Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a leading protection agency with a mandate to protect, advocate and promote durable solutions for displacement affected populations.

DRC has been operating in Ukraine since 2014, currently DRC employs over 800 staff in Ukraine and will continue significant scale-up in 2024 to implement emergency response in the Protection, Livelihoods, Shelter/NFIs and Humanitarian Disarmament and Peacebuilding (humanitarian mine action) sectors, using direct interventions, support to duty bearers and civil society organizations (CSOs), and partnerships with CSOs. DRC will continue and adapt its durable solutions portfolio to the evolving context.

You will oversee the implementation of activities to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls in Mykolaivska and Khersonska oblasts. You will be responsible for managing and coordinating activities implemented by the GBV teams. You will provide specific capacity building and mentoring to the GBV Team Leaders to support the nationalization of this position. Activities implemented by the GBV team include GBV case management, psychosocial support activities, managing Women and Girls Safe Spaces (WGSS), awareness raising activities, and GBV trainings. The GBV team is also providing capacity building and material support to Government Social Services working in the sphere of GBV and wider case management activities.

You will be based in Mykolaiv DRC office, with field activities in Mykolaivska and Khersonska oblasts.

To be successful in this role as a Protection Manager (GBV) we expect you to have minimum 3 years of experience in GBV prevention and response programming in a humanitarian setting, including GBV case management, women and girls' safe spaces, and psychosocial support.

Moreover, we expect:

All DRC roles require the post-holder to master DRC's core competencies:

This position is open to national and international applicants. Salary and conditions will be in accordance with Danish Refugee Council's Terms of Employment; please refer to www.drc.ngo under Vacancies.