Job
Mercy Corps
GESI, Protection & Safeguarding Advisor -Border Security Programme (BSP)
📍 Kenya
🏷 Governance & Public Policy
🗓 Posted 19 Aug 2026
- Develop and oversee a comprehensive vision for protection and safeguarding across the Border Security Programme's interventions and partner organisations, ensuring differentiated approaches for vulnerable groups
- Lead protection and safeguarding risk management in collaboration with the Security Manager, embedding human rights and Do No Harm principles throughout programme delivery
- Organise contextual assessments and intelligence-gathering to inform tailored protection plans, indicators and approaches across East African border regions
- Coordinate with consortium partners to ensure integrated safeguarding practices, quality assurance and consistent vulnerability-focused responses across Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and Somalia
- Drive the development of evidence-based strategies that address exploitation risks whilst supporting the pursuit of human traffickers and smugglers affecting vulnerable populations on the move
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