Protection Assistant (2)
Danish Refugee Council
Category
Support
Monthly Salary
Not Specified
Deadline
22nd September 2025
Location
Rhino Camp and Imvepi (Terego District)
About Danish Refugee Council
The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a humanitarian, non-governmental organization founded in 1956 and headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark. It works globally to support refugees, asylum seekers, and internally displaced people by providing emergency relief, protection services, and long-term solutions such as livelihoods support, education, and community development. Active in more than 40 countries, DRC responds to displacement crises by offering shelter, clean water, food assistance, legal aid, and skills training, while also advocating for the rights of displaced populations. In Uganda, where the country hosts one of the largest refugee populations in Africa, DRC plays a key role in refugee settlements by helping families build shelters, supporting income-generating activities, promoting peaceful coexistence with host communities, and ensuring access to essential services.
Job Description
The purpose of this position is to implement GBV and Child Protection prevention activities in Rhino and Imvepi settlements while strengthening the capacities of local partners and community structures. The Assistant will facilitate awareness raising, positive parenting sessions, group psychosocial support (PSS), and other prevention activities, ensuring quality implementation and progressive handover. S/he will provide tailored training, observe community-led activities, and mentor partners and structures through continuous feedback, contributing to DRC’s localization strategy.
Responsibilities
- Support the Prevention and Capacity Building Officer in coordinating with local partners, community leaders, para-social workers, and other community-based structures.
- Actively participate in field-level coordination meetings and ensure prevention activities are harmonized with other protection interventions.
- Strengthen existing referral systems and ensure alignment of prevention work with established protection mechanisms.
- Deliver prevention activities, including awareness raising on GBV/CP risks and services, adolescent life skills, and positive parenting sessions.
- Facilitate group PSS sessions in collaboration with community mentors and partners.
- Provide training and coaching to local partners and community structures on prevention methodologies and group facilitation.
- Conduct regular observation of community-led sessions and provide structured mentoring and feedback.
- Support partners and community structures to progressively take over prevention activities in line with the localization strategy.
- Ensure all activities adhere to DRC protection standards, guidelines, and accountability frameworks.
- Contribute to monitoring of prevention and capacity building activities, including activity tracking, quality checks, and documentation of lessons learned.
- Provide timely inputs for weekly and monthly reports, highlighting progress, challenges, and capacity needs of partners and structures.
- Document good practices and challenges in the handover process for learning and adaptation.
- Uphold DRC’s Code of Conduct and principles of accountability.
- Receive technical orientation and ongoing supervision from the Prevention and Capacity Building Officer.
- Participate in internal training to strengthen facilitation and mentoring skills.
Requirements
- Minimum of two (2) years’ experience working with vulnerable communities, basic needs and protection programming experience (prevention and response).
- Professional training in Gender based violence.
- Basic counselling and case management skills to handle disclosures and safe referrals
- Experience of working with UN or Non‐Governmental organizations.
- Proficiency in English (written and spoken) is essential.
- Good communication skills and ability to conduct training and awareness.
- Computer skills.
- Good self-organization and basic management skills.
- Familiarity with Monitoring & Evaluation for UN-funded projects desired.
- Familiarity with government adolescent life skills and positive parenting modules as well as and parasocial workers manual is a strong added value.
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