Protection Officer – PCM

Danish Refugee Council, one of the world’s leading humanitarian NGOs, is currently looking for a qualified Protection Officer – Protection Case Management for our operations in Jigjiga/ Dire Dawa, Ethiopia.

Instruction for applicants:All applicants must upload a cover letter and an updated CV in English. Please ensure that your CV does not exceed three pages. Applications with CVs longer than the specified limit may not be considered

Overall purpose of the role

Under the supervision of the Protection Project Manager, the Protection Case Management Officer will implement the protection case management activities in line with international standards, best practices and DRC protection case management SOP. The incumbent is expected to conduct regular service mapping, coordination with actors, particularly those working on the migration issues including the national and regional sub-national partnership coalition members, UN Agencies, INGOs, and Local CSOs providing service for people on the move. The protection case management officer is expected to provide timely and comprehensive case management services primarily for those individuals on the move and facing protection risks by coordinating essential services.

Your main duties and responsibilities will be:

• Implement protection case management activities in line with the global protection cluster guideline, best practices and DRC protection case management Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)
• Conduct identification, assessment, planning, intervention and follow-up for professional case management in support of vulnerable beneficiaries
• Conduct regular service mapping and ensure functional referral pathway for protection case management are in place for Addis Ababa and other migration hotspot areas including in Dire Dawa, Jigjiga, and Togochale.
• Coordinate services with other actors providing health, MHPSS, legal, and other essential services to ensure people on the move who are at risk of or experiencing trafficking and other protection risks/rights violations are accessing timely and comprehensive service.
• Coordinate with other DRC Country Office case management team and provide timely cross-boarder case management service for people on the move requiring the service
• Conduct case conference with other actors working on migration for complex cases to ensure that timely action is taken to provide immediate and comprehensive support
• Facilitate cash for protection (C4P) as part of the protection case management to ensure that people on the move who are facing imminent protection risk(s) can access life-saving protection services
• Coordinate with other project teams and implementing partners team
• Ensure that the protection case management service is provided in a rights-based approach, by making sure that the service is neither promoting nor preventing migration.
• Prepare and share weekly, bi-weekly and monthly reports to the supervisor and to the technical team.
• Ensure the protection case management service user’s personal information is kept confidentially and all information collected, stored and shared are on a need-to-know basis.
• Ensure that all protection case management information is completed in ActivityInfo
• Other responsibilities assigned by the supervisor considering the role and technical capacity of the staff