Job Responsibilities

• Design and manage DRC's general protection, legal protection, GBV, child protection, and other protection interventions as per international best practice standards.
• Conduct rapid needs assessments to inform program design and strategic direction as well as identify risks and vulnerabilities, including those related to gender, age, and disability.
• Develop concrete initiatives to reduce protection risks and design specific strategies to build upon existing assets within the population.
• Develop, adapt, and oversee the rollout and application of quality measures for DRC’s protection activities, in line with SPHERE standards, the Inter-Agency Minimum Standards for Child Protection, and guidelines defined in national coordination fora.
• Conduct and supervise internal and external training on protection-related issues, including protection mainstreaming for DRC staff, partners, and project beneficiaries.
• Contribute to the development of proposals, budgets, concept notes in coordination with relevant DRC departments.
• Protection Integration across DRC sectors and programmes in Hard to Reach locations
• Promote integrated programming and ensure internal coordination and harmonisation of DRC protection interventions across sites and with other core sectors, specifically CCCM, Economic Recovery, and Emergency Response programming.
• Contribute to protection mainstreaming across all DRC field offices.
• Coordination and Representation
• Represent DRC in general protection coordination meetings, such as the Protection Cluster and the CP-GBV Sub-Cluster working group as well as in relevant technical working groups related to IDP protection and durable solutions, as agreed with the Head of Program.
• Coordinate with government agencies, such as the Ministry of Women, Families and Children Affairs, Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, UNHCR, UNICEF, protection NGOs, and other key stakeholders on the provision of protection services and relevant contingency planning.
• Ensure internal coordination and harmonization of DRC protection-related activities with DRC Somalia’s regional protection programs.
• Promote improved understanding of protection issues among all relevant stakeholders and ensure the observance of international protection and humanitarian legal standards.
• Monitoring, Reporting, and Development
• Take the lead on protection-related proposals as relevant, and ensure that all proposed interventions are protection mainstreamed, regardless of sector, in close collaboration with DRC’s grants, M&E, and program staff.
• Develop protection-focused program monitoring tools.
• Undertake quality control and site monitoring to ensure that services provided are according to international best practice standards.
• Conduct program monitoring as per expected outputs and outcomes.
• Support teams to monitor financial spending and budgets for all protection projects.
• Provide technical inputs and quality assurance to donors and other DRC reports.
• Ensure that the design and implementation of protection activities address the protection needs of refugees, IDPs, and other vulnerable populations within DRC's mandate.
• Ensure that quality assurance systems are developed and applied, with particular reference to the Core Humanitarian Standard and age, gender, and disability throughout the program.
• Ensure that a protection risk analysis is in place and constantly updated in the area of responsibility.
• Management and Supervision
• Lead and manage the country office, and project-specific protection staff (including people planning, performance, well-being, and development)
• Provide technical supervision to protection staff across DRC’s field sites, in collaboration with Area Managers.
• Contribute to the recruitment and performance management of protection staff that fall outside of direct line management responsibility as needed.
• Develop staff capacities on the rights-based approaches, participatory protection assessments and monitoring, and inclusion of vulnerable groups through training, mentoring, and coaching