Protection Officer-Prevention & Capacity Strengthening

To be successful in this role, you must have a minimum of 5 years of experience in protection programming, humanitarian response, or capacity building. Moreover, we also expect the following.

Required

• A Bachelor’s degree in Law, social sciences, development studies, guidance and counselling or related field.
  

• Strong knowledge of international protection standards (e.g., UNHCR, ICRC, Sphere, Child Protection Minimum Standards).
  

• Experience in training facilitation, adult learning methodologies, and organizational development.
  

• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills.
  

• Experience of working with UN or Non‐Governmental organizations.
  

• Good communication skills and ability to conduct training and awareness.
  

• Good knowledge of Microsoft Computer packages
  

• Good organizational and management skills.
  

• Familiarity with Monitoring & Evaluation for UN-funded projects desired.
  

• Ability to design and deliver engaging training sessions
  

Project development and implementation

• Follow up on the quality of implementation of project activities at the field level, including appropriate documentation and management of protection cases.
  

• Provide hands-on training, coaching, mentoring to protection staff, ensuring clarity on protection tools and standards in consultation with protection coordinator.
  

• Identify key advocacy messages and promote dissemination of these within the operational context.
  

• Coordinate with the protection specialist to develop and deliver training modules on protection principles, safeguarding, child protection, gender-based violence (GBV), and humanitarian standards.
  

• Provide ongoing coaching, mentoring, and technical support to staff and partners.
  

Coordination and representation

• Collaborate with local NGOs, community groups, and government agencies to strengthen protection networks.
  

• Represent the organization in protection coordination forums and working groups.
  

• Facilitate knowledge-sharing and best practices across teams and partners.
  

Monitoring and Evaluation

• Support planning and ensure that activities are implemented in accordance with project objectives and work plan.
  

• Collaborate & Coordinate with M& E team to ensure monitoring activities are mainstreamed with protection and ensure protection of vulnerable groups while gathering appropriate and accurate data on protection outcomes.
  

• With support from MEAL, develop indicators and tools to measure protection capacity strengthening outcomes.
  

• Document lessons learned and contributed to organizational learning.
  

• Contribute to preparation and submission of weekly, monthly and quarterly reports
  

Logistics /Finance

• Monitor financial commitments and expenditures against budgets and provide timely feedback on budget follow-ups.
  

• Liase with DRC Administration, Logistics, and Finance Departments and the Protection Manager to ensure smooth operation of the field office.