Roving Emergency Advisor – Protection (EMPACT)

The Roving Emergency Advisor – Protection leads or supports rapid protection analysis and the design of emergency protection responses. The role provides technical guidance and hands-on support to protection staff throughout the project cycle, ensuring quality programming in line with DRC and global protection standards, and contributes to protection coordination and representation during emergencies.

Responsibilities

• Leading or supporting rapid protection assessments and protection analysis to identify risks, needs and response priorities.
• Supporting the design and implementation of high-quality emergency protection responses in line with DRC standards and country strategies.
• Providing technical guidance to protection teams and supporting the adaptation and rollout of protection tools, approaches and SOPs in emergency contexts.
• Acting as a focal point for protection mainstreaming and ensuring Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD) considerations are integrated across programming.
• Managing or overseeing the implementation of emergency protection projects, including work plans, budgets, targets and reporting.
• Ensuring quality assurance and monitoring of protection activities and promoting rights-based programming approaches.
• Supporting the recruitment, onboarding, supervision and capacity strengthening of national and international staff.
• Representing DRC in Protection Clusters, Working Groups and other coordination mechanisms.
• Liaising with local authorities, community representatives, humanitarian partners and civil society actors to strengthen protection responses and coordination.
• Identifying gaps in service provision and supporting advocacy and referrals for vulnerable populations.
• Managing project budgets and ensuring compliance with donor, accountability and procurement requirements when deployed in a managerial capacity.
• Contributing to DRC's Emergency Preparedness and Response Strategy and sharing lessons learned across emergency operation

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years’ relevant experience in planning, implementation, and monitoring of protection activities and projects according to internal and national guidelines and international standards.
• Knowledge and experience designing, implementing, and monitoring and evaluating protection interventions within two or more of DRC’s Protection sector components: Gender-Based Violence, Child Protection, Protection Information Management, Community-Based Protection, Mental Health and Psychosocial Support, and/or Legal Aid.
• Sound understanding of and experience in protection mainstreaming, Age, Gender and Diversity mainstreaming, conflict sensitivity, and Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse.
• Proven experience working in complex emergency contexts, including provision of technical advice to field teams and setting up protection programming.
• Excellent communication skills in English and French, including ability to present complex technical information in a simple way.
• Excellent planning, management and coordination skills, with the ability to organise a substantial workload comprised of complex, diverse tasks and responsibilities and to delegate.
• Strong experience in team management and capacity building and training of staff and target groups.
• Proven ability to live and work in an unstable, insecure environment.
• Detailed knowledge of humanitarian principles, guidelines and standards.
• Flexibility and ability to quickly adapt to different contexts, teams and roles at varying levels of seniority.
• Spanish or Arabic speakers strongly encouraged to apply.
• Ability to understand and integrate protection and conflict sensitivity.
• Familiarity with DRC’s other core sectors.

Skills

• Protection Programming
• Protection Monitoring and Evaluation
• Gender-based Violence Protection
• Child Protection
• Protection Information Systems
• Community-Based Protection
• Mental Health and Psychosocial Support
• Legal Aid
• Protection Mainstreaming
• Age Gender Diversity Mainstreaming
• Conflict Sensitivity
• Prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse
• Technical Advice in Emergencies
• Emergency Protection Response
• Humanitarian Principles
• Project Planning
• Project Management
• Coordination Skills
• Team Management
• Capacity Building
• Staff Training
• Bilingual Communication French-English

Languages

English, French, Spanish, Arabic