🇳🇬 Job Vacancies @ United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) – 4 Positions

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution, war or disaster at home. Since 1950, we have faced multiple crises on multiple continents, and provided vital assistance to refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced and stateless people, many of whom have nobody left to turn to. We help to save lives and build better futures for millions forced from home.

We are recruiting to fill the following positions below:

1.) Associate Community - Based Protection Officer
2.) Programme CBI Officer
3.) Shelter Cluster Coordination Officer
4.) Protection Officer

Job Title: Associate Community - Based Protection Officer

Job Requisition ID: JR2330074
Location: Ogoja, Cross River
Job Type: Full time
Hardship Level: D
Family Type: Non Family with Residential Location
Grade: PR2

Organizational Setting and Work Relationships

• The Associate Community-Based Protection Officer is a member of the Protection Team in a Regional Bureau or a Country Office and normally reports to the Senior Community-Based Protection Officer, the Senior Protection Officer, Head of Sub-Office or the Assistant Representative for protection.
• For a regional position, the incumbent may have direct supervisory responsibility for Protection and Community-Based Protection staff in the regional office, and a technical support role for Community-Based Protection staff in the region. For a country level position the incumbent may have direct supervisory responsibility for Community-based Protection staff and other protection staff in the operation.
• S/he supports the implementation of protection standards and provides advice on community-based protection to senior management and Country Operation(s) in close collaboration with the Division of International Protection (DIP).
• The incumbent is relied upon by senior management to support a coordinated approach in the implementation of UNHCR's rights-based and community-based engagement with all persons of concern (PoC) and contributes to the achievement of UNHCR's commitments to accountability to affected people.
• S/he maintains close working relationships and supports Protection and Community-Based Protection staff in the field, who act as the critical interface between UNHCR and communities of concern, enabling them to provide the AGD-sensitive analysis of community risks and capacities that form the essential foundations of national and regional programmes.
• The incumbent maintains close working relations with sister UN entities, governmental entities, non-governmental organisations and academic institutions that can contribute to enhancing protection and achieving solutions through people centred, community-based and gender responsive approaches.
• The incumbent provides guidance to country operations to strengthen their coordination and advocacy on community-based approaches to protection with governments, partners and other key stakeholders.

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Duties

• Be fully informed about community structures and the protection and security situation of the population of concern and develop strong links with a cross-section of members of refugee/IDP/stateless communities, using an AGD approach.
• 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 senior management.
• Ensure that the perspectives, capacities, needs and resources of the PoC are reflected in the protection strategy, planning processes and operations plan addressing the specific protection needs of women and men, children, youth and older persons, persons with disabilities, minority groups such as sexual minorities and persons living with HIV/AIDS.
• Ensure through direct action and advocacy with more senior protection staff that the necessary resources are allocated to enable community work to identify and address protection and assistance gaps.
• Support a consultative process with government counterparts at local levels, partners and PoC to develop and implement integrated strategies that address the key protection priorities, including, for example, child protection, education and GBV, and solutions approaches.
• Provide technical guidance and support to UNHCR and partners and implement and oversee Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) on all community-based protection related issues.
• Support the design, implementation and evaluation of protection centred and solutions oriented programming with implementing and operational partners guaranteeing that community-owned activities are integrated.
• Support communities in establishing representation and coordination structures
• Promote confidence building and conflict resolution among PoC, authorities and host communities.
• Maintain protection presence through regular field missions and reports, making direct contact with PoC, host communities, local authorities and partners. In operations applying the humanitarian cluster system, contribute to the development of an AGD-compliant strategy on which the response of the Protection Cluster is grounded in and covers all assessed and prioritized protection needs of the affected populations.
• Support the Operation's work to fully integrate the protection strategy into the Country Operations Plan, the UN Development and Assistance Framework (UNDAF), the Humanitarian Country Team's common humanitarian action plan where applicable.
• Contribute to the Protection team's information management component which: provides disaggregated data on PoC and their problems; researches, collects and disseminates relevant protection information and good practices to enhance protection delivery and provide technical advice if necessary.
• Support the inclusion of participatory, community-based protection and AGD approaches in strategies and plans within the Area of Responsibility (AoR).
• Support community understanding of UNHCR's commitment to deliver on accountability and quality assurance in its response.
• Support PoC to develop structures that enhance their participation and protection.
• Contribute to the design of the community-based protection strategy, project submissions and budgets for endorsement by the supervisor.
• Intervene with authorities on community-based protection issues.
• Negotiate with local counterparts, partners and PoC.
• 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.

