Protection Manager - Uganda | ReliefWeb

We are looking for a highly qualified Protection Program Manager to lead the protection of refugees program for DRC in Uganda. You will ideally be someone with an extensive knowledge and experience of working for protection of refugees, with specific expertise on design and implementation of protection interventions.

Who are we?

DRC has been working in Uganda to assist refugees in North, North-Western, South-Western and North-Eastern regions in a range of emergency/development support for the refugees and communities in need with the aim of saving lives by providing protection and humanitarian assistance, and creating livelihoods.

In the North-Western Regions, DRC is currently a refugee programme for South Sudanese and Congolese with a new protection in emergency component which comprises: child protection with a special focus on separated and un accompanied minors, psychosocial support, GBV and protection monitoring. A conflict management thematic area – within the overall protection framework – is also being developed. DRC’s programme in West Nile aims at building up the capacities for protection in host communities and strengthening durable solutions for the refugee population.

About the job

• Under the supervision of the Head of Programs, the Protection Programme Manager coordinates protection projects throughout the country, and is responsible for reporting on a monthly basis on all protection activities.


• Duties and Responsibilities


• Develop and implement a protection programme strategy for DRC Uganda


• Develop, coordinate, plan, implement, monitor and report on DRC´s Protection Programme for all the field operations.


• Harmonise DRC Uganda protection programme’s tools, methods, and approaches with DRC’s international strategy.


• Ensure the mainstreaming of protection, child protection, conflict education, and community based protection components in the DRC refugee response programme


• Ensure that DRC’s protection interventions adhere to international standards for protection work and in accordance with DRC standard regulations and operational procedures (e.g. Code of Conduct, HAP Principles, DRC Assistance Framework, and DRC Programme Handbook).


• Assist in developing new programme initiatives and fundraising relating to protection and emergency response through development of concept papers and preparation of creative, realistic, cost effective and beneficial project proposals.


• Conduct assessments and other inter agency missions


• Cultivate good relations with key humanitarian actors – local and international


• Represent DRC in the national Protection Sector and relevant sub-sectors/working groups and to donors, UN agencies and visitors at the national level.


• Closely co-ordinate project implementation with partners (UN agencies and national/international NGOs), including referrals, protection gap analysis and advocacy.


• Develop advocacy initiatives based on protection evidence.


• Supervise implementation of the projects through monitoring and evaluation (quality control, monitoring objectives and indicators)


• Foster and participate in impact evaluation exercises.


• Ensure that activities/projects are implemented in accordance with agreed strategies, principles, implementation plans, and donor requirements.


• Timely and quality project narrative reports are provided to the donors on time according to donors’ requirement.


• Regular field monitoring and development relevant analysis.

About you

• To be successful in this role you must have a University degree in Social Sciences, Development Studies or equivalent combination of relevant training and experience, and experience with protection monitoring, documentation & analysis of protection data, protection training and advocacy, child protection, GBV and set-up of community protection initiatives. Furthermore you must have:


• Experience in project management, including donor relations and staff supervision;


• Experience with relief/emergency response activities, especially assessment;


• Willingness to live and work in a challenging environment with limited physical amenities;


• Fluent in English

Desirable qualifications

• High level of personal integrity, commitment and professional responsibility;


• Excellent communication skills and a team player with strong leadership skills;


• Mature personality and willingness to work in a multi-cultural setting.

We offer

DRC will offer the successful applicant a 9 Months contract, renewable dependent on both funding and performance. You must be available to start work from 1 April 2015 and be willing and able to work in Kampala (25%) and in Field Locations (75%).

Salary and conditions will be in accordance with Danish Refugee Council’s Terms of Employment for Expatriates; please refer to www.drc.dk under Vacancies. This position will be placed at levelA11.

Need further information?

For more details on this position please contact Lilu Thapa at lilu.thapa@drc-ddg.org

Please note that applications sent directly to Lilu Thapa will not be considered.

For further information about the Danish Refugee Council, please consult our website www.drc.dk

About DRC

The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a private, independent, humanitarian organization working on all aspects of the refugee cause in more than twenty five countries throughout the world. The aim of DRC is to protect refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) against persecution and to promote durable solutions to the problems of forced migration, on the basis of humanitarian principles and human rights. DRC works in accordance with the UN Conventions on Refugees and the Code of Conduct for the ICRC and NGOs in Disaster Relief.

The protection and assistance to conflict affected population is provided within a long-term, regional and rights-based approach in order to constitute a coherent and effective response to the challenges posed by today’s conflicts. Assistance consists of relief and other humanitarian aid, rehabilitation, support to return and repatriation as well as promotion of long-term solutions to displacement and its causes. In addition, support and capacity building of local and national authorities and NGOs form an integral part of DRC’s work.