Protection Officer

About this role

A Protection Officer role with Lindii Peace Foundation (LPF) in Borno. The position focuses on identifying protection risks, promoting safety and dignity for affected populations, and strengthening community-based protection mechanisms. It involves community engagement, protection monitoring, safe referrals, awareness work, and coordination with communities, programme staff, government agencies, and service providers to support humanitarian action in a rights-based, safeguarding-conscious manner.

What you would do

• Support planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting of protection activities per programme plans and donor requirements.
• Conduct protection activities to promote safety, dignity, rights and well-being of vulnerable and crisis-affected individuals and communities.
• Support integration of protection principles into other interventions such as health, WASH and nutrition where applicable.
• Ensure activities are inclusive, conflict-sensitive, gender-responsive and accessible to diverse needs.
• Identify implementation challenges and suggest improvements to protect interventions.
• Conduct regular community visits to identify protection concerns, risks and barriers to assistance.
• Gather information using safe and appropriate methods while protecting individuals from harm.
• Identify at-risk groups and document concerns securely following data protection rules.
• Identify individuals needing specialised protection and facilitate referrals to service providers.
• Follow up on referrals as appropriate, maintaining confidentiality and consent where required.

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