Protection Team Leader

The Protection Team Leader is responsible for ensuring the quality, efficiency, and timely implementation of protection activities in Humera. This includes planning, coordinating, and supervising field-level interventions, providing technical guidance, managing staff, and collaborating with stakeholders to support displaced populations and promote protection standards.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance to ensure quality and adherence to national and international protection standards and guidelines.
• Guide the implementation of protection monthly reports and support community committees.
• Lead or contribute to protection/multisectoral assessments and mappings, and identify protection needs.
• Develop and update service mapping and referral pathways.
• Provide relevant material for information dissemination and awareness raising activities.
• Develop and deliver protection training to staff, partners and key stakeholders.
• Lead protection need and conflict sensitivity assessments.
• Support protection program development including project design and proposal development.
• Oversee mainstreaming of gender-sensitive and inclusive approaches in protection initiatives.
• Ensure protection activities promote social cohesion, conflict resolution, and community resilience.
• Ensure quality monitoring and evaluation of protection activities and maintain accurate documentation.
• Support staff to integrate protection concerns in other sectors.
• Manage and technically supervise Protection officers and assistants, providing leadership and capacity building.
• Promote team building and positive working environment.
• Plan and oversee protection activities and coordinate inputs from supporting units.
• Ensure implementation of protection activities according to program commitments.
• Identify training and capacity building opportunities for staff.
• Attend and contribute to relevant coordination mechanisms.
• Ensure ethical data collection and protection-related information management systems.
• Lead activity planning, procurement, quality assurance, and follow up for protection related goods and services.
• Maintain detailed tracking of protection related spending and participate in budget management meetings.
• Ensure regular reporting for internal and donor purposes.
• Develop and maintain working relationships with key stakeholders including community members, local authorities, UN agencies, and others.
• Represent DRC in coordination meetings and working groups.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the manager.

Requirements

• Advanced degree in International Law, Development Studies, Political Science, Psychology, social work or any Social Sciences or relevant field from a recognized institution.
• 3 years of experience working with conflict affected/displaced populations and familiarity with displacement dynamics, legal frameworks and humanitarian response related to forced displacement.
• A minimum of 2 years of management or technical protection experience working for an international NGO, UN agency or relevant ministry or authority.
• Experience working as a Protection team leader and prior experience on protection is an asset.
• Experience in working in the current project area is an additional asset.
• Excellent presentation, communication and interpersonal skills to work effectively and harmoniously with people from different backgrounds, including diplomacy, tact and negotiating skills.
• Commitment to learning and implementing organizational policies and procedures.
• Demonstrated professional experience leading protection, peace building gender and human rights related activities in the context of the project location.
• Excellent English skills both spoken and written is required.
• Knowledge of local languages is an advantage.

Skills

• International Law
• Displacement Dynamics
• Humanitarian Response
• Protection Management
• Protection Leadership
• Conflict-Affected Populations
• Forced Displacement Experience
• Peace-building
• Gender Rights
• Human Rights
• Technical Protection
• Project Coordination
• Stakeholder Collaboration
• Staff Management
• Presentation Skills
• Negotiation Skills
• Organizational Policy Implementation
• English Language

Languages

English