Protection Manager

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Description

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• Project Management and implementation – protection activities.
• Coordinate, plan, and monitor all protection-related project activities, including protection monitoring, individual protection assistance, information dissemination, community-based protection, psychosocial support, GBV prevention and response activities, and legal aid.
• Liaise and coordinate permanently with DRC’s partner organizations, if present, UNHCR, and other protection humanitarian actors in the intervention area.
• Ensure the highest quality of sectoral interventions and coherence between all projects, ongoing and proposed, according to the overall strategy.
• Take leadership of the programs in terms of high quality and timely deliveries, narrative reporting, financial overviews, close cooperation with donors, Government counterparts, and coordination mechanisms on-site and in synergy with other DRC interventions in the area.
• Formalize and develop project-related operational tools and training modules.
• Provide inputs for monthly, quarterly, and annual donor reports.
• Monitor overall budget, financial management, and expenses control for program activities, including compliance with minimum DRC and donor requirements

• Representation of DRC and active participation in sectoral and relevant subsectors/working groups.
• Oversee knowledge sharing across teams and ensure that monitoring and evaluation results are understood and used to improve programs.
• Drive the development and growth of relevant programs within the DRC program objectives and contribute to country-wide strategy development

• Guided by the DRC Programme Handbook, continuously monitor and develop relevant accountability initiatives within relevant project program as well as strengthening the effort to document the impact of activities.
• Ensure compliance with internal and external reporting requirements including procurement.

• Recruit and line manage protection project staff;
• Provide regular constructive feedback to direct reports, and support direct reports in performance management of their team members;
• Assess training and development needs within the Protection team, develop and implement capacity-building plans             

• Ensure the coordination with relevant protection actors in the area of intervention.
• To be successful in this role we expect you to have at least 5 years’ working experience in similar protection positions and at least 3 years of people management experience.

• Proven experience in implementing protection programs in complex emergency contexts.
• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Human Rights, Political Science, Refugee Law, or any other relevant field.
• Experience in carrying out humanitarian interventions through and in coordination with implementing partner organizations is an asset.
• Vast experience with protection monitoring including protection analysis and reports.
• Proficiency in English is compulsory.
• Fluency in Ukrainian or Russian is an asset.
• Excellent writing and editing skills for external audiences (including governments and donors).
• Experience in producing high-quality technical material (training material, program tools, proposals, strategic documents, etc.).
• Experience in working with Monitoring, Evaluation and learning in protection programs.
• Excellent reporting and protection analysis skills.

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