Deadline: 04 December, 2020
Location: Bujumbura, Burundi
Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of Protection Specialist.
DRC provides direct assistance to conflict-affected populations – refugees, and internally displaced people (IDPs).
Responsibilities
- Following the main components of the FCDO project, review the existing tools and approaches (guidance, SOPs, etc) at mission level and ensure harmonisation across the projects
- Develop the missing SOPs and practical technical documents on cash-based assistance, community-based PSS support (individual and group), case management, legal aid, gender-based violence, protection monitoring, referrals, protection information management and community engagement
- Organise regular training
- In collaboration with the project managers, head of programmes and regional coordinators, develop the understanding and technical approaches related to resilience and social cohesion
- Support the protection project manager in developing and implementing protection and gender analysis
- Ensure the respect of DRC’s code of conduct, confidentiality and humanitarian principles
- Participate in monthly project review meeting with the project team and the support department and contribute actively to the programme quarterly meetings addressing transversal programmatic and strategic matters
- Collaborate with relevant internal and external technical experts on protection-relevant issues
- In coordination with the protection project manager and head of programme, represent DRC in protection-related working groups and other meetings with national, local and international actors in the assigned geographical area, and engage with relevant coordination mechanisms
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Law, Social Sciences, Political Science or Humanitarian Aid
- Three years, minimum, of professional experience in humanitarian protection interventions, human rights, civil society, or community development, preferably with an international humanitarian organisation
- Solid knowledge about the protection issues faced by conflict-affected populations including asylum seekers, and refugees
- Proven experience of developing SOPs and technical guidelines in French
- Strong skills in communication and in developing and implementing protection systems and activities
- Proven capacity to document, summarise and analyse protection data and to share information in a clear and systematic manner
- Solid experience in identifying and responding to needs of particularly at-risk individuals and groups based on field work, protection, age, gender, and diversity analysis and other criteria
- Demonstrated capacity to effectively represent a humanitarian organisation with external partners and stakeholders
- Demonstrated capacity to effectively train and develop skills of protection and non-protection staff
To apply and for more information, click here.
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