Senior Protection Monitor - North

Major Responsibilities:

Major responsibilities of Senior Protection Monitor (not exhaustive) are listed below:

• Provide direct supervision and support to no more than three mobile protection teams, including:

1. Support to scheduling of, and participation in, monitoring missions and community based protection activities;
2. Regular review of quality of data collected by the teams;
3. Development of individual work plans, ensuring best practice standards are met as well as the development of professional development plans for staff;
4. Regular review and follow up of action points for protection monitoring and community based protection activities; and,
5. Support mobile teams’ field access by meeting with relevant stakeholders and local authorities as required, in collaboration with the Protection & Capacity Building Manager (Mount Lebanon).

• Contribute to reporting on protection trends from the field on a regular basis.
• Support identification of capacity building priorities for protection monitors, and work to address them in coordination with the Senior Protection Manager (North).
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with other INGO, UNHCR, government authorities, and other key stakeholders to ensure active coordination, collaboration, and information dissemination.
• Lead capacity building and oversight for outreach volunteers in the designated area/s of coverage, providing regular meeting times and supporting the completion of related administrative and reporting tasks.
• Undertake other tasks as requested by the Senior Protection Manager (North)

Key Working Relationships:

Position Reports to:  Senior Protection Manager (North).

Position directly supervises:  4-6Protection Monitors in T5 and /or Akkar, Outreach Volunteers (up to 40)

Indirect Reporting:  N/A

Other Internal and/or external contacts:

• Internal: Information Officer; Reporting Officer; Security Focal Point
• External:  Local authorities (always in collaboration with the Senior Protection Manager -North)

• Bachelor degree, preferably in law, social sciences, social work, sociology, anthropology, political science, public administration or journalism (other specialties are not excluded).

Work Experience:

• 2-3 years of experience in an NGO/INGO associated to refugee crisis.
• Experience working for an international organization is preferred.
• Strong protection background and knowledge of refugee context, as well as demonstrated ability to identify and refer vulnerable cases, is desirable.
• Previous management experience is strongly preferred
• Experience in regular report writing.

 Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:

• Belief in human rights including gender equality
• Good communication skills including ability to gain trust and build relationships with new communities.
• Basic computer skills including Microsoft Word and excel.
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to work as part of a team, as well as independently.
• Flexible and able to work in a dynamic and diverse environment.
• Excellent attention to detail and organized
• Excellent drafting skills
• Capacity building and team building/motivational skills.
• Time management

Additional knowledge in:

• Refugee Protection, Refugee Law, Human Rights

Language Skills: 

• Fluency in spoken and written Arabic and English, ability to translate desirable.