Main Responsibilities

⦿ Ensure the delivery of protection activities in all sites covered within the LGA.

⦿ Undertake regular field visits with the teams to identify and address, potential protection concerns arising from the humanitarian response.

⦿ Prepare for and organize community consultations and community-based orientation sessions, in coordination with project team(s) and other partners.

⦿ Participates in developing and updating the mapping of services for threats and abuses (including GBV) that beneficiaries face in project operation areas.

⦿ Lead and supervise assessment teams during thematic surveys, needs assessment, and data collection for protection-related research.

⦿ With the support of the Program Manager, follow up with humanitarian actors about requests and invitations.

⦿ Monitor protection issues affecting the host population in project areas of operation.

⦿ Support the Program Manager and Team to strategize, plan for, and ensure appropriate integration and mainstreaming of protection through all program activities and the various stages in a distribution site.

⦿ With the support of the Program Manager, develop and update relevant Information, Education, and Communication tools (leaflets, brochures, posters, etc.) that can be used during beneficiaries' sensitization sessions.

⦿ Support the Program Manager in developing safe programming and conflict-sensitive approaches to the humanitarian response.

⦿ In collaboration with the Program Manager, ensure program staff are fully trained on existing referral systems and relevant SOPs for protection cases.

⦿ Sensitize beneficiaries on available feedback mechanisms and maintain open communication with them to obtain feedback and complaints with regard to protection issues and ensure corrective actions are taken and monitored.

⦿ Ensure most vulnerable people are identified and prioritized during program activities.

⦿ Disseminate protection-related findings from PDMs and ensure the recommendations are implemented effectively.

⦿ Produce gender and protection updates that will be included in field visit reports.

⦿ Organize and prepare regular protection analysis reports.

⦿ Contribute to biweekly/monthly reports, donor reports, and proposals.

⦿ Prepare weekly and monthly plans and facilitation of community awareness sessions on basic and specialist protection services using approaches that promote gender equality.

⦿ Support and coordinate with M&E Officers for surveys, post-distribution other monitoring activities.

⦿ Support country teams to ensure M&E processes engendered protection and ensure learning of protection issues are captured.

Skills and Competence

⦿ Good understanding of protection concerns, including GBV issues in displacement, human rights, and international humanitarian law.

⦿ Proven analytical skills.

⦿ Understanding of monitoring processes, learning, adaptation, and evaluation of good levels of spoken and written English.

⦿ Commitment to humanitarian principles and action, equal opportunity, and gender policies.

⦿ Excellent computer knowledge and skills in using Microsoft Word, power point and Excel.

⦿ Understanding and experience of gender equity issues and their relevance to humanitarian response work.

⦿ Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.