Vacancy title:
Community-Based Prot Asst
Jobs at:
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)Deadline of this Job:
09 February 2023
Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, January 26, 2023 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed
JOB DETAILS:
Duties
• Through relationships with PoC and network of partners, stay abreast of political, social, economic and cultural developments that have an impact on the protection environment and provide advice to the protection team. Understand the perspectives, capacities, needs and resources of the PoC and advise the protection team accordingly, highlighting the specific protection needs of women and men, children, youth and older persons, persons with disabilities, marginalized groups.
• Support implementing and operational partners as well as displaced and local communities to develop community-owned activities to address, where applicable, the social, educational, psycho-social, cultural, health, organisational and livelihood concerns as well as child protection and prevention and response to GBV.
• Assist in working with host communities to involve national civil society groups in improving the protection of PoC.
• Assist in the analysis that identifies the capacities of communities of concern and risks they face.
• Support participatory assessments and ongoing consultation with PoC.
• Support communities in establishing representation and coordination structures.
• Ensure community understanding of UNHCR's commitment to deliver on accountability and quality assurance in its response.
• Collect data for monitoring of programmes and budgets from an AGD perspective.
• Draft and type routine correspondence, documents and reports and maintain up-to-date filing systems.
• Act as an interpreter in exchange of routine information, contribute to related liaison activities and respond directly to routine queries.
• Assist in the enforcement of participatory AGD sensitive analysis as an essential basis for all of UNHCR's work.
• Identify and recommend which individuals or groups to prioritize for counselling and field visits based on agreed criteria.
• Enforce compliance of implementing partners with global protection policies and standards of professional integrity in the delivery of protection services.
• Perform other related duties as required.
Minimum Qualifications
• Years of Experience / Degree Level
• For G4 1 year relevant experience with High School Diploma; or Bachelor or equivalent or higher
• Field(s) of Education
• Not applicable.
• Certificates and/or Licenses
• Development, Human Rights, International Law
• Social Work, Social Science, Political Science,
• (Certificates and Licenses marked with an asterisk* are essential)
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 12
Level of Education: Bachelor Degree
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