About DPO

Development for Peace Organization (DPO) is one of the Non-Governmental Humanitarian organizations. DPO is being implementing various Humanitarian projects in both Emergency and Development settings in Different Regional States of the country.

Job Purpose

The child Protection Officer reports to the Regional Coordinator and the Protection Officer will be develop and maintain good relations with the persons of concern and will support the implementation of DPO’s protection objectives and activities to provide timely and effective protection assistance to target people. The position will, furthermore, be tasked to develop and adapt monitoring tools, to provide direct assistance and support to target people with specific needs.

Key responsibilities

• Undertake regular field visits to conduct interviews with target people and other relevant stakeholders in order to gather protection-related information;
• Identify protection issues through an age, gender by focus group discussions and individual interviews in a safe environment;
• Preparing protection information in an easily-understandable format for communities;
• Plan, design and implement protection awareness-raising activities for communities, in consultation with the target audience;
• Design, with the participation of representative community groups, appropriate protection interventions, including referrals to relevant authorities and agencies;
• Initiate or support community or municipal level advocacy activities designed to improve the protection situation of target population;
• Identify protection issues in beneficiary communities and flag them for the attention of the supervisor;
• Follow up on individual protection cases within communities and with partner organizations.
• Conduct impact monitoring of project activities, in accordance with the organization’s methodology;
• Co-operate and interact with partner organizations, relevant government departments and local authorities, and other protection partners on a regular basis;
• Actively participate in the Protection Cluster and work with appropriate stakeholders;
• Accurately and responsibly document information and share with appropriate partners, Donors, with approval of supervisor or senior management;
• Work within an agreed work plan and ensure timely attention to priority tasks;
• Play an active role in developing new protection strategies within the organization;
• Prepare documentation of all relevant activities (protection monitoring forms, field trip reports, Collective Centre database, minutes of meetings, work plans, budgets etc.) in accordance with the organization’s guidelines and regulations;
•  Propose corrective actions where necessary;
• Supervise and support protection field assistants/Community mobilizers, where relevant;
• Protection monitoring, referrals and delivery of assistance;
• Engage in planning and conducting rapid needs assessments to understand protection needs of target populations;
• Collect intake and assistance provision data ensuring the highest standards of data protection and confidentiality;
• Provide advice and guidance as well as referrals to target people on issues related to accessing required services;
• Perform any other duties as requested by supervisor. 

Requisition ID: DPO/Afar/008

Employment Category: Contract

Job Requirements

Essential Competencies & Skill

• Technical understanding of core protection concepts including experience implementing protection programming in humanitarian contexts;
• Ability and willingness to maintain regular presence at project sites and to work during irregular working hours and in insecure environments;
• Strong interpersonal skills and commitment to learning and implementing organizational policies and procedures;
• Good computer skills (Excel, Microsoft, PowerPoint and Outlook);
• Good understanding of international human rights and principles of humanitarian work;
• Previous working experience with humanitarian agencies will be considered as a strong advantage;
• Fluency in written and spoken English. Fluency in local spoken languages taken as advantages.

Managerial Competencies

• Empowering and Building Trust
• Cross-Functional Competencies

Language Requirements

• Knowledge of English and working language of the duty station is an asset

Position Competencies

• Competencies as defined in Job Profile

Min. Education

• BA in Social Work, Sociology, Psychology, education, law or other related 

Relevant Job Experience

• fields

Experiences

• Minimum 3 years professional experience in a similar position, NGO Experience is Preferable
• Experience in a social service, psychology, education, or development sector, of which at least 1year experience is working in development or humanitarian settings;

How to Apply

Interested and qualified candidates shall submit their motivation letter along with their non- returnable recent CV via Email: hrofficer@devforpeace.org / info@devforpeace.org 

Female Candidates are encouraged to apply.

Use " Child Protection Officer" as the subject line of your email !