Job Overview:

The purpose of the Protection Officer position is to implement delegated Protection activities as defined by the Country Office’s strategic and programmatic frameworks. Currently NRC Protection in Afghanistan has two technical Protection thematics: Civilian Self-Protection (CSP) and Case Management (CM).

This position of Protection Officer – Civilian Self-Protection (CSP) directly implements and monitors field activities within CSP. The program’s foundation is community work and relationship building. And any position holder should have the corresponding skillset and dedication to working with communities on strengthening their self-protection strategies in response to a protection threat, whether these threats be at an individual, community, household, and/or other group level.

The CSP program works in partnership with communities and affected persons on strengthening ways they can prevent, mitigate, and reduce protection risks, ultimately building the community’s resiliency.

Such work is process-focused, meaning NRC Protection concentrates its energies on a process that takes community members and other relevant actors through a capacity building and facilitation series on identifying and strengthening civilian self-protection strategies based on the communities’ protection risks, threats, capacities, and vulnerabilities.

Regular activities will include facilitating community committee meetings, conducting capacity development sessions for community committees on protection risk reduction approaches and action plans, raising awareness on protection topics, consolidating data for context analysis, mobilizing community members for protection activities, identifying facilitated referrals, conducting accompaniments, and supporting advocacy initiatives.

Responsibilities

Generic responsibilities:

• Adhere to NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines
• Implement protection programs according to the agreed upon work plan and program scope
• Prepare and develop program reports as required by management with a focus on context and programmatic point
• Ensure proper, confidential filing of documents according to protection information management policies
• Maintain the relevant databases for Protection programming and MoVs, and quality spot check the databases in addition to managing the filing.
• Promote and share ideas for improvement of the program.
• Supervise day-to-day field implementation through in-person presence and guidance.
• Liaise and collaborate with relevant local authorities, community representatives and other key stakeholders
• Ensure timely collection and relevant, safe sharing of information.
• Manage field-visit reporting through drafting, quality spot checks and follow-up.
• Follow with administration and logistic arrangements required for implementation and monitoring of activities
• Development of holistic and needs based programmes, which includes close coordination with NRC’s other core competencies

Specific responsibilities:

• Manage implementation activities at implementation site according to the work plan and program curriculum;
• Conduct community outreach and engagement with local authorities, community representatives and other relevant stakeholders based on project implementation priorities as communicated by management;
• Conduct actors and service mapping according to the team structure delegated by the Coordinator/Team Leader;
• Consolidate information for the protection analytical framework and in-depth context analysis to be reviewed by the Coordinator/Team Leader;
• Supervise day-to-day Implementation site activities that are in-line with the civilian self-protection curriculum and strategy;
• Work with community structures—NRC committees, other NGO committees, and existing community structures—on protection risk reduction plans and protection risk identification through mentorship and core CSP activities;
• Conduct capacity building for community members, school personnel (if applicable) and students (if applicable) on protection related topics (PRR, DRR, EWER, Contingency planning and other issues). This includes consolidating feedback from daily activities for the Coordinator/Team Leader and Program Manager to incorporate into programming, and, if needed, pass to the Protection Team in Kabul;
• Manage the record keeping of the all the trainings and beneficiaries’ data in relevant tracking sheets and databases through review and drafting support;
• Consolidate and draft inputs for the protection analytical framework that thorough and accurate, based on feedback from the entire team;
• Undertake data collection to inform relevant internal and externally-commissioned protection assessments, risk analysis, needs assessments;
• Referral of protection and other humanitarian issues to relevant actors, and stakeholders;
• Support in the contextualization and drafting of programmatic documents and analysis;
• Input into advocacy plans and initiatives;
• Weekly reporting on activities and consistent planning for field-based activities;
• Coordinate with other Core Competencies within NRC, working towards an integrated approach;
• And perform other tasks as assigned by the supervisor.