Officier Protection

The Officier Protection is responsible for supervising and ensuring the effective implementation of protection interventions (GBV and child protection) in the project intervention area. The role includes capacity building of community structures, prevention and response actions, risk identification and mitigation, and coordination with local authorities and partners in Mambasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Responsibilities

• Plan and implement child and women protection activities in collaboration with community structures, divigenre and DIVAS
• Be responsible for documentation and proper dissemination of documents produced after trainings
• Support community structures in planning and implementing violence prevention activities against women and girls
• Actively participate in conducting protection needs assessments and risk identification related to child and women protection
• Conduct trainings and provide technical reinforcement to local actors in protection (child and women protection)
• Develop a capacity building plan for local partners
• Train community structures and ensure follow-up of implementation
• Design and/or execute formal training modules and/or support trainers for different sectors
• Support local actors in establishing prevention and response mechanisms for violence and abuse against children and women
• Organize workshops on protection risk plans for women and girls and support them
• Support community mobilization activities through awareness raising of various community structures
• Ensure that Minimum Standards in GBV and child protection in humanitarian action and other relevant standards are respected
• Plan and conduct field visits to monitor the quality of protection activities and support partners
• Produce reports on community structures activities (weekly, monthly, etc.) and ensure timely transmission to the Project Manager
• Contribute to data collection for monitoring, evaluations to support project proposal development in child and women protection sector
• Produce activity reports with results achieved and good practices and lessons learned from the intervention
• Actively participate and sometimes lead representation meetings, report writing, and responding to external information requests
• Participate actively in protection coordination forums (CP AoR, GBV AoR, etc.)
• Ensure exchange meetings with other organizations and international agencies working in protection (GBV and child protection) to guarantee holistic services to survivors
• Directly or supervising other staff, ensure writing and if necessary restitution of meeting minutes, internal or external to the program or IRC
• Maintain positive and professional relationships with team members
• Promote strong team spirit, provide advice/guidance and technical support to enable team members to succeed in their functions
• Ensure quality integration activities such as discussion groups and awareness raising
• Ensure good collaboration with other IRC sectors in this project, notably Education, and participate in harmonization meetings for good sector integration
• Ensure proper functioning of program documentation and archiving system to enable response capacity in case of litigation and facilitate capitalization of experiences on processes and practices
• Coordinate, by delegation of the project manager, logistical needs, especially supplies, vehicles, organization of meetings, workshops, trainings and employee schedules (leave, field missions), in collaboration with IRC logistics department
• Ensure strict and permanent respect of safety rules in organizing field missions and use of IRC resources (buildings, vehicles, equipment)

Requirements

• Have at least a Graduat degree in social sciences or other relevant fields
• Have proven professional experience of at least 5 years in the humanitarian field or with NGOs
• Have proven experience of at least 3 years in the protection sector, notably child protection and GBV, with perfect mastery of prevention and response approaches in this sector
• Have received training in child protection and GBV
• Strong capacity in management and supervision of local partners (community structures)
• Strong skills in planning, organization and communication
• Be familiar with adolescent support approaches in GBV prevention and reduction of harmful survival mechanisms among adolescents
• Have experience in socio-economic reintegration and community awareness and mobilization
• Have experience in capacity building, training organization and post-training follow-up
• Have good knowledge of the intervention area and local languages of the project zone
• Be a good communicator
• Excellent written and oral French and Swahili
• Have a sense of organization and precision
• Be capable of taking relevant initiatives for the program as needed
• Be available to travel to targeted zones for service delivery
• Willingness and ability to work in an unstable environment
• Ability to work under pressure and live in difficult conditions
• Strong stress resistance and ability to work at a high pace corresponding to emergencies
• Have acceptable computer knowledge, specifically in Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Have rigor, honesty, efficiency and respect deadlines

Skills

• Child Protection
• Gender-Based Violence Awareness
• Protection Sector Experience
• Prevention and Response Approaches
• Capacity Building
• Training Organization
• Post-Training Follow-Up
• Management of Local Partners
• Public Awareness and Mobilization
• Economic Reintegration
• Planning and Organization
• Communications Skills
• Adolescent Support
• Risk Identification Mitigation Planning
• Coordination with Local Authorities
• Computer Skills Word Excel PowerPoint
• Stress Resistance
• Working in Unstable Environments
• Supervision Skills

Languages

French, Swahili