UN Jobs - Senior Protection Assistant at United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Organisation: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

(UNHCR)

Reports to: Assistant Protection Officer

The

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was established on

December 14, 1950 by the United Nations General Assembly. UNHCR’s mandate under

the Statute of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

is to lead and co-ordinate action for international protection to refugees;

seek permanent solutions for the problems of refugees and safeguard refugee

rights and well-being. UNHCR has an additional mandate concerning issues of

statelessness, as it is given a designated role under Article 11 of the 1961

Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Job Summary: The Senior Protection Assistant keenly monitors

protection standards, operational procedures and practices in protection

delivery in line with international standards and provides functional

protection support to information management and programme staff. The incumbent

provides quality, timely and effective protection support to persons of concern

and identifies opportunities to mainstream protection methodologies and

safeguards in operational responses. The jobholder also contributes to

designing a comprehensive protection strategy and may liaise externally with

local authorities and partners on protection issues as guided by the

supervisor. The incumbent also ensures that persons of concern are involved

with the Office in making decisions that affect them, whether in accessing

their rights or in identifying appropriate solutions to their problems. To

achieve this, the incumbent will need to build and maintain effective

interfaces with communities of concern, local authorities and protection and

assistance partners.

Key Duties and Responsibilities: Under the direct supervision of the

Assistant Protection Officer, the incumbent will undertake the following

duties;

• Consistently apply International and National
  
  Law and applicable UN/UNHCR and IASC policy, standards and codes of
  
  conduct.


• Provide counselling on protection issues to
  
  persons of concern; liaise with competent authorities to ensure the
  
  issuance of personal and other relevant documentation.


• Offer technical support activities in
  
  protection related AGD based programming with implementing and operational
  
  partners.


• Carry out preliminary information gathering and
  
  interviews in support of eligibility, status determination, durable
  
  solutions and social needs assessment.


• Significantly contribute to measures to
  
  identify, prevent and reduce statelessness.


• Contribute to a country-level child
  
  protection plan as part of the protection strategy.


• Contribute to a country-level education plan
  
  for persons of concern as part of the protection strategy.


• Keenly monitor Standard Operating Procedures
  
  (SOPs) for all protection/solutions activities.


• Actively participate in individual protection
  
  case management including cases of SGBV and child protection. Monitor and
  
  report on cases of refoulement, expulsion and other protection incidents.


• Render support in identifying durable
  
  solutions for persons of concern in voluntary repatriation, local
  
  integration and where appropriate, resettlement.


• Actively contribute to the design,
  
  implementation and evaluation of protection related AGD based programming
  
  with implementing and operational partners.


• Assist in drafting reports, routine correspondence,
  
  updating relevant databases and compiling statistics for the protection
  
  unit / section.


• Contribute to initiatives to enhance national
  
  and local protection capacities.


• Perform any other duties as required by the Assistant
  
  Protection Officer.

Key Performance Indicators:  

• The protection of populations of concern is
  
  met through the application of International and National Law relevant
  
  UN/UNHCR protection standards and IASC principles.


• Protection activities are guided by the UNHCR
  
  country protection strategy.


• The participation of persons of concern is
  
  facilitated through supporting participatory, rights and community based
  
  approaches.


• Support is provided to identify and report
  
  protection incidents

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The ideal candidate for the United Nations
  
  UNHCR Assistant Protection Officer career opportunity should have
  
  completed secondary school. Additional Training courses in protection
  
  related issues.


• At least four years of related work
  
  experience


• Fluency in English and working knowledge of
  
  another relevant UN language or local language


• Good computer skills.


• Completion of the Protection Learning
  
  Programme is desired

All

Interested candidates who meet the above criteria should submit their

applications, under confidential cover, quoting the Post No addressed to: The

Senior Administrative/Finance Officer, UNHCR Representation in Uganda via

E-mail quoting the vacancy notice and position number to: UGAKAHR@unhcr.org.

Deadline: 26th April, 2016