Protection Officer at INTERSOS Nigeria

INTERSOS is an independent humanitarian organization that assists the victims of natural disasters, armed conflicts and exclusion. Its activities are based on the principles of solidarity, justice, human dignity, equality of rights and opportunities, respect for diversity and coexistence, paying special attention to the most vulnerable people.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Protection Officer

Location: Maiduguri, Bama, Monguno, Dikwa and Konduga  - Borno
Reporting to: Protection Expert and Project Manager
Collaborations: Protection monitoring team, Social workers, Health and Nutrition team
Status: Full time
Duration: 3 months (with possibility of extension)
Starting date: As soon as possible

Summary

• INTERSOS Nigeria is recruiting for a national Protection Officer in Borno State. This offers an opportunity for those wishing to work with a professional team providing high quality services for the most vulnerable, focusing on GBV survivors and separated and unaccompanied children.

Key Responsibilities

• The Protection Officer is responsible to support the implementation of INTERSOS protection activities in Borno State. In particular the position aims to support the provision of GBV and child protection services, and protection monitoring, including community outreach, identification and referral of GBV and child protection cases, and monitoring of protection cases in the camps.

Specifically, under supervision of the Protection Expert and Project Manager and in collaboration with the INTERSOS local partner, IDTR/CP team, Health and Nutrition Team, he/she is responsible for:

Community awareness and training:

• Setting up protection monitoring mechanisms in the areas of intervention.
• Supervision, monitoring and reporting of Social Workers working on the field.
• Work with INTERSOS protection staff to design participatory IEC materials for prevention and response to GBV and child protection concerns;
• Mobilise and train community members and outreach workers for prevention of family separation and GBV, awareness on GBV causes and consequences and safe and ethical referral for care;
• Conduct training with the GBV and CP team for teachers and community health workers on basic emotional support, providing a supportive environment, safe and ethical referral of cases;
• Support community awareness activities and conduct ad-hoc monitoring visits to provide feedback to improve implementation;

Referral and GBV mainstreaming:

• Conduct service mapping with GBV and child protection actors in target areas, support the development and implementation of GBV and CP referral standard operating procedures (SOPs);
• Train and mentor those working directly with survivors on GBV guiding principles; ensure that those involved in the referral system are adhering to these principles;
• Design engagement methodology and support humanitarian actors and formal and informal authorities to understand their role in prevention and response to GBV and CP related to the IASC Guidelines for Integrating GBV in Humanitarian action, particularly among schools;
• Conduct regular meetings with INTERSOS, local partner and other actors as required to ensure
• effectiveness of referral support for survivors and vulnerable children;
• Maintain good working relations with the formal and informal authorities in the target areas;

Monitoring, evaluation and reporting:

• Support the design and monitoring of project implementation, including facilitating service user feedback, material and transportation assistance conducted by INTERSOS and local partner NGOs;
• Support case management processes through review and adherence to material assistance processes and data protection protocols for INTERSOS and partners;
• Conduct joint planning and reporting with INTERSOS GBV and child protection teams, including
• preparing weekly and monthly plans and report on INTERSOS and partners protection activities;
• Support reporting and trend analysis of data gathered through CPIMS and GBVIMS, including use of the data to advocate with authorities and humanitarian actors for response;
• Conduct rapid assessments and data collection, according to WHO ethical and safety principles, as part of inter-agency/multi- sectoral teams and coordinate immediate protection (GBV and CP) response in areas of displacement, conflict or natural disasters;
• Any other task not listed here and necessary for the project implementation.

Person Specification

• Social Science, Psychology degree and/or equivalent practical field experience working in Nigeria, preferably with a humanitarian organisation;
• Three years experience in either GBV, child protection, protection community mobilisation;
• Good interpersonal skills to work effective with different stakeholders including different communities in the target areas, humanitarian actors, health and education staff, local authorities;
• Proven experience in training, coordination and monitoring and evaluation is an asset;
• Good cooperation skills and ability to work in a team;
• Good problem solving and social skills and creative, to think of alternative solutions;
• Stress-resilient to be able to cope with deadlines and complex problems;
• Strong organizational, communication and report writing skills;
• Computer literate (word and excel);
• Fluency in English and Somali;
• Willing to work extra hours and available at the weekend for emergency cases.

Application Closing Date
29th September, 2017.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV's to: protection.maiduguri.nigeria@intersos.org and pm.cccm.maiduguri.nigeria@intersos.org