Team Leader - Child Protection, Imvepi

About the role

The Protection Team Leader (Child Protection) leads the day-to-day coordination and quality implementation of child protection activities across Imvepi and Rhino Camp refugee settlements. The role ensures safe, accountable child protection services and prevention approaches that follow humanitarian principles, organizational policies and donor requirements, with strong emphasis on protection mainstreaming, safeguarding and the centrality of protection in DRC's work.

Key responsibilities

• Represent DRC in local Protection Sector and sub-sector working groups and coordinate with UNHCR, OPM, district authorities and NGOs, including joint assessments, protection gap analyses and referral mechanisms.
• Develop work plans, procurement plans and budget tracking, and integrate child safeguarding, child participation and best-interest principles across interventions.
• Provide technical supervision to staff delivering case management, psychosocial support, positive parenting, adolescent life-skills and prevention activities, and oversee case management and case documentation in line with SOPs and data protection rules.
• Coordinate planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of child protection activities, and track progress against indicators and work plans.
• Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual reports, manage the project budget and expenditure, and run M&E activities.
• Lead project staff, set performance objectives, hold performance appraisals, visit sites, train and coach, and foster a safeguarding-compliant, ethical team environment.
• Liaise with Administration, Logistics and Finance departments and attend budget follow-up and project management meetings.

Required profile

• Minimum 5 years' experience with refugees, vulnerable communities, basic needs and distribution programming, and/or advocacy programs.
• Bachelor's degree in Law, social sciences, development studies, guidance and counselling or a related field.
• At least 2 years in a supervisory or team leadership role.
• Proven experience in child protection case management; refugee or emergency context experience highly desirable.
• Experience with UN or non-governmental organizations.

Required skills

• In-depth knowledge of child protection, protection principles and safeguarding standards.
• Proficiency in MS Office and basic data management tools.
• Familiarity with monitoring and evaluation for UN-funded projects.
• Strong leadership, coordination, communication and reporting skills, and ability to handle sensitive information confidentially.