Terms of Reference

• Education (Level and area of required and/or preferred education)
• University Degree in Law, political science, international relations, gender studies, or another related field.

Work Experience

(List number of years and area of required work experience. Clearly distinguish between required experience and experience which could be an asset.)

• Minimum 2 years of relevant professional job experience, preferably in the area of human rights (including issues related to sexual and gender minorities), gender issues, refugee protection, or international humanitarian law.
• Previous experience interacting with LGBTIQ persons in a professional context
• Experience in interacting with NGOs and other relevant actors in project coordination, as well as in providing training or coaching, guidance or advice to staff.
• Experience working on livelihoods/empowerment projects strongly desired
• Experience working with procedures and principles related to protection of refugees, asylum seekers, or IDPs (especially in GBV) strongly desired
• Experience in counselling asylum seekers or refugees strongly desired
• Key Competencies

(Technical knowledge, skills, managerial competencies, or other personal competencies relevant to the performance of the assignment. Clearly distinguish between required and desired competencies)

• Sound knowledge of SSOGI issues, especially in Kenya/East Africa.
• Knowledge of International Refugee Law and Human Rights Law and ability to apply the relevant legal principles
• Strong research and analytical skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills; an ability to be diplomatic and level-headed.
• Excellent knowledge of English; Swahili or Luganda would be advantageous but are not required.
• Knowledge of internal UNHCR procedures related to RSD, resettlement, and protection strongly desired

Duties

• Coordinate data and information management activities at the Regional/Country or HQ level:
• Lead and/or support the relevant data and information management team and activities.
• Design or contribute to the development and implementation of information management strategies and systems.
• Communicate the status, value, and importance of data and information.
• Provide support to development and compliance with standard, norms and policies related to data and information management.
• Support the collection, storage, management and protection of data by global, regional and country offices.
• Support consolidation of data systems, including the interoperability of operational data and systems.
• Ensure consistency of data and results for country, global and regional analysis.
• Identify risks and opportunities based on insights derived from data.
• Liaise with HQ/regional/country, external and internal partners on data and information management efforts and mechanisms, including OCHA, IOM, WFP, UNICEF and national and regional institutions.
• Lead or take part the relevant information and data (internal and external) on refugee and related issues.
• Improve data quality through field support, capacity building, monitoring and feedback. 
• Ensure and promote data security, data protection and responsible data-sharing.

Support offices with data and information management:

• Support data management activities such as surveys, secondary data reviews, targeting and vulnerability assessments, indicator definition, population data, profiling, analysis, GIS, data visualisation, maps, official statistics and other data and information management activities. 
• Support the analysis of primary and secondary data for interpretation and evidence-informed decision making.
• Monitor the quality of data and information management activities in country and regional offices for integrity, veracity, reliability and credibility as well as compliance with standards and norms.
• Analyse needs and capacities for data management activities and provide recommendations for meeting gaps.
• Provide training support to regional offices and operations.
• Support assessments and situational analysis process with analytical frameworks, data collection, and analysis (standards, methodologies).
• Support planning process (standards, methodologies) quality assurance and technical advice on Theories of Change and indicators, as well as with data management and analysis methods.
• Support monitoring by providing quality assurance and technical advice to the monitoring methodologies, data collection and analysis.
• Review and assess country or region-specific data systems and needs, recommend and support accordingly. 
• Undertake data and information management activities at the Regional/Country or HQ level with other relevant staff
• Lead technical components of data management activities (definition of needs, data collection, analysis, storage and dissemination)
• Provide and recommend tools and systems needed for information and data management activities.
• Provide information and data management coordination products such as 3Ws, joint analysis frameworks, data and information dissemination platforms. 
• Consolidate country and regional data and information for country, regional and global analysis including comparative analysis and socio-demographic trends and situational analysis for country, regional or RRP plans.
• Take part in country or regional planning processes (COPs, regional RRP, regional migration response plans, etc.).
• Analyse trends concerning changes at the outcome and impact levels.
• Develop internal and external information management products such as indicators, templates, maps and dashboards.
• Ensure data is curated and stored in data registries and libraries in accordance with standards.
• Ensure data is used in accordance with the defined purposes.
• Lead or support geospatial analysis, statistical analysis, targeting, surveys, indicator definition and other data management activities.
• Provide population movement tracking systems and other population data systems.
• Support solutions for meeting `communication with communities¿ information and data needs.

