Protection Team Leader
DRC PRESENTATION.
The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is one of the world’s leading humanitarian NGOs, working in over 40 countries to provide appropriate assistance with a rights-based approach to refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced persons, returnees and migrants.
Our vision is to help refugees, internally displaced people and their host communities to a dignified life. We protect lives and human rights and empower beneficiaries throughout conflict displacement by providing shelter, food and hope in terms of work, education and integration towards a sustainable future.
DRC established an operational presence in Colombia in 2011 with a focus on Humanitarian Mine Action (HMA) and providing support to the conflict-affected population in the south of the country. With the onset of large mixed migration flows into Colombia due to the Venezuelan crisis, DRC initiated an integrated humanitarian response in 2018 to meet the urgent needs of refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, Colombian returnees, and host communities in some of the most vulnerable areas of Colombia, such as the Caribbean coastal areas (Riohacha and Barranquilla), urban centers (Bogotá and Cundinamarca), and Caquetá. In 2021, DRC opened field offices on the South Pacific coast in the department of Nariño and the northern part of Colombia in Norte de Santander.
POSITION OVERVIEW: The TLP-NdS will be based in the Tibú office and under the supervision of the Protection Manager, will support the implementation of all protection monitoring objectives of DRC projects, as well as ensure the quality of planning, implementation and monitoring of all technical aspects of protection monitoring activities being implemented by the protection unit and the DRC base in Norte de Santander, supporting the Protection Manager in developing and maintaining good relations with persons of concern, relevant stakeholders and other humanitarian actors, to ensure the necessary implementation and coordination for DRC protection activities and in the preparation of required protection reports.
Main Responsibilities:
Sectoral:
- Advocacy on the rights of persons of concern in the context of their displacement, facilitating access to basic services, individual protection assistance based on vulnerability, prevention of sexual and gender-based violence, child protection initiatives, rights monitoring and awareness-raising on rights with host communities and other actors.
Implementation of the Protection Project
- Participate in the implementation of general protection activities in accordance with agreed objectives.
- Continuously monitor and document the needs of persons of concern.
- Monitor and analyze trends by reading quantitative and qualitative data collected by the protection team in Norte de Santander for management, program and promotion purposes.
- Coordinate, plan and monitor, in conjunction with the Protection Manager, the activities of the field protection teams.
- Organize workshops in coordination with the Protection Manager to strengthen the skills of protection officers.
- Systematize the internal and external care route to strengthen the referral system.
- Ensure capacity building of PFPs through individual training sessions and workshops.
- Maintain constant contact with the PFP, to gather daily security information and possible incidents that occur in the neighborhoods.
- Strengthen the capacities of PFPs in identifying protection cases and structure the system for referring cases from PFPs to the Protection team.
- Maintain close cooperation with government counterparts and humanitarian actors to strengthen the public route, as well as the humanitarian cooperation route within the framework of the established referral mechanism.
- Support the Protection Manager in preparing high-quality weekly and monthly reports based on the quantitative and qualitative data collected in protection monitoring
- Monitor databases and ensure that they are kept up-to-date, accurate and organized.
- Ensure proper cleaning of the protection monitoring database to allow for the preparation of monthly reports.
Programming and Operations
- Ensure efficient and effective implementation of the program
- Prepare reports and participate, in coordination with the Protection Manager, in writing monthly/quarterly/annual proposals and budgets for donors.
- Organize and ensure the proper design and implementation of awareness-raising sessions and information campaigns for persons of concern and host communities.
- Identify vulnerable people according to criteria set by DRC and ensure appropriate action, including referrals to specialist services.
- Lead the safeguarding team in undertaking safeguarding monitoring, rapid safeguarding assessments, identification of specific safeguarding needs, referrals and delivery of Individual Safeguarding Assistance (IPA).
Coordination and representation.
- Maintain contact with local authorities, service providers and humanitarian actors to support service mapping and development of effective care pathways.
- Collaborate with internal and external technical experts on relevant industry topics
- Represent DRC at relevant internal and external technical coordination meetings, etc.
- Ensure integration with other DRC sectors.
Project development
- Prepare work plans for the protection team.
- Support the Protection Manager in the preparation and development of long-term work plans
- Participate in the development of project tools.
- Organize and direct the implementation of protection monitoring
- Ensure that the referral and IPA databases are updated, as well as the protection monitoring database is reviewed.
