Title: Protection Officer - Legal
Location: Dolo Ado
Employment Category: H2
Salary Range: USD 540.00 – 656.00 per month which specific amount will be determined up on candidates experience and educational relevancy
Reporting To: Area Manager
Posting date: April 8, 2024
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, 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 Legal officer, under the supervision of the Protection Manager will undertake protection and legal activities within the project framework. The legal officer will be engaged in the provision of legal aid service including legal information dissemination, counselling, assistance, and facilitation of representation to the target population. In addition, the officer will take on any additional protection activity as required by the Protection Manager to meet the project objective.
Responsibilities:
Programming & Operations
Reporting
Coordination
All DRC roles require the post-holder to master
DRC’s core competencies:
Experience and technical competencies: (include years of experience)
Education:
LANGUAGE: (indicate fluency level)