Protection from Violence Programme Development Manager South Sudan Juba

**Females are highly encouraged to Apply.**

## Background:

The humanitarian situation in South Sudan in 2026 remains one of the most severe and complex crisis driven by conflict, economic collapse, climate shocks, disease outbreaks, mass displacement, and shrinking humanitarian funding. An estimated 10 million people will experience critical needs in 2026. The conflict in neighbouring Sudan continues to drive refugee inflows and returnee movements into South Sudan, placing additional pressure on already overstretched services and humanitarian systems. Over 1 million people have crossed into South Sudan since the Sudan conflict began.

NRC works in South Sudan to protect the rights of displaced and vulnerable people during crisis and meet immediate humanitarian needs, prevent further displacement, and contribute to durable solutions. Access remains one of the most significant operational challenges due to active conflict, insecurity and bureaucratic impediments making it difficult for aid organizations to reach those in need. Our programme primarily includes Rapid response to emergencies, multipurpose cash assistance, legal protection, education, shelter, Water and hygiene promotion. Beyond this, NRC South Sudan has volunteered to co-lead Protection, WASH, Shelter, Land, and Site Coordination Clusters, including HLP and Durable Solutions Working Groups.

## What we are looking for:

The main role of the Protection from Violence Development Manager position is technical development of the Protection from Violence Core Competency, strategic direction and quality assurance for the Protection from Violence strategy, and quality control. The Protection from Violence Development Manager is responsible for mentoring, training, and capacity build staff on the Core Competency’s technical capacity.

## What you will do:

Generic Responsibilities:

1. Develop the Protection from Violence strategy, technical guidance and Macro Logframes that are aligned with regional and global strategies and priorities
2. Compliance with and adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures
3. Contribute to fundraising, develop and revise funding proposal, budgets and donor reports
4. Overall management of project staff
5. Identify trends technical standards and donor priorities
6. Follow up on compliance with contractual commitments within CC, ensure high technical quality and synergies in project implementation
7. Provide technical direction and project implementation support
8. Ensure that key learnings are extracted from Protection from Violence implementation, and incorporate them in Protection from Violence and staff development processes
9. Provide systematic training and build capacity of technical staff, in approaches including cash-based interventions and market-based programme
10. Represent NRC in relevant forums/clusters, including with national authorities and donors
11. Promote the rights of conflict- and displacement-affected people in line with the advocacy strategy

Specific Responsibilities:

1. Support the development of key technical priorities, guidance, SOPs, and assessment and monitoring tools of the Protection from Violence core competency in South Sudan, specifically risk-based response services (individual protection assistance and protection case management), civilian self-protection, and protection monitoring, analysis, and advocacy.
2. Manage a complex protection programme including implementation, programme development, fundraising and budget development, ensuring overall coordination for implementation (activities, budget and project documentation) in line with proposals, strategies and donor requirements.
3. Ensure Protection from Violence teams fully understand and can deliver the technical priorities of the Protection from Violence Core competency in South Sudan through capacity building, guidance and SOP development, and engagement with other NRC teams, partners, and external stakeholders.
4. Regular visits to NRC South Sudan Area Offices and as, required, as member of Emergency Rapid Response teams to provide Protection from Violence technical support, oversight for programme quality assurance, and capacity strengthening to team members.
5. Lead the writing and development of the Protection from Violence inputs to funding proposals, using the Core Competency strategy and related documents.
6. Support the review of all donor reports from Area Office teams to ensure quality reporting.
7. Attend Progress Review Meetings, Grant review meetings and Grant opening/closing meetings, and provide technical review and oversight on GORS output and outcome data, supporting outcome monitoring analysis.
8. Retain a close technical and strategic link with the NRC Protection Cluster Co-Coordinator to ensure strategic alignment of Protection from Violence programming with Cluster standards, support evidence-based programming and rapid response to acute shocks, and contribute to Cluster-led analysis and advocacy, as well as ensuring team participation in Protection Cluster meetings and, where relevant, quality sub-national co-coordination.
9. Collaborate with MEAL unit to ensure quality control of activities, conduct lessons learned, and complete outcome monitoring analysis, and to ensure compliance with NRC standards for monitoring, evaluation, evidence, and learning (including data quality checks and institutional learning).
10. Maintain close technical and strategic link with NRC Information Management Coordinator.
11. Lead and develop the NRC Protection from Violence strategy in the annual planning process.
12. Represent NRC in relevant, technical and programme meetings and donor meetings at the request of the Head of Programme.
13. Line management and professional development of Protection from Violence Coordinator(s).
14. Contribute to Protection from Violence Core Competency Regional/Global tools, guidelines and policy and research studies on relevant thematic topics.
15. Other programme tasks as requested by the Head of Programme.

What you will bring:

Generic professional competencies:

- Graduate degree with minimum three years of relevant experience from a senior level project implementation position in a humanitarian/recovery context.
- Excellent understanding of protection issues in emergency and displacement situations
- Detailed knowledge of humanitarian and protection principles and guidelines for humanitarian assistance
- Good understanding of Protection Cluster coordination mechanisms
- Strong coordination, representation skills and inter-personal skills, working well both in teams and independently
- Self-motivated and excellent observer of protection issues
- Able to work under pressure and good at timely decision making
- Excellent written and spoken English

All employees of the Norwegian Refugee Council should be able to adhere to our Code of Conduct and the four organizational values: Dedicated, innovative, inclusive and accountable.

## **Context related skills, knowledge and experience:**

- Knowledge of international legal and policy processes and instruments relating to displacement, protection, peace/conflict, and humanitarian action
- Cogent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Aptitude to think creatively and boldly, to engage (potentially hostile) protection and access advocacy targets
- Strong experience in programme development and management
- Experience in training facilitation and capacity-building
- Experience in South Sudan mandatory
- Willingness to spend a significant period of time in sub-national locations

## What we offer:

- Duty station: Juba Country Office South Sudan
- Contract: **national contract,** 12 months
- Salary/benefits: grade 9 on NRC’s **national** salary scale.
- Travel: 40%
- NRC is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to diversity without distinction to age, gender, religion, ethnicity, nationality, and physical ability.
- We think outside the box, encourage ideas, and g