Overview
Provides functional protection support to information management and programme staff, and quality, timely and effective protection support to persons of concern.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide counselling on protection issues to PoC;
- Liaise with competent authorities to ensure the issuance of personal and other relevant documentation;
- Support activities in protection related AGD based programming with implementing and operational partners;
- Conduct preliminary information gathering and interviews in support of eligibility, status determination, durable solutions and social needs assessment;
- 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 PoC as part of the protection strategy;
- Monitor Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for all protection/solutions activities;
- Participate in individual protection case management including cases of GBV and child protection;
- Monitor and report on cases of refoulement, expulsion and other protection incidents;
- Assist in identifying durable solutions for PoC in voluntary repatriation, local integration and where appropriate, resettlement;
- Contribute to the design, implementation and evaluation of protection related AGD based programming with implementing and operational partners;
- Draft reports, routine correspondence, update relevant databases and compiling statistics within the Area of Responsibility (AoR);
- Contribute to initiatives to enhance national and local protection capacities;
- Select PoC for preliminary interviews and decide which relevant information to share;
- Enforce integrity in the delivery of protection services by local implementing partners;
- Support the identification and management of risks and seek to seize opportunities impacting objectives in the area of responsibility;
- Ensure decision making in risk based in the functional area of work;
- Raise risks, issues and concerns to a supervisor or to relevant functional colleague(s);
- Perform other related duties as required.
Required Experience
- Ideally prior experience working with UNHCR in protection and case management, including providing counseling and gathering relevant information to support case assessment and decision-making.
- Experience coordinating with a range of internal and external stakeholders, including UNHCR units, government entities, and partners, would be highly desirable.
Qualifications
- High School Diploma with 2 years relevant experience; or
- Bachelor or equivalent or higher with 1 year relevant work experience.
- Certificates and/or Licenses: International Law; Political Science.
