Protection Officer

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Oxfam in Lebanon works at local, national and international levels to improve the protection of civilian population in situation of insecurity and displacement. The protection officer will be part of Oxfam’s efforts to bring about improvements to the safety of civilians population in Lebanon, as well as local and national change in the protection framework applied to refugees and to civilian population.

To lead in implementing gender-sensitive community-level protection activities in particular, including formation of peer support groups, as well as protection monitoring and information dissemination and referrals guided by Oxfam’s policies and guidelines for managing information and the ICRC professional standards in protection work. The officer contributes to the team through the supervision of the protection component of the programme, strengthening capacity of programme staff and supporting local partner organisations, where appropriate.

Technical

• Manage and join field protection assistants in field activities: Provision of humanitarian aids, delivery of information about services and entitlements, local –level advocacy and monitoring protection issues affecting target population;
• Contribute to project design and proposal development, as well as to donor-reports, protection analysis reports, monitoring activities and other internal reporting;
• Monitor and report in a timely manner protection incidents, access and other issues and aid-related community-conflicts.
• Work with local partners, through counterparts in the organisations, to provide technical support for project delivery, and to maximise mutual learning and contribution to project design and implementation.
• Maintain regular contact with the community members in targeted locations with attention to vulnerable groups and people at heightened risk, and ensure mentoring of community focal point sand community groups , providing regular accompaniment to their activities
• Support the Protection Team in the maintenance of an up-to-date service mapping of the service providers operating in the targeted area and ensure that team members are informed about the available services and feed into the updated service mapping.
• Act as inter-agency focal point of the protection cash component, receive and respond to protection cash assistance referrals;
• Manage and update Protection Databases on daily basis;

   

• Participate in defining the methods of community participation that ensure the greatest possible participation of vulnerable groups, and ensure correct implementation throughout all activities as appropriate;
• Deliver capacity development activities for community focal points and peer group members in coordination with partners and other stakeholders;
• Prepare and facilitate community consultations on project activities, encourage and collect feedback and suggestions from community members, and provide orientation sessions as necessary and on topics covered by the respective projects;
• Participate in monitoring learning and developments of community focal points and groups, and the impact of activities and provide feedback; accordingly,
• Support and contribute to the design and planning of programme-based research.
• Support and coordinate with MEAL Officers for baseline survey, post-distribution, and other monitoring activities, and ensure learning is captured.