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Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a Danish international non-governmental organisation, which promotes and supports durable solutions to the problems faced by refugees and internally displaced people all over the world. DRC is present in more than 30 conflict territories around the world assisting displaced people with shelter, food, income-generating activities, and a wide range of other assistance. It is of utmost importance for DRC to work in compliance with the DRC Accountability and Quality Management system and national legislations. Smooth, reliable and effective operational systems are preconditions for DRC to maintain its position as a trustworthy and reliable partner for our donors and an accountable organisation towards our beneficiaries.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Protection / CFM Assistant

Location: Borno
Type of Contract: National Contract

The Position

  • The Protection Assistant, under the supervision of the Roving Protection Team Leader will be fully dedicated to support the integration of protection principles and the mainstreaming of gender within the context of programmes jointly implemented with WFP.
  • The Protection Assistant is responsible for the day-to-day implementation of the various protection activities in the field locations under his/her responsibility related to protection in food programming.
  • This includes conduct Protection Monitoring/ risk assessments/ rapid protection assessments, conduct referrals (including establishing referral pathways), following up of cases, identification of protection cases, referrals for IPA, monitor the CNMs daily, weekly work planning, ensuring awareness on CFM, collection of complaints, documenting of the complaints in adherence to WFP and DRC systems, feedback to communities and train on CFM, protection principles to CNMs, food committees.

Key Roles
Responsibilities:

  • Ensure the organization and the implementation of all protection activities at field level in accordance with the agreed work plan (under the supervision of the Protection Roving Officers and Team Leader) and the international standards
  • Ensure the management of the field protection incentive workers (team and work management)
  • Prepare necessary activity and protection reports (weekly, monthly, ad hoc)
  • Participate in conducting needs and programmatic assessments in targeted locations
  • Identify, document, refer and or intervene on protection cases identified in within Food activities.
  • Liaise with humanitarian actors to lobby for services for beneficiaries through bilateral or multi-lateral engagement.
  • Document all protection activities on Kobo in line with the M & E requirements.
  • Document all protection cases in appropriate forms – referrals, individual case forms and updated in Kobo including appropriate filing of hard copies in secure cabinets.
  • Ensure the complaints and feedback mechanism (CFM) is implemented by establishing desks to collect complaints in all food activities
  • Carry out all rounded inclusive awareness sessions on use of the CFM to beneficiaries in all target locations.
  • Document Complaints using Kobo and hardcopies where appropriate, provide update reports for dissemination and sorting to DRC risk and compliance department and WFP.
  • Follow up all protection related complaints and conduct protection concern verification and referrals where appropriate.
  • Engage with communities directly and create awareness on protection mainstreaming, protection principles, human rights, child protection, SGBV, CFM, gender and age diversity inclusion throughout the project period.
  • Train food committees, community leaders, partner staff and other stakeholders of food security and protection programming to strengthen the protective environment of beneficiaries.
  • Carry out protection risks assessments, protection monitoring activities as advised by your line managers.
  • Document and analyze the FGDs, Community meetings, KII and HH surveys conducted into a report for sharing with managers for review.
  • Identify protection trends and bring this to the attention of the line manager for action planning
  • Carry out advocacy and sensitization activities at the field level
  • Represent DRC protection in all partner discussions at the field level
  • Participate and actively recruit casual social workers are needed.
  • Document all protection activities on Kobo and liaise with Protection Information Management Specialist to ensure your activities are captured in KOBO and in Protection dashboards.
  • Carry out any delegated activities as assigned by DRC management at the field level including supervision of field bases.
  • Manage DRC protection assets assigned to the field of operation.
  • Liaise with security officers in DRC to always keep up to date on security situation of the field base. Support protection coordinator, manager with itinerary planning for field visits including donor visits. Provide detailed updates of activities within your designated field site

Key Requirements
Education: (include certificates, licenses et.)

  • Diploma or BA./BSc. in relevant field (sociology, social work, psychology, education, counselling, human rights, development studies etc.)
  • Alternatively: experience as DRC Protection field worker

Experience: (include years of experience) Essentials

  • Diploma or degree in community development, psychology, sociology, food management and other social sciences relevant.
  • 2 yrs. Work experience in a humanitarian organization / with displacement affected populations or significant experience as a DRC Protection social or outreach worker
  • Knowledge of protection norms, principles, and activities
  • Excellent communication skills (oral and writing)
  • Professional fluency in English and Hausa
  • Ability and willingness to maintain regular presence at project sites (remote / field sites) and to work during irregular working hours and in insecure environments
  • Strong interpersonal, communication, and negotiation skills – self-motivated individuals, able to take initiative and propose solutions, resilient, positive, and able to work independently.
  • Good understanding of the Northeast Nigeria operational context
  • Must have basic level computer skills. Desirables
  • Knowledge of the protection activities
  • Knowledge of Northeast Nigeria States languages including Kanuri added advantage.