Work in close collaboration with:

• All staff to further data literacy and assist in interpretation the data.
• Registration staff regarding the use of individual and personally identifiable data collected or managed by UNHCR.
• Programme staff on the data and information aspects of assessment, targeting and monitoring (three most data driven aspects of the OMC).
• Cluster coordinators and partners on data and information needs in UNHCR-led cluster operations, including HNO and HRP processes.
• Inter-agency staff on the development, coordination and monitoring of responses plans.
• Protection staff on the design, implementation and analysis of protection and case monitoring systems;
• Operations coordinators and reporting officers on the design and delivery of data and information management products for internal and external consumption;
• Sectors technical experts on the methodologies, formats, storage and dissemination of sectoral data and information, including cross sector analysis.
• Senior management to understand and serve their information and knowledge needs.

Perform other related duties as required.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education & Professional Work Experience
• Years of Experience / Degree Level
• For P4/NOD 9 years relevant experience with Undergraduate degree; or 8 years relevant experience with Graduate degree; or 7 years relevant experience with Doctorate degree

Duties

•  Provide technical guidance and support to UNHCR and partners on all protection related issues.
•  Stay abreast of legal, political, social, economic and cultural developments that have an impact on the protection environment.
•  Manage a consultative process with government counterparts, partners and persons of concern to develop and implement a comprehensive protection and solutions strategy addressing the specific protection needs of women and men, children, youth and older persons, persons with disabilities, persons of diverse sexual orientation and/or gender identities (LGBTI persons), persons living with HIV/AIDS; gender equality and Gender Based Violence (GBV) priorities with regard to these persons.
•  In operations applying the Cluster Approach, ensure the response of the Protection Cluster is grounded in a strategy which covers all assessed and prioritized protection needs of the affected populations.
•  Ensure that the protection strategy is fully integrated into the Country Operations Plan, the UN Development and Assistance Framework (UNDAF) and the Humanitarian Country Team's common humanitarian response plan as well as with the implementation of the Global Compact on Refugees and the Three Year Strategy on Resettlement and Complementary Pathways.
•  Promote relevant International, Regional and National Law and applicable UN/UNHCR and IASC policy, standards and codes of conduct and ensure that all sectors and /or in clusters in applicable operations fulfil their responsibilities in mainstreaming protection.
•  Promote the implementation of the AGD policy, including UNHCR's updated commitments to women and girls, and design, deliver and monitor programmes on an AGD basis to address identified protection needs.
•  Develop, implement and monitor community-based protection strategies and ensure systematic application and integration of participatory and community-based approaches in protection and solutions planning, programming and strategies.
•  Support the establishment of feedback and response systems and the incorporation of feedback received from persons of concern into programme design and adaptation.
•  Guide the operation in the development and implementation of robust prevention, identification, and responses to fraud within protection processes and procedures, including registration, RSD, and resettlement, ensuring the integrity of interventions across all protection activities.
•  Oversee the management of individual protection cases including those on GBV and child protection.
•  Provide legal advice and guidance on protection issues to internal and external interlocutors; ensure legal assistance is accessible to persons of concern; liaise with competent authorities to ensure the issuance of personal and other relevant documents to persons of concern (including women and others in need of civil documentation in particular birth certificates).
•  As designated Data Protection Focal Point, assist the data controller in carrying out his or her responsibilities regarding the Data Protection Policy (7.2 DPP).
•  Oversee eligibility and status determination in the Operation(s) under the AoR, ensuring compliance with UNHCR procedural standards and international protection principles.
•  Promote and implement strategies and measures to identify, prevent and reduce statelessness.
•  Develop and implement an education plan as part of the protection strategy within the AoR as relevant.
•  Develop and implement a child protection plan as part of the protection strategy within the AoR, ensuring programmes use a child protection systems approach.
•  Monitor and intervene in cases of refoulement, expulsion and other protection incidents through working relations with governments and other partners.
•  Work to safeguard the rights of persons of concerns in the context of mixed movements as relevant.
•  Coordinate the preparation of, implement and oversee Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for all protection/solutions activities.
•  Ensure that durable solutions through voluntary repatriation, local integration and where appropriate, resettlement and complementary pathways are sought and provided to the largest possible number of persons of concern including undertaking, supporting, and/or overseeing resettlement and complementary pathways activities, including implementation of the GCR Three Year Strategy.
•  Coordinate the design, implementation and evaluation of protection related programming with implementing and operational partners.
•  Develop and implement a programme of results-based advocacy through a consultative process with sectorial and/or cluster partners.
•  Ensure that the Protection Sector or Cluster has an effective information management component which provides disaggregated data on populations of concern and their problems.
•  Research, collect and disseminate relevant protection information and good practices to enhance protection delivery.
•  Develop the protection capacity of national and local authorities, partners and civil society to assume their responsibilities vis-\u00e0-vis all persons of concern through protection training, mainstreaming and related activities.
•  Coordinate capacity-development initiatives for communities and individuals to assert their rights.
•  Advise and capacitate national authorities, relevant institutions and civil society to strengthen legislation and status determination procedures and mechanisms.
•  Perform other related duties as required.

