Protection Officer

Main duties and responsibilities will be:

• Facilitate the establishment and development of the girls’ committee (incl. recruitment, development of terms of reference, follow up, community mobilization, etc.)
• Develop and organize trainings to the Committee members on psychosocial support (PSS), Protection and gender key topics;
• Support the Girls’ committee in planning and organizing girls-led initiatives involving both refugees and host community and their relations with external stakeholders, including municipalities;
• Mentor, monitor and supervise the work of the committee when applicable or needed and assess progress of implementation, provide solutions and report issues when needed;
• Support the committee members in identifying and referring vulnerable cases while working to ensure that the vulnerabilities of Syrian and Lebanese beneficiaries are reduced and their resilience strengthened;
• Facilitate awareness sessions and information dissemination sessions when needed;
• Track progress against activities and outputs as committed, and support team to adjust work plans to most effectively achieve targets;
• Prepare and submit activity plans and reports as requested;
• Provide verbal and written feedback to supervisor on progress, lesson learnt, achievements and gaps, issues and problems;
• Develop and maintain effective working relationship with relevant stakeholders including partner agencies, community leaders and service providers;
• Coordinate program implementation through regular meetings with donors and all other local and international actors and through participating in the relevant sectors WGs;

Essential qualifications:

• Bachelor in Social science, Counseling, psychology or other related field,
• Full knowledge of protection, human rights, international law, refugee law and humanitarian principles
• Understanding of project design, management and implementation of field-based protection programs
• Understanding of programmatic reporting
• Strong coordination, reporting, communication and advocacy skills

Essential experience:

• At least 2 years of experience in the field of protection and community-based activities
• Experience working with community  leaders and stakeholders;