Oficial de Protección Basada en Comunidad (PCB)

The Oficial de Protección Basada en Comunidad (PCB) supports the implementation of community-based protection activities in the field under DRC projects. The role involves technical support to communities for participatory diagnostics, service mapping, action plan development, and coordination with local actors to ensure sustainability.

Responsibilities

• Implement community-based protection activities.
• Identify key community members and actors for coordination and joint planning of community protection activities.
• Support communities in establishing community representation structures for DRC projects with a differential and intersectional approach.
• Engage with communities in a culturally sensitive manner and organize use of community spaces in advance, acting as liaison between DRC community structures and community leaders.
• Conduct frequent visits to intervention communities to ensure implementation of community-based protection strategy.
• Contribute to improving protection and achieving solutions for persons of concern through person- and community-centered approaches.
• Support persons of concern to develop structures that enhance participation and self-protection.
• Responsible for regular mapping and updating of services in intervention communities.
• Design community-based protection strategy in the field, including report and purchase plan preparation.
• Develop community activity action plans with committee members according to the community-based protection strategy.
• Prepare periodic reports on community protection activities including challenges and gaps in intervention areas.
• Coordinate with DRC Protection team and communities to identify protection risks and community capacities.
• Contribute to strengthening protection capacities of protection committees to activate safe referral processes to Protection and other DRC service areas.
• Coordinate with all DRC Protection components.
• Support PBC committees in preparing work schedules for community action plan implementation.
• Continuously monitor PBC intervention communities.
• Hold regular meetings with PBC committees to identify challenges, evaluate and identify lessons learned.
• Strengthen capacities of key community actors through capacity building mechanisms, monthly meetings and workshops in coordination with direct supervisor.
• Maintain verification means in physical and digital files, including reports and other PBC related documents.
• Represent DRC on community protection issues.
• Provide support to Protection Monitoring component as required by programmatic demands.
• Ensure efficient and effective implementation of assigned programmatic activities according to work plan.
• Support preparation of monthly reports and budgets.
• Safeguard verification means in strict compliance with Protection Information Management protocols.
• Meet deadlines for deliverables and reports.

Requirements

• Minimum 1 year of relevant experience in humanitarian protection, social work, human rights or similar field related to NGOs or non-profit organizations.
• Experience working in the field with urban, rural, and/or indigenous communities.
• Experience and ability to interview people of all ages, genders, and diversities.
• Good skills working with tablets and computers.
• Good skills in MS Word and Excel.
• Willingness and ability to learn.
• Good skills in developing creative ideas, connecting with community experiences, and promoting innovative actions in community work.
• Experience in creating audiovisual materials.
• Excellent analytical and writing skills in general protection information.
• Desirable: Calm and diplomatic character.
• Ability to manage priorities and meet deadlines.
• Good team worker and problem solver.
• Diploma or professional degree relevant to the role (e.g., political science, law, social work, international development, sociology, psychology, education, human rights, or related fields).

Skills

• Humanitarian Protection
• Social Work
• Human Rights
• Community Engagement
• Fieldwork with Communities
• Interview Techniques
• Tablet Use
• Computer Literacy
• MS Word
• MS Excel
• Creative Idea Development
• Community-Based Protection
• Audiovisual Material Creation
• Analytical Writing
• Protection Information Systems
• Priority Management
• Deadline Management
• Teamwork
• Problem Solving

Languages

Spanish