Emergency Response Team Protection Coordinator

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is one of the world's largest international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGO), at work in more than 40 countries and 29 U.S. cities helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future and strengthen their communities.

A force for humanity, IRC employees deliver lasting impact by restoring safety, dignity and hope to millions. If you're a solutions-driven, passionate change-maker, come join us in positively impacting the lives of millions of people world-wide for a better future.

Responding to the world’s worst humanitarian crises in a great variety of roles, the International Rescue Committee’s staff is a force for humanity and hope. If you are skilled and passionate, we would like to add your energy to ours. Through its Emergency Unit (EmU), the IRC is one of the world’s largest humanitarian agencies leading rapid emergency responses that provide life‑saving assistance, early recovery, and stabilization support to people affected by conflict, displacement, natural disasters, and complex emergencies across multiple contexts worldwide.

We are committed to innovation, agility, and strong partnerships to deliver timely and effective humanitarian action. Active in public health, education in emergencies, livelihoods, women's empowerment, youth development, and protection and promotion of rights, we assist people from harm to home. The IRC recognizes that people affected by crisis and the actors closest to them are best placed, have the right, and should have the power and resources to respond and drive lasting change.

We commit to increasing the share of funding channeled to local actors in emergencies, asking “Why not partner?’ whenever we plan programming, and partner as equals. The Violence Prevention and Response in Emergencies (VPRIE) team sits jointly within IRC's Emergency Unit (EmU) and IRC’s Protection Unit. With few predictable, effective protection providers in emergencies, major gaps remain in delivering life‑saving and life‑sustaining VPR interventions IE programming in acute emergencies spans integrated protection, Child Protection (CP), Women's Protection and Empowerment (WPE)/Gender‑Based Violence (GBV), and Protection Rule of Law (PROL), focusing on four core service offerings:
Social Work in Emergencies, Focused MHPSS Interventions, Responsive Information Services in Emergencies, and Community Risk Mitigation and Access.

The Emergency Response Team (ERT) is a specialized group within the Emergency Unit (EmU), deployed to support existing country programs in emergency response or to launch new programs in crisis zones. The team's core responsibility is to rapidly and effectively design, develop, and manage the IRC's on‑site humanitarian response to meet the immediate needs of the affected population, while also transferring responsibilities and knowledge to long‑term staff to ensure continuity of IRC programming and operations.

All ERT staff must be prepared to deploy to the site of an emergency within 72 hours of notification and should expect to spend up to 65% of their time in the field, in either an emergency or roving capacity. The ERT Protection Coordinator (Child Protection) will be responsible for starting up and leading integrated protection and/or child protection programming in acute emergency responses.

This may include rapid assessment, program start‑up, strategy development, proposal development, technical oversight, staff recruitment and…