Protection Project Officer- Derna - ACTED Organization

Background on ACTED

Since 1993, as an international non-governmental organization, ACTED has been committed to immediate humanitarian relief to support those in urgent need and protect people’s dignity, while co-creating longer term opportunities for sustainable growth and fulfilling people’s potential. ACTED endeavors to respond to humanitarian crises and build resilience; promote inclusive and sustainable growth; co-construct effective governance and support the building of civil society worldwide by investing in people and their potential. We go the last mile: ACTED’s mission is to save lives and support people in meeting their needs in hard to reach areas. With a team of 4,300 national staff 300 international staff, ACTED is active in 35 countries and implements more than 490 projects a year reaching over 11 million beneficiaries.

Country profile

ACTED has been programming in Libya since March 2011. Initially focusing on responding to the humanitarian crisis in the wake of the conflict, ACTED set-up offices across the country, providing vital humanitarian assistance to displaced and vulnerable populations. Furthermore, during this period ACTED utilized its assessment and mapping capabilities to help coordinate and provide information for the humanitarian response and reconstruction of the country. Since January 2012, building on the strong networks developed during the emergency response, ACTED started to work on post-conflict projects, particularly focusing on supporting the nascent Libyan civil society. ACTED is notably implementing the Civil Initiatives Libya (CIL) program which is providing capacity building and technical assistance to Libyan local actors, mainly Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), Local Authorities and Universities. The overall objective of CIL is to define methods and approaches, adapted to the Libyan context, and improve the resilience of communities and local institutions in time of crisis.

Since 2017, ACTED is working in partnership with UNHCR to address the needs of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and returnees in the post-conflict areas on both Cash Based Interventions and Quick Impact Projects (QIPs) to respond to life-saving needs through small scale community-based projects.

Position profile:

Position: Protection Project Officer
Gender: Any
Contract duration: 10 months
Contract Type: Full-time
Starting date: June-2020
Closing date: 31st- May-2020

Assignment

The Protection Project Officer (PPO) will work closely with the Education Specialist /Project Manager and the Protection Technical Coordinator to ensure the quality and effective implementation of Education and Protection Programming in Derna. The PPO will manage the implementation of the different education and protection activities, as well as supporting in the expansion of ACTED’s Protection Programing as funding is granted. The PPO will work closely with field officers to ensure the activities are successfully implemented on target and all ACTED environments are safe for children and youth to receive the package of services and activities to be organised. This will also require liaising within internal ACTED departments and external service providers for ensuring and monitoring the quality of activities (referrals in particular).

The PPO will ensure that the Case Management Officers are providing appropriate child protection case management services, and emergency cases across Derna receive appropriate follow up. The PPO will ensure that teachers, staff and external actors involved in the delivery of activities are capacitated to provide age-appropriate catch-up classes, psychosocial support and recreational activities.

The PPO will be responsible for supporting with staff training, reporting, logistics, human resources, finance, AME and ACTED’s compliance (FLATS) procedures, creating synergies with parallel internal protection and education programming, and will be expected to provide technical input into child protection within ACTED Libya, and to feed into proposal development and assessments, as required.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Management of child protection and education activities.
1.1. Support the development and preparation of the capacity-building program for teachers.
1.2. Ensure all education and protection activities meet minimum standards and are inclusive for all children, including those who have been marginalised and those with disabilities.
1.3. Support coordination for child protection and education activities at Derna level.
1.4. Support the teachers and PSS facilitators in preparing the work plan and time schedules for implementing activities and achieving targets;
1.5. Support the identification and planning of technical skills and requirements to implement the project as per relevant child protection and education standards.
1.6. Flag any protection-related technical/operational issues to internal ACTED Protection department and direct line manager.

2. Technical support and development of protection and education project and activities
2.1. Develop staff trainings and provide staff with the opportunity to develop as members of the ACTED education/protection team, with support from Protection Coordinator and Project Manager.
2.2. Ensure that relevant guidance is provided to child protection and education staff, receiving technical support from project manager and coordinator.
2.3. Input to and develop future child protection and education proposals and reports.
2.4. Contribute to the continual development of ACTED Libya’s approach to education and child protection.
2.5. Provide technical support to support complex cases under case management component.
2.6. Provide practical field knowledge and technical support to the protection and education staff, Project Manager, and Technical Coordinator.

3. Protection and Education Team Management
3.1 Ensure that staff under the direct responsibility understand and are able to perform their everyday roles and responsibilities
3.2 Responsible for the staffing and professional development of child protection and education staff, including assessing their capacity and supporting the PM and technical coordinator in recruitment.
3.3 Ensure a positive working environment and good team dynamics;
3.4 Manage interpersonal conflicts among team members,
3.5 Undertake regular appraisals of relevant staff;
3.6 Identify the training needs of team members and discuss plans with the Program Manager for both internal and external trainings;
3.7 Coach, train, and mentor team members with the aim of strengthening their technical capacity, exchanging knowledge within the protection team.

4. Internal and external coordination with child protection and education actors
4.1. Liaise with CP and education partners, at both community level and inter-agency level.
4.2. Follow up with protection referring agencies as and when required.
4.3. Work with ACTED’s internal departments to ensure cross synergies across programming, AMEU duties, logistics department security protocols, compliance and reporting.

5. Reporting & Other
5.1. To ensure timely weekly and monthly reports per activity for project management.
5.2. Perform other tasks as requested.

Key Performance Indicators

• Number of incoming protection and education staff trained and supervised during the course of the project.
• Number of activities conducted successfully under Result 1, in compliance with contractual targets.
• Mechanism in place for referral of protection cases to ACTED protection team and referral actors
• Number of local authorities contacted and built relationships for the successful implementation of the project.

Within the ACTED Protection Department, all staff are expected to support the well-being and safety at all times while performing their regular duties. All staff are bound by the ACTED Global Code of Conduct and the ACTED Child Protection Global Policy.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor degree required. Social work, psychology or education background strongly preferred,  and will be given due consideration.

• At least 2 years of field experience in humanitarian work. Education and/or child protection experience strongly preferred.

• Familiarity with the aid system, and ability to understand donor and governmental requirement is preferred
• Team management experience is desirable.
• Ability to work with culturally diverse groups of people;
• Ability to travel and work in difficult conditions and under pressure;
• Highly proficient in written and spoken English and Arabic
• Proficient knowledge of Microsoft office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint…)

HOW TO APPLY

• TO APPLY: We look forward to receiving both: Cover letter+ your CV with 2-3 references attached by email to: benghazi.jobs@acted.org
• THE POSITION YOUR APPLYING FOR HAS TO BE SUBJECTED IN YOUR EMAIL OTHERWISE YOUR CV WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.
• Please note that in line with ACTED’s anti-terrorism policy, and in accordance with donors’ compliance requirements, ACTED reserves the right to carry out anti-terrorism checks on its board members, staff, volunteers, consultants, financial service providers, contractors and sub-contractors. To this end, confirmation of an employment offer with ACTED will be subject to background checks which may include anti-terrorism screening.

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