About Samaritan's Purse

Samaritan’s Purse is a nondenominational evangelical Christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world. Since 1970, Samaritan’s Purse has helped meet needs of people who are victims of war, poverty, natural disasters, disease, and famine. Samaritan’s Purse is privileged to be part of the humanitarian effort in Ethiopia and legally registered as foreign charity to work in Ethiopia since October 08, 2018.

Required Number:  3

Contract End Date:   August 31, 2024

JOB SUMMARY

The protection officer is responsible for monitoring, assessment, coordination and assisting with implementation of project activities in the areas of operations as directed by the Protection Coordinator. This role has specific responsibility toward the community facilitators, mentoring and monitoring their activity;

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 

·       Through relationships with persons of concern, authorities and network of partners stay abreast of political, Social, economic and culture developments that have an impact on the protection environment and provide advice to senior management.

·       Ensure that the perspectives, capacities, needs and resource of the persons of concerns are reflected in the protection strategy, planning processes and operations plan addressing the specific protection needs of children and vulnerable adults.

·       Coordinate the implementation and monitoring of programs ensuring that identified protection needs, including an age, Gender and Diversity (AGD) approach, are adequately addressed.

·       Provide policy guidance and operational support to SPE and partners on all protection related issues.

·       Provide safeguarding (PSEA) training to all staff and be the main point of contact in the program area.

·       Notify teams of upcoming appointments for counseling’s and maintain communication with the case manager and team.

·       Work with the Protection Coordinator in developing and fostering relationships with other community organizations.

·       Liaises with local and international organizations/institutions for research and development purposes.

·       Provides technical support on workshops, conferences and training initiatives and interprets or relays policy directives on protection curriculum to staff to guide their work.

·       Be fully engaged and enlist the support of all staff, whether paid or volunteer, for the program implementation.

·       Preparing presentations by researching and writing about how to present lessons to the staff to meet their spiritual needs.

Job Requirements

EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE NEEDED

·       Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology, psychiatry or related field.

·       Minimum of 3 years of work experience in relevant fields, preferably within similar projects.

·       Experienced with identifiable good counseling skills

·       Experience working on curricula such as Healing Wounds of Trauma

·       Experience implementing projects with trauma affected community

LANGUAGE 

·       Amharic and English (spoken and written required)

·       Somali regional languages strongly desired

SKILLS REQUIRED 

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be willing to abide by Samaritan’s Purse’s code of conduct and understand the principals of Samaritan’s Purse’s Statement of Faith, as well as be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

·       Attention to detail, anticipation and follow up are core values of the job function while maintaining the highest levels of confidentiality regarding contracts and salaries.

·       Possesses strong organizational and problem-solving skills within a fast-paced environment.

·       Must be a self-starter and internally driven to success and hard work.

·       Possesses strong cross-cultural communication skills, both written and verbal.

·       Must be a humble team player.

·       Ability to be flexible and adaptable, taking on additional responsibilities as needed.

·       Knowledge of computer systems and its applications such as Outlook, Word, and Excel including formulas/formatting.

·       He/she must have analytical and report writing skills.

·       High level of integrity and stewardship.

·       Committed to the SP values and ethics.

·       Above average mathematic skills

·       Willingness to travel in and out of field.

·       Practical, quick, reasoning skills; must be able to keep communication lines open with all parties in program of scheduling changes.

·       Clear understanding of the workings of major donors and their perspectives, requirements and standards.

·       Organizational and time management skills.

·       Good interpersonal and written oral communication skills.

·       Ability to coordinate activities with other agencies, build and maintain positive working relationships.

·       Ability to understand complex security situation and advise program design accordingly.

REASONING ABILITY

Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral diagram, or schedule form.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit.  The employee frequently is required to stand; walk and run; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear.  The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

·       The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate but can be exposed to loud noises around the maintenance and construction workshops.

·       May travel in country with exposure to communicable diseases, hot and humid weather conditions.

·       Work in a security context that is fluid

SAFEGUARDING COMMITMENT

The employee is required to carry out his/her duties in accordance with Samaritan’s Purse Safeguarding policy and Code of conduct.

Employee should remain alert and responsive to any child and adult safeguarding risks, acquire relevant knowledge and skills, which will enable him/her to promote strong safeguarding practices, understand the child and adult safeguarding policy and procedures, and conduct his/herself in a manner consistent with the Safeguarding Policy.

How to Apply

All interested candidates are encouraged to apply for the position advertised by submitting their CV/Resume (maximum of 2 pages) and application letter (one Page only) no later than August 24, 2023 to hrspe@samaritan.org.

Please write the position title you are applying for in the email subject line, "Protection Assistant”

Only candidates that are short-listed will be contacted.