Overview
The Protection Assistant – Community Based position provides support in strengthening protection outcomes by catalyzing community actions and promoting community-based protection of Forcibly Displaced and Stateless Persons (FDSPs).
Key Responsibilities
- Facilitate operation of protection help desks registering complaints and providing timely and appropriate responses.
- Strengthen linkages between community members, partners and service providers.
- Ensure mobilization and creation of protection information in the community.
- Identify gaps in protection and community services and generate ideas to address them.
- Strengthen capacities of community-based structures.
- Participate in PSN profiling and ongoing risk assessment and analysis.
- Ensure quality data collection, analysis and storage.
- Ensure daily implementation of community-based sub-sector activities.
- Ensure a daily monitoring of protection trends.
- Facilitate regular community consultations.
- Conduct protection monitoring and raise protection concerns.
- Draft and share flash reports on major protection incidents and risks.
- Identify beneficiaries in need of further support and ensure timely referral and follow-up.
- Contribute to drafting weekly and monthly reports.
- Develop relationships with key stakeholders.
- Represent IRC and participate in local working groups.
- Coordinate project implementation with partners.
- Work closely with other program components.
- Provide technical and programmatic leadership for community-based structures.
- Conduct daily field visits to support Community Based Volunteers.
- Contribute to the daily quality implementation, monitoring and evaluation of projects.
- Identify, document and disseminate project success, challenges and action points.
- Assist in participatory needs/vulnerability and capacity assessments.
- Implement MEAL tools, including pre- and post-test.
Required Experience
- Minimum 1 year of relevant work experience in protection in humanitarian setting
- Experience in the delivery of community programs to vulnerable groups
Qualifications
Relevant university degree (e.g. psychology, social work, pedagogy or education, international development) or equivalent professional qualification.
