Protection Technical Lead (Maternity Position, Nationals Only)

**Base:** Kyiv

**Starting date:** June-July 2026

**Contract duration:** 4 months' probation period with prolongation upon successful probation period end

**About PIN Ukraine:**

People in Need (PIN) has been active in Ukraine since early August 2014. Currently, PIN is one of the major humanitarian actors in Ukraine responding to the recent military escalation, providing humanitarian aid to conflict-affected people across Ukraine. Since 2014, PIN has implemented emergency food and cash assistance, NFI, shelter, protection, livelihoods and WASH interventions supporting 5 million vulnerable IDPs, returnees and host communities in urban and rural areas.

PIN is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all qualified candidates regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic. PIN encourages applications from individuals of diverse backgrounds and values diversity.

**General information about the role of the person:**

Under the overall supervision of the Programme Quality Director, Protection Technical Lead iprovides technical support and contributes to capacity development of PIN’s Protection team, including field staff. The role entails technical guidance and leadership in integrating protection components and Protection, Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) standards across all PIN programmes, identifying best practices and programmatic gaps, providing practical recommendations, implementing assessment and monitoring tools, and strengthening the capacities of PIN staff.

**Description of general duties:**

**Internal Relations**

• The Protection Technical Lead closely works with other Technical Leads within the Program Quality Department, with Program Implementation teams (Area Managers, Partnership Unit), MEAL and Grants and Reporting Units, as well as with Partners, ensuring high quality of PIN protection program, program development, and integration of protection and GESI (mainstreaming approach) across all programmatic areas.

• The PTL coordinates regularly with PIN HQ Protection, Gender and Inclusion, and MH-PSS Advisors to ensure alignment with PIN commitments, standards, and approaches to Protection (Mainstreaming) and GESI. The PTL provides technical support to implementation teams. Based on needs, the Protection Technical Lead also hires and line manages short-term protection technical contractors.

**External Relations**

• The Protection Technical Lead is the primary point of contact for external relations in the Protection sector. PTL is responsible for representing PIN in relevant coordination fora and contributing to the Protection Cluster and relevant sub-Clusters, Working Groups, and networks.

• The PTL also coordinates closely with relevant Ministries and Government Departments on technical aspects of protection programming.

**Specific Duties and Responsibilities**

• Provide strategic direction and vision for PIN Protection Programme in Ukraine, ensuring its comprehensive and cohesive development and the highest standards of quality, safe, dignified, and accountable programming, in line with PIN protection and GESI approach, commitments, and standards.

• Provide technical support for the protection programme in line with PIN’s country strategy, sector best practices, cluster guidance, government regulations, and donor requirements.

• Guided by protection principles and best international practices, assess the protection programme concept and lead identification and adjustment of protection interventions to ensure their high quality, appropriateness, and comprehensiveness, in conformity with international standards and protocols.

• Support the development of new programmes and project proposals through technical inputs and feedback on project/program methodology and design.

• Manage relations with stakeholders, mainly relevant government departments, donors, and partner agencies, by representing the programme in coordination mechanisms and ensuring the distribution of programme information and sharing of achievements and lessons learned.

• Provide protection and GESI technical input in other PIN programmes in Ukraine as well as to programmes implemented through partners, to ensure protection and GESI are mainstreamed across PIN’s programmatic portfolio in line with PIN standards, commitments, and approach.

• Participate proactively and contribute to Protection technical working group and cluster meetings and reporting; represent PIN at protection coordination platforms and events.

• Develop strategies and plans that contribute to raising the profile of PIN in the Protection sector.

• Develop tools to deliver and monitor protection programmes and for protection and GESI mainstreaming in other sector programmes.

• Ensure project team and partner staff use appropriate systems and tools to ensure relevance, efficiency, and quality of programming.

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