Title: Protection Team Leader (Protection Monitoring)
Location: Shire
Employment Category: G
Reporting To: Protection Manager – Tigray
Direct Reports: Protection officers (Protection Monitoring and information dissemination), Protection assistants, Translators
Start of Contract & Duration: From July 2021 to May 31, 2022
Posting date: June 22, 2021
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 Team Leader – (Protection Monitoring and Information Dissemination) will be responsible for leading the protection assessments and the protection information dissemination and assistance in the zones of intervention in Shire and the surrounding areas as agreed with the Protection Manager. The Protection Team Leader will be responsible for the day-to-day technical supervision and management of the Protection teams deployed in the field locations to ensure the accuracy and the technical rigor of the activities implemented and that the team is implementing all the necessary activities to reach DRC contractual agreements with donors on protection in the zone. The Protection Team Leader will work closely with DRC’s Protection Manager to deliver activities in line with protection standards and country office protection strategy.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Technical Support
General Management and Support
Reporting:
Experience and Technical Competencies: (include years of experience)
Education (include certificates, licenses etc.):
Languages: (indicate fluency level)
All DRC roles require the post-holder to master DRC’s core competencies: