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Job Information:

  • Job Title: Protection Manager
  • Contract Length: 1 year
  • Contract Type: National Contract
  • Band: F2 – Management
  • Designation of Duty Station: Shire, North Ethiopia Field Office
  • Start Date: 15 December 2025
  • Closing date for Applications: November 24, 2025

Overall purpose of the role:

The Protection Manager will be responsible for the design, implementation, and technical oversight of DRC Ethiopia’s Protection activities in North Ethiopia Region, including protection monitoring, case management, Gender-Based Violence, legal aid, community-based protection, and psychosocial support for displacement-affected communities. The Protection Manager will also provide technical support and capacity building to DRC’s local partners.

As the lead for the area-based protection consortium, the Protection Manager ensures coordination, coherence, and complementarity among partners. This includes overseeing joint planning and analysis, ensuring protection monitoring feeds into response, and establishing referral pathways and SOPs in collaboration with both consortium members and external actors.

The role provides technical oversight to field teams, supports program development and scale-up, ensures compliance with donor and internal procedures (including finance, procurement, and HR), and contributes to contextualized protection strategies. The position works closely with the Country Office Protection Team, MEAL staff, and the Area Manager to deliver high-quality, accountable, and impactful protection programming.

Qualifications and Experience:

Experience and technical competencies:

  • At least 5-year work experience in protection work or related field
  • At least 3-year experience in international organizations and humanitarian settings

Education: (include certificates, licenses, etc.)

  • University degree preferably in the social sciences such as social work, psychology, law or similar.
  • Knowledge and experience designing, implementing and monitoring and evaluating protection intervention within two or more of DRC’s Protection sector components: Gender-Based Violence, Protection Information Management, Community-Based Protection, Mental Health and Psychosocial Support, and/or Legal Aid.
  • Proven experience in capacity development including preparation and delivery of materials and mentoring of staff.

Language: (indicate Fluency level)

  • English (spoken and written) – excellent
  • Tigrigna and/or Afar (spoken) – good (desirable)
  • Amharic (spoken) – good (desirable)

How to Apply:

Interested candidates should send their application through Online [Apply-Now]. For more details visit official website: drc.ngo

DRC Overview:

Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a private Danish humanitarian non-profit organization, founded in 1956. It serves as an umbrella organization for 33 member organizations. Formed after the Second World War in response to the European refugee crises caused by the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956, DRC has been active in large scale humanitarian projects around the world.