Protection Manager - Analysis and Reporting (Rule of Law)

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is one of the world's largest international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGO), at work in more than 40 countries and 29 U.S. cities helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future and strengthen their communities. A force for humanity, IRC employees deliver lasting impact by restoring safety, dignity and hope to millions. If you're a solutions-driven, passionate change-maker, come join us in positively impacting the lives of millions of people world-wide for a better future.

The Protection Manager - Analysis and Reporting (Rule of Law) plays a critical role in managing the implementation and quality of IRC Ukraine's protection monitoring, analysis and reporting functions (PM), ensuring that IRC’s protection programming is driven by timely, high-quality, and evidence-based analysis. Reporting to the Protection Coordinator (Rule of Law), the Protection Manager - Analysis and Reporting (Rule of Law) oversees the production of protection analysis and information products that support program design, operational decision-making, coordination and donor engagement.

The position ensures that protection monitoring and analysis activities of IRC and its local partners are aligned with the Protection Analytical Framework, organizational standards, and evolving operational priorities. The role provides direct supervision to the Protection Officer – Data Analysis (Rule of Law) and Protection Officer – Localization (Rule of Law), and technical supervision for field and local partners staff, engaged in PM-related activities, ensuring effective delivery of protection analysis activities, partner engagement, capacity-strengthening initiatives, and analytical outputs.

Working closely with program teams, METAL, Advocacy, and external partners, the Protection Manager - Analysis and Reporting (Rule of Law) ensures that qualitative and quantitative protection data is analyzed, interpreted, and translated into actionable recommendations. This role manages design and implementation of protection monitoring tools and methodologies, overseeing quantitative and qualitative data analysis, facilitation of and producing regular protection monitoring reports and protection analysis updates. In collaboration with the Advocacy Unit, the role supports the development of policy briefs and advocacy products grounded in protection monitoring findings. It also engages in external ProL representation, coordination with Protection Cluster and technical working groups, and capacity strengthening of IRC and partner staff. The position plays a key role in advancing participatory approaches and enhancing the visibility of protection risks identified in field operations.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Final Data Analysis & Technical Guidance: Ensure technical quality and consistency of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods analysis conducted by the PA&R Unit, including review and validation of analytical outputs and recommendations. Identify emerging protection trends, analytical gaps, operational risks, and information needs and provide recommendations to the PRoL Coordinator to inform strategic planning and response adaptation.
• Tool Development, Inputs & Updates: Designing and updating PM tools, including ad-hoc and thematic monitoring mechanisms as needed by programs or partners.
• Report Writing: Oversee and quality assure the production of protection analysis reports, thematic briefs, dashboards, area-based analyses, and protection monitoring updates prepared by the PA&R Unit
• Integration of Protection & PM into Programming: Ensure protection monitoring and analysis findings systematically inform program design, implementation, adaptation, and learning across PRoL, CP, WPE, ERD and Health teams. Foster linkages between protection monitoring and sectoral data, ensuring protection risks, trends, and vulnerabilities are reflected in cross-sectoral analysis and response planning.
• PM & Business Development (BD) Integration: Embedding PM into broader program activities and exploring opportunities for PM itself (like regional PM initiatives, anti-trafficking linkages, or Child Protection Monitoring). Participation in proposal development as relevant.
• Advocacy & Policy Engagement: In cooperation with Sn Liaison and Advocacy Manager, strengthening the PM-advocacy nexus and developing policy briefs, evidence-based recommendations and practical solutions, policy analysis and advocacy efforts grounded in PM data.
• External Representation: Represent IRC in relevant technical working groups, analytical forums, information management groups (PRMS Steering Committee), and inter-agency initiatives, as delegated by the Protection Coordinator (Rule of Law).
• PM & Communications Coordination: Enhancing visibility and awareness of PM findings, ensuring their strategic dissemination. Contribute technical inputs to Protection Cluster analytical processes, Protection Risk Monitoring initiatives, joint assessments, thematic analyses, and area-based analytical exercises.
• Partner Collaboration & Participatory Approaches: Strengthening partnership-PM collaboration to integrate participatory best practices into PM activities. Overseeing partners in PM ensuring effective engagement with local partners contributing to protection monitoring and analysis. Support partner onboarding, capacity strengthening, quality assurance, and meaningful incorporation of community perspectives into analytical outputs.
• Capacity Building: Developing the analytical capacity of the IRC and its local partners teams in data collection, PM methodologies, protection mainstreaming, and data analysis. This could also include work on an IRC PM handbook tailored for Ukrainian (and not only) teams and partners, particularly those with limited PM experience.

