Description
The Protection Assistant will be responsible for identifying and responding to protection risks in emergency contexts, ensuring specialised support for high-vulnerability cases, and promoting community-based protection mechanisms.
Main Responsibilities:
- Identify, assess, manage, and follow up on child protection and gender-based violence cases.
- Provide psychosocial support and psychological first aid to people with protection needs.
- Ensure confidentiality, informed consent, safeguarding, and non-harm in all interventions.
- Facilitate safe and timely referrals to specialised services, including protection, health, legal support, and social assistance.
- Implement community-based activities to prevent and respond to child protection and gender-based violence.
- Identify protection risks, needs, and early warnings in intervention communities and report them promptly.
- Maintain accurate case documentation, records, and programme information.
- Coordinate with community actors, institutions, and humanitarian organisations to strengthen protection responses.
- Support information collection, indicator tracking, and activity reporting.
- Participate in field visits, community days, and other actions to promote safe environments for vulnerable populations.
Requirements:
- University degree in Social Work, Psychology, Social Sciences, or a related field.
- At least 2 years of experience in child protection programmes and implementing response protocols.
- Experience in case management, particularly with children, adolescents, and women.
- Knowledge of case management, referral pathways, protection principles, and safeguarding.
- Strong coordination, leadership, and capacity-building skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong organisational and time management skills.
- Analytical problem-solving skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
- Ability to work effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
- Capacity to manage and adapt to change proactively and positively.
Work Environment:
- Dynamic and changing environment, typical of humanitarian emergency contexts.
- Based in the project office, with access to necessary operational and communication resources.
- Frequent travel and field visits to prioritised territories for activity monitoring, case follow-up, and coordination with partners.
- Ability to work in areas with difficult access and adapt to variable security and logistical conditions.
Professional Standards:
- Adherence to IRC's values and principles, including integrity, service, equality, and accountability.
- Commitment to safeguarding, conflicts of interest, fiscal integrity, and reporting wrongdoing and protection from retaliation.