Protection Officer – Development for Peace Organization (DPO)

Education, Social Sciences and Community

Development for Peace Organization (DPO)

Development For Peace Organization (DPO) is one of the Non-Governmental Humanitarian organizations. DPO is implementing various Humanitarian projects in both Emergency and Development settings in the Different Regional States of the country.

• Undertake regular field visits to conduct interviews with target people and other relevant stakeholders in order to gather protection-related information;
• Identify protection issues through an age, gender by focus group discussions and individual interviews in a safe environment;
• Preparing protection information in an easily-understandable format for communities;
• Plan, design and implement protection awareness-raising activities for communities, in consultation with the target audience;
• Design, with the participation of representative community groups, appropriate protection interventions, including referrals to relevant authorities and agencies;
• Initiate or support community or municipal level advocacy activities designed to improve the protection situation of target population;
• Identify protection issues in beneficiary communities and flag them for the attention of the supervisor;
• Follow up on individual protection cases within communities and with partner organizations.
• Conduct impact monitoring of project activities, in accordance with the organization’s methodology;
• Co-operate and interact with partner organizations, relevant government departments and local authorities, and other protection partners on a regular basis;
• Actively participate in the Protection Cluster and work with appropriate stakeholders;
• Accurately and responsibly document information and share with appropriate partners, Donors, with approval of supervisor or senior management;
• Work within an agreed work plan and ensure timely attention to priority tasks;
• Play an active role in developing new protection strategies within the organization;
• Prepare documentation of all relevant activities (protection monitoring forms, field trip reports, Collective Centre database, minutes of meetings, work plans, budgets etc.) in accordance with the organization’s guidelines and regulations;
•  Propose corrective actions where necessary;
• Supervise and support protection field assistants/Community mobilizers, where relevant;
• Protection monitoring, referrals and delivery of assistance;
• Engage in planning and conducting rapid needs assessments to understand protection needs of target populations;
• Collect intake and assistance provision data ensuring the highest standards of data protection and confidentiality;
• Provide advice and guidance as well as referrals to target people on issues related to accessing required services;
• Perform any other duties as requested by supervisor. 

Reports to: Protection Manager

Required Number: 2(two)

• BA  in Social Work, Sociology, Psychology, education, law or other related fields

• Minimum 3 years professional experience in a similar position, NGO/INGO Experience is Preferable

• Technical understanding of core protection concepts including experience implementing protection programming in humanitarian contexts;
• Ability and willingness to maintain regular presence at project sites and to work during irregular working hours and in insecure environments;
• Strong interpersonal skills and commitment to learning and implementing organizational policies and procedures;
• Good computer skills (Excel, Microsoft, PowerPoint and Outlook, ERP);
• Good understanding of international human rights and principles of humanitarian work;
• Previous working experience with humanitarian agencies will be considered as a strong advantage;

Language Requirements

• Knowledge of the area local language is a must

Gross $1,000

Lien