Job Detail

Job Overview:

The purpose of the Protection Assistant 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) and Case Management (CM).

This position of Protection Assistant – Civilian Self-Protection (CSP) directly implements and supports the community’s initiatives 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 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.

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.
• Support in updating databases and MoVs according to protection information management policies.
• 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

Specific responsibilities:

• Directly implement the day-to-day activities in the field according to the work plan and curriculum;
• Conduct community outreach and engagement with community representatives and other relevant stakeholders based on project implementation priorities as communicated by management;
• Support in actor and service mapping according to the team structure delegated by the Coordinator/Team Leader;
• Gather the information needed for the protection analytical framework and in-depth context analysis to be consolidated by the officers and Coordinator/Team Leader.
• Work with community structures—NRC committees, other NGO committees, and existing community structures—on protection risk reduction plans and protection risk identification through CSP core activities and mentorship;
• Support in community mobilization, and guide awareness raising per the work plan;
• Consistently maintain presence in the implementation sites to support coordination, relationship building, and protective presence (if applicable);
• Conduct capacity building activities for community members, school personnel (if applicable) and students (if applicable) on protection related topics (PRR, DRR, EWER, Contingency planning and other issues). This includes providing feedback from daily activities for team de-briefs to be assessed for incorporation into further program development;
• Support in record keeping of the all the trainings and beneficiaries’ data in relevant tracking sheets and databases through scanning, organizing and review;
• Support documentation and MoV filing in a confidential manner through scanning, organizing and review;
• 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;
• Communicate with other Core Competencies within NRC, working towards an integrated approach;
• And perform other tasks as assigned by the supervisor.