AGENCY DESCRIPTION:
Treating people with dignity, respect and safeguarding the rights and wellbeing of the
most vulnerable are key principles to working with LWC.
LWC is a Catholic Lay Ecclesial Community that has partnered with UNHCR 1 since the 1980’s
and has mainly served refugees and asylum -seekers along with vulnerable migrants from
many countries and of various regions, including from Colombia, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba,
Pakistan, Iraq, Somalia, Bangladesh, Syria, Nigeria, Sudan and many more.
Due to an increasing number of asylum-seekers and refugees, particularly from Venezuela,
our team needs additional capacity to design and implement a humanitarian and refugee
protection response.

Protection Coordinator (PC) RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Protection Coordinator is responsible for providing strategic direction, planning and
technical support, oversight and guidance for all protection programming at LWC including
strategic planning, review and development of programmatic resources and tools, and
capacity strengthening as well as managing staff unit heads.

Specifically:
● Develop and implement a Protection strategy for addressing risks affecting the
beneficiary and host community population in T&T via identification of protection
risks, vulnerabilities, threats, capacities in the T&T context and develop appropriate
programmatic responses and activities in collaboration with the team and partners
to identified needs, gaps and risks with clearly defined outcomes
● Ensure that community based protection approaches and principles are aligned with
and included in the Protection strategy
● Ensure a solid evidence base and sound analysis, along with consultation with team,
PoCs and other stakeholders, underpins programme strategy and implementation

● Support participatory assessment processes to inform programme design in
collaboration with key stakeholders
● Ensure compliance with IASC and UNHCR global protection standards and guidelines
and ensure coherence across all programming
● Develop and support review of existing MEAL frameworks, implementation tools,
sops etc used by all units including legal, psychosocial, case management, education,
information sharing et al
● Provide technical guidance to staff to monitor programme outcomes, impacts and
objectives and implementation of technical standards in specific activities to ensure
quality and consistency
● Ensure quality control via site visits, discussion, implementation of recommendations
and lessons learnt
● Integrate protection with other sector activities like shelter where applicable to
ensure minimum protection standards are met to achieve maximum impact
● Support development and ensure adequate oversight of child protection and gbv
programming, particularly for unaccompanied children
● Ensure that protection principles are mainstreamed across all of LWC’s work
● Support staff professional development via ongoing capacity building and coaching
support in Protection for staff.
● Actively participate in the documentation of good practices and lessons learnt and
contribute to the development of strategic resources and protection specific
documents that contribute to knowledge building and sharing in the Caribbean to
influence programme planning
● Support Information Manager to develop and implement appropriate protection
sensitive information management systems and monitoring tools for MEAL activities
● Review funding and programme proposals as well as donor reports to ensure
consistency with strategic protection outcomes
● Provide technical advice on the recruitment of protection staff and support the
performance evaluation of staff
● Other duties as required

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:
Bachelor’s degree required.
Educational background – preferably International Relations, Humanitarian Affairs, Human
Rights Law, Migration, Law, Gender Studies, Sociology, Human Rights, Social Work,
Psychology and other related fields.
Masters degree preferred.

REQUIREMENTS:
➢ Previous experience working in mixed migration flow contexts and urban
displacement contexts
➢ Previous experience in a managerial capacity
➢ Conceptual, analytical and critical thinking to develop protection programmatic
strategies
➢ Excellent technical knowledge of protection standards and UNHCR refugee
protection standards
➢ Strong, capacity building, facilitation and presentation skills
➢ Creative thinking to improve quality of programming for greater impact
➢ Excellent oral and written communication skills, with ability to communicate and
engage with diverse populations non discriminately
➢ Experience using Microsoft Programs and Spreadsheets
➢ English Fluency and Spanish language Proficiency strongly desired
➢ Knowledge of and/or preparedness to become familiar with and abide by LWC’s and
UNHCR’s code of conduct and humanitarian principles
➢ Preparedness to support LWC’s mission and principle of selfless service to mankind
➢ Sense of Humour with ability to work under stress and maintain a positive outlook
on challenges
➢ Strong interpersonal skills (e.g. conflict resolution) and ability to work effectively in
a team
➢ Strict adherence to principles of confidentiality
➢ Non-discrimination, Religious Tolerance and Cultural competency
➢ ​Emotional resilience

Adherence to the Core Humanitarian Competency Framework

REPORTS TO: Coordinator, Ministry for Migrants and Refugees
SUPERVISES: All core protection staff across case management, reception, education, child
protection, legal, psychosocial, and community based protection team.
Position may be needed to provide technical advice and capacity building support for the
Dutch Antilles also.
SCHEDULE: 5 days per week, 40 hours, some flexibility is necessary. May require
assistance/attendance at special events/meetings outside of working hours.
The contract is for 6 to 12 months and extension of contract is funding and performance
dependent as well as approval of work Visa. Compensation package includes return flight to
Port of Spain from country of residence, basic accommodation and international health
insurance.

Start date is approximately mid January 2020.