Hello Hello! Alight is recruiting a Protection Technical Lead for our program in Uganda. So, you are interested in joining us. Welcome, we are happy you’re here.

Alight (formerly American Refugee Committee) provides health care and clean water, shelter, protection, and economic opportunity to more than 3.5 million people in 20 countries each year. ALIGHT is and always has been about amazing global citizens taking action to change our world. Today, we’re facing challenging global humanitarian crises that require 21st Century solutions. But we’ve found that co-creating together with impassioned, dedicated people, limited only by their own imaginations, remains the key to designing new solutions that resonate. We still believe that Alight should exist, first and foremost, as a platform for realizing the goodwill of everyday people – people from Sweden to Somalia, Minnesota to Malaysia, and Uganda to the U.S.

When you join us, you’ll find…

A team with deep experience in co-designing solutions that create new value around the world. We know we need to always be better, and we believe in the power and abundance of everyday people, everywhere, to change the world with us.

A culture of radical accountability to our customers –as we help build a meaningful life for and with the displaced, we ask them what they want and then deliver on it.

An organization that refuses to settle for anything less than delivering human-worthy services.

If you believe in an abundant world full of amazing people who want to help; in the simple human justice to build a life; and in doing a better thing, then read on!

What we do in Uganda

Alight Uganda works with its partners and constituencies to provide opportunities and expertise to refugees, displaced people and host communities – to better survive conflicts and crisis, and to rebuild lives of dignity, health, security and self-sufficiency. Alight has consistently operated in Uganda since 1994, and today has a strong and committed team of over three hundred personnel who include full time staff and temporary workers, and hundreds of community volunteers – implementing programs in Protection, GBV, Child Protection, Community Based Protection, Legal assistance, MHPSS, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Shelter and general Infrastructure, Clean Energy, and Livelihoods/Economic Resilience. Our work in Uganda currently covers six refugee settlements and five transit centers including border points and their generous Ugandan-host communities. And we are always looking to deepen our work and, jointly with our partners, offer lasting impact with and for the communities we serve!

About the Role

The Protection Technical Lead will provide overall strategic direction and management for the integrated protection program in Uganda. S/he is mainly responsible for providing technical support, supervision, and capacity building and mentorship of the protection team. Working with the Head of Programs and sector leads S/he will lead in developing standard operating procedures for prevention and response to GBV and Child Protection services, conduct needs assessments and provide technical input for the design of prevention and response to GBV and Child Protection program proposals that can be funded by key donors. The Protection Technical Lead will also be expected to monitor the quality of Child Protection and prevention and response to GBV implementation in the field, report on activities carried out and provide strategies to address challenges during implementation. S/he will lead on designing a comprehensive implementation plan for integrated protection approach, including but not limited to Women’s Protection and Empowerment, Child Protection, GBV Legal support, Mental Health and Psychosocial Support and Community Based Protection. The Protection Technical Lead will have the main responsibility for the development of the technical team and strategic partner relationships; for ensuring effective collaboration and integration among Alight teams and with partners based on principles of equality, transparency, responsibility, and complementarity; and for ensuring that ongoing technical capacity strengthening of the Protection team and support to partners, effectively addresses their priority needs. The Protection Technical Lead will represent Alight at various strategic levels ensuring visibility of Alight and demonstrate highest level of competency and understanding of the Protection environment specifically for Child Protection, prevention and response to GBV and Community based protection.

The key areas of responsibility will include.

Protection programme strategy and development
Quality Assurance and technical expertise
Capacity strengthening of protection staff.
Business Development
Partnerships and representation
Major Responsibilities: