• Coach protection team of local protection partners to ensure proper protection outcomes of the projects
• Lead and coordinate the implementation of protection monitoring activities in designated areas, ensuring quality and achievement of timelines.
• Regularly draft and compile and analyze data, elaborate on trends and protection situations to feed into relevant reports including alert reports, protection monitoring monthly reports, protection incidents forms, protection incidents alert trackers and any other dashboards
• Provide technical support to staff in the identification of protection risks and human rights violations using qualitative and quantitative methodologies (observation, focus group discussions, household assessments, community assessments, key informant interviews);
• Help in developing trainings/tools on protection monitoring and translate when necessary to ensure tools can be read
• Develop visuals/dashboards
• Ensure that vulnerable/at risk individuals are promptly and safely identified, assessed and referred. Maintain an updated database of internal and external referrals.
• Maintain updated service mapping of the service providers operating in the area. Ensure that protection monitors are regularly informed and provide accurate information on availability of services to the target population.
• Work closely with other organizations to ensure a smooth referral pathway, in collaboration with the Northwest Base Manager and Protection coordinator
• Plan and facilitate the induction process for protection partners’ protection monitoring staff on protection principles, safe identification and referral procedures, protection monitoring methodologies and other relevant topics.
• Ensure regular liaison with other DRC protection monitoring team leaders for exchanges of good practices/trainings and tools development
• Ensure to know how to navigate information management protocols and procedures especially through Kobo
• He/She will help giving suggestions to complement the protection strategy for NW where DRC has programs and support the protection coordinator and NW base manager in identifying key components where the teams need to be strengthened which will help shape the protection monitoring strategy for Nigeria. In collaboration with the protection coordinator, he/she will mentor the team daily at field level, make suggestions to develop and revise protection interventions, when necessary, support design standard indicators and tools to monitor the quality and impact of protection programming in the Northwest.
• Ability to coach teams on key messages, diverse awareness raising sessions including CP, GBV and other MHPSS sessions and on providing PFA to ensure giving more confidence to beneficiaries
• Undertake regular participatory monitoring and verification visits on a weekly basis to ensure adequate progress against action plans, and outputs and ensure that quality elements are signed off. Provide advice on any corrective action necessary.

Job Requirements

Experience and technical competencies:

• Minimum five years relevant professional experience in the protection sector (of which at least three years in a supervisory role)
• Previous working experience with IDPs, refugees and returnees;
• Strong knowledge of international protection in the humanitarian context and protection analysis
• Deep understanding of PIM Tools and data management
• Key knowledge of basic PSS on the first 3 layers of the pyramid and ToT on PFA

Education: (include certificates, licenses etc.)

• Master’s degree in Political sciences, Social Sciences, Human rights or related field, BA can be considered if experienced can be proven.

Languages: (indicate fluency level)

• Effective communication skills (written and verbal)
• English (Professional Working Proficiency)
• Hausa (Desirable)
• Fulani (Added Advantage)