Senior Protection Manager (Women Protection and Empowerment)

• The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home.
• The Kordofans remains a highly complex humanitarian context characterized by ongoing conflict, large-scale displacement, restricted humanitarian access, and acute protection risks. Women and girls face heightened exposure to gender-based violence (GBV), including conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV), with limited availability of safe, confidential, and quality services.
• *Job Overview/Summary:** The WPE Senior Manager provides senior-level operational leadership and technical oversight for all Women’s Protection & Empowerment (WPE) programming implemented in South Kordofan. The position is field-based and responsible for overseeing direct implementation, supervising WPE teams, ensuring quality and compliance with IRC and global GBV standards, and coordinating closely with health, economic recovery and development, and other sectors. The role plays a critical function in maintaining South Kordofan as a strategic operational hub and ensuring continuity and scale-up readiness of WPE services in a highly volatile emergency context.

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