Protection Coordinator

Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is an international non-governmental organization, which promotes and supports durable solutions to the problems faced by refugees and internally displaced people all over the world.

DRC Ukraine is looking for a Country Protection Coordinator based in Kyiv (Frequent travel within the country).

Overall purpose of the role

• Delivers organisation’s policies and programmes within Protection.
• Functions as a specialist within sector area.

Main responsibilities

• Ensure quality of the protection interventions including protection monitoring, IPA, legal aid, community-based approach, information dissemination, GBV prevention and response, and the coherence between all projects, ongoing and proposed, according to overall DRC country strategy.
• Supervise the implementation of protection monitoring at country level and develop high quality analytical protection monitoring snapshots and protection monitoring reports based on protection monitoring data and field reports.
• Lead the development of DRC´s Protection strategy and ensure advocacy initiatives are based on evidence.
• Develop project-related operational tools and standard operational procedures for all country protection activities and lead capacity building initiatives for DRC protection staff.
• Lead process of mainstreaming protection to all DRC activities in country.
• Provide inputs for donor proposals and reports.

Program development and strategy:

• Represent DRC via active participation in protection sector at national level.
• Oversee knowledge sharing across teams ensuring that monitoring and evaluation results are understood and used to improve protection programs.
• Drive the development and growth of the protection programme and strategy and feed into country-wide strategy development.
• Ensure close cooperation with donors, government counterparts and coordination mechanisms in synergy with other DRC´s programming.
• Provide technical guidance, support, and training for all protection staff.
• Develop and/or review all protection indicators.
• Ensure that SOPs for all protection activities align with DRC country strategy and sector best practices.
• Conduct regular field missions to all field offices to provide technical and operational guidance and support on the implementation of the protection activities in the field.
• Conduct monthly technical meetings with senior protection field staff for each protection activity to ensure coherence with SOPs and the protection strategy.
• Develop protection mainstreaming plan for all DRC projects and provide technical advice and training as needed.

Accountability and reporting:

• Develop and monitor relevant accountability initiatives within the protection program as well as strengthen the effort to document the impact of activities.
• Ensure compliance with internal and external reporting requirements.

People Management:

• Technically supervise all protection Managers.
• Participate in the recruitment of all field protection senior staff, including coaching and capacity development.
• Conduct monthly protection meetings with the protection managers to share best practices between the field offices to ensure the highest quality of the protection response.

Roles reporting to this position Reports to

Legal Aid Coordinator Head of Programme

Required experience and competencies:

• University or graduate degree in psychology, law, social work, gender, or other relevant field.
• 5-8 years’ work experience within the field of law or protection, particularly within the field of refugee, returnee, IDP and host community protection.
• Several years’ experience working with international NGOs, UN agencies, relevant ministries, or local authorities in responding to the needs of refugees, returnees, IDPs and host communities.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating with and supporting national and local authorities as well as humanitarian coordination fora.
• Prior experience or familiarity with GBV specific programming is a strong asset.
• Excellent analytical and English writing skills
• Ability to work effectively and efficiently unsupervised.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize, meet deadlines and adapt in a complex and challenging environment.
• Experience with capacity building, and in convening and facilitating trainings and workshops.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to establish effective and working relations with staff members and other stakeholders.
• Experience living and working in cross-cultural, multi-sector, and/or remote environments

All DRC roles require the post-holder to master DRC’s core competencies:

• Striving for excellence: Focusing on reaching results while ensuring efficient processes.
• Collaborating: Involving relevant parties and encouraging feedback.
• Taking the lead: Taking ownership and initiative while aiming for innovation.
• Communicating: Listening and speaking effectively and honestly.
• Demonstrating integrity: Upholding and promoting the highest standards of ethical and professional conduct in relation to DRC’s values and Code of Conduct, including safeguarding against sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment.

We offer

Contract length: 1 year.

Duty Station: Kyiv, non-family duty station

Salary: Level F non-managerial

Start date: ASAP

Application process

All applicants must send a cover letter and an updated CV (no longer than four pages) in English. Applications sent by email will not be considered.

Closing date for applications: 03 January 2023

We reserve the right to conduct further interviews before the deadline for submission of applications.

For further information about the Danish Refugee Council, please consult our website drc.ngo