[Hiring] Protection Risk Analysis Consultant @International Rescue Committee

Role Description

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.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in international law, human rights, social sciences, humanitarian affairs, or a related field.
• At least 8 years of experience in protection analysis, research, protection monitoring, or related humanitarian programming.
• Demonstrated experience in facilitating participatory protection analysis processes.
• Proven ability to synthesize primary and secondary data into actionable findings.
• Familiarity with protection analytical frameworks (e.g., PAF) and humanitarian protection standards.
• Strong facilitation, coordination, and communication skills.
• Excellent analytical writing skills, with the ability to produce concise and user-friendly reports.
• Experience working with IRC or similar international NGOs is preferred.
• Fluency in English and Arabic is required.

Requirements

• To update IRC Lebanon’s 2025 Protection Risk Analysis, using the Protection Analytical Framework (PAF), to identify the current priority protection risks facing affected populations in IRC’s areas of implementation and inform the SAP, program design, and advocacy priorities.
• Identify the priority protection risks (threats, vulnerabilities, and capacities) across the ProL, WPE, and CP sub-streams, and analyze how they have changed since the 2025 PRA.
• Identify which groups are most affected by each risk, with particular attention to gender, age, disability, status (Lebanese IDPs, Lebanese returnees, and Syrian refugees), nationality, and location.
• Map existing capacities to prevent, reduce, and respond to these risks at the individual, community, institutional, and national levels, and identify the gaps between them.
• Build a shared understanding of protection risks among IRC teams and partners through a participatory analysis process.
• Produce practical, prioritized recommendations for IRC’s strategy, programming, and advocacy, including opportunities for integration with Health, Education/ECD, and Economic Recovery and Development (ERD).

Benefits

• Payment Rate and Schedule:
• First Installment – 30–40%: Upon completion of the preparation deliverables, including the inception report, data source mapping, and preliminary findings note.
• Second Installment – 60–70%: Upon submission and approval of the final PRA report and presentation slide deck.

Company Description

IRC Lebanon’s Integrated Protection program includes three sub-streams: Protection and Rule of Law (ProL), Women’s Protection and Empowerment (WPE), and Child Protection (CP).

In 2025, IRC Lebanon conducted a Protection Risk Analysis (PRA) to identify the main protection risks facing affected populations and guide its programming and advocacy. Since then, the context has changed significantly. These changes affect the protection risks people face, who is most affected, and the capacities available to respond.

IRC Lebanon is therefore updating its PRA to ensure that its Country Program Strategy Action Plan (SAP), program design, and advocacy priorities respond to the current situation. The update will build on the 2025 PRA rather than start from scratch, covering the previous areas of Bekaa, North Lebanon, and Beirut and Mount Lebanon, as well as new areas in the South and Nabatieh.