Job Type: 6 Months with possibility of extension
Role Purpose
The Protection Assistant will support in implementing gender-sensitive community-level protection activities, protection monitoring, and information dissemination for managing information and relevant professional standards in protection work
Key Outcomes
- Ensure the delivery of protection activities in the Humanitarian response
- Undertake regular field visits with the Small Holder Farmer and FSL teams to identify and address, along with the sectorial teams.
- Prepare for and organize community consultations and community-based orientation sessions, in coordination with other partners
- Participates in developing and updating the mapping of services for threats and abuses (including GBV) that IDPs and Host Community members face in SHI areas of operation
- Lead and supervise assessment teams during thematic surveys, needs assessment and data collection for protection-related research
- With support of the Protection Officer, follow-up with humanitarian actors about requests and invitations for community sessions
- Monitors protection issues affecting IDPs and host population in areas of operation
- Support the teams to strategize, plan for and ensure appropriate integration and mainstreaming of protection through all programme activities
- With support from SHI Protection Officer, develop and update relevant Information, Education and Communication tools (leaflets, brochures, posters etc.)
- Coordinate and organize regular internal mapping of services available in the area of intervention
- Working in Support of SHI Protection Officer to develop safe programming and conflict-sensitive approaches to the humanitarian response
- In collaboration with the Protection Officer, ensure program staff are fully trained on existing referral systems and relevant SOPs
- Facilitate referral of protection issues to relevant service providers.
- Conduct awareness raising and sensitization of relevant Protection messages and beneficiary’s rights
- Assist in any other related matters necessary for the execution of the project
Role Context
- The Protection Assistant will carry out all Protection activities and will be responsible for the day-to-day implementation of the various protection activities in the field locations under his/her responsibility under the supervision of Protection Officer.
- She/he will also coordinate local communities, in close coordination with SHI’s Protection Officer and field teams.
Analytical Skills:
- Works on complex issues. Problems and issues, risks and benefits may have implications across several project components.
- Required to develop new ways of doing things to better meet program goals requiring creative or analytical ability.
Qualification and Experience:
- University Degree in a relevant discipline (Law, Political Science, Social Science, Psychology or any other relevant education profile),
- Experience, 2 years working with communities in humanitarian / development contexts.
- Capacity and willingness to reside in the field location assigned to and regularly travel to other field locations where SHI operates
- Very good interpersonal skills, particularly in networking, working with communities, local civil society and local authorities.
- Good understanding and knowledge in application of do no harm, conflict sensitivity principles and IASC standards and ethics for protection work.
- Good understanding of protection concerns, including GBV issues in displacement, human rights, and international humanitarian law
- Understanding of monitoring processes, learning, adaptation and evaluation
- Good knowledge of spoken and written English, Hausa and Kanuri
- Commitment to humanitarian principles and action and to SHI’s equal opportunity and gender policies
- Excellent skills of using Microsoft word, power point and excel
- Considerable knowledge and experience in Child Protection is an added advantage.
How To Apply
Interested and qualified? Send your CV and cover letter in one PDF document to admin@shiinternational.org to apply