Project Assistant

Background on ACTED

ACTED is a French humanitarian NGO, founded in 1993, which supports vulnerable populations, affected by humanitarian crises worldwide. ACTED provides continued support to vulnerable communities by ensuring the sustainability of post-crisis interventions and engaging long-term challenges facing our target populations, in order to break the poverty cycle, foster development and reduce vulnerability to disasters. Their interventions seek to cover the multiple aspects of humanitarian and development crises through a multidisciplinary approach which is both global and local, and adapted to each context.

ACTED is looking for professionally confident, self-motivated, experienced and committed team player to fill the Project Assistant position in Doolo Zone, Somali Region, Ethiopia.

Job Purpose

The Project Assistant supports the provision of all protection activities undertaken by ACTED in the framework of its emergency humanitarian response programming in the sites of intervention under the direct supervision of the Protection Officer. This includes identification and monitoring of protection issues, ensuring effective referral pathways to relevant protection partners, and ensuring protection mainstreaming for all actors intervening in the camp. The Project Assistant will also support community mobilization and support to cash distribution activities that include but are not limited to ensuring smooth distributions and liaison with sites’ stakeholders and financial service providers and supporting the MEAL team in conducting Post-Distribution Monitoring exercises.

Objectives

·       Support all protection-related matters (i.e., identify services and gaps) in the site of intervention and follow-up by referring identified cases to the relevant partner and advocating for relevant distribution/services provision to fill identified gaps.

·       Ensure the mainstreaming of protection standards across all intervening partners’ programming.

·       Establish/support effective referral pathways.

·       Report on cash/protection activities to the CASH/Protection Officer

·       Support beneficiary mobilization, identification, registration, and verification activities

·       Supervise ongoing project activities including Cash for Work (CFW) at the field level.

·       Collect Post distribution monitoring monthly, market surveys, case studies, and most significant success stories.

·       Perform any other duties and responsibilities as directed by the CASH/Protection Officer.

Key Responsibilities

·       Support protection issues and provide feedback based on findings.

·       Participate in regular spot checks in the targeted sites.

·       Support in conducting regular safety audits – in coordination with protection actors.

·       Hold focus group discussions with site residents especially vulnerable groups to identify and analyze protection needs and gaps that exist within the targeted sites and settlements.

·       Participate in the analysis of protection risks and spheres of action where protection activities can be set in to meet the identified risks.

·       Ensure that individuals with special needs are identified during registration and through door-to-door visits.

·       Ensure that vulnerable households and individuals receive information on services available and refer to other organizations if needs are identified.

·       Ensure that committees set up are inclusive and to the needs of the most vulnerable site residents.

·       Assess accessibility challenges to access services for vulnerable groups/individuals through spot checks, assessment, focus group discussion, and analysis of complaints.

·       Support for the establishment of site-level governance structure and ensure the representation in these governance structures of vulnerable / minority communities (i.e., women, youth…).

·       Ensure effective protection referral pathways with mapped service providers active at the site of intervention.

·       Supervise ongoing project activities including Cash for Work (CFW) at the field level.

·       Collect Post distribution monitoring monthly, market surveys, case studies, and most significant success stories.

·       Managing the CRM information desk activities on the site, including collection and review of complaints forms, referral to responsible agencies, timely reporting of sensitive complaints to the line manager,

·       Liaise with partners, service providers, and camp committees on protection issues.

·       Attend all camp coordination meetings as requested.

·       Attend external meetings as requested.

·       Ensure timely weekly reports to the CASH/Protection Officer on activities implemented and/or monitored.

·       Perform other duties as required by the relevant supervisor.

·       Graduated with a university degree (i.e., at least Bachelor level) with a major in social science, law, education, or psychology.

·       At least three years of experience working in an international/local NGO or for an international institution (e.g., agencies).

·       At least 2 years’ experience working in the field of protection with an international/local NGO or for an international Institution (e.g., agencies) in a camp.

·       Proficient skills with the Microsoft Office Suite (i.e., particularly in PowerPoint and Word).

·       Very good level of English and Somali (i.e., spoken and written);

·       Strong attention to detail.

·       Ability to translate reports from English to Somali language.