Minimum Qualifications
Years of Experience / Degree Level:

• For P2/NOB - 3 years relevant experience with Undergraduate Degree; or 2 years relevant experience with Graduate Degree; or 1 year relevant experience with Doctorate Degree.

Field(s) of Education:

• International Development, Cultural Studies, Human Rights, International Social Work, Social Science, Political Science, Anthropology, International Law or other relevant field.

Relevant Job Experience
Essential:

• Relevant professional experience, including in the areas of community based protection, community services, social work, and human rights.

Desirable:

• Proven communication skills, both oral and written.
• Demonstrated knowledge of community communication and engagement approaches.
• Understanding of and demonstrated competencies in forced displacement and protection, particularly GBV prevention and response, child protection, education, gender equality, and the application of the Age, Gender and Diversity Policy.

Functional Skills:

• DM-Database Management
• IT-Computer Literacy
• PR-Coordination in Forced Displacement situations
• PR-Convention on the Rights of the Child / International Legal Framework
• PR-Gender Equality
• PR-Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD)
• CO-Drafting and Documentation
• ED-Technical support to education programmes and proposals
• PR-Gender Based Violence (GBV) prevention programming
• PR-Gender Based Violence (GBV) response programming
• (Functional Skills marked with an asterisk* are essential)

Application Closing Date
28th November, 2023.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Programme CBI Officer

Job Requisition ID: JR2330014
Location: Abuja
Job Type: Full time
Hardship Level: C
Family Type: Family
Grade: PR3

Organizational Setting and Work Relationships

• The Programme CBI Officer is an active member of the bureau/field operation/division and manages and oversees the UNHCR cash assistance.
• The incumbent is responsible to ensure that CBI is compliant with the CBI policy, technical guidance and administrative instructions on CBI, in collaboration with the relevant multi-functional team (MFT) members.
• S/he will ensure the strategic and coherent use of CBI in UNHCR and monitor it adequately.
• S/he will ensure adequate coordination of all CBIs in line with the collaborative cash delivery principles and provide technical guidance on CBIs to UNHCR staff.
• Internally the Programme CBI Officer will liaise with UNHCR country offices and/or Bureaux and/or HQ. Externally, s/he will liaise with Implementing and Operational Partners, National Governments, line ministries, UN agencies, members of Cash Working Group, donors and other stakeholders.
• The incumbent is expected to work in line with the multi-functional team (MFT), ensuring the participation of relevant stakeholders in all phases of the Program Management Cycle.

Duties

• Promote cash assistance, and the strategic and coherent use of CBI, ensuring that CBI is maximised to meet protection needs, in assistance and service provision throughout the displacement cycle, including in emergencies.
• Promote and ensure linkages with social protection and financial inclusion.
• Provide technical support on strategic planning and policy making on activities within the area of CBIs, including assessments, planning and budgeting, technical choices, legal and regulatory aspects, implementation modalities, coordination and monitoring.
• Support to ensure that CBI is fully, effectively integrated into the country operations plan and protection and solutions strategies.
• Support and collaborate with protection and sectors to increase the use of CBI in e.g. protection, education, shelter, livelihoods, health and WASH programmes.
• Establish sound monitoring process for cash assistance. Analyse trends and interventions, including CBI expenditure, upstream and downstream activities. Ensure post distribution monitoring (PDM) is conducted regularly and in line with the relevant guidance.
• Ensure fluid communication and information exchange with key stakeholders internally and externally, and participate in relevant coordination and collaboration structures.
• Represent UNHCR in inter-agency coordination mechanisms and fora, promote and maintain collaborative cash arrangements and strong relations with partners and other key actors.
• Generate data and analysis for evidence-base, communication, and visibility.
• Organise and/or support CBI-related learning and capacity building, including organising trainings and learning events.
• Fulfil CBI-related reporting requirements.
• Support the use of UNHCR CashAssist.
• 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.