For positions in Bureaux

• Support the Regional Bureau and Country Operations to reflect the protection and solution angle in support of persons of concern with regional processes.
• Support Country Operations in the development of strategies to build and further develop national asylum/RSD systems with a view to ensuring their fairness, efficiency, adaptability and integrity, favourable protection environment and solutions.
• Assist UNHCR management at country level to comply with policies and commitment on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse measures.
• Support Country Operations and ensure they meet their complementary pathways objectives and resettlement quotas.
• In close collaboration with DIP, (a) contribute to the development of background and general normative, policy, and legal positions, in compliance with UNHCR's global protection policies and standards; (b) contribute to the development of strategies at the regional and country level on the usage of law and policy approaches, including legislative and judicial engagement and UN human rights mechanisms 'and/or regional ones ' and other protection frameworks, and integrated human rights standards in protection strategies and advocacy; and (c) coordinate and review UNHCR's country reports to the UN human rights mechanisms.
• Engage in relevant international and regional fora and forge regional partnerships to advocate for key protection and mandate issues, and engage in cross-cutting protection-related matters, including mixed movement, internal displacement and climate change/disaster-related displacement responses, as well as Statelessness in cooperation with DIP and where relevant RSD.

Minimum Qualifications

• Years of Experience / Degree Level
• For P4/NOD - 9 years relevant experience with Undergraduate degree; or 8 years relevant experience with Graduate degree; or 7 years relevant experience with Doctorate degree
• Field(s) of Education
• Law, International Law, International refugee Law, International Human Rights Law,
• International Humanitarian Law, Refugee and Forced Migration, Political Sciences or other relevant field.
• (Field(s) of Education marked with an asterisk* are essential)

