Job Title:

Senior Protection Officer

Job Location:

Gaziantep

Reporting to:

Senior Project Officer

The application deadline is the 07 Nov 2024.

General Description of the Programme:

SENED is an independent, non-governmental, non-profit organization licensed and registered in Türkiye with the number 27-15-175. SENED Organization was established shortly after the Syrian Nakba and in response to the suffering of millions of Syrian refugees in Turkey as well as internally displaced people in Syria, to alleviate suffering, achieving justice, equality, and freedom, strengthening the role of civil society, and supporting and developing the local community. SENED works in the humanitarian work sectors to support, empower, and educate the community through several programs, takes exceptional care of people with disabilities and their families and defends their issues.

SENED Association emphasizes creating safe, accessible, and participation-encouraging living conditions for individuals’ emotional, intellectual, physical, and social development by focusing on people with disabilities. Beyond the medical perspective on disability, it tries to find solutions to the problems faced by disabled people with a holistic perspective by considering the disabled people, their families, and the society they live in, focusing on the conditions they experience. SENED Association aims to create a safe and supportive environment and space by conducting family-oriented activities to help disabled individuals and their families become stronger, discover their potential and stand by with their children. By collecting data on refugee-disabled people and identifying problems and needs, SENED strives to ensure harmony between disabled refugees and local people with a voluntary, professional team and a community-based approach. All activities, education, research, advocacy, etc., are carried out on platforms created by local and disabled refugee people.

Job purpose:

Sr. Protection Officer is responsible to provide SRH (sexual and reproductive health counselling services, delivering RH commodities to the beneficiaries, refer cases to internal and external services, follow-up cases and report to Sr Project Officer.

Duties, objectives, and competencies:

· Provide essential information on SRH to refugee community members in the community center and field, specific focus on women and girls with disabilities from both refugee and host communities to address their heightened vulnerability and ensure their protection by empowering them with information and access to essential SRH services.

· Responsible for registration of the beneficiaries for counselling, provision of the service, guidance and follow-up after the service and delivering RH commodities.

· Provide evaluation of the beneficiary, pre-pregnancy, pregnancy and post-pregnancy evaluations, examinations and tests, which play a key role in minimizing maternal and infant mortality.

· If the beneficiary has requested services related to pregnancy planning, provide counselling on methods.

· Identify protection risks and supports the beneficiary in directing them to other service providers and follow up.

· Make sure that the beneficiary understands the service provided correctly and arranges the next visit.

· Conduct awareness sessions on relevant issues for beneficiaries and target groups.

· Ensure the continuity of missing materials required for the regular and continuous provision of sexual and reproductive health counselling sessions.

· Make sure that the beneficiary’s data entry is done in accordance with the standards.

· Establish and maintain good relations with key stakeholders in the implementation area.

· Supporting the service mapping and keeping service map updated

· Support and promote the standards outlined in the Code of Conduct and associated policies to project team.

· Any other job-related tasks as assigned by supervisor/line manager

Requirements: Essential

· Bachelor’s degree.

· Minimum of 2 years of proven experience in provision of SRH services.

· Advanced in Turkish or Arabic.

· Intermediate computer skills, especially on MS Office programs

Requirements (desired)

· Bachelor’s degree in midwifery or nursing.

· Having an IUD Consulting and application certificate

· Minimum of 3 years of proven experience in provision of SRH services

· Minimum of 2 years of proven experience in NGOs/INGOs.

· Intermediate in English

· Advanced in both Turkish and Arabic

Technical Competencies:

· Knowledge in activity planning

· Knowledge in report writing.

· Knowledge in Excel & Word

· Basic knowledge in budget management

General terms and conditions

Safeguarding

Disabled beneficiaries, children and vulnerable adults must be safeguarded to the maximum possible extent from deliberate or inadvertent actions and failings that place them at risk of abuse, sexual exploitation, injury and any other harm. One of the ways that SENED shows this ongoing commitment to safeguarding is to include rigorous background and reference checks in the selection process for all candidates.

Diversity

SENED is committed to creating a genuinely inclusive, effective, and representative organizational culture, encouraging employee equity and diversity, and eliminating discrimination. Having a diverse profile of employees, different age groups, backgrounds, cultures, etc., including various experiences and capabilities, helps us understand, represent, and serve children better. Therefore, all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race, religion, gender, disability, or age.

Procedures

If needed, SENED will submit a work permit application for the selected candidate after the job offer is accepted. Failure to provide the required documents or rejection of a work permit application by the Government of Türkiye will result in rescinding the employment offer.

This Job Description only serves as a guide for the position available. SENED reserves the right to change this document. Any published closing dates are estimated. Due to the nature of SENED’s work, we aim to fill vacancies as quickly as possible. This means we will close adverts as soon as we have found the right candidate, which may be before the published closing date. We would therefore advise interested applicants to apply as early as possible.

SENED Organization does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process. | SENED Kuruluşu işe alım sürecinin hiçbir adımında ücret talep etmemektedir.

SENED retains the discretion to re-advertise the vacancy, cancel the recruitment, offer a contract with a modified job description or for a different duration, or offer a contract at a lower grade.