, helping people become self-reliant. It operates through a network of eight national associations (Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA) that provide funding, resources, and project management. Unlike some aid groups, it is non-governmental, non-religious, non-political, and non-profit, centering the needs and rights of people with disabilities. Its goal is to enable people with disabilities to participate fully in society and to strengthen their independence and resilience in all contexts.

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