Protection Intern (Beledweyne, Somalia)

Position:  Protection Intern (Beledweyne, Somalia)

Duration: 6 Months

ActionAid International Somalia (AAIS) is seeking a motivated and committed Women’s Rights and Protection Intern who demonstrates a strong interest in humanitarian and development work, with emerging skills in protection, rights-based programming, and community engagement. The Intern will support the organization in implementing, monitoring, and documenting protection activities, facilitating access to services for vulnerable populations, strengthening community-based protection mechanisms, and promoting evidence-based approaches to enhance the impact of AAIS initiatives in Somalia.

The Role:

The Women’s Rights and Protection Intern will support the Women’s Rights and Protection Coordinator and Somalia Program Manager in planning, implementing, monitoring, and reporting protection-related activities across ActionAid programs in Somalia. The Intern will assist with field-based protection work, including identifying, registering, and analyzing the protection concerns and specific needs of targeted beneficiaries, supporting GBV referrals for IDP survivors, implementing protection mainstreaming activities in IDP sites and host communities, and managing Women and Girls Safe Spaces in Beledweyne. They will coordinate and provide training and mentorship for community volunteer case workers, adapt activities to meet the cultural and practical needs of women, girls, and children, organize community sensitization and awareness events, and maintain referral lists for psychosocial and mental health cases. The Intern will also represent ActionAid in stakeholder coordination meetings, support beneficiary selection and verification, contribute to capacity-building initiatives on women’s rights and protection, and monitor, document, and report on program activities to track progress against milestones and indicators. This internship provides hands-on experience in rights-based and conflict-sensitive programming, enhances technical and professional skills, and allows the intern to contribute meaningfully to ActionAid’s mission of promoting social justice and empowering marginalized communities.

Qualification & Experience

Education, experience & technical competencies.

• University Degree in Law, Social Science, Anthropology, Development Studies, Gender Studies, International Development, or other relevant field from a recognized institution.
• Minimum 1-2 years’ work experience in Protection, GBV, and child protection with a demonstrated focus on protection program design and implementation.
• Previous experience in working as an intern with a national or international NGO, UN agency or in humanitarian response setting will be an added advantage.
• Experience in working with displaced and/or conflict affected populations, such as refugees or IDPs
• Knowledge of community-based protection approaches, preferably including experience in working with IDP’s, Refugees or returnees.
• Basic familiarity with MS application packages (Word, Excel and database software) and willingness to develop further.

·         The intern will maintain confidentiality of all data and information accessed during the internship and adhere to ActionAid’s safeguarding, ethical, and accountability standards.

How to Apply.

Interested and qualified individuals should submit a two-page CV and a one-page motivation letter detailing how you qualify for the role to: [email protected]  latest by March 20th, 2026, 4:00pm (EAT)

ActionAid International welcomes applications from all sections of the community and strives to promote diversity. All applications will be considered on their individual merit. ActionAid has articulated a strong stand on gender justice and safeguarding through its child protection and anti-sexual harassment, exploitation, and abuse policies which all staff are expected to abide by.

Allowance will be offered to the successful candidate. This internship is only open to female candidates in Beledweyne district. Suitably qualified female are highly encouraged to apply.   Due to the anticipated volume of applications, we regret that we can only respond to shortlisted candidates