Overview
The Community-Based Protection Associate works directly with communities to identify risks and leverage their capacities for protection. The role supports the application of community-based protection standards and involves significant fieldwork to build and maintain community networks.
Key Responsibilities
- - Assist in integrating participatory and community-based approaches into the protection strategy.
- - Stay abreast of developments impacting the protection environment and advise the protection team.
- - Work with communities and partners to develop community-owned activities addressing social, educational, psycho-social, cultural, health, organizational, and livelihood concerns.
- - Assist in analyzing community capacities and risks.
- - Support participatory assessments and ongoing consultation with communities.
- - Assist in planning and monitoring of programmes and budgets.
- - Build office capacity for community-based protection through training and establishing systems.
- - Support communities in establishing representation and coordination structures.
- - Ensure community understanding of UNHCR's commitment to accountability and quality assurance.
- - Act as an interpreter and respond to routine queries.
- - Contribute to the enforcement of participatory AGD sensitive analysis.
- - Initiate AGD sensitive interventions and respond to protection concerns.
- - Identify and select individuals or groups for counselling and field visits.
- - Intervene with authorities on protection matters.
- - Enforce compliance of implementing partners with global protection policies and standards.
- - Recommend and prepare payments to individual cases.
- - Support the identification and management of risks and opportunities.
- - Perform other related duties as required.
Required Experience
- For G6 - 3 years relevant experience with High School Diploma; or 2 years relevant work experience with Bachelor or equivalent or higher.
- Essential: Not specified.
- Desirable: UNHCR learning programmes (PLP). Knowledge of MSRP.
- Strong experience and skills in conducting protection assessments, supporting community development, and working as a community mobilizer/organizer and counsellor, particularly in the context of the Sahrawi refugee camps near Tindouf.
- Solid experience working in the fields of Community-Based Protection (CBP), Child Protection (CP), Gender-Based Violence (GBV), Education, and Youth & Sport.
- Proven experience in collecting, analyzing, and reporting on data related to protection gaps and concerns.
- Experience in providing training on community outreach and protection issues to teams and partners.
- Demonstrated experience working in a demanding environment that requires establishing work plans and systems, following standard procedures, and meeting deadlines with high-quality outputs.
- Experience in organizing and coordinating interventions to integrate protection safeguards and solutions-oriented approaches tailored to the needs of Sahrawi refugees near Tindouf.
- Strong experience in training and coaching staff on Accountability to Affected Population (AAP), Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD), Child protection (CP), and gender equality, including practical experience in conducting FGDs/participatory assessments and establishing and overseeing complaint and feedback mechanisms.
- Solid field experience in Community-Based Protection programmes, with a specific focus on camp and field settings.
- Strong experience in community engagement, including managing community-based structures and community-related committees, as well as leading community programmes for refugees.
- Experience in coordination and collaboration with UNHCR staff, partners, NGOs, UN agencies, and other stakeholders.
Qualifications
- High School Diploma or Bachelor or equivalent or higher.
- Certificates and/or Licenses: Development, Human Rights, International Law, International Social Work, Social Science, Political Science.
