Danish Refugee Job Positions in Ethiopia

Danish Refugee Council Protection Cluster Coordinator Vacancies in Ethiopia


Key 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 Somali region;
  • Support the establishment and maintenance of effective coordination mechanisms and tools, including making sure that 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 agreements with UNHCR;
  • Developing/updating response strategies and action plans for the sub-national protection cluster and ensuring that these 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 of beneficiary selection/ vulnerability criteria guidance dissemination.
  • Promote/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;

    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 programmes 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 main focus on IDP movements, mapping, analysis and data management);

    Qualifications

  • 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 leadership, coordination, capacity building, planning and analytical skills;
  • Excellent representation skills including the development of strong interpersonal relationships to facilitate communication within the cluster;

    How to Apply:

    For more information and job application details, see; Danish Refugee Council Protection Cluster Coordinator Vacancies in Ethiopia

    Closing date: 09 Jun 2017

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