Protection Team Leader- General Protection

The Protection Team Leader will ensure implementation of protection programming including coordination activities in Malakal. The role involves supervising protection activities, reporting, capacity building, and maintaining relations with stakeholders to ensure quality protection outcomes and programme development.

Responsibilities

• Manage and oversee implementation of SSHF project
• Ensure compliance with donor guidelines, including reporting and budget management
• Prepare procurement plans, procurement requests, and follow up with support departments
• Monitor and update work plans, budgets, and prepare reports in collaboration with finance and grants teams
• Contribute to planning and preparing donor visits
• Prepare documentation for activities such as movement plans, order requests, payment requests
• Reconcile expenditures for each activity
• Implement protection activities in accordance with agreed strategy, operational plan, budgets, and DRC and donor regulations
• Conduct protection assessments, monitoring and analysis to identify risks and respond accordingly, including advocacy at State-level
• Support persons at risk of protection issues through direct interventions and referrals
• Ensure mainstreaming of protection across DRC’s response in Upper Nile State
• Produce high-quality protection information products on the dynamic protection context and protection concerns
• Oversee data collection and processing, ensuring effective data and information management
• Submit monthly protection monitoring reports to Protection Coordinator and stakeholders
• Contribute to monitoring, evaluation, and learning processes and initiatives with MEAL department
• Manage protection databases and train protection colleagues on the use of the database
• Work closely with the Protection Coordinator in designing training modules and tools for community structures
• Lead DRC protection programming in Malakal and ensure quality protection activities
• Contribute to the strategic direction of the DRC Protection department and share protection updates
• Coordinate internally and externally on protection concerns
• Engage with state-level protection cluster and participate in humanitarian response planning
• Liaise regularly with Area Manager and Juba colleagues
• Liaise and build partnerships with community leaders, civil society organizations, and other actors
• Enhance community-driven approaches through Community Protection Committees and structures
• Promote respectful engagement with affected populations and accountability measures
• Supervise, mentor, and support protection officers and assistants
• Recruit and manage GP protection team in Malakal
• Prepare weekly and monthly work plans for the protection team
• Train staff regularly on protection principles, guidance, and activities
• Ensure staff compliance with DRC Code of Conduct, humanitarian principles, and security procedures

Requirements

• At least four years’ protection experience, including community-based training experience on human rights and/or protection, and protection monitoring/human rights experience in South Sudan
• Proven technical knowledge of human rights, protection principles, project cycle management, SPHERE standards
• Experience in project implementation including budget management
• Understanding of and experience in engaging the cluster system in IDP sites
• Ability for rapid analysis of very complex issues, strong decision-making, and translation of programmatic learning and priorities into operational strategies
• Excellent interpersonal skills, cross-cultural communication and ease in managing a multi-ethnic team
• Good team leadership and conflict resolution skills, consensus team building, and adaptability
• Patience and understanding to work with and develop capacity of staff
• Experience delivering programs to tight deadlines
• Good computer and IT skills and strong communication and writing skills
• Fluency in written and spoken English language
• Ability and willingness to work in remote and isolated location with limited access to services and changing security scenarios
• A degree in political/social sciences, law, development studies, international development or equivalent degree qualifications
• Fluency in English (spoken and written) is required

Skills

• Protection Experience
• Community-Based Training
• Human Rights Knowledge
• Protection Monitoring
• Project Cycle Management
• SPHERE standards
• Project Implementation
• Budget Management
• Cluster System Engagement
• Rapid Issue Analysis
• Decision Making
• Operational Strategy
• Cross-Cultural Communication
• Team Leadership
• Conflict Resolution
• Consensus Building
• Capacity Building
• Program Delivery
• Computer Skills
• Report Writing

Languages

English