Regional Protection Coordinator at Danish Refugee Council

Purpose

The DRC Regional Protection Coordinator will lead initiatives focused on enhancing DRC’s responses upholding human rights and promotion of durable solutions so that no refugee must be in want of help to find protection and durable solutions. The post will support DRC’s wider work in the East Africa and Yemen region, which is grounded in protection of displaced persons. The post holder will be the technical and strategic coordinator on Protection for DRC EAY.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide technical support to country operations and protection staff, particularly in the following programmatic areas: community-based protection, child protection, GBV, and legal assistance including HLP
• Provide technical support to country programmes to ensure quality protection analyses, country protection strategy and protection responses
• Technical input into the development of outcome level protection tools and guidance
• Ensure country capacity on Protection Information Management (PIM) is of a good quality and standard with a particular focus on strong and action-oriented protection monitoring
• Advise the country and regional offices on protection in strategic documents and proposals and ensure that protection is mainstreamed and adequately reflected in relevant strategic documents, decisions and practice
• Contribute to / take lead in developing DRC and joint policy position papers / briefs and advocacy messaging on thematic protection issues
• Support and contribute to research initiatives related to protection
• Lead the drafting of a Regional Protection Strategy and work to raise the protection profile of DRC in EAY
• Ensure links with Regional Office initiatives such as the Regional Mixed Migration Secretariat (RMMS) and Regional Durable Solutions Secretariat (ReDSS) in coordination with the Regional Communication and Advocacy Coordinator
• Provide surge support to country programmes when essential

About you

In this position, you are expected to demonstrate DRC’s five core competencies:

Striving for excellence: You focus on reaching results while ensuring an efficient process.

Collaborating: You involve relevant parties and encourage feedback.

Taking the lead: You take ownership and initiative while aiming for innovation.

Communicating: You listen and speak effectively and honestly.

Demonstrating integrity: You act in line with our vision and values.

Qualifications:

• Post-graduate qualification in the field of law, social sciences/humanities
• Minimum 5 years of working experience in Protection of which majority is field-based
• Working experience from an international humanitarian organisation
• Demonstrated cultural sensitivity and adaptability
• Good networking skills
• Fluent in written and spoken English
• Experience working in insecure environments and willingness to travel within the region
• Work related experience from the East Africa and Yemen region or similar complex displacement situations.

Ideally, you also have:

• Field protection experience from one of the concerned countries is an added advantage
• Proven experience in leading and conducting research will be an added advantage
• Having a clear understanding of the regional protection situation in the EYA region

DRC encourage all qualified candidates to apply, irrespective of nationality, race, gender or age.

Conditions

Availability: 1 July 2017

Duty station: The position will be based in Nairobi with frequent travel within the region

Duration: 12 month contract with possibility of extension, subject to funding and performance.

Contract: Salary and other conditions are offered in accordance with DRC’s Terms of Employment at A12 for international staff or competitive salary and conditions as per national staff terms of employment, as relevant.