Deadline: 31 January, 2021
Location: Borno, Nigeria
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE) International is seeking to fill the role of Protection Officer.
CARE, an international NGO with local staff and community partners in 100 countries, creates local solutions to poverty and inequality.
Responsibilities
- Work with programme staff members and beneficiaries to develop structure and methods for managing the complaints and feedback in the field and maintain the integrity of information received
- Provide guidance and technical support to the implementing project team in all phases of the project cycle
- Develop monthly activity implementation plan with the project team
- Ensure compliance with donor rules and regulations
- Work with monitoring and evaluation coordinator to ensure adequate data capturing of project beneficiaries
- Liaise and provide project updates and reports on a frequent basis and whenever required
- Organise and attend regular meetings with donor and other key stakeholders
- Support the delivery of orientation sessions and deliver training on gender, protection, GBV and PSEA
- Support the capacity building of CARE staff, partners, food security sector members to prepare for and respond to gender, GBV and PSEA protection initiatives
- Strengthen mechanisms to enable affected populations to provide feedback and submit complaints related to CARE’s interventions
- Organise community discussion and awareness raising on key protection issues, CFM and community engagement with PMCs
- Facilitate the smooth operation of protection, gender and AAP component of project, meeting project timelines and targets
- Conduct trainings and capacity building
- Conduct focused-group discussion to identify the local issues to be addressed
- Design a tailor-made information and training addressing the beneficiaries concerns and needs
- Develop internal community-based protection training materials and facilitate training
- Participate in monthly protection sector meetings
- Record monthly protection results and report to project management
- Promote and implement effective measures for child protection including establishment of referral mechanism
- Ensure proper filing of attendance sheets and project document
- Follow up on all paper work and reporting needed from the field
- Collect protection case studies and success stories according to guidelines
Requirements
- University degree in Social Sciences, Development Studies, Guidance and Counselling, or a relevant field
- Two years, minimum, of experience working with vulnerable communities, basic needs and distribution programming experience, and/or advocacy programmes
- Experience in protection interventions in line with vulnerable or IDP operation
- Experience of working with UN or non-governmental organisations
- Good communication skills and ability to conduct training and awareness
- Computer skills (Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel)
- Ability to communicate and write reports in English
- Ability to communicate in Hausa and another Nigerian languages
- Good organisational and management skills
- Willingness and ability to work full time in the field directly with communities
To apply and for more information, click here.
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