Duties

•  Provide technical guidance and support to UNHCR and partners on all protection related issues.
•  Stay abreast of legal, political, social, economic and cultural developments that have an impact on the protection environment.
•  Manage a consultative process with government counterparts, partners and persons of concern to develop and implement a comprehensive protection and solutions strategy addressing the specific protection needs of women and men, children, youth and older persons, persons with disabilities, persons of diverse sexual orientation and/or gender identities (LGBTI persons), persons living with HIV/AIDS; gender equality and Gender Based Violence (GBV) priorities with regard to these persons.
•  In operations applying the Cluster Approach, ensure the response of the Protection Cluster is grounded in a strategy which covers all assessed and prioritized protection needs of the affected populations.
•  Ensure that the protection strategy is fully integrated into the Country Operations Plan, the UN Development and Assistance Framework (UNDAF) and the Humanitarian Country Team's common humanitarian response plan as well as with the implementation of the Global Compact on Refugees and the Three Year Strategy on Resettlement and Complementary Pathways.
•  Promote relevant International, Regional and National Law and applicable UN/UNHCR and IASC policy, standards and codes of conduct and ensure that all sectors and /or in clusters in applicable operations fulfil their responsibilities in mainstreaming protection.
•  Promote the implementation of the AGD policy, including UNHCR's updated commitments to women and girls, and design, deliver and monitor programmes on an AGD basis to address identified protection needs.
•  Develop, implement and monitor community-based protection strategies and ensure systematic application and integration of participatory and community-based approaches in protection and solutions planning, programming and strategies.
•  Support the establishment of feedback and response systems and the incorporation of feedback received from persons of concern into programme design and adaptation.
•  Guide the operation in the development and implementation of robust prevention, identification, and responses to fraud within protection processes and procedures, including registration, RSD, and resettlement, ensuring the integrity of interventions across all protection activities.
•  Oversee the management of individual protection cases including those on GBV and child protection.
•  Provide legal advice and guidance on protection issues to internal and external interlocutors; ensure legal assistance is accessible to persons of concern; liaise with competent authorities to ensure the issuance of personal and other relevant documents to persons of concern (including women and others in need of civil documentation in particular birth certificates).
•  As designated Data Protection Focal Point, assist the data controller in carrying out his or her responsibilities regarding the Data Protection Policy (7.2 DPP).
•  Oversee eligibility and status determination in the Operation(s) under the AoR, ensuring compliance with UNHCR procedural standards and international protection principles.
•  Promote and implement strategies and measures to identify, prevent and reduce statelessness.
•  Develop and implement an education plan as part of the protection strategy within the AoR as relevant.
•  Develop and implement a child protection plan as part of the protection strategy within the AoR, ensuring programmes use a child protection systems approach.
•  Monitor and intervene in cases of refoulement, expulsion and other protection incidents through working relations with governments and other partners.
•  Work to safeguard the rights of persons of concerns in the context of mixed movements as relevant.
•  Coordinate the preparation of, implement and oversee Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for all protection/solutions activities.
•  Ensure that durable solutions through voluntary repatriation, local integration and where appropriate, resettlement and complementary pathways are sought and provided to the largest possible number of persons of concern including undertaking, supporting, and/or overseeing resettlement and complementary pathways activities, including implementation of the GCR Three Year Strategy.
•  Coordinate the design, implementation and evaluation of protection related programming with implementing and operational partners.
•  Develop and implement a programme of results-based advocacy through a consultative process with sectorial and/or cluster partners.
•  Ensure that the Protection Sector or Cluster has an effective information management component which provides disaggregated data on populations of concern and their problems.
•  Research, collect and disseminate relevant protection information and good practices to enhance protection delivery.
•  Develop the protection capacity of national and local authorities, partners and civil society to assume their responsibilities vis-\u00e0-vis all persons of concern through protection training, mainstreaming and related activities.
•  Coordinate capacity-development initiatives for communities and individuals to assert their rights.
•  Advise and capacitate national authorities, relevant institutions and civil society to strengthen legislation and status determination procedures and mechanisms.
•  Perform other related duties as required.

For positions in Bureaux

• Support the Regional Bureau and Country Operations to reflect the protection and solution angle in support of persons of concern with regional processes.
• Support Country Operations in the development of strategies to build and further develop national asylum/RSD systems with a view to ensuring their fairness, efficiency, adaptability and integrity, favourable protection environment and solutions.
• Assist UNHCR management at country level to comply with policies and commitment on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse measures.
• Support Country Operations and ensure they meet their complementary pathways objectives and resettlement quotas.
• In close collaboration with DIP, (a) contribute to the development of background and general normative, policy, and legal positions, in compliance with UNHCR's global protection policies and standards; (b) contribute to the development of strategies at the regional and country level on the usage of law and policy approaches, including legislative and judicial engagement and UN human rights mechanisms 'and/or regional ones ' and other protection frameworks, and integrated human rights standards in protection strategies and advocacy; and (c) coordinate and review UNHCR's country reports to the UN human rights mechanisms.
• Engage in relevant international and regional fora and forge regional partnerships to advocate for key protection and mandate issues, and engage in cross-cutting protection-related matters, including mixed movement, internal displacement and climate change/disaster-related displacement responses, as well as Statelessness in cooperation with DIP and where relevant RSD.

Minimum Qualifications

• Years of Experience / Degree Level
• For P4/NOD - 9 years relevant experience with Undergraduate degree; or 8 years relevant experience with Graduate degree; or 7 years relevant experience with Doctorate degree
• Field(s) of Education
• Law, International Law, International refugee Law, International Human Rights Law,
• International Humanitarian Law, Refugee and Forced Migration, Political Sciences or other relevant field.
• (Field(s) of Education marked with an asterisk* are essential)