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Protection Officer at Premiere Urgence Internationale (PUI) – 2 Openings

Première Urgence Internationale (PUI)  is a non-governmental, non-profit, non-political and non-religious international aid organization. Our teams are committed to supporting civilians’ victims of marginalization and exclusion, or hit by natural disasters, wars and economic collapses, by answering their fundamental needs. Our aim is to provide emergency relief to uprooted people in order to help them recover their dignity and regain self-sufficiency.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

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Job Title: Protection Officer

Locations: Mashi & Kufi, Katsina
Employment Type: Full-time

Responsibilities and Tasks
Activities implementation:

  • Identify the Community Outreach Workers (COWs) in the areas assigned in the project intervention
  • Provide capacity-building and trainings to COWs on thematic of protection (including CP, GBV, protection mainstreaming, confidentiality of protection data)
  • Ensure quality services respecting “Do no harm” and confidentiality principles are provided by COWs on the field
  • Support effective community engagement and community input into program activities and design through close contact and structure activities
  • Participate in community events and meetings and lead the organization of awareness sessions and workshops
  • Build and maintain relationships with external partners, community leaders (especially Bulamas), community committees and other stakeholders
  • Ensure the identification, internal/external referrals and follow-up of protection cases, malnutrition cases and cases with urgent needs
  • Develop appropriate key messages and IEC materials and ensure that they are disseminated among the community
  • Disseminate relevant and meaningful information regarding the rights of persons of concern and services available in the area in order to enhance access to services and rights.
  • Proactively seek to assess people who have been missed out from assistance, such as marginalized communities, new arrivals or households whose situation has suddenly deteriorated.
  • Ensure protection is mainstreamed in all PUI Programs at the field and protection cases and concerns are timely referred and addressed
  • Responsible of the all community outreach interventions and activities defined, s/he develops and follows up on the work plan together with the PCO Supervisor
  • Support and contribute to the field assessment, data collection and storage in a database, report writing and share community feedback and concerns
  • Report immediately any difficulty or delay faced in the implementation of activities to the direct manager.
  • Represent PUI at anytime and anywhere when s/he is in duty

Team Management:

  • Supervise Community Outreach Workers and ensure the timely implementation of their activities
  • Coordinate the work of COWs: work plans, progress toward targets, and frequency of submitting collected data.
  • Ensure that COWs have the necessary information on the referral system and provided services and properly understand the activities to be implemented in the framework of the project
  • Ensure coordination with PUI Staff and stakeholders concerning community intervention activities.
  • Support COWs in improving their performance.
  • Routine field visits to monitor COWs activities.
  • Continuously collect feedback from COWs and ensure the communication to the PCO Supervisor.

Logistic & administration:

  • Define the needs in materials and tools required to conduct trainings and outreach activities.
  • Organize and coordinate training sessions: venue, attendees, and support materials.

Reporting & Data collection:

  • Collect, analyze, store in a database and report information received from COWs (households surveys, FGDs, awareness sessions…)
  • Collect, analyze, store in a database and report information on identified protection cases and referrals
  • Identify the number of assessed individuals by the COWs progress towards assigned target.
  • Document and report training sessions and feedback from participants.
  • Responsible of compiling and reporting to the direct superior data on a weekly, monthly, quarter and annual basis or upon request.
  • The tasks and responsibilities defined in this job description are non-exhaustive and can evolve depending on the project’s needs.

Requirements

  • Candidates should possess Bachelor’s Degrees with 2 – 3 years relevant work experience.

Salary
N312,000 Monthly.

Application Closing Date
23rd April, 2024.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

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