Protection Officer,
Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
Danish Refugee Council (DRC)
Closing date: Sunday, 11 February 2018
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Tasks and responsibilities:
- Carry out daily monitoring visits, focus group discussions, participatory assessments, key informant interviews in accordance with DRC’s information collection and management plans and standards, ensuring appropriate treatment of sensitive information;
- Assess individual protection issues captured or identified during daily activities and make appropriate referrals for services to humanitarian or other actors as per the referral pathway or best practices;
- Identify cases in need of urgent response and directly follow-up/accompany affected individuals to services providers when needed to ensure access to services;
- Work with supervisor to create weekly work-plans and prioritization of tasks;
- Ensure targets are met under the approved work plans (includes responsibility for the achievement of work plans for protection assistants)
- Ensure proper documentation and secure storage of any protection data collected (hard and soft copies);
- Complete daily reporting on findings.
- Foster and maintain excellent working relationships with all stake-holders, and participate in daily coordination with humanitarian and all other local and international actors;
- With support and guidance from the Protection Manager; provide trainings and on-job coaching to protection assistants and other DRC personnel as required
- Work with community-based structures to identify protection problems that cannot be resolved at community level or by existing services and assist community to come to solutions
- Liaise closely with protection actors in the field and other humanitarian partners to ensure an understanding of the overall issues; an understanding that shall be used to guide weekly work plans