Protection Programme Manager, Moldova Prague, Praha

Protection Programme Manager, Moldova

Contract Length: 5 months
Country Programme: Moldova
Base: Chisinau
Line Manager: Head of Programmes
Start date: ASAP
**About the Moldovan Programme of People in Need**:
People in Need (PIN) has been working in Moldova since 2003, providing development support to the local population in five areas: Climate Resilience and Rural development; Social Inclusion and Protection; Civil Society and Good Governance; Emergency Response and Recovery; and Human Rights and Media Literacy. People in Need Moldova, since its establishment in 2003, has been at the forefront of tackling pressing social issues, continuously improving lives, and fostering sustainable development throughout the country.
Over the past 20 years, the organization has touched the lives of countless individuals and communities, implementing impactful projects and bringing out initiatives in areas such as education, human rights, social inclusion, and economic empowerment. We managed to reach every tenth inhabitant of the R. Moldova with assistance, including through collaboration and partnerships with 146 organizations throughout the time. We focused in the past in Development programming, and after the Ukraine scalation of the war started in 2022, most of the programming became humanitarian. From 2024, we are slowly facing out from humanitarian to recovery and development programming (nexus strategy).
**About the role**:
Under the supervision of People in Need’s Head of Programmes, the Protection Programme Manager will provide strategic direction and vision for the protection programme team and will be responsible for project management of several projects. S/he will ensure the programme’s comprehensive development and high-quality implementation. S/he will also provide technical support and capacity development to PIN protection team including field staff. S/he will ensure PIN is represented at relevant protection coordination platforms, including working groups, meetings and collaborative relationship is established with all key actors. This position is a temporary appointment to cover the duties and responsibilities of an employee on maternity leave. Position will be office-based in Chisinau, Moldova and will have a duration of 5 months.
**Reporting Relations & Interdependencies with Other Functions**:
The PPM’s line manager is the Head of Programmes (HOP).
The PPM supervises the following staff:
Deputy project managers, project managers, Protection Officers and other Protection Assistants.
**Duties & Responsibilities**:
- Manage and implement all activities throughout relevant project cycles to ensure efficient and effective implementation of protection programme in line with PIN and key humanitarian and protection program quality principles and standards, donor requirements, and good practices
- Guided by protection principles and best international practices, assess the protection programme concept and lead identification and adjustment of protection interventions, to ensure their high quality, appropriateness and comprehensiveness, in conformity the international standards and protocols.
- Contribute to improving/developing PIN’s protection work through new project ideas, proposal development and networking;
- Ensure development and delivery of a mission wide protection training and knowledge building strategy and plan, including the development of standard training materials based on clearly defined standards and competencies.
- Continue to build the capacity of the PIN staff in protection-related issues, including accountability practices.
- Ensure project team and partner staff use the appropriate systems and tools to ensure relevance, efficiency and quality of programming.
- Develop implementation plans setting out future activities and track progress on outputs and activities.
- Manage the team and provide capacity building to staff under his/her management. Manage team dynamics and staff well-being. Contribute to recruitment process of protection staff
- Share technical know-how, provide technical expertise and guidance to project staff as appropriate and build their capacity in technical aspects of protection programming (e.g. deliver trainings and workshops, provide on the job couching etc.),
- Manage the budget related to protection and assist in the development of cash-flow projections and budget forecasting.
- Supervise and provide guidance of all the projects under the area. Ensure all protection related project activities, procurement and spending are in compliance with both People in Need and donor rules and regulations.
- In cooperation with MEAL team, develop and regularly update the MEAL plan, ensure the protection activities learning and lessons learned informed by findings of needs assessment, surveys, and monitoring activities.
- Pro-actively coordinate with all project partners, local stakeholders, other NGOs active in the area, government authorities and media. Ensure technical quality of partners impl

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