Important Note

This vacancy is solely for Afghan nationals; if you are not an Afghan, please do not apply; otherwise, you will be instantly rejected.

Purpose

The Protection Field Officer 2 contributes to the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of ICRC protection activities.

Accountabilities & Functional responsibilities

• Plans, implements and reports on protection activities, including some with complete autonomy.
• Drafts analyses of the security, socioeconomic, cultural and political environment relevant to the ICRC, shares relevant information with colleagues, and reports any change in the situation.
• As a project team member, contributes to the design and the implementation of multidisciplinary projects.
• Collects, compiles and interprets protection-related information, and prepares written reports.
• Plans, organizes and reports on internal and external meetings, some with autonomy.
• Develops, maintains and organizes contact with the municipal/regional authorities, local/regional National Society branches, the local population, suppliers, etc.
• Ensures the sustainability of their work and puts in place a system for archiving their work for the purposes of institutional memory.
• Provides briefings and technical support to staff involved in protection activities.
• May be called upon to be in charge of additional protection activities.
• Supervises staff.
• Is responsible for creating a conducive environment (multidisciplinary approach, good team dynamics) among their own team members and with other teams.
• Takes the lead on one or more themes at delegation level.

Our Values

• At the ICRC, we value impact, collaboration, respect, and compassion. We seek candidates who demonstrate behaviors based on these shared values. For more information on the ICRC values, please visit this page.

Reports to (role)

• Protection Coordinator/Deputy Protection Coordinator

People management responsibilities

No

Scope & Impact

• Contributes to programme follow-up (mid-term review (MTR), Planning for Results (PFR)) for protection activities.
• Remit: local, national and regional.
• In charge of medium-to-large protection activities and projects (detention, protection of the civilian population, restoring family links, missing and/or urban violence), including some with a degree of complexity.
• May have programme responsibility.

Relationships

• Internally, interacts with stakeholders on matters related to the ICRC’s activities, mandate and positioning in the country.
• Externally, interacts with a network of contacts at local, national and regional level, such as authorities, civilians, international organizations, NGOs, etc., in line with the delegation’s communication line (subject to staff risk management).

Certifications / Education required

• University degree or relevant professional experience.
• Excellent command of English or French (or Arabic, Spanish or Russian depending on the context).
• Computer proficiency.

Professional Experience required

• 6 years’ overall professional experience.
• 3–4 years’ previous experience as a social worker or in a similar field or a similar organization.
• Proven experience and leadership of managing protection activities/projects.