In Country Operations:

• In close collaboration with the Senior Management and under their leadership, ensure the functioning of the CBI component of the Multi-Functional Team (MFT).
• Ensure CBI is implemented according to UNHCR's policies, rules and processes.
• Ensure CBI is included in the preparedness and response planning, and prepare UNHCR to be the first responder to new emergencies/ and return situations with CBI.
• Conduct required assessments to ensure optimal CBI design.
• In collaboration with Finance, establish CBI Standard operating procedures (SOPs) for the operation, and coordinate the review with RB and final clearance with HQ. Support partners in developing SOPs.
• Coordinate the implementation of CBI in accordance with the SOP, ensuring audit trail and proper accountability.
• Coordinate with Supply for timely procurement of financial service providers, including the technical evaluations and any other procurement related issues, as well as contracting of financial service providers.

In Regional Bureaux:

• Ensure the coordination of CBI across the Regional Bureau and the country operations.
• Provide technical support to country operations in all aspects of CBI across the programme cycle, in line with UNHCR's guidance and policy.
• Review and provide inputs for CBI Standard operating procedures (SOPs) for the operations and coordinate the review and final clearance with HQ.
• Review and provide inputs on issues and documents relating to procurement and contracting of financial service providers, including participation in technical evaluations as required.

In Headquarters:

• Contribute to and generate guidance, policies, tools, and evidence-base on the use of CBI, including policy documents, technical guidance, evaluation, lessons learnt, communication and visibility materials, reports, and synthesis.
• Provide technical support for the rollout and the implementation of CBI to regional bureaux and operations.
• Contribute to CBI-related knowledge management, training, and learning.
• Contribute to the clearance of Standard Operating Procedures with DFAM, review CBI procurement-related documents with SMS, review CBI-related contracts with Financial Service Providers with LAS, and collaborate with other divisions as required.

Minimum Qualifications
Years of Experience / Degree Level

• For P3/NOC - 6 years relevant experience with Undergraduate Degree; or 5 years relevant experience with Graduate Degree; or 4 years relevant experience with Doctorate Degree.

Field(s) of Education:

• Economics; Social Science; Political Science; Business Administration; Social Economics or other relevant field.

Certificates and/or Licenses:

• Programme Management; HCR Results Based Management.

Relevant Job Experience
Essential:

• Work experience in cash assistance and proven knowledge and technical skills in the set up, design, implementation, and monitoring of CBIs from a multisectoral and protection perspective.

Desirable:

• Experience in interagency coordination.

Functional Skills:

• PG-UNHCR's Programmes
• CB-Cash-based Programming/Managing/Planning.

Application Closing Date
28th November, 2023.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Shelter Cluster Coordination Officer

Job Requisition ID: JR2330067
Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Job Type: Full time
Hardship Level: E (most hardship)
Family Type: Non Family with Residential LocationDanger Pay
Grade: PR3

Organizational Setting and Work Relationships

• In humanitarian emergencies where UNHCR is designated as the Shelter Cluster (SC) Lead Agency under the Cluster Approach, the Shelter Cluster Coordination Officer performs a dedicated coordination, strategy development and advocacy function.
• In smaller emergencies this function will be performed at national level, in these situations the incumbent reports directly to the UNHCR Representative who has final accountability for the performance of UNHCR as Cluster Lead Agency and the incumbent liaises with the Global SC Coordinator who has global responsibility for the performance of UNHCR as Global Cluster Lead Agency.
• In larger emergencies this function will be performed at sub-national level, the incumbent will report to a P4 or P5 Shelter Cluster Coordinator at national level on functional issues and to the respective Head of Office on administrative issues. In some cases of large emergencies, the incumbent may perform a function of deputy cluster coordinator at the national level in support of the P4 or P5 Shelter Cluster Coordinator reporting directly to them.
• The Shelter Cluster Coordination Officer supports coordination, strategy development and advocacy functions in order to ensure UNHCR's role as the Shelter Cluster (SC) Lead Agency under the Cluster Approach.
• The incumbent provides support to the UNHCR office to be able to perform its SC Lead Agency functions in a manner consistent with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) standards and guidelines governing the Cluster Approach, in particular the IASC Generic Terms of Reference for Cluster Coordinators at the country level and the IASC Reference Module for Cluster Coordination at the Country Level.
• The Shelter Cluster Coordination Officer ensures appropriate cross-sectoral coordination with other related clusters such as WASH, CCCM, Protection (HLP) and others, advocates for shelter in the humanitarian response, supports the mainstreaming of early recovery activities in the Shelter Cluster, and spearheads the integration of cross-cutting issues into the work of the Shelter Cluster, especially age, gender, diversity, HIV, and environment.
• The incumbent may directly supervise a SC Support team, including, but not limited to, the areas of information management, needs assessment, and technical support.

