Protection Specialist Handicap International

Under the responsibility of the Technical Head of Programme and the technical supervision of Global Protection Specialists, you contribute to the implementation of the strategy of Humanity & Inclusion in Palestine. You ensure optimal quality and impact of the projects implemented in the country, through a delegation system with appropriate control mechanisms. You contribute to the sound management and successful functioning of the overall organisation through paradigm shifts. You effectively coordinate with global specialists to ensure that the Palestine Protection program adheres to HI s global sectoral quality standards and contributes to global strategies and approaches.

In the context of a rapidly expanding humanitarian response in Palestine and a sharp increase in population vulnerabilities and exposure to protection threats, the programme is scaling up its protection efforts including through protection integrated programming across all sectors. The establishment of a dedicated Protection Specialist position has become essential to ensure quality, accountability, and adherence to key protection standards. The protection Specialist will play a critical role in setting the foundations for robust protection practices, including strengthening staff capacities on core protection concepts, and safeguarding the confidentiality and safety of sensitive data. As the context is changing in Gaza due to the recent ceasefire, opportunities to conduct protection programmes must be assessed in the coming year. The protection specialist will lead on this exercise as well.

The first priorities of the Protection Specialist will be to:

• Conduct an assessment of current protection practices across all programme components, identifying gaps, risks, and opportunities for improvement, and providing clear, actionable recommendations.
• Develop and oversee the implementation of a Protection action plan, ensuring systematic follow-up, progress monitoring, and regular adjustments in line with emerging needs and contextual changes.
• Harmonize protection tools and procedures, including referral pathways, data-protection protocols, and field guidance, to ensure consistency, quality, and compliance with protection standards.
• Design and deliver training for all staff (technical, ops, support) on core protection concepts, protection mainstreaming, safe identification and referral, confidentiality, and do-no-harm principles.
• Strengthen internal and external referral systems, ensuring clear roles, safe and ethical processes, and effective follow-up mechanisms for people at risk.

Your responsibilities will be:

1: Expertise

Contribute to the country strategy on Protection (including Child Protection and Gender Based Violence) in line with the global strategies.Ensure technical support to projects in line with the global technical frameworks and standards in Protection (including CP and GBV)strong>. Control & monitor the technical quality and the relevance of HI s activities in the Programmes in Protection (including CP and GBV)strong>. Ensure compliance of Protection technical propositions with nexus stakes

2: Influence

Contribute to the local external prestige and influence of HI s expertise in Protection (including CP and GBV).

3: Business development.

Ensure the development of major opportunities or new projects in the region in Protection (including CP and GBV)

4: Management

Ensure Technical supervision of protection Technical Officers: Social Workers and Referral Officers (new position in the West Bank and existing in Gaza).

5: Emergency preparedness and response responsibilities

Contribute to the support or implementation of emergency preparedness actions of the programme(s) and, during an emergency, adapts his/her working modality to contribute to an effective HI humanitarian response.