Protection Monitoring/CBP Officer at Danish Refugee Council

Programme Quality and Implementation

Under the supervision of the Team Lead, the holder of this position shall perform the following duties:

• Under the supervision of the Protection Monitoring Team Leader, ensure timely and qualitative implementation of the Protection activities at the field level, in line with DRC and international standards, and donor agreements.
• Supervise, mentor, and develop teams of Partners protection assistants in field locations, as well as teams of Protection outreach volunteers to ensure they are always supervised by DRC staff and that they flag any alerts and concerns in the community (including workplan, capacity building, and technical support).
• Take the lead in conducting training of community members, partner staff, and other local authorities on protection topics.
• Support activities in the area of risk management related to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, fraud, case-processing, data protection, and human rights due diligence at the country level.
• Draft Protection Monitoring activity reports, and evidence-based advocacy notes on a weekly, monthly, and ad hoc basis.
• Represent the protection department in various partner coordination meetings, including LGA Protection working groups and government line ministries as relevant.
• Provide training/capacity building to duty bearers, international and local NGOs, and IDP communities on protection-related issues (guiding principles of IDP protection; child protection; SGBV, etc.).
• Collect and maintain project data, ensuring the highest standards of data protection and confidentiality.
• Provide functional and administrative support in implementing participatory approaches, needs assessments, monitoring, reporting, and protection analytical framework.
• Ensure the use of all tools provided by Protection Monitoring TL and the Protection coordinator for questionnaires/checklists/supervisions/coaching, etc.
• Support with occasional document translation and provide interpretation support to the Protection Manager/Coordinator during meetings, trainings, and other project activities.
• Establish good working relationships and a high level of communication with the Protection Manager and the Protection coordinator.
• In collaboration with the PIM specialist, report, manage, and analyze protection monitoring and protection activity data and key achievements.
• Develop together with the team clear work plans on a weekly and monthly basis.
• Merge protection activity plans with fleet movement plans and ensure relevant security clearance by liaising with safety.
• Prepare and compile weekly, monthly donor reports on project activities in a timely manner and share these with the relevant managers, including the Protection Coordinator/Manager.
• Ensure all data protection and other protection policies are followed, including IPA review and case conferencing using appropriate tools and platforms.
• Ensure management of individual cases and appropriate documentation and filing, including input into Kobo and case trackers.
• Ensure thorough review of IPA analysis.
• Follow up on all referrals and track effective referrals. Liaise with relevant partners to procure services for cases by initiating communication with the concerned agencies for further assistance to the affected communities.
• Ensure proper protection monitoring activities informed by protection trends. Coordinate the entire protection monitoring exercise, analyze and compile a report, and liaise with the protection manager for technical support with graphs, visuals, and analysis of different dashboards regularly at the LGA level.

Supply Chain/Finance

• Support the monitoring of financial commitments and expenditures against budgets and provide timely feedback on budget follow-up.
• Plan and coordinate proactively logistics and movements of staff from and to different operational areas.
• Initiate procurements and ensure their execution as requested by the Protection Manager.
• Support with the distributions, plans, and coordination with logistics in a timely manner.
• Support the Protection Monitoring Team leader and Manager on the administrative tasks related to requests to logistics/procurement.
• Ensure compliance with guidelines on HR, admin, finance, and logistics.

The responsibilities listed in the JD are not exhaustive and may be readjusted according to operational needs, but will remain in line with the overall purpose of the role.