Duties
Strategic Direction and Coordination:

• Ensure, for the location s/he is based at, that UNHCR delivers on its commitments and accountability as lead of the Shelter Cluster. Manage the team under his/her supervision.
• Establish strong working relationships with the cluster members in the Area of Responsibility (AoR) in order to facilitate effective collaboration and communication. Upon consultations with SC members and his/her supervisor(s), take final decision over format and frequency of meetings, designation of focal points and the establishment of a strategic advisory group, sub-national clusters, Technical Working Groups and ad hoc/task-related bodies for specific issues.
• Provide coordination services, including meetings, in line with the Principles of Partnership, ensuring that cluster coordination is inclusive, effective and results-oriented.
• Under the framework of the Inter-Agency contingency Plan, revise existing contingency planning and emergency preparedness measures and ensure they are updated and developed.
• Develop or contribute to the development of a SC strategy that is part of the overall multi-sectoral response, that is owned by shelter partners and the government counterpart and that is revised as the situation evolves. Ensure that the SC Strategy has proper linkages with disaster risk reduction, relief, and recovery and development efforts.
• Ensure that the SC Strategy aligns with the Humanitarian Country Team's common humanitarian action plan.
• Promote accountability to affected population, participation of local and national stakeholders such as civil groups, and ensure coordination with government counterparts and other relevant authorities.
• Promote that appropriate transitional measures are in place for handing over to the government or recovery and development actors.
• Ensure the establishment and maintenance of the cluster structure including the cluster core documents as defined by the Global Shelter Cluster guidance: Strategy, Technical Standards, and Factsheet.
• Facilitate the evaluation of the cluster's performance. Based on the feedback of this evaluation, work with Shelter Cluster members to develop a plan of response to improve the cluster's performance.

Needs Assessment, Resources Mobilization and Allocation:

• Facilitate and coordinate within the Shelter Cluster or Inter-Cluster level shelter needs assessments, including participatory assessments
• Support the system to ensure the timely availability of data to inform operational decisions by partners and strategic decisions of the Humanitarian Country Team.
• Promote that the SC covers all identified shelter needs of the affected population and not only those relating to the specific mandate of individual members of the Shelter Cluster.
• Provide transparent support to development of common funding criteria, resource mobilisation and prioritization within the SC for inclusion in Consolidated Appeals and pooled funds processes.
• Establish mechanisms for accountable and transparent financial resource allocation within the cluster.

Capacity Development:

• Build capacity of the government counterpart or the organization that will take over the coordination of the cluster once this is phased out.
• Coordinate the delivery of shelter training activities for SC members, other local partners, and relevant authorities.
• Coordinate initiatives to build the shelter capacity of the national and local government, partners and civil society.

Standard Setting and Implementation:

• Ensure that the shelter response is informed by appropriate relevant Technical Standards including among others Sphere, and good practice.
• Promote appropriate collaboration with shelter response-related clusters of CCCM, Early Recovery, Education, Health, Logistics, Protection and WASH in the work of the Shelter Cluster.
• Coordinate the integration of cross-cutting issues in the work of the Shelter Cluster, including age, gender, environment, diversity.
• Through Cluster-wide consultative processes, provide input into the development of global shelter policy and standards led by the Global Shelter Cluster.

Information Management, Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting:

• Contribute to development and implementation of the SC information management strategy and mechanism to report and share information within the Shelter Cluster, with the other clusters, with the government, with the overall humanitarian community including donors, with UNHCR internal mechanisms, and with the Global Shelter Cluster.
• Ensure that the SC produces analytical shelter reports, including the Factsheet. Promote that information on affected population is disaggregated by sex and age. Implement decisions on indicators to measure impact and performance of SC members.
• Ensure that the SC maintains an updated website and produces regular updates on the shelter concerns of the affected population, the response by the shelter actors, the gaps, challenges and recommendations.
• Promote and ensure monitoring and evaluation of the impact of operations carried out by cluster members and the performance of the coordination team.
• Appraise the performance of any directly supervised personnel of the SC coordination team.