- Monitor and evaluate projects.
Logistics / Finance
- Support the monitoring of financial commitments and expenditures and provide timely information on budget tracking.
- Proactively plan and coordinate logistics and personnel movements to and from different operational areas.
- Initiate acquisitions and ensure their execution.
- Ensure distribution plans are prepared and shared with logistics in a timely manner.
Supervisor Responsibilities:
- Coordinate the daily activities of the ground protection teams;
- Does not have direct responsibility for line management for staff, but may contribute to the recruitment and/or performance appraisal of protective team members
- Implement the decisions of the Protection Manager through the work of the rest of the protection team, often playing a role in deciding how to do it and how to achieve the objective set by the manager.
EXPERIENCE :
- Minimum 3 years of relevant experience in humanitarian protection, related to an NGO, UN agency or other non-profit organization; postgraduate degree in humanities and/or social sciences.
- Field experience and work in protection in vulnerable areas of cities.
- Demonstrated experience in leading multidisciplinary teams in humanitarian contexts.
- Experience in strategic planning and preparation of short, medium and long-term work plans.
- Extensive soft skills in assertive communication, emotional management and teamwork.
- Excellent experience and ability to interview people of all ages and backgrounds
- Excellent skills and experience progress in database management and use of Excel
- Experience in quantitative and qualitative data analysis. Demonstrated experience in reporting with a contextual and analytical approach.
- Above average writing skills.
- Excellent skills in MS Word and PowerPoint
- Experience in producing technical material (training material, protection tools, reports, documents, etc.);
- Skills and experience in training and developing the capabilities of inexperienced staff.
- Experience with accountability measures and compliance with DRC and donor requirements.
- Demonstrated experience and skills in humanitarian protection and a differentiated approach to protection responses;
Desirable
- Diplomatic character.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and meet deadlines.
- Ability to create a good team atmosphere.
- Good teamwork; ability to create a good atmosphere.
- Having worked in the region of intervention or knowing the territorial context.
- Mastery of the English language is an advantage
EDUCATION LEVEL:
Diploma or relevant professional qualification in political science, law, social work, international development, psychology, human rights or related fields. Postgraduate degree in humanities and/or social sciences.
All DRC functions require the incumbent to master the DRC core competencies:
- Achieving excellence: focusing on achieving results and ensuring efficient processes.
- Collaboration: Involve relevant parties and encourage feedback.
- Taking the initiative: Taking ownership and initiative while pursuing innovation.
- Communicate: listen and speak effectively and honestly.
- Demonstrate integrity: act in accordance with DRC’s vision and values
WE OFFER:
The opportunity to belong to one of the best NGOs worldwide.
- Access to over 1,000 free online training courses and certificates.
- Prepaid medicine, 100% coverage of the policy for the employee and special price for beneficiaries.
- National fixed-term contract for 6 months with all legal benefits
- Salary starting at $5,346,000 depending on the candidate’s experience and skills.
- Start date: August 1, 2024
- Salary and conditions in accordance with the terms of employment in Colombia.
Application Process: All applicants must upload a cover letter (max. 1 page)
and an updated CV (max. 2 pages, without supports) in Spanish, on the DRC employment platform. Applications sent by email will not be considered.
Closing date for applications: Sunday 14 July 2024 at 11:59 am local time. If you apply for this position we assume that you are available to relocate to the Tibú area or live in the area. Please note that applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis and interviews will be scheduled as soon as a suitable candidate is identified. DRC reserves the right to close the vacancy before the deadline once a suitable candidate is identified. It is recommended that you apply for this vacancy as soon as possible, if it is of interest to you.
Use 1: The applicant who applies for this call authorizes DRC to validate the personal information provided in the resume. Your identification will be verified in public and private databases for the exclusive use of validating the information, in accordance with our anti-fraud, money laundering and terrorist financing policies.
Use 2: The applicant who freely and voluntarily wishes to take part in the selection process to fill the position of this call, must strictly adhere to the rules that apply to the subject (suitability of the degrees presented, execution of tests on a personal and individual basis and veracity of the information) adhering to the DRC manuals and anti-fraud policies, under penalty of declaring disqualified the applicant who incurs in any irregularity in the opinion of the organization, even by mere suspicion, and even in possible criminal conduct according to Colombian legislation.
