Summary
Date Posted: Monday, December 18 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
A. Responsibilities
The Protection Specialist will be responsible for:
• Coordinating the implementation of protection measures, such as legal aid and psycho-social support in Kirehe / Mahama-Camp
• Ensuring effective synergies between interventions on protection and interventions on economic inclusion in Kirehe / Mahama-Camp, as well as linkages with the Programme office in Kigali
The expert will perform the following tasks in close cooperation with the respective partners:

B. Tasks
Coordinate the implementation of protection measures, such as legal aid and psycho-social support
• Assist with the implementation of activities to improve and expand existing offers of legal aid and psycho-social support services and conflict resolution mechanisms (including in collaboration with short term experts), such as:
• Identify Capacity Development (CD) needs of CSOs working in and around Mahama-Camp
• Together with the CSOs and the target group (e.g., refugee-led organizations; young or female refugees, vulnerable groups in neighboring communities, persons living with disabilities) develop needs-based interventions with regards to legal aid, mental health, and self-determination
• Develop a map of protection and support services (incl. legal advice e.g. on labour rights) and referral system to be used by educational or training centres; cooperatives, chambers etc.
• Implement awareness raising activities to make protection services (incl. legal advice) known.
• Network and establish contacts with CSOs and other partner organisations active in the field of protection
• Strengthen the coordination and cooperation with organisations providing legal support and make it accessible to refugees.
• Match short term experts with defined CD measures and identified needs, and coordinate their assignments

Ensuring effective synergies between interventions on protection and interventions on economic inclusion in Kirehe / Mahama-Camp, as well as linkages with the Programme office in Kigali
• Ensure alignment and synergies with the activities implemented on economic inclusion in close collaboration with the Economic inclusion expert
• Ensure visibility of and communication on implemented activities in the area of protection, in close collaboration with the Communication Specialist in the Kigali Office (e.g. contribute to progress reports, factsheets, news articles)

C. Required Qualifications, Competences and Experience
1. Qualifications and Professional experience
• 5 years’ experience in the field of refugee protection (e.g. legal aid, mental health and psycho-social support)
• Bachelor’s degree in Public Health, Psychology, Law or other relevant academic fields
• Experience working with organizations active in the field of refugee protection in Rwanda and knowledge on partner landscape in and around Mahama Camp in Rwanda
• High level of cultural sensitivity for the diverse backgrounds and needs of the refugees and host communities
• Experience working with international organizations would be an added advantage.
2. Others
• Willingness to work and reside in Kirehe district with regular travels within the district and Mahama Camp as well as to Kigali
• Willingness to always abide by the principles and regulations of GIZ while implementing the different activities and representing the SD4T programme within the different partner institutions
• Ability to work independently and coordinate all the planned activities in accordance with the programme’s operational plan and the needs of the different partner institutions
• Knowledge on the use of MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams etc.)
• The candidate must be very conversant and fluent with both Kinyarwanda and English. French is an added advantage.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education:

Job application procedure
• Interested candidates should submit their application (motivation letter, updated CV, certificates and references) via our electronic job portal by using the button “apply”; until 26th December 2023 at 4:00 PM. All attachments should be put together in one PDF file not larger than 2 MB. 
• GIZ is a signatory of the Diversity Charter. Recognition, appreciation and inclusion of diversity in the company are important to us. All employees shall be valued - regardless of gender and gender identity, nationality, ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, social background, age or sexual orientation. We support equal opportunities and welcome applications from people with disabilities.
• This includes the provision of reasonable accommodation, if needed, in order to participate in the job application and interview process and to perform essential job functions. Please let us know, if you have any particular requirements should you be invited for assessment/interview or that you wish us to consider, when considering your application.
• Women and persons with disabilities are particularly encouraged to apply.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for test and interview.
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