Advocacy, Promotion and Fundraising:

• Identify core advocacy concerns for the SC through a consultative process.
• Represent when requested the SC in meetings with sectoral and external partners, authorities, donors and other relevant interlocutors.
• Issue reports and make advocacy statements on behalf of the Shelter Cluster in the AoR.
• With the support of the supervisor, negotiate with the Humanitarian Coordinator/Resident Coordinator, the Humanitarian Country Team and cluster members the prioritization and inclusion of project proposals and common funding criteria for inclusion in inter-agency funding appeals.
• Direct transparent and accountable financial and other resource allocation within the Shelter Cluster, when required, such as with regard to CERF or CHF.
• With the support of the supervisor, approach donors and other potential sources of funding to explain the SC strategy, challenges, and progress, and to advocate for funding for the overall shelter sector.
• Coordinate with UNHCR and other partners to maximize communication impact to donors and others on the SC priorities.
• Ensure a consistent interpretation and application of international law and related UNHCR and IASC legal standards and policies for the adequate provision of shelter.
• Ensure the Shelter Cluster's adherence to international human rights instruments, the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement as well as other relevant international and regional instruments; in cooperation with the Humanitarian Country Team.
• 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.

Minimum Qualifications
Years of Experience / Degree Level

• For P3/NOC - 6 years relevant experience with Undergraduate Degree; or 5 years relevant experience with Graduate Degree; or 4 years relevant experience with Doctorate Degree.

Field(s) of Education

• Shelter-related sciences (e.g. Civil Engineering or Architecture) or other relevant field.

Certificates and/or Licenses:

• CCCM Cluster Coordination
• HCR Coordination Lrng Prog
• HCR Management Lrng Prg
• UNHCR Tri-Cluster Knowledge and Coordination Skills Workshop
• UNHCR Workshop on Emergency Management.
• (Certificates and Licenses marked with an asterisk* are essential).

Relevant Job Experience
Essential:

• Excellent knowledge of the Humanitarian reform process and the role of the humanitarian community (UN System, Red Cross Red Crescent Movement, and NGO), preferably in shelter.
• Good knowledge of current humanitarian issues.
• Good knowledge of shelter-related technical guidelines and standards. Good communication skills

Desirable:

• Applied knowledge in UNHCR mandate, its policies and priorities in relation to IDPs, shelter and NFI. Demonstrated expertise in program management and reporting requirements.

Functional Skills:

• SP-Shelter and Infrastructure Coordination
• SP-Global Shelter Cluster Strategy
• PR-Country Operations applying the Cluster Approach
• MG-Coordination
• CL-Cluster Information Management Tools, Resources and Approaches
• CO-Drafting and Documentation
• (Functional Skills marked with an asterisk* are essential).

Language Requirements:

• For International Professional and Field Service jobs: Knowledge of English and UN working language of the duty station if not English.
• For National Professional jobs: Knowledge of English and UN working language of the duty station if not English and local language.
• For General Service jobs: Knowledge of English and/or UN working language of the duty station if not English.

Application Closing Date
28th November, 2023.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Protection Officer

Job Requisition ID: JR2329944
Location: Abuja
Job Type: Full time
Hardship Level: C
Family Type: Family
Grade: PR3

Organizational Setting and Work Relationships

• In the Bureaux, the Protection Officer works under the direct supervision of the Senior Protection Coordinator or Senior Protection Officer. In the Field, the incumbent normally reports to the Representative, Deputy or Assistant Representative (Protection), Head of Sub Office or Senior Protection Officer as appropriate.
• The incumbent may have direct supervisory responsibility for protection staff whose work may include RSD, community-based protection, registration, resettlement, complementary pathways, internal displacement and education, among other areas. In HQ, the incumbent may report to a Senior Protection Officer, Chief of Section or Deputy Director and may supervise other protection staff.
• The incumbent acts as an advisor to senior management in, when not responsible for, designing a comprehensive protection strategy under the area of responsibility (AoR). S/he represents the Organization to authorities, UN sister agencies, partners and other stakeholders on protection policy and doctrine.
• The Protection Officer coordinates quality, timely and effective protection responses to the needs of populations of concern under the AoR. S/he ensures that persons of concern of all age, gender and diversity groups are involved with the Office in making decisions that affect them, whether in accessing their rights or in identifying and implementing appropriate solutions to their problems.
• To undertake this role effectively, the incumbent will need to build and maintain effective interfaces with other relevant teams within the operation or the Bureau (including programme; PI and external relations; IM) and with DIP, communities of concern, authorities, protection and assistance partners as well as a broader network of stakeholders who can contribute to enhancing protection and achieving solutions.
• All UNHCR staff members are accountable to perform their duties as reflected in their job description. They do so within their delegated authorities, in line with the regulatory framework of UNHCR which includes the UN Charter, UN Staff Regulations and Rules, UNHCR Policies and Administrative Instructions as well as relevant accountability frameworks.
• In addition, staff members are required to discharge their responsibilities in a manner consistent with the core, functional, cross-functional and managerial competencies and UNHCR's core values of professionalism, integrity and respect for diversity.

