Vacancy Announcement

NRR CODE: MM/NRC 2021 / VA No-034

Position: Protection Officer (Monitoring)

Reports to: Protection project Coordinator
Supervision of: -
Duty station: Hpa-an Kayin State
Travel: 50%
Category and Level: Grade 5, Step-1
Salary Range: 826,000 MMK per month
Duration and type of contract: Up to 31st December 2021, Fixed-term contract

All NRC employees are expected to work in accordance with the organisation’s core values:
dedication, innovation, inclusivity and accountability. These attitudes and believes shall guide our
actions and relationships. The vacancy announcement describes that employment with NRC may lead
to employment in or deployment to Regions, Countries, Areas or Offices that may be host to
considerable health, safety and security Risks.

1. Role and responsibilities

Generic responsibilities
These responsibilities shall be the same for all positions with the same title. The responsibilities shall
be short and essential. Details belong in the Work and Professional Development Plan.

1. Adhere to NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines.

2. Assist implementation of the protection portfolio according to plan of action.
3. Implement independently protection monitoring related activities as delegated.
4. Responsible for organizing and delivery of tasks in line with established procedures, agreed
priorities, international standards, and relevant guiding principles.
5. Coordinate and conduct protection monitoring in the designated areas, and report timely about
identified concerns and risks that beneficiaries face, in accordance with principles, established
tools and mechanisms.
6. Develop and maintain knowledge of protection, in order to be most effective in supporting the
team.
7. Prepare and develop status reports as required by management.
8. Ensure confidentiality and proper filing of relevant documents.
9. Ensure that protection monitoring reports reflect issues faced and raised by all (diverse)
community members, as well as are representative of the situation on the ground.
10. Promote and share ideas for technical improvement.

Specific responsibilities
These responsibilities shall be adapted to the particularities of the job location and context, phase of
operation, strategic focus and type of programme intervention. This section shall be revised whenever
a new employee is hired or the context changes significantly.

 Build and maintain trust relationships with target communities.

  Contribute to the identification and internal referral of individuals/households with specific
needs and/or vulnerabilities, with special focus on children, youth, women and other at-risk
groups.
 Support the development of gender- and age-sensitive awareness materials on key protection
related issues.
 Raise the awareness on key protection related issues among beneficiaries and target
communities, as well as key external stakeholders, in close collaboration with concerned CC
Teams and specialized actors. If relevant, provide beneficiaries and target communities with
information and orientation about existing services and how to access them.
 Ensure that all data and information pertaining to protection monitoring are handled in strict
confidence, and in line with applicable data protection and information sharing protocols.
 Compile information collected by team members and prepare periodic protection reports, and
attend meetings as required.
 When assessments, studies, researches are carried out in the field locations, coordinate and
manage the team of Protection monitoring technical assistants to carry out relevant activities.

Critical interfaces
By interfaces, NRC means processes and projects that are interlinked with other departments/units or
persons. Relevant interfaces for this position are:
 Target communities and key external stakeholders at village or camp level
 Other service providers and protection actors
 Protection Team Leader and Project Manager
 Protection Monitoring Technical Assistants
 CC Teams in the geographical area of responsibility
 Emergency Team in the geographical area of responsibility
 Support Team in the geographical area of responsibility
 Community Consultation and Referral Officer in the area office
 M&E Team in the area office

Scale and scope of position

Staff: No staff directly managed by the post holder
Stakeholders: Civil society, community leaders and representatives, local authorities and
other duty bearers in targeted locations
Budgets: N/A
Information: Intranet
Legal or Term of Employment
compliance:

2. Competencies
Competencies are important in order for the employee and the organisation to deliver desired results.
They are relevant for all staff and are divided into the following two categories:

1. Professional competencies
These are skills, knowledge and experience that are important for effective performance.

Generic professional competencies:

 Experience from working directly with affected/local communities within an international or
local organization in a humanitarian context.
 Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts.
 Previous experience in conducting protection, monitoring, case management or other
Protection-related activities.
  Basic knowledge or interest in understanding of international standards, and Protection
fundamental concepts and guiding principles.
 Ability to analyse and integrate information from a wide range of sources.
 Knowledge of IT tools (MS Office package, internet, e-mail, etc.).
 Sufficient working knowledge of English.

Context/ Specific skills, knowledge and experience:

 Knowledge of the context in the geographical area of responsibility.
 Knowledge of a local language.

2. Behavioural competencies
These are personal qualities that influence how successful people are in their job. NRC’s Competency
Framework states 12 behavioural competencies, and the following are essential for this position:
 Planning and delivering results
 Empowering and building trust
 Communicating with impact and respect
 Handling insecure environments

3. Performance Management
The employee will be accountable for the responsibilities and the competencies, in accordance with
the NRC Performance Management Manual. The following documents will be used for performance
reviews:
 The Job Description
 The Work and Development Plan
 The Mid-term/End-of-trial Period Performance Review Template
 The End-term Performance Review Template
 The NRC Competency Framework

Interested individuals are requested to submit a CV including application letter and contact details of
two referees (No other supporting documents are required in this stage), clearly indicating which
position they are interested in not later than 11th May 2021.

Applicants are strongly encouraged to apply through the website only before 16:30 PM. Please
click the link HPA .

 Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

“In the selection of its staff, NRC is committed to gender balance and diversity without distinction as
to race, sex, religion, HIV/AIDS status, and without discrimination of persons with disabilities:
Qualified women candidates are strongly encouraged to”