Danish Refugee Council NGO Protection Cluster Coordinator Jobs in Ethiopia
Danish Refugee Council NGO Protection Cluster Coordinator Jobs in Ethiopia
Overall purpose of the role In September 2017, a regional Protection Cluster was launched in the Somali region of Ethiopia with the aim of coordinating and enhancing humanitarian protection efforts within the region.
The Protection Cluster Co-Facilitator will work directly with the Somali Region Disaster Preparedness and Prevention Bureau, the Bureau of Women and Children Affairs and UNHCR – the latter of which is the lead agency responsible for the overall implementation of the protection cluster in accordance with IASC guidelines on cluster leadership and accountability.
The position will lead in ensuring effective management of the regional-level Protection Cluster, in enhancing the capacity of Somali regional and local authorities as well as international humanitarian partners to identify, mitigate and response to protection risks within the region, in reinforcing the accountability of humanitarian response towards beneficiaries, and in supporting, and guide the EHF-funded Mobile Protection Teams within the region.
Responsibilities
Promote and Support Accountability to Affected Populations
Support timely and coordinated action by cluster participants to meet the protection needs of IDPs and affected populations in the region.
Support the establishment and maintenance of effective coordination mechanisms and tools, including making sure information and data management are established and maintained with cluster participants, government counterparts and donors.
Secure commitments from humanitarian partners in responding to needs and filling gaps, ensuring an appropriate distribution of responsibilities within the protection cluster, with clearly defined focal points for specific issues where necessary.
Represent the interests of the protection cluster in discussions with stakeholders on prioritization and resource mobilization, in accordance with agreement with UNHCR.
Develop and update response strategies and action plans for the sub-national protection cluster and ensuring that they are adequately reflected in overall country and regional-level strategies.
Capacity Building, Trainings and Promotion of Protection Mainstreaming
Ensure the integration of protection issues in sectoral needs assessment, analysis, planning, monitoring and response.
Ensure gender-sensitive programming and promote gender equality.
Ensure that the needs, contributions and capacities of women and girls, as well as men and boys are addressed.
Support the development and dissemination of beneficiary selection and vulnerability criteria and guidance.
Support training of staff and capacity building of mobile protection teams, humanitarian partners and government staff on protection mainstreaming and other technical protection issues as identified as priority by the Cluster.
Support efforts to strengthen the capacity of the local authorities and civil society.
Organizing and delivery of technical and substantial training and capacity building for local authorities and cluster members on use of inter-agency tools and systems.
Monitoring, Reporting and Analysis
Direct and support the activities of Mobile Protection Teams in Somali region, to ensure adequate coverage, analysis, reporting and quality in service mapping and delivery.
This will include monitoring visits and on-the-job mentoring to the relevant areas of implementation;
Promote integration of data and analysis from other protection and IDP assistance programs under implementation in Somali region, such as the Displacement Tracking Matrix.
Support reporting on the protection activities and functioning of information management system for the Protection Cluster, with a focus on IDP movements, mapping, analysis and data management.
Support the national Protection Cluster in the application of inter-agency tools, database development, and programming of protection inputs as necessary.
Ensure effective and coherent sectoral needs assessment and analysis.
Provide assistance in the development of protection, reporting/vulnerability assessment formats, procedures and criteria in
consultation with local authorities and cluster member organizations.
Ensure adequate, disaggregated reporting and effective information sharing, with a focus on robust and contextualized analysis.
Engage with Authorities and Partners to Address Key Protection Concern
Coordinate closely with all relevant government and non-government stakeholders, including relevant regional, zonal and woreda authorities, as well as other relevant inter-agency forums such as the Inter-Agency Cluster and the Somali Region CP/GBV Sub-Cluster.
Ensure adequate contingency planning and preparedness for new emergencies.
Identify core protection concerns, including resource requirements, and contribute key messages to broader initiatives of the national Protection Cluster and other actors.
Support engagement and resource mobilization efforts for implementation of protection related to relief, return and recovery efforts for IDPs.
Engage with donors to fund humanitarian actors to carry out priority activities while encouraging sectoral group participants to mobilize resources for their activities through their usual channels.
Application of Standards
Ensure that sub-national Protection Cluster participants are aware of relevant policy guidelines, technical standards and relevant commitments that the Government of Ethiopia has undertaken.
Ensure that responses are in line with existing policy guidance, technical standards, and relevant Government legal obligations.
Reporting Arrangements
The Protection Coordinator reports to the Head of Program.
Person Specification
Experience and technical competencies:
Postgraduate degree in international law, social sciences or related field
Excellent understanding of protection issues in emergency situations and detailed knowledge of humanitarian principles, guidelines and laws.
Excellent leadership, coordination, capacity building, planning and analytical skills.
Minimum of 4-5 years proven experience working on protection related issues in humanitarian environments, including provision of technical advice to field teams.
Excellent representation skills including the development of strong interpersonal relationships to facilitate communication within the cluster.
Self-motivated and excellent observant of protection issues.
Proven ability to live and work in an unstable, insecure environment.
Proven experience with IMS, emergency protection monitoring, documentation and analysis of protection data, cluster coordination, child protection, set of community protection networks.
Languages:
Excellent verbal and written English.
Knowledge of Somali an added advantage.
About you
In this position, you are expected to demonstrate DRC’s five core competencies:
Striving for excellence: You focus on reaching results while ensuring an efficient process.
Collaborating: You involve relevant parties and encourage feedback.
Taking the lead: You take ownership and initiative while aiming for innovation.
Communicating: You listen and speak effectively and honestly.
Demonstrating integrity: You act in line with our vision and values.
Conditions
Contract:1 year contract dependent on both funding and performance. Salary and conditions in accordance with the Danish Refugee Council’s Terms of Employment for Global Expatriates (available at www.drc.dk under Vacancies).
This position is graded as A14.
For qualified National staff the terms of employment will be in accordance with DRC terms for National staff
Availability:
As soon as possible.
Duty station:
Jijiga, Somalia
How to Apply
Interested candidates who meet the required qualifications and experience are invited to submit updated CV and cover letter explaining their motivation and why they are suited for the post.
We only accept applications sent via our online-application form on www.drc.dk under Vacancies.
Please forward the application and CV, in English through the online application on www.drc.dk under vacancies no later than 30 November, 2018.
If you have questions or are facing problems with the online application process, please contact job@drc.dk
For more information and job application details, see; Danish Refugee Council NGO Protection Cluster Coordinator Jobs in Ethiopia
