Turkey: Protection Officer “with main focus on Case Management”

Position:Protection Officer “with main focus on Case Management”

Location: Gaziantep with frequent travels to RI centers inside Turkey.

Reports to:Health Manager

Duration: 6 months

About RI: Relief International is a leading nonprofitable organization working in roughly 20 countries to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings, responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises and chronic poverty. Relief International combines humanitarian and development approaches to provide immediate services while laying the groundwork for long-term impact. Our signature approach —which we call the RI Way— emphasizes local participation, an integration of services, strategic partnerships and a focus on civic skills. In this way, we empower communities to find, design and implement the solutions that work best for them.

Position Summary:

This position is responsible for ensuring that the protection principles will be mainstreaming in all RI's projects in Turkey (MHPSS and physical rehabilitation projects) according to agreed global standards; he is responsible for reviewing and developing RI's case management tools and ensure good practice of case management by RI's partners; he is responsible for coordination with government entities, other UN agencies, and NGOs to achieve the program objectives in terms of protection and case management.

Position Duties and Responsibilities:

· Help in developing RI protection strategy, policies, and standard operating procedures in consultation with relevant departments;

· Stay abreast of political, social, economic and cultural developments that have an impact on the protection environment.

· Oversee and undertake refugee eligibility and status determination ensuring compliance with procedural standards and international protection principles.

· Ensure that RI’s policies, age, gender and diversity approach to protection is consistently applied through community-based protection methods.

· Build the protection capacity of RI’s partners, and civil society on protection principles including but limiting to: Child protection policy / sexual exploitation and abuse / Protection Mainstreaming / Case Reporting.

· Oversee and manage individual protection cases, including those on SGBV and child protection. Monitor and intervene in protection incidents through working relations with other partners.

· Promote and apply RI protection standards to ensure that RI staff and partners are compliant with these standards.

· Review case management tools and develop it if needed.

· Close monitoring of the case management referrals tracking and monitoring table, inputting new cases and updating information as required.

· Work closely with MHPSS and physical rehabilitation team members to follow up on referrals among the teams, and conduct relevant assessments deciding on the most appropriate response.

· Build the capacity building of technical staff of RI partners on case management tools and principles.

· Attend case management that conducted regularly in RI partner centers.

· Provide regular reports, document results and lessons learned, and maintain detailed departmental records

· Represent RI in a positive and professional manner contributing to the creation of a positive image and overall credibility of the organization.

· All other duties and tasks as assigned by the line manager.

Qualifications & Requirements:

• Formal education or professional training on protection principles.

• 2-3 years’ experience working in a similar field.

• Proven experience in training needs identification, training development, mentoring and coaching in middle income countries.

• Experience working with NGOs in humanitarian or development contexts would be preferred.

• Excellent written and spoken English. Arabic and Turkish language knowledge will be an added advantage.

• Must have the ability to work effectively with various personalities and cultures .

• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and at times remotely.

RI Values:

· We uphold the Humanitarian Principles: humanity, neutrality, impartiality and operational independence.

· We affirmatively engage the most vulnerable communities.

· We value

o Inclusiveness

o Transparency and accountability

o Agility and innovation

o Collaboration

o Sustainability

Professional Standards

All Relief International members (staff, volunteers and interns) are committed to the RI policies such as, RI Code of Conduct, Child Protection Policy, Reporting Conflict of Interest, Reporting Misconduct, Reporting Sexual Exploitation and Abuse. All new comers are expected to adhere to all these policies.

Disclaimer Clause

This job description is not an exhaustive list of the skills, effort, duties and responsibilities associated with position.

In case you meet the requirements and that you are interested in the position, please send your CV in English to turkey.recruitment@ri.org before the 09 November 2018 stating in the subject “**Physical Rehabilitation Officer**“. In addition a 3 professional references. All candidates must be eligible to work in Turkey (residence permit or AFAD Card from Gaziantep) or have a valid Turkey ID.