Oficial de Protección

The Oficial de Protección supports the implementation of protection objectives under DRC projects in Venezuela, focusing on protection monitoring, legal assistance, individual protection support, and community awareness. The role involves fieldwork in Maracaibo and coordination with various stakeholders to ensure quality protection interventions.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the implementation of general protection activities according to agreed objectives.
• Continuously monitor and document the needs of persons of concern.
• Perform basic tasks within the protection area including data collection, identification of patterns and trends such as arrivals/departures/new flows of persons of concern.
• Identify and document vulnerable persons; facilitate appropriate actions including referrals to specialized services.
• Maintain the protection activities database when necessary and assigned.
• Provide information for weekly, monthly, quarterly, annual, and ad hoc reports.
• Ensure the highest quality of protection interventions and coherence among all ongoing and proposed projects according to the overall strategy.
• Follow work plans and guidelines.
• Contribute to the development of operational protection tools.

Requirements

• Minimum 2 years 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 diversity.
• Good skills working with tablets and computers.
• Good skills in MS Word and Excel.
• Willingness and ability to learn.
• Experience with standard procedures and guidelines related to protection.
• Diploma or professional degree in relevant fields such as political science, law, social work, international development, psychology, human rights.
• Fluency in English (desirable) written and spoken.

Skills

• Humanitarian Protection
• Social Work
• Human Rights
• Fieldwork with Communities
• Interview Techniques
• Tablet Use
• Computer Literacy
• MS Word
• MS Excel
• Protection Procedures
• Legal Assistance
• Community Awareness
• Protection Monitoring

Languages

Spanish, English