Cooperazione Internazionale (COOPI) is an Italian humanitarian non-governmental organization founded in Milan in 1965. COOPI aims to help the world’s poorest to improve their access to healthcare, food, and financial security, and to overcome their special vulnerability to wars, civil conflicts and natural disasters. For 60 years of long-term support and constant presence in the field, COOPI has been engaged in breaking the cycle of poverty and responding to specific emergencies in numerous sectors, including Food Security, Humanitarian Aid, Health, Socio-Economical Services, Water and Sanitation, Disaster Risk Reduction, Human Rights, Education and Training, Migrations and Sustainable Energy.
COOPI started its operations in North-East Nigeria in July 2014 to carry out a rapid evaluation of the most relevant constraints suffered by the Internally Displaced People (IDPs) displaced by the food crisis and the Boko Haram insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin. Currently, COOPI operates across two states of Yobe and Sokoto, with three field offices (Damaturu, Gashua, and Sokoto), and a coordination office in Abuja. COOPI’s capacity to respond to the humanitarian situation in the country is confirmed by its experience in providing humanitarian aid in more than 24 other Countries around the World, with over 50 years of operations.
Job Title: Protection Rule of Law Officer
Location: Sokoto – (Goronyo, Raba, Sokoto South, Isa, & Sabon Birni LGAs)
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Summary / Overview
Project planning and implementation:
- Responsible for the planning and timely implementation of PROL project activities in Rabah and Goronyo LGAs of Sokoto state, ensuring adherence to COOPI’s policies and procedures.
- Continuously monitor project quality; for example, strengthening data collection, reporting, accountability initiatives, and documenting the impact of COOPI presence in the field.
- Ensure synergy between the Protection sector and other COOPI sectorial activities in Sokoto in close coordination and consultation with other Protection staff.
- Contribute and support effective monitoring, evaluation and learning processes and initiatives, and ensure effective data and information management for project.
- Develop monthly work plans focused on key outputs and outcomes in consultation with other Protection staff.
- Ensure staff contributions to project monitoring and evaluation requirements to ensure project quality, relevance and accountability to COOPI’s target populations.
- Integrate community approaches, gender sensitivity, capacity building and mainstream protection into all activities as appropriate.
- Supports the Protection Coordinator in managing the team at the field level
- This position is resident in Sokoto
Reporting and documentation:
- Ensure COOPI has up-to-date information on the affected and targeted community and coordinate beneficiary lists and numbers with Reporting/Database Assistant and different stakeholders.
- Ensure the timely and quality delivery of weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual project reports.
- Ensure high-quality COOPI and donor reports on activities, indicators and achievements.
- Ensure that all reporting is disaggregated by age and gender.
- Keep proper records of all project activities.
Team Management:
- Create and sustain a work environment of mutual respect where team members strive to achieve excellence.
- Support the Protection Coordinator in supervision, hiring and orientation of new Protection staff as necessary.
- Contribute to COOPI Protection sector team-building efforts, help solving arising problems and support the Protection Coordinator in the integration of all team members into relevant decision-making processes.
Qualifications
- University degree in law, Political science, psychology, social sciences or social work (bachelor’s as a minimum).
- Relevant experience in protection programming including focus on protection monitoring and responding to identified protection needs.
- Demonstrated experience using international human rights standards in protection programming.
- Knowledge of Project Cycle Management
- Experience of HR staff management of national staff
- Experience of working in IDP sites (camps and host communities).
- Experience with coordination of humanitarian protection activities essential. Skills in advocacy essential
- Ability to manage teams especially field teams in a challenging environment.
- Ability and willingness to live and work in a challenging environment.
- Good communication skills (written and verbal), cultural sensitivity, flexibility, ability to improvise, team player.
- Ability to live and productively work under stress and in insecure and harsh environments while maintaining a sense of humor.
- Strong computer skills require (word and excel).
Application Dealine: 19th November, 2025.
METHOD OF APPLICATION
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Note
- Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
- Candidates are encouraged to apply early.
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