Job Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance and support to the regional office and to country programs to ensure the highest level of quality in protection analysis, strategies and responses, in adherence with global standards and principles, and ensuring the harmonisation of protection approaches across the different countries in the region;
• Lead the development of strategic protection documents, guidelines, advocacy papers, SOPs, capacity-building tools at the regional level, and support countries in the development of protection analyses and strategies;
• Liaise with strategic partner organization, UNHCR / OCHA and other protection actors.
• Formalize and develop programme related operational tools (SOP) and training modules.
• Ensure that Protection programmes  in CO respect the sector’s standard policies, objectives and indicators
• Conduct regular field visits to identify and address programme quality concerns and gain a solid first-hand understanding of protection risks and trends at the level of the different countries.
• Follow up on relevance, outcomes and impact of DRC protection related activities to provide lessons learnt and to identify best practices.
• Reinforce viable and relevant Protection Information Management system(s) for gathering, processing, analyzing and sharing protection-relevant data, if necessary also involving research-related components;
• Oversee knowledge sharing across teams and ensure that monitoring and evaluation results are understood and used to improve programs.
• Support protection analysis at the regional and country level
• Contribute to the elaboration of regional strategic documents, and revise the CO strategies and protection strategies
• Ensure quality and compliance for projects, proposals and reports.
• Ensure that quality assurance systems are applied in NALA region, with particular reference to upholding Core Humanitarian Standards and Age Gender and Diversity throughout the protection programme
• Ensure the coordination with relevant protection actors in the areas of intervention in LA.
• Representation of DRC and active participation in protection sectors/working groups in LA.
• Contribute to DRC advocacy and policy influencing in the region, externally as well as internally, and representing the organization in relevant fora;
• Accountable for achieving DRC’s strategic goals and objectives within the area of responsibility.
• Accountable for making significant decisions on what the unit does: its purpose, functions, and role, and for making commitments and decisions that require the expenditure of significant unit resources.
• Accountable for people management of direct reports. This includes hiring & firing, objective setting, probation, performance appraisal, development of staff, managing performance, including poor performance, etc.
• Accountable for making sound decisions based on DRC policies, standards, and the advice of technical experts in DRC.