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About Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. We protect displaced people and support them as they build a new future.

Job Description

Job Overview

The purpose of the Protection Assistant position is to assist in the day-to-day implementation of assigned Protection activities in the field sites.

In particular, the position holder will implement and monitor the field activities focused on Protection of Civilians using a Community Based Protection approach including engagement with key community actors, capacity building of community structures, awareness and sensitization campaigns, development of community-based protection action plans and support to the implementation of these plans, referrals, protection risks and needs assessments and supporting integrated programming with other CCs.

The position holder will be spending most of her weekly time (minimum 4 days a week) in the field locations undertaking project implementation activities and will be reporting to the Protection Coordinator.

Generic responsibilities:

• Adhere to NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines.
• Assist with the implementation of the protection function portfolio according to plan of action.
• Prepare and develop status reports as required by management.
• Ensure proper filing of documents.
• Promote and share ideas for improvement of the support function.
• Provide overall support to all activities related to Community Based Protection activities.  
• Ensure that projects target beneficiaries most in need of protection, explore and asses new and better ways to assist.
• Development of holistic and needs based programmes, including cash-based interventions and marked based programmes.

Specific responsibilities:

• Conduct community outreach and engagement with local authorities, community representatives and other relevant stakeholders based on project implementation priorities as communicated by management.
• Support the development of actors and service mapping. 
• Implementation of field community based protection activities including:  development of the committees, delivery of training and other capacity building to the committees and key actors, support the development of the protection action plans, capacity building and support to committees for the implementation of the action plans, referrals, information dissemination,  
• Undertake data collection to inform relevant internal and externally-commissioned protection assessments, risk analysis, needs assessments.
• Daily reporting on activities.
• Data management and recording keeping maintaining confidentiality.  
• Raise Purchase Requests (PRs) related to project implementation, closely liaise with procurement, logistics and finance colleagues team throughout the process in order to ensure timely completion of the process and availability of the required goods and services.
• Perform other tasks as assigned by Supervisor.

Skills Required

• Communication Skills

Submission Guideline:

Interested qualified candidates can apply by clicking on below link:

https://ekum.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1001/job/6081 

Note: All applicants are supposed to create and properly fill online CV profile in the NRC People site, example (personal, education, experience background etc..) and only attaching CV will not be enough.

We do not have to inform all the candidates. Only those who closely meet the job requirement will be informed.

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