**Info**: **Americas** **Colombia** **Bogotá** **National contract** **10 Jun 2025** **30 Jun 2025** **173904** DRC is offering an 7-8-month contract (renewable depending on performance and funding) based in Bogota, Colombia with frequent (20 to 30% of the time) travel in South and Central America including Mexico. This is an opportunity for an experienced protection professional with extensive experience in legal aid programming and analysis, field protection and, and capacity building. **About the job**: The Protection Specialist/Analyst (PSA) will be part of the ProLAC team implementing the harmonized protection monitoring aimed at providing up to date protection analysis to inform humanitarian responses and advocacy in Latin America. The PSA will lead the development of legal aid analysis and provide technical inputs and capacity support to protection analyses, capacity development and support the implementation of advocacy plan. **Main responsibilities**: - Together with consortium partner NRC, lead on the development of ProLAC’s annual legal aid analysis, including primary data collection and review of secondary data. - Contribute to the protection analysis and drafting of ProLAC’s protection monitoring reports. - Monitor closely the changes in the legal normative environment in Latin America, ensuring that ProLAC includes and analyses correctly norms related to international protection, migratory regularization, rights of internally displaced persons, and access to justice. - Contribute to the implementation of ProLAC’s advocacy plan, regularly conducting the following activities: - Develop products based on ProLAC’s protection monitoring, legal aid analysis, as well as secondary sources to support in the implementation of the ProLAC advocacy plan. - Networking and developing positive working relationships with relevant duty bearers, including government officials, national and regional ombudsmen, humanitarian coordination forums, and regional NGO/CSO networks. - Presenting and making recommendations based on key findings from ProLAC’s protection monitoring activities, reports, and legal aid analysis at regional human rights conferences and coordination forums. - Organize and facilitate round tables, panel discussions, spaces for best-practice sharing aimed at creating more protective policy and normative landscape. - Documenting positive changes and achievements as a result of ProLAC’s regional advocacy activities. - Deliver training on LAAF and provide trainings on protection monitoring and legal aid to national and international NGOs partners throughout the region. - Support the coordination with key protection stakeholders at the regional and national level as required. - Ensure all MoVs related to the activities implemented are systematized and reported. - Other tasks assigned by the ProLAC Manager & ProLAC Consortium Manager. **Roles reporting to this position**:None. **Reports to**: DRC ProLAC Protection Manager. **Technical line**: None. **Required experience and competencies**: - Minimum of four years of experience working in general Protection/legal aid humanitarian projects at national and/or international level, at least 1 year working in a crisis context. - Excellent understanding of International Human Rights Law, International Humanitarian Law and International Refugee Law and UN and Inter-American Human Rights System. - Excellent analytical skills, good ability in collecting and interpreting data, designing and producing high quality protection and legal aid analysis. Experience in producing high quality reports and documents is required - Experience in developing and implementing advocacy strategies and activities in Latin America. - Excellent networking skills and experience in collaborating and coordinating with duty-bearers for policy and normative changes - Prior experience with Protection Information Management (PIM) for humanitarian organizations. - Experience in delivering protection and legal aid training using an adult learning approach. - Knowledge and working experience with refugees, migrants and IDPs in Latin America. - Full proficiency in Spanish and working knowledge in English is required. **Key skills required.** - Proven experience in legal aid research and data analysis and report writing. - Proven experience in organizing and delivering training events. - Knowledge of key protection principles, standards and understanding of a holistic approach to protection, and the ability to incorporate these into operational and technical solutions, - Great understanding of existing and new technological solutions for qualitative and quantitative research and information management in humanitarian contexts. - Familiarity with the Global Protection Cluster´s (GPC) Protection Analytical Framework and Legal Aid Analytical Framework (LAAF). - Excellent communication - written and oral presentation skills. - Excellent coordination, networking, and negotiation skill