Being a People Manager:

• Foster ongoing learning, honest dialogue, and reflection at team level to strengthen safeguarding, wellbeing and duty of care, and to promote IRC values and adherence to IRC policies.
• Lead by example and support IRC’s commitment to taking all necessary preventive measures and creating an environment where people feel safe and can report misconduct.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

The Protection Manager – Analysis and Reporting (Rule of Law) will need to meet the requirements below:

• Min. Bachelor’s degree in law, human rights law, international relations, social sciences, or another related field
• Fluent in Ukrainian and English
• At least 4 years’ of progressively responsible experience in protection analysis, protection monitoring, information management, or humanitarian analysis. Demonstrated experience leading or conducting qualitative, quantitative, or mixed-methods protection analysis, including interpretation of protection trends and production of analytical reports.
• Solid knowledge of the humanitarian context in Ukraine, protection principles and humanitarian standards
• Experience managing technical workplans, analytical deliverables, and staff performance within humanitarian or development programs or related research initiatives.
• Experience developing, applying, or strengthening analytical frameworks, assessment methodologies, monitoring approaches, or evidence-generation systems.
• Experience representing an organization in technical working groups, clusters, coordination forums, or inter-agency analytical initiatives.
• Experience managing partnerships with national and local organizations in the field of data collection, monitoring or analysis, including partner capacity strengthening, performance monitoring, and stakeholder engagement
• Experience applying digital tools and systems to support program management, data analysis, coordination, and reporting (e.g., Microsoft Office Suite, Teams, SharePoint, Power BI or similar platforms)
• Knowledge of ethical information management, data protection principles, and responsible collection and use of sensitive protection information.
• Experience providing technical supervision, coaching, and capacity strengthening to staff and partners.

Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:

• Change management and localization expertise
• Strong skills in data interpretation, synthesis of qualitative and quantitative findings, and translation of evidence into actionable recommendations for programming, coordination, and advocacy.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills with excellent analytical and writing skills. Demonstrated experience producing high-quality analytical reports, briefs, presentations, and information products for diverse audiences.
• Strong team and people leadership, organizational and development skills
• Additional qualities: ability to handle pressure and multiple priorities well and maintain attention to details, ability to improvise, flexibility, adaptability to handle transitions.

This position may be based in any of the IRC Offices – Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Mykolaiv, with travel for monitoring and coordination purposes as necessary. Given the scope of national coordination and engagement responsibilities, preference will be given to candidates based in Kyiv.

WORK ENVIRONMENT AND OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

• This position is primarily office-based. Following the successful completion of the probation period, hybrid working arrangements may be available, subject to business needs and manager approval.
• Travel to other locations is needed up to 30% of time
• Exempt from overtime
• Sometimes work on weekends may be required
• Work in the matrix organization
• Fast pace of working, multitasking and stressful work
• The organization cares about staff and provides flexible working options (start early-finish early, start later-finish later, remote work)
• Staff can ask for accommodation in the workplace. Specific requests can be discussed with HR. 

IRC employees are eligible to the following benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Purposeful job and development opportunities
• English classes and unlimited online training courses
• Life Insurance
• Medical insurance for staff and family members
• Free psychological support to employees and their family members 
• 30 calendar days of annual vacation with flexibility beyond the legally set minimum requirements
• Up to 10 days of paid medical leave 

Professional Standards: All International Rescue Committee workers must adhere to the core values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. Our Standards are Integrity, Service, Equality and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Safeguarding, Conflicts of Interest, Fiscal Integrity, and Reporting Wrongdoing and Protection from Retaliation. IRC is committed to take all necessary preventive measures and create an environment where people feel safe, and to take all necessary actions and corrective measures when harm occurs. IRC builds teams of professionals who promote critical reflection, power sharing, debate, and objectivity to deliver the best possible services to our clients.

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