Protection Coordinator

Date:  26 Feb 2026

Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty.

Together we save, protect and rebuild lives. And we won’t stop until every person on the planet can defeat poverty or any type of inequality or discrimination.

We are an international confederation of 19 organizations (affiliates) working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development, and campaigning, in more than 90 countries.

OXFAM PURPOSE: To work with others to find lasting solutions to poverty and suffering.

TEAM PURPOSE: To ensure Oxfam has the management, technical and logistical capacity to both scale up and to respond rapidly to major humanitarian emergencies anywhere in the world.

JOB PURPOSE:  To support the development and implementation of Oxfam humanitarian program in Mozambique by providing specialist advice and support on protection.

REPORTING LINES:

Post-holder reports to: Humanitarian Lead

Matrix management (technical support): Regional Protection Advisor

Staff reporting to this Country Focal point, Gender pilar lead

BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY: As required

DIMENSIONS:

Strategic Management and Programme Quality

• Lead the technical oversight and quality implementation of protection programming under the (DRA) project and Mozambique flood response interventions, ensuring alignment with Oxfam’s humanitarian priorities, and protection frameworks.
• Develop and operationalize Oxfam’s Protection Strategy for Mozambique, integrating flood preparedness, anticipatory action, and emergency response.
• Ensure protection including GBV risk mitigation and Community-Based Protection (CBP) is systematically integrated across humanitarian programming.
• Promote Oxfam’s Community-Based Protection approach with partners, communities, and external stakeholders.
• Work closely with programme and technical managers (WASH, EFSVL, Gender, MEAL, Advocacy) to strengthen integrated programming and safe programming approaches.
• Strengthen analysis, documentation, and capitalization of lessons learned from protection interventions, particularly related to climate shocks and flooding.
• Identify strategic partnerships with civil society organisations, women-led organisations, youth groups, and local authorities to advance protection outcomes.Contribute evidence and analysis to advocacy and influencing strategies related to protection risks arising from displacement, flooding, and climate-related crises.
• Maintain strong coordination with regional and global protection technical teams to ensure alignment with organisational standards and learning.
• Represent Oxfam in the cluster and protection working groups.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Technical Support and Capacity Strengthening

• Provide ongoing technical guidance and mentoring to Oxfam staff and implementing partners on protection principles, standards, and approaches.
• Develop and implement a capacity strengthening plan for staff and partners involved in protection and DRA programming.
• Identify training needs and conduct trainings.
• Ensure protection minimum standards, safeguarding, safe programming, community engagement, feminist principles, and local humanitarian leadership are embedded across Protection interventions.
• Lead technical induction and continuous learning opportunities for protection teams from Oxfam and partner organizations and relevant programme staff.
• Support partners to strengthen protection systems, referral pathways, community feedback mechanisms, and accountability approaches.
• Identify capacity gaps among partners and support equitable partnership development in protection programming.
• Lead and build partner’s capacity on protection analysis.

Programme Quality, Emergency Response and Technical Leadership

• Provide technical leadership in the design, implementation, and quality assurance of protection programming within flood response and anticipatory action (DRA) interventions in Mozambique.
• Ensure protection analysis informs programming, including assessments of risks, vulnerabilities, and community capacities to guide adaptive and evidence-based decision-making.
• Integrate protection across preparedness, early warning, and emergency response, ensuring programmes are inclusive, participatory, gender-sensitive, and aligned with humanitarian standards.
• Strengthen programme quality and accountability, working closely with MEAL teams to develop indicators, monitoring tools, learning processes, and community feedback mechanisms.
• Lead coordination and representation in protection-related forums and maintain strong collaboration with government, partners, UN agencies, and other humanitarian actors.
• Provide technical support and capacity strengthening to staff and partners, promoting localisation and ensuring protection approaches are implemented according to Oxfam standards and partnership principles.
• Ensure protection is appropriately reflected and resourced in programme design, including proposals, budgets, and donor reporting requirements.
• Provide technical oversight during emergency responses, ensuring timely, accountable, and high-quality implementation of protection activities and compliance with humanitarian and safeguarding standards.

Strategic Leadership, Advocacy and Learning

• Contribute to advocacy and influencing efforts by generating and using protection evidence, analysis, and field learning to inform policy dialogue, humanitarian coordination, and advocacy priorities related to flooding, displacement, and protection risks.
• Monitor evolving protection risks and context dynamics, ensuring programmes adapt to emerging risks and changing vulnerabilities linked to climate shocks and displacement.
• Provide technical supervision and guidance to protection staff, supporting performance development and ensuring consistent application of protection standards and approaches across programmes.
• Promote documentation, learning, and capitalisation of protection interventions, ensuring lessons learned inform programme adaptation, preparedness planning, and organisational learning.
• Strengthen the integration of protection within anticipatory action and disaster risk reduction approaches, ensuring early actions contribute to reducing protection risks before and during emergencies.

SKILLS AND COMPETENCE:

• Minimum 7–10 years’ experience in humanitarian and protection programming, preferably field-based in complex, conflict-affected or insecure environments, including leadership or coordination responsibilities.
• Degree or master’s qualification in social work, development studies, law, international relations, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Strong technical expertise in humanitarian protection, including community-based protection approaches, protection standards, coordination mechanisms (e.g. Protection Cluster), advocacy for protection, and integration of protection across sectors.
• Proven analytical and strategic capacity, including experience conducting protection analysis and developing programme strategies in complex humanitarian contexts.
• Demonstrated experience providing technical support, mentoring, and capacity strengthening to staff and partners, with strong understanding of gender dynamics and inclusive protection programming.
• Strong representation, influencing, and networking skills, with the ability to engage effectively with partners, government, UN agencies, and humanitarian coordination fora.
• Solid understanding of MEAL processes, accountability mechanisms, and learning approaches within humanitarian programming.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to produce high-quality written analysis and clearly articulate protection issues to diverse audiences.
• Experience working with local partners and participatory, community-based approaches, including advocacy and community engagement processes.
• Ability and willingness to travel frequently and work in remote, insecure, and logistically challenging environments, demonstrating adaptability, initiative, and strong organisational awareness.
• Commitment to Oxfam values, including gender equity, diversity, inclusion, and feminist and locally led humanitarian approaches.
• Knowledge of and experience in the Mozambique context is desirable.
• Fluency in written and spoken English is essential; Portuguese language skills are highly desirable.
• The post holder will be expected to undertake regular travel in the country

Other Competences:

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organization. Therefore, people of all gender identities, sexes, sexual orientations, races, colors, religions, cultures, abilities, etc. are eligible for this position.

Oxfam aims to attract great talent that not only fits the job but also Oxfam’s high standard of values and principles, who shares and demonstrates Oxfam’s commitment to prevent and eradicate any type of misconduct including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, any other type of misuse of power or lack of integrity and financial misconduct. We are committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, and adults. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.

Note: All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and may be subject to appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks, or integrity screenings/references relating to misconduct and disciplinary actions in prior employment.

HOW TO APPLY

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