Senior Community-Based Protection (CBP) Officer

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ActionAid International

  • Career category: Advocacy/ Policy, Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Humanitarian or Development: Humanitarian & Development Nexus
  • Experience level: 0-5 years
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: No
  • Right to work requirements: Nationals-only contract
  • Remuneration: Not Disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 14/02/2025
  • Location: Ukraine, Kyiv
Gender-based violence (GBV) Generic (e.g. 'gender focal point' role Gender in emergencies
ActionAid Eastern Europe’s is looking for a Senior Community-Based Protection Officer with a deep commitment to women’s rights and proven experience in Protection, program management and livelihoods.
The role is based in Kyiv and reports to the Women’s Rights Advisor. The role works closely with the Head of Programmes, the Social Movements Lead, the Safeguarding Focal Point, as well as other colleagues based in Moldova, Poland, Romania and Spain.

Tasks and Priorities

 Community-Based Protection & Community Engagement (60 %)
  • Develop the WLCBP (Women-Led Community-Based Protection) in line with Community and Survivor-Led Response (SCLR) standards and good practices.
  • Roll out the approach of community-based protection initiatives with ActionAid and partners. 
  • Collaborate closely with communities, strengthen their capacity and gather lessons learnt.
  • Networking with relevant stakeholders at Ukraine level on community-based protection and livelihood initiatives.
  • Engage with ActionAid Federation members and staff working on this agenda
  • Develop of a working and strategic plan for the period March 2025-August 2025, with indicators
  • Development of a communication strategy with AA Staff .

 Protection Sector Work (20%)
  • Identify and evaluate protection risks and needs of affected populations through surveys, interviews, and field visits to inform programmatic responses, in coordination with the relevant members of the team
  • Design and implement protection strategies and action plans, to address identified risks, needs and vulnerabilities
  • Develop capacity building protection strategies with partners and staff. Explore combined initiatives between protection and security components
  • Monitor the effectiveness of protection interventions, document and analyse protection incidents
  • Collect relevant protection data for ad-hoc reporting when needed for internal and external stakeholders to ensure accountability and inform trainings, internal presentations, future actions, etc. 
  • Coordinate with NGOs, UN, donors, and government entities, adhoc and in the already existing coordinating spaces
  • Represent ActionAid’s protection program in coordination forums as needed.
  • Facilitate coordination between partners, ActionAid, NGOs, UN, donors, and government at the field office level.

 Foster Collaboration and Linkages with the Social Movements Team and other Units (20%)
  • Support other units (social movements; locally-led recovery) in mainstreaming women protection across coordination initiatives.
  • Analyse possibilities to incorporate linkages with WLCB into other lines of programming.
  • Develop conversations with relevant partners and further tailored strategies when necessary
  • Assist in drafting program strategy and planning documents, proposals, grants, and related tools, to ensure protection is mainstreamed and taken into account in all ActionAid’s interventions.
  • Support the integration of MEAL protection components into program design, program implementation and project reporting.

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