Closing date: 10 Aug 2026 Background/Context: The IRC has operated in Syria since 2012, providing protection, health, economic recovery, and early childhood development programs in Idleb, Aleppo, Ar-Raqqa, Hassakeh, and Deir ez-Zor, with new programs expanding into Hama, rural Damascus, and Homs. With a team of over 700 members, the IRC has established trust and strong community relationships, ensuring access and effective service delivery. It plays a significant role in Syria’s NGO, donor, and coordination forums, holding key positions and adapting to the evolving context. With the new realities under the new government, as of December 2024, the IRC has deployed a team to Damascus to set up operations and engage in coordination structures for newly accessible areas across Syria—including parts of NES, NWS, and other previously unreachable locations in South and Central Syria, Protection The IRC has been delivering protection programs in the northwest since 2013 and in the northeast of Syria since 2014, focusing on Protection/Rule of Law (PRoL), Women’s Protection and Empowerment (WPE), and Child Protection (CP). These efforts include specialized case management, PSS, protection monitoring, service mapping, and advocacy. Collaborating with partners, IRC improves access to protection services, raises community awareness, and strengthens referral pathways. Protection capacity building, community outreach, and rapid response through mobile protection teams have also been provided since 2017. Job Overview/Summary : This position will be based in the Homs office and will focus on supporting and coordinating the implementation of protection activities, in close collaboration with the Women Protection and Empowerment (WPE) programme. The Legal Incentive Worker (LIW) will play a key role in providing legal support to individuals in need, with particular focus on returnees, vulnerable populations, and affected communities. Responsibilities will include delivering legal awareness sessions, providing individual legal counselling, and facilitating access to legal services and assistance. The LIW will work closely with relevant programme teams to ensure integrated and survivor-centred service delivery. Major Responsibilities: Conduct a survey of access to justice and awareness of protection and rights in the community and camps, likely focusing on access to civil status documentation and access to justice in northeast Syria. Deliver information sessions on protection, rights and entitlements, legal status, and other issues as required. Provide legal counselling as necessary for individual cases. Identify legal needs in the field and provide on-site counselling to persons of concern coordinating with Sr.Legal Officer. Receive and attend to referrals from local NGOs, community members, and INGOs. Putting map existing legal services/administrative bodies in the area and update it. Supporting Returnees related of legal issues (possession of documents- risks of la