Senior protection monitoring specialist in The Right to Protection, CF

BF "Right to Defense" (PnZ) is a charitable organization focused on providing assistance to internally displaced persons persons, persons in need of international protection, persons without citizenship, persons at increased risk of statelessness and persons without documents. PnZ is an executive partner of UNHCR and implements programs of providing direct legal assistance throughout Ukraine, promotes changes in the national legal base, bringing it into line with international standards in the field of human rights.  

The role of a senior monitoring specialist protection: coordinating the work and team building of the regional monitoring team, providing methodological support, communicating with key stakeholders and advocating for changes at the local level, developing/training the regional team in the field of humanitarian standards and protection.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Coordinates the work of specialists at the regional level offices according to the protocols, goals and objectives defined by the program, as well as the goals and objectives of the projects;

• Together with the deputy program coordinator and the project coordinator, prepares the project implementation plan in terms of monitoring, ensures the launch of project activities in the region, monitors the implementation of project plans regarding monitoring, monitors the achievement of indicators;

• Participates in the selection of candidates for the positions of monitoring specialists, facilitates the adaptation of new employees at the office level, including explaining individual provisions of the instructions, provides assistance in the application/implementation of the instructions, monitors the completion of training on the Fund's Policies, mandatory tests, monitors compliance with Policies;

• Conducts additional training for monitoring specialists on the methodology and use of data collection and needs assessment tools (together with the data manager);

• Distributes tasks between monitoring specialists, plans the schedule and geography of trips, ensures the availability of transport (together with the coordinator of mobile teams);

• Monitors the workload of monitoring specialists, redistributes tasks if necessary; agrees vacations, business trips and MTP of monitoring specialists;

• Organizes and supports internal communications in the team, receives constant feedback from monitoring specialists regarding the implementation of project activities, challenges and proposals for changes, provides feedback to monitoring specialists;< /p>

• Monitors the timeliness and completeness of reports submitted by monitoring specialists;

• Establishes and maintains contacts with interested parties in communities (CSOs, heads of institutions, initiative groups, councils of IDPs, etc.);

• Organizes and conducts working meetings with representatives of local authorities and partner organizations in order to ensure the work of the team (together with the coordinator of mobile groups);

• Implements and/or supports local advocacy initiatives in collaboration with the advocacy coordinator and regional manager;

• Organizes regional advocacy events (offline and online) according to project tasks;

• Performs monitoring visits in order to assess the effectiveness of the work of monitoring specialists, prepares reports and recommendations to the coordinator of the area and the project manager based on the visits; reports on the results of the work of monitoring specialists to the deputy program coordinator, project coordinators;

• Collects the training needs of monitoring specialists, monitors opportunities for training at the regional level, prepares proposals for the filling of training programs, ensures the participation of monitoring specialists in trainings;

• Provides training support to the regional team on protection issues (in particular, child protection, child protection, etc.);

• Interacts with other programs of the Foundation, coordinates cooperation and referrals (internal and external);

• Ensures the exchange of experience and knowledge between monitoring teams and specialists of other program areas at the level of regional offices;

• Informs the regional manager about any emergency situations, conflicts, gaps in the activities of the monitoring team and offers possible solutions.

PROFESSIONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Higher education in the field of management, social sciences, psychology, pedagogy, management, law and other relevant fields;

• Preferably 2 years of work experience in international technical assistance projects, humanitarian sphere;

• Experience in managing teams (from 10 people);

• Understanding the functions, tasks and activities of the monitoring area;

• Experience of working with communities;

• Experience in conducting advocacy events;

• Initiative;

• Excellent communication skills;

• Negotiation skills;

• Stress resistance;

• Politeness and diplomacy;

• Performing duties with gender sensitivity and zero tolerance for sexual harassment;

• Ability to self-organize, be client-oriented and multitask at work;

• Fluency in Ukrainian, knowledge of English will be an advantage;

• Adherence to anonymity, confidentiality, tolerance in relation to project beneficiaries;

• Ability to work closely with team members, respect for team members;

• Aspiration for teamwork;

• Self-motivation;

• Flexibility;

• Readiness for business trips;

• Understanding and following the Code of Conduct and other policies of the Foundation.

We offer
BF "Right to Defense"offers the successful candidate:

• on December 31, 2025 a year with the possibility of extension, depending on further funding and personal results;

• opportunity to work with one of the strongest Ukrainian human rights and humanitarian NGO;

• opportunity for professional growth;

• warm and friendly climate in the team.
  

Application process

Send resume and cover letter to[email protected], by specifying " in the subject of the letter Senior Monitor_Dnipro" .Responses will only be sent to those selected for interview. Please do not call further.

Applications are accepted until January 3, 2025. If suitable candidates are identified early, the Foundation reserves the right to complete the process before this deadline.