Protection Team Leader (Legal)

• Country: Sumy, Ukraine
• No of vacancies: N/A
  
• Salary: N/A 
• Organization: DRC
• Gender: Both 
• Deadline:  2024-01-07

Your main responsibilities will be:

Management and Implementation

• Lead and manage the team including people planning, leave planning, recruitment process, performance and discipline, well-being and skills development. The post-holder should have a good grasp on relevant DRC policies and Ukrainian legislation.
• As a manager, set the tone for code of conduct and lead in creating a harmonious and respectful work environment
• Ensure effective planning and quality implementation of the sector/support activities
• Ensure daily monitoring of area
• Provide technical support and inputs
• identifying advocacy issues based on analysis of current legislation and legal issues of beneficiaries and stakeholders
• Lead on drafting advocacy materials such as briefing notes, advocacy letters
• Take the lead on identifying and developing new directions of program interventions based on analyzing the relevant surveys and needs assessments
• Initiate the team involvement to the performing new project activities for obtaining additional skills and knowledge
• Provide report inputs on project indicators based on LAU database information
• Take the lead in providing inputs to the lessons learnt report
• As a staff manager and budget holder, the team leader should have a reasonably good understanding of, and help ensure compliance with relevant DRC policies and Ukrainian legislation

 Programming and Operations

• Ensure efficient and effective program implementation while following the budget and work plan • Participate in preparing monthly/quarterly/annual highlights/reports and proposals and budgets for donors
• Take the lead in the day-to-day work with local implementation partners that includes coordination and representation
• Collaborate with relevant internal and external technical experts on sector relevant issues
• Represent DRC at meetings and other relevant technical coordination meetings and events.
• Contribute contextual and needs analysis as well as recommendations/feedback relevant to developing new programmatic avenues and innovative approaches.
• Collaborate with MEAL staff to monitor and evaluate projects and develop and apply lessons learnt

Logistics/Finance

• Support the monitoring of financial commitments and expenditures against budgets and provide timely feedback on budget follow-up
• Plan and coordinate proactively logistics and movements of staff from and to different operational areas • Initiate procurements and ensure their execution

Required experience and competencies

• Minimum 3 years of management experience, preferably in the field of humanitarian response for an INGO, Master degree in law
• People management skills
• Commitment to learning and implementing organizational policies and procedures
• Excellent skill in MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Full professional proficiency Russian and Ukrainian
• Conversational written and spoken English is mandatory
• Field experience

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