Desirables:

  • Knowledge of the protection activities
  • Knowledge of Northeast Nigeria States languages including Kanuri added advantage.

Conditions

  • Availability: ASAP
  • Salary and conditions: In accordance with Danish Refugee Council’s Terms of Employment;
  • The income will be subject to statutory deductions as per applicable Nigeria laws. The employee is responsible for the tax returns.

Application Closing Date
21st January, 2021.
Follow the procedures below:

  • CV and Cover Letter indicating and explaining the suitability for the position applied.
  • Provide contact details (name, position, email address and tel. no.) of 3 professional non-related references, whereas 1 must be for the latest employer. Please do not attach any written recommendations.
  • Applications should be addressed to: “Recruitment Manager”.
  • Applications can be sent through email to [email protected] please note: The position title must be written in the subject line of the email otherwise not considered.
  • Only motivated applications that address the stipulated duties and meet the required qualifications, sent together with a CV, will be considered. CV-only applications will not be considered.

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The Danish Refugee Council is currently implementing a broad range of activities relevant to conflict affected communities and persons. The activities are categorized in ten sectors:

Shelter and Non-food Items, Food Security, Protection, Income Generation, Coordination & Operational Services, Community Infrastructure & Services, Humanitarian Mine Action, Armed Violence Reduction (AVR), Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH), and Education.

Here you can read some short exemplifications of what types of activities the respective sectors include:

Shelter and Non-food Items: Provision of emergency shelter, emergency cash grants, rehabilitation of housing, distribution of non-food items (NFIs) and provision of return and repatriation kits.

Food Security: Emergency food provision or food voucher programmes. Training and capacity development in agriculture, agricultural inputs (e.g. tools and seeds), agricultural grants.

Protection: Advocacy for the rights of displaced people in their context of displacement, child protection initiatives, individual protection assistance based on vulnerability, legal aid, land & property rights, sexual and gender-based violence prevention, registration services for the internally displaced and refugees, monitoring of rights and rights awareness-raising, facilitation of return and repatriation processes.

Income Generation: Business training and SME development, business grants, life-skills training, literacy and numeracy training, vocational training, micro-credit loans, savings groups, group enterprise development and facilitation.

Coordination & Operational Services: Coordination and management of refugee and IDP camps, active participation in UN cluster coordination, humanitarian surveys and studies, facilitation of NGO Networks focused on displacement solutions, capacity development, training and support to local NGOs, secondment of experts to UN emergency operations worldwide

Community Infrastructure & Services: Provision of physical infrastructure like roads, bridges, community centres, irrigation systems or other community structures, facilitation and training of infrastructure management groups at community level, facilitation and funding of community development plans, initiatives for disaster risk reduction at community level.

Humanitarian Mine Action: Manual or mechanical mine clearance, clearance of former battle areas, education for affected communities – with special focus on children on how to avoid harm from mines and UXO, surveys of expected and confirmed mined or UXO areas, explosive ordnance disposal and stockpile destruction, capacity building of national demining institutions.

Armed Violence Reduction (AVR): Education in procedures for safe storage and safe handling of small arms and light weapons (SALW), capacity building of institutions for safety, local and community level conflict management and mitigation.

Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH): Emergency water supply, hygiene item distribution, hygiene information and education, construction of latrines, installation water points, wells and water storage. Water purification.

Education: Education grants and fee support, school feeding programmes, teacher training and support, school materials provision and construction or rehabilitation of school structures.

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0 USD Borno CF 3201 Abc road Full Time , 40 hours per week Danish Refugee Council (DRC)

Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a Danish international non-governmental organisation, which promotes and supports durable solutions to the problems faced by refugees and internally displaced people all over the world. DRC is present in more than 30 conflict territories around the world assisting displaced people with shelter, food, income-generating activities, and a wide range of other assistance. It is of utmost importance for DRC to work in compliance with the DRC Accountability and Quality Management system and national legislations. Smooth, reliable and effective operational systems are preconditions for DRC to maintain its position as a trustworthy and reliable partner for our donors and an accountable organisation towards our beneficiaries.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:Job Title: Protection / CFM AssistantLocation: Borno Type of Contract: National Contract
The Position
  • The Protection Assistant, under the supervision of the Roving Protection Team Leader will be fully dedicated to support the integration of protection principles and the mainstreaming of gender within the context of programmes jointly implemented with WFP.
  • The Protection Assistant is responsible for the day-to-day implementation of the various protection activities in the field locations under his/her responsibility related to protection in food programming.
  • This includes conduct Protection Monitoring/ risk assessments/ rapid protection assessments, conduct referrals (including establishing referral pathways), following up of cases, identification of protection cases, referrals for IPA, monitor the CNMs daily, weekly work planning, ensuring awareness on CFM, collection of complaints, documenting of the complaints in adherence to WFP and DRC systems, feedback to communities and train on CFM, protection principles to CNMs, food committees.
Key Roles Responsibilities:
  • Ensure the organization and the implementation of all protection activities at field level in accordance with the agreed work plan (under the supervision of the Protection Roving Officers and Team Leader) and the international standards
  • Ensure the management of the field protection incentive workers (team and work management)
  • Prepare necessary activity and protection reports (weekly, monthly, ad hoc)
  • Participate in conducting needs and programmatic assessments in targeted locations
  • Identify, document, refer and or intervene on protection cases identified in within Food activities.
  • Liaise with humanitarian actors to lobby for services for beneficiaries through bilateral or multi-lateral engagement.
  • Document all protection activities on Kobo in line with the M & E requirements.
  • Document all protection cases in appropriate forms – referrals, individual case forms and updated in Kobo including appropriate filing of hard copies in secure cabinets.
  • Ensure the complaints and feedback mechanism (CFM) is implemented by establishing desks to collect complaints in all food activities
  • Carry out all rounded inclusive awareness sessions on use of the CFM to beneficiaries in all target locations.
  • Document Complaints using Kobo and hardcopies where appropriate, provide update reports for dissemination and sorting to DRC risk and compliance department and WFP.
  • Follow up all protection related complaints and conduct protection concern verification and referrals where appropriate.
  • Engage with communities directly and create awareness on protection mainstreaming, protection principles, human rights, child protection, SGBV, CFM, gender and age diversity inclusion throughout the project period.
  • Train food committees, community leaders, partner staff and other stakeholders of food security and protection programming to strengthen the protective environment of beneficiaries.
  • Carry out protection risks assessments, protection monitoring activities as advised by your line managers.
  • Document and analyze the FGDs, Community meetings, KII and HH surveys conducted into a report for sharing with managers for review.
  • Identify protection trends and bring this to the attention of the line manager for action planning
  • Carry out advocacy and sensitization activities at the field level
  • Represent DRC protection in all partner discussions at the field level
  • Participate and actively recruit casual social workers are needed.
  • Document all protection activities on Kobo and liaise with Protection Information Management Specialist to ensure your activities are captured in KOBO and in Protection dashboards.
  • Carry out any delegated activities as assigned by DRC management at the field level including supervision of field bases.
  • Manage DRC protection assets assigned to the field of operation.
  • Liaise with security officers in DRC to always keep up to date on security situation of the field base. Support protection coordinator, manager with itinerary planning for field visits including donor visits. Provide detailed updates of activities within your designated field site
Key Requirements Education: (include certificates, licenses et.)
  • Diploma or BA./BSc. in relevant field (sociology, social work, psychology, education, counselling, human rights, development studies etc.)
  • Alternatively: experience as DRC Protection field worker
Experience: (include years of experience) Essentials
  • Diploma or degree in community development, psychology, sociology, food management and other social sciences relevant.
  • 2 yrs. Work experience in a humanitarian organization / with displacement affected populations or significant experience as a DRC Protection social or outreach worker
  • Knowledge of protection norms, principles, and activities
  • Excellent communication skills (oral and writing)
  • Professional fluency in English and Hausa
  • Ability and willingness to maintain regular presence at project sites (remote / field sites) and to work during irregular working hours and in insecure environments
  • Strong interpersonal, communication, and negotiation skills – self-motivated individuals, able to take initiative and propose solutions, resilient, positive, and able to work independently.
  • Good understanding of the Northeast Nigeria operational context
  • Must have basic level computer skills. Desirables
  • Knowledge of the protection activities
  • Knowledge of Northeast Nigeria States languages including Kanuri added advantage.
Desirables:
  • Knowledge of the protection activities
  • Knowledge of Northeast Nigeria States languages including Kanuri added advantage.
Conditions
  • Availability: ASAP
  • Salary and conditions: In accordance with Danish Refugee Council’s Terms of Employment;
  • The income will be subject to statutory deductions as per applicable Nigeria laws. The employee is responsible for the tax returns.

Application Closing Date 21st January, 2021. Follow the procedures below:

  • CV and Cover Letter indicating and explaining the suitability for the position applied.
  • Provide contact details (name, position, email address and tel. no.) of 3 professional non-related references, whereas 1 must be for the latest employer. Please do not attach any written recommendations.
  • Applications should be addressed to: “Recruitment Manager”.
  • Applications can be sent through email to [email protected] please note: The position title must be written in the subject line of the email otherwise not considered.
  • Only motivated applications that address the stipulated duties and meet the required qualifications, sent together with a CV, will be considered. CV-only applications will not be considered.
2021-01-22

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