The Senior Protection Technical Advisor will lead BHA’s work on protecting women and girls and their access to humanitarian assistance. The incumbent will serve as a senior, expert source of information on and analysis of protecting women and girls in emergencies issues for BHA; using an inclusive approach, craft a strategy that will guide BHA’s approach to protecting women and girls; provide expert technical recommendations on all issues relating to humanitarian protection, particularly protecting women and girls; provide direction for BHA on new and cutting edge methodologies and coordinate team engagement and learning on protecting women and girls; scale the adoption of evidence-based protection interventions within the Agency and externally; build and synthesize evidence across multiple countries, regions, sectors, and programs to assess and influence USAID’s work and that of other actors; employ strong communications and interpersonal skills to develop productive relationships within BHA, particularly country response teams, and within the wider U.S. Government interagency; lead the development of new systems, guidelines, tools and staff resources to frame the design and implementation of protection programming; prepare TPQ senior management and BHA senior leadership, when necessary, to speak on protection issues before UN bodies, NGOs, Congress, the interagency, media, and academic institutions; represent BHA at donor and coordination meetings on protecting women and girls in emergencies issues;; respond to relevant congressional and public inquiries and speak to various visiting groups about protecting women and girls in emergencies. The incumbent will sign-up for and serve as needed multiple times throughout the year on Washington-based Response Management Teams (RMTs), which provide services and support to Disaster Assistance Response Teams (DARTs) deployed in response to disasters.