Purpose of the Job:

The purpose of the Protection Officer position is to implement delegated Protection activities as defined by the Country Office’s strategic and programmatic frameworks. Currently NRC Protection in Afghanistan has two technical Protection thematics: Civilian Self-Protection (CSP), Protection from Violence (PfV) and Case Management (CM).

This position of Protection Officer – Civilian Self-Protection (CSP)/ Protection from Violence (PfV) directly implements and monitors field activities within CSP. The program’s foundation is community work and relationship building. And any position holder should have the corresponding skillset and dedication to working with communities on strengthening their self-protection strategies in response to a protection threat, whether these threats be at an individual, community, household, and/or other group level.

The CSP/PfV program works in partnership with communities and affected persons on strengthening ways they can prevent, mitigate, and reduce protection risks, ultimately building the community’s resiliency.

Such work is process-focused, meaning NRC Protection concentrates its energies on a process that takes community members and other relevant actors through a capacity building and facilitation series on identifying and strengthening civilian self-protection strategies based on the communities’ protection risks, threats, capacities, and vulnerabilities.

Regular activities will include facilitating community committee meetings, conducting capacity development sessions for community committees on protection risk reduction approaches and action plans, raising awareness on protection topics, consolidating data for context analysis, mobilizing community members for protection activities, identifying facilitated referrals, conducting accompaniments, and supporting advocacy initiatives.

The position holder will be reporting to the Protection Coordinator (or Team Leader).

Caution: This role is national only candidates from Afghanistan can be considered.

For more details about the Job Description  and NRC’s Grade Structure please click on : Job Description and NRC Grade Structure

Generic responsibilities:

• Adhere to NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines.
• Implement protection programs according to the agreed upon work plan and program scope
• Support in data gathering and consolidation for reports
• Ensure proper, confidential filing of documents according to protection information management policies
• Maintain the relevant databases for Protection programming and MoVs
• Promote and share ideas for improvement of the program
• Liaise and collaborate with relevant local authorities, community representatives and other key stakeholders
• Ensure timely collection and relevant, safe sharing of information
• Assist with administration and logistic arrangements required for implementation and monitoring of activities
• Development of holistic and needs based programmes, which includes close coordination with NRC’s other core competencies

Specific responsibilities:

• Manage implementation activities at implementation site according to the work plan and program curriculum;
• Conduct community outreach and engagement with local authorities, community representatives and other relevant stakeholders based on project implementation priorities as communicated by management;
• Conduct actors and service mapping and development of referral pathways;
• Consolidate information for in-depth context analysis in order to support programming;
• Implementation and monitoring of field activities with a focus on civilian self-protection through a community-based approach;
• Working with community structures—NRC committees, other NGO committees, and existing community structures—on protection risk reduction plans and protection risk identification through mentorship and core CSP activities;
• Capacity building of community members, school personnel (if applicable) and students (if applicable) on protection related topics (PRR, DRR, EWER, Contingency planning and other issues);
• Record keeping of the all the trainings and beneficiaries’ data in relevant tracking sheets and databases;
• Ensure all the documentations are maintained regularly, and MoVs (through the programmatic tools and analytical framework) are thorough and accurate;
• Undertake data collection to inform relevant internal and externally-commissioned protection assessments, risk analysis, needs assessments;
• Referral of protection and other humanitarian issues to relevant actors, and stakeholders;
• Support in the contextualization and drafting of programmatic documents and analysis;
• Weekly reporting on activities and consistent planning for field-based activities;
• Data management and recording keeping maintaining confidentiality;
• Coordinate with other Core Competencies within NRC, working towards an integrated approach;
• And perform other tasks as assigned by the supervisor.

Generic professional competencies: 

• Completed Bachelor of Social Science, Social Work, Journalism, or Humanities
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
• Excellent knowledge in Microsoft Office
• Fluency in local languages
• Advanced knowledge of English Language
• Ability to work additional hours if and when required
• Ability to commence work immediately

Context/ Specific skills, knowledge and experience: 

• At least 3 to 5 years’ previous humanitarian experience with a satisfactory performance in the same or similar functional area. Specialties in protection, social cohesion, International Humanitarian Law, negotiations, conflict resolution, and/or mediation preferred.

OR/AND

• At least 3 to 5 years’ experience in civil society organizations with satisfactory performance in the same or similar functional areas. Specialties in peacebuilding, dialogue, social cohesion, and human rights preferred. This includes informal work not coordinated through a registered institution.

OR/AND

• At least 3 to 5 years’ experience in teaching, writing or research linked with social sciences, humanities, social work, and/or journalism. This can include formal, informal or voluntary teaching, journalism, and/or research.

OR/AND

• At least 3 to 5 years’ experience in social work or psychology work experience with a satisfactory performance in the same or similar functional area.

AND

• Ability to work under pressure;
• Ability to communicate effectively with a broad audience;
• Working knowledge of the Humanitarian Principles and Protection Principles;
• Proficient computer skills; especially being able to deal with and enter the data in excel;
• Excellent interpersonal skills;
• Able to show empathy towards the beneficiaries and having great listening skills.
• And ability to establish and maintain effective working relations in a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic environment with sensitivity and respect for diversity.

 Behavioral competencies:

• Planning and delivering results
• Empowering and building trust
• Communicating with impact and respect
• Handling insecure environment
• Working with people

We Offer:

• Monthly Salary based on NRC Afghanistan Salary Scale.
• NRC has medical coverage for staff plus 4 dependents.
• Leave and Holidays accordingly Afghanistan Labour Law.
• Top up Credit card on monthly basis.