May 15th, 2023 at 11:44 pm
Community-Based Protection Associate at UNHCR
The Community-Based Protection Associate is part of the Protection Unit and may answer to the Protection Officer, the Community-Based Protection Officer, or another more senior member of the Protection Unit staff. Under the direction of the Protection Unit and in coordination with other UNHCR staff, government, NGO partners, and other stakeholders, the Community-Based Protection Associate works directly with communities of concern to find out what risks they face and how they can protect themselves, their families, and their communities.
The person in this job may have direct supervision over some of the protection and/or support staff. This person also helps with the application of community-based protection standards, operating procedures, and practices in the field. To do this job, the Community-Based Protection Associate has to spend a lot of time outside of the office building and keeping up networks in communities of color.
The heart of the incumbent’s job is to build and keep good relationships with people of concern (PoC) that have a measurable effect on and improve protection planning, programming, and results. S/he also backs the creation of a community-based security plan by making sure it is based on feedback from people of color.
All employees of the UNHCR are expected to do their jobs as described in their job descriptions. They do this within the limits of the powers they have been given and in accordance with the UNHCR’s regulatory framework, which includes the UN Charter, the UN Staff Regulations and Rules, the UNHCR’s Policies and Administrative Instructions, and related accountability frameworks. Staff members are also expected to do their jobs in a way that is in line with UNHCR’s core ideals of professionalism, integrity, and respect for diversity, as well as its core, functional, cross-functional, and managerial competencies.
Duties
- Work with the host towns to find ways that the national civil society can help protect people of color.
- Help with the analysis that figures out what groups of concern can do and what risks they face.
- Help plan and keep track of programs and funds from an AGD point of view
- Build the office’s ability to protect people in their communities through training and setting up systems for community mobilization and involvement of people of color.
- Help communities set up frameworks for representation and coordination.
- Make sure the community knows that UNHCR is committed to responding in a way that ensures transparency and quality.
- Act as an interpreter for the sharing of routine information, help with related liaison work, and answer routine questions directly.
- Help make sure that collaborative AGD-sensitive analysis is used as an important part of all of UNHCR’s work.
- Use the agreed-upon criteria to find and choose which people or groups should get counseling and field visits first.
- Talk to the police about safety.
- Make sure that implementation partners are following global protection policies and standards of professional ethics when they are providing protection services.
- Then, Suggest payments for each case and get them ready.
- Do any other similar work that is asked of you.
Minimum Qualifications
Years of Experience/Degree Level: For G6, you need 3 years of relevant experience with a High School Diploma or 2 years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s degree or better.
Licenses and/or Certificates
Development, Human Rights, International Law, International Social Work, Social Science, Political Science, (Certificates and Licenses marked with an asterisk)
Functional Skills
- ERP stands for Enterprise Resource Planning.IT-Computer Skills
- Administrative Rules, Regulations, and Procedures of the UN-UNHCR
- PR-based community protection: principles and methods
- CL-Communications with Partners, the Government, and the Community
- PG-Management of stakeholders and coordination with implementing partners (government, NGOs, and businesses).
- TR-Capacity Building (important functional skills are marked with an asterisk*)
Language Requirements
- For International Professional and Field Service jobs, you need to know English and, if English isn’t used at the duty station, the UN working language of the duty station.
- For National Professional jobs, you need to know English and the working language of the United Nations at the duty station, if English and the local language are not enough.
- For General Service jobs, you need to know English and/or the UN working language of the duty area if it’s not English.
How to Apply for Community-Based Protection Associate at UNHCR
Closing Date: 30th May 2023
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