Title: Protection Officer -Legal
Location: Okugo Refugee Camp/Dimma, Gambella
Employment Category: H2
Reporting To: Youth and legal Team Leader
Start of Contract & Duration: 6 Months
Posting date: May 27, 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 Officer (Legal), under the supervision of the Protection Team leader, will undertake protection and legal activities within the project framework. The legal officer will be engaged in the provision of legal aid services including legal information dissemination, counseling, 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 Team Leader to meet the project objectives.
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: (include certificates, licenses, etc.)
LANGUAGE: (indicate fluency level)