Deputy Protection Coordinator at Premiere Urgence Internationale (PUI)

Première Urgence Internationale (PUI) Première Urgence Internationale (PUI) is a non-governmental, non-profit, non-political and non-religious international aid organization. Our teams are committed to supporting civilians’ victims of marginalization and exclusion, or hit by natural disasters, wars and economic collapses, by answering their fundamental needs. Our aim is to provide emergency relief to uprooted people to help them recover their dignity and regain self-sufficiency. PUI has been operating in Nigeria since 2016, initially establishing its presence in Borno State with a field office in Maiduguri. Over the years, PUI has expanded its humanitarian response to deep-field locations, including Monguno and Pulka, and more recently to Katsina State in Northwest Nigeria. In Borno State, PUI has been a key actor in health, nutrition, protection, and psychosocial support. It supports health facilities in Maiduguri, Monguno, and Pulka, providing primary healthcare services, sexual and reproductive health (SRH), and the management of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM), both with and without complications, through Stabilization Centers. These interventions are integrated with specialized Gender-Based Violence (GBV) services and psychosocial support.

PUI has a strong track record of implementing projects funded by key humanitarian donors, including USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA), the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO), and the UN’s Nigeria Humanitarian Fund (NHF). Thanks to its long-standing presence, PUI has gained a deep understanding of the local context, allowing for an agile response to emergencies while also supporting long-term resilience-building efforts. Since 2023, PUI has extended its response to Katsina State, with funding from the Crisis and Support Centre (CDCS) of the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs. PUI provides a comprehensive package of health, nutrition, protection, and psychosocial support services. This includes primary healthcare for all age groups, reproductive health services, community-based health and nutrition activities, and referrals for obstetric emergencies.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Deputy Protection Coordinator

Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Employment Type: Full-time

General Objective

• Support the Protection Coordinator in defining, supervising and implementing specific areas of the protection programme. In close collaboration with the Protection Coordinator, provide technical guidance and advice to protection staff, ensuring that specific components of the programme are delivered according to internal guidelines and in line with international standards and principles, in order to achieve the mission’s goals effectively, according to PUI vision and values.

Responsabilities and Tasks
Coordination and support:

• Contribute to design the protection strategy of the mission and provide technical support and assistance to its implementation
• In coordination with the Protection Coordinator, support to contextualize and adapt internal and global guidelines, guarantying these are rolled out and known by staffs
• Support and Supervise the Protection Project Managers in ensuring all key guidelines are followed and quality is ensured
• Liaise with Specialists to ensure that technical guidance on key thematic areas are developed and followed by the team
• Ensure cohesion and harmonization of protection activities and services across the different projects / implementation sites within the mission
• In coordination with the Protection Coordinator, deliver trainings and workshops to protection staffs to build their skills on specific protection topics identified with them
• Deliver trainings and workshops to non-protection staffs to build skills and knowledge of protection principles and enable staffs to mainstream protection in different sectors
• In coordination with the Protection Coordinator, assess protection needs and gaps of target populations in current and prospective areas of operations, periodically update the protection situation analysis and inform the programme accordingly
• Support the Protection Coordinator in providing ongoing strategic protection analysis and development of periodic trend reports (including aspects of conflict analysis, gender, and risk management) and lessons from programme experience to inform programme development, implementation and policy/advocacy work
• Support the Protection Coordinator in overviewing that protection data is collected, archived, processed, analysed and disseminated in ethical modalities, in line with internal data protection protocols
• Under the supervision of the Protection Coordinator, undertake regular field monitoring visits and provide support to monitor quality of programme implementation
• Develop tools for Monitoring of Protection activities and Interventions and work on developing analysis of findings that contributes to improving technical quality
• Develop Protection resources for Protection Activities like curriculum and guidance notes
• Coach and mentor, the Protection Project Managers and field teams to develop their technical expertise in delivering Protection interventions to the highest standard ensuring quality
• Identify opportunities for new protection interventions and support assessments and developments of new project proposals
• Support the Protection Coordinator in the development of complaints mechanisms for beneficiaries and make sure complaints are addressed properly.

Supervision and Staff Management:

• In coordination with the Protection Coordinator, organise ad hoc protection meetings with protection staff to share challenges and priorities and develop action plans to address them
• Support the Protection Coordinator in technical supervision of Protection Project Managers to ensure capacity building needs of the field teams are identified and addressed through regular training and coaching
• If necessary, s/he contributes to the design and adaptation of tools for Protection activities.
• In collaboration with the Protection Coordinator, the MEAL (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, Learning) department, and consortium partners, if necessary, s/he participates in the design and adaptation of monitoring tools for Protection activities, as well as monitoring plans for each project to meet quality and donor requirements, and to measure the impact of the Protection activities (quantitative and qualitative).
• In collaboration with the MEAL department, if relevant, s/he ensures that the monitoring of programmes with a Protection component is carried out and validates the monthly PMTs.

Networking and Partnerships:

• Maintain collaborative relations with relevant clusters and related working groups at national and/or field level
• Attend cluster meetings and other coordination meetings regularly and ensure that the work of Intersos is shared with other humanitarian actors
• In coordination with the Protection Coordinator, ensure that main protection concerns are brought to relevant stakeholders to advocate for respect of human rights and minimum protection standards.
• Network with Protection Specialists of other missions to share best practices and resources

External Representation and Sectoral Coordination:

• In coordination with the Protection Coordinator, ensure representation of PUI to the national authorities, key humanitarian and development actors (INGOs / LNGOs/ CSOs) and donors involved in the Protection sector and ensure that good relationships are maintained with each of them in line with PUI's principles.
• Actively participate in coordination meetings (cluster or others) and technical working groups in the Protection sector at national level and/or if relevant with the CTP WG.
• Ensure and coordinate with the Protection teams, the sectoral representation of PUI for the Protection sector to relevant partners and different local authorities.
• In the event of a donor visit, play an active role in preparing and managing the visit.
• Participates in PUI coordination meetings and is an active member.
• Participates in the drafting, validates and transmits the internal reports / Sitrep on his/her technical field in Protection to his/her line manager. S/he ensures the follow-up and analysis of Protection activity reports.
• The tasks and responsibilities defined in this job description are non-exhaustive and can evolve depending on the project’s needs

Salary
N893,609 monthly.

Application Closing Date
6th June, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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