Protection Supervisor at Premiere Urgence Internationale (PUI)

Responsibilities and Tasks
Activities implementation:

• Lead the scale up plan for setting up the community outreach network in the areas assigned in the project intervention framework.
• Design and lead the implementation of protection and community outreach activities (including but not limited to key messages dissemination, awareness-raising initiatives, households surveys, protection case identification, referrals and follow-up)
• Develop strong and effective referral pathways, ensure a strong communication and coordination with PUI health, nutrition and food security teams and liaise with other humanitarian agencies for external referrals (e.g. CP/GBV case management, MHPSS, CFS…)
• Lead the implementation process of the tracking system for internal and external referrals
• Provide capacity-building to the PCO team, other PUI teams and partners
• Support PCO Officers in analyzing protection threats and ensure proper referrals (including protection cases, malnutrition cases and cases with urgent needs)
• Ensure protection principles are mainstreamed in all PUI sectoral programs and regularly engage in protection monitoring and reporting at field level
• Build and maintain relationships with external partners, community leaders (especially Bulamas), community committees and other stakeholders
• Closely monitor and report on displacements, new arrivals and emerging needs
• Responsible of the all protection and community outreach interventions and activities defined, s/he follows up on the master work plan together with the Deputy PCO Project Manager.
• Report immediately any difficulty or delay faced in the implementation of activities to the direct manager.
• Cooperate with MEAL Department to conduct any MEAL related activities (such as surveys, field feedbacks, and lessons learnt exercise among others)
• Uphold PUI code of conduct, and ensure that all persons of concern are treated with dignity and respect, in accordance with humanitarian principles and human rights standards.
• Represent PUI at anytime and anywhere when s/he is in duty

Team Management:

• Supervise PCO Officers and ensure the timely implementation of their activities
• Ensure capacity-building of the team through trainings and technical guidance (protection principles, protection mainstreaming, CP, GBV…)
• Coordinate the work of PCO Officers: work plans, progress toward targets, and frequency of submitting collected data.
• Ensure that PCO Officers & Community Workers have the necessary information on the referral system and provided services and properly understand the activities to be implemented in the framework of the project
• Ensure that PCO team properly handles confidential information and that information collected by both officers and community outreach workers is reported and properly uploaded to the database
• Ensure coordination with PUI Staff and stakeholders concerning community intervention activities.
• Support PCO Officers & Community Workers in improving their performance.
• Regularly appraise the performance of PCO Officers
• Routine field visits to monitor PCO Officers & Community Workers activities.
• Continuously collect feedback from PCO Officers and ensure the communication to the Deputy Project Manager.

Logistic & Administration:

• Define the needs in materials and tools required to conduct trainings and outreach activities.
• Organize and coordinate training sessions: venue, attendees, and support materials.

Reporting & Data collection:

• Collect, analyze and store in a database information on identified protection cases from PCO Officers and report through proper documentation and referral system with regular follow-up
• Ensure proper completion and filling of all documentation (soft and hard as required) and ensure data protection protocols, confidentiality and do no harm principles are respected while reporting protection cases
• Review the number of assessed individuals from both PCO officers & Community Workers to see the progress towards assigned target.
• Analyze data provided by PCO officers & Community Workers and propose solutions based on available resources.
• Document and report training sessions and feedback from participants.
• Responsible of compile and report to the direct superior data on a weekly, monthly, quarter and annual basis or upon request.
• Report on PCO Officers development and performance.