Title: Protection Manger
Location: Shire, Tigray
Employment Category: F2
Salary Range: USD 1,445.00 – 1,757.00 per month which specific amount will be determined up on candidates experience and educational relevancy
Reporting To: Area Manager
Start of Contract & Duration: 1 Year
Posting date: November 25, 2022
Required Employee: 1
INTRODUCTION
The Danish Refugee Council (DRC), an international non-governmental organization (NGO), has been providing relief and development services in the Horn of Africa since 1997. DRC promotes and supports solutions to the problems faced by refugees, internally displaced people (IDPs), and migrants. The organization has offices across the region and has been operational in Ethiopia since 2009. With funding from bilateral and multilateral donors, DRC is currently implementing a range of activities across Ethiopia and Djibouti, including WASH and shelter provision, child and youth protection, gender-based violence response, awareness-raising of migration risks, protection monitoring of migration routes, and livelihoods support for returning migrants or those at-risk of migration.
OVERALL PURPOSE OF THE ROLE:
The Protection Manager will manage and technically oversee DRC’s protection projects in Tigray region, which includes rapid protection assessments and protection monitoring, information dissemination and awareness, GBV prevention and response (including case management), individual protection assistance, and community-based protection and social cohesion activities, including targeting youth. S/he will plan and oversee the implementation of all protection activities, including technical guidance to the expanding protection team, ensuring adaptability to the operational context, and strong capacity-building elements. S/he contribute to the development and design of new/additional interventions with agreement of the Head of Program and Country Protection Manager. Additionally, the Protection Manager will take a leading role in building the Protection response in Tigray, including through co-leading the Tigray Protection Cluster in close collaboration with UNHCR. Approximately 25% of this positions’ time will therefore be dedicated to Cluster co-leadership at the Tigray level, as well as leading DRC’s growing Protection response in Tigray. This position may also be deployed to support mobile protection responses in other areas of northern Ethiopia, including Afar and Amhara, as and when additional surge support capacity is required.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Coordination:
Technical support:
Project management
Human Resources:
Reporting and accountability
All DRC roles require the post-holder to master
DRC’s core competencies:
Experience and technical competencies: (include years of experience)
EDUCATION: (include certificates, licenses, etc.)
LANGUAGE: (indicate fluency level)