Role and responsibilities
Generic responsibilities:
- Adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures.
- Ensure that Protection projects target beneficiaries most in need of Protection and contribute to new approaches for assisting target populations.
- Any other tasks assigned by the line manager.
Specific responsibilities:
Supervision 30%
- Oversee the day-to-day implementation of protection activities, including protection monitoring, case management, and psychosocial support, to ensure the quality and accountability of services provided to displacement-affected individuals and communities in accordance with the Protection strategy, project documents, and relevant humanitarian standards.
- Manage and supervise Protection- Technical Assistants (TAs) and field teams, ensuring proper planning, guidance, and performance oversight.
Legal Counselling and Assistance 40%
- Support Protection TAs in identifying and assessing persons with specific needs or individuals at risk through established referral pathways and vulnerability criteria.
- Organize and conduct community awareness and information sessions on protection issues, rights, and available services in line with project objectives.
- Provide individual protection counselling to beneficiaries with various protection risks.
- Ensure timely and appropriate case management, including documentation, follow-up, and referrals to relevant internal and external service providers.
- Conduct protection assessments, protection monitoring, and data collection to identify risks, trends, and gaps in assistance.
- Organize and facilitate capacity-building sessions and mentorship for local authorities, community structures, and humanitarian partners.
Staff Capacity Building 10%
- Provide on-job training to Protection TAs
Integrated Programing 10%
- Work closely with other core competencies in finding touching points for Protection integrated programing.
- Working with Protection TA on creating co-ownership for integrated programing.
- Supervise, monitor, and ensure his/her team’s data entries in the electronic database each month and verify and organize hard copies of sources of verification.
- Look out for advocacy, access, and Protection needs from the field and report regularly to the Protection Team Leader.
- Raise PR and follow up with the logistics department as needed.
- Liaise with governmental, non-governmental organizations and UN agencies to establish and maintain networks for referrals.
- Updating the M&E matrix regularly and share with Protection PC on a timely manner.
- Send weekly and monthly reports on her/his team’s progress to the line manager.