Salient Humanitarian Organization CCCM Protection Officer - for NHF Project Jobs in Nigeria

Salient Humanitarian Organization CCCM Protection Officer - for NHF Project Jobs in Nigeria


Job Description

  • Carry out daily monitoring visits, focus group discussions, participatory assessments, key informant interviews in accordance with SALIENT's information collection and management plans and standards, ensuring appropriate treatment of sensitive information;

  • Ensure that mainstream protection is implemented by all agencies and in the whole camp.

  • Assess 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

  • Ensure proper documentation and secure storage of any protection data collected (hard and soft copies);

  • Complete daily, weekly and monthly 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;

  • Provide trainings and on-job coaching to CCCM team and other agencies personnel as required as well as provide awareness sessions and ad hoc training sessions for camp leaders and community.

  • Provide technical and programmatic support to the community mobilizers in the field on a day to day basis

  • Provide technical and programmatic leadership to community-based mechanisms

  • Support CCCM and partners workers in identification and ensuring that reporting is in line with SALIENT, Sector and partners harmonized guidelines.

  • 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

  • Take a leading role in setting up the community center- liaising with the community

    Required Qualifications and Experience

  • A University Degree in Social Sciences, Development Studies, Guidance and Counseling or relevant fields.

  • Minimum of three years' experience working with vulnerable communities, basic needs and distribution programming experience, and/or advocacy programs.

  • Experience in protection interventions in line with vulnerable or IDP operation.

  • Experience of working with Non-Governmental organizations.

  • Good communication skills and ability to conduct training and awareness.

  • Computer skills (Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel).

  • Ability to communicate in English, write reports in English and consolidate the reports prepared by protection monitoring assistants into formal English documentation

  • Ability to communicate in Hausa. Other Nigerian languages is a must.

  • Good organizational and management skills.

  • Willingness and ability to work full time in the field directly with communities (camp setting and communities in MMC, Jere and Rann areas).

    Essential Knowledge and Skills

  • Extensive knowledge of Nigerian displacement context.

  • Excellent interpersonal and team-playing skills.

  • Highly flexible, with the ability to use initiative.

  • Ability to work in a multi-cultural environment.

  • Commitment to humanitarian principles and values.

  • Understanding of gender, protection and human rights.

  • Commitment to promoting gender equality.

    Preferred experience

  • Proven professional experience working with NGO at a relevant position e.g. Protection Monitor, Protection Assistant, Field and Community worker.

  • Experience working for NGOs and/ or in Camp setting is a must.

  • Experience Working in Northeast Nigeria is a Must

  • Positive attitude and a willingness to learn

  • Written and spoken fluency in English, Hausa or Kanuri a must; additional fluency in other local languages preferred

  • Ability and Willingness to follow instructions.

    How to Apply

  • Interested and qualified candidates should please submit their Application (Letter of motivation and CV in a single file) via Email to: recruitment@salientho.org indicating the "Job Position" as subject of the e-mail.

    Or

  • The HR,
    Salient Humanitarian Organization,
    Behind NTA Quarters, Off Damboa Road,
    Old GRA, Maiduguri,
    Borno State.

    Application process

  • All applicants must send a cover letter and an updated CV (no longer than five pages) in English.

  • CV and Cover Letter indicating and explaining the suitability to the position applied.
    Provide contact details (name, position, email address and tel. no.) of 3 professional non-related references, whereas 1 must be for the latest employer.

  • Please do not attach any written recommendations.

  • Applications should be addressed to: The Recruitment Manager.

  • Only motivated applications that address the stipulated duties and meet the required qualifications, sent together with a CV, will be considered.

  • CV-only applications will not be considered. Please note: The position title and location must be written in the subject line of the e-mail otherwise not considered.

  • SHO considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, sex, colour, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.

    Note

  • Please clearly indicate the Job position on the envelope.

  • Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

  • CVs will be reviewed on rolling bases.

  • Due to the large numbers of expected applicants, SHO will only inform shortlisted

  • candidates for written test and oral interview.

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