Duties

• Provide technical guidance and support to UNHCR and partners on all protection related issues.
• Stay abreast of and report as relevant on legal political, social, economic and cultural developments that have an impact on the protection environment.
• Engage relevant national authorities and structures in identifying and expanding opportunities in view of developing or strengthening national asylum/RSD systems.
• Facilitate a consultative process with government counterparts, partners and persons of concern to develop and implement a comprehensive protection and solutions strategy addressing the specific protection needs of women and men, children, youth and older persons, persons with disabilities, persons of diverse sexual orientation and/or gender identities (LGBTI persons), persons living with HIV/AIDS; gender equality and Gender Based Violence (GBV) priorities with regard to these persons.
• In operations applying the Cluster Approach, seek to ensure the response of the Protection Cluster is grounded in a strategy which covers all assessed and prioritized protection needs of the affected populations.
• Support senior management to ensure the protection strategy is fully integrated into the Country Operations Plan, the UN Development and Assistance Framework (UNDAF), the Humanitarian Country Team's common humanitarian response plan where applicable, as well as with the implementation of the Global Compact on Refugees and the Three Year Strategy on Resettlement and Complementary Pathways.
• Promote relevant International, Regional and National Law and applicable UN/UNHCR and IASC policy, standards and codes of conduct and ensure that all sectors and /or in clusters in applicable operations fulfil their responsibilities in mainstreaming protection.
• Promote the implementation of the AGD policy, including UNHCR's updated commitments to women and girls, and, design, deliver I and monitor programmes on an AGD basis to address identified protection needs.
• Develop, implement and monitor community-based protection strategies and ensure systematic application and integration of participatory and community-based approaches in protection and solutions planning, programming and strategies.
• Support the establishment of feedback and response systems and the incorporation of feedback received from persons of concern into programme design and adaptation.
• Support the operation to develop and implement robust prevention, identification, and responses to fraud within protection processes and procedures, including registration, RSD, resettlement and complementary pathways, ensuring the integrity of interventions across all protection activities.
• Assist UNHCR management at country level to comply with polices and commitment on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse measures.
• Oversee and manage individual protection cases including those on GBV and child protection.
• Provide legal advice and guidance on protection issues to internal and external interlocutors; ensure legal assistance is accessible to persons of concern; liaise with competent authorities to ensure the issuance of personal and other relevant documents to persons of concern (including women and others in need of civil documentation, in particular birth certificates).
• As designated Data Protection Focal Point, assist the data controller in carrying out his or her responsibilities regarding the Data Protection Policy (7.2 DPP).
• Oversee and undertake eligibility and status determination within the AoR ensuring compliance with UNHCR procedural standards and international protection principles.
• Promote and implement effective strategies and measures to identify, prevent and reduce statelessness within the AoR.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of an education plan as part of protection strategy within the AoR as relevant.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of a child protection plan as part of the protection strategy within the AoR ensuring programmes use a child protection systems approach.
• Monitor, and intervene in cases of refoulement, expulsion and other protection incidents through working relations with governments and other partners.
• Work to safeguard the rights of persons of concern in the context of mixed movements as relevant.
• Coordinate the preparation of, implement and oversee Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for all protection/solutions activities.
• Ensure that durable solutions through voluntary repatriation, local integration and where appropriate, resettlement and complementary pathways are sought and provided to the largest possible number of persons of concern, including undertaking and/or overseeing resettlement and complementary pathways activities.
• Contribute to the coordination of the design, implementation and evaluation of protection related programming with implementing and operational partners.
• Contribute to and facilitate a programme of results-based advocacy through a consultative process with sectorial and/or cluster partners.
• Ensure that the Protection Sector or Cluster has an effective information management component which: provides disaggregated data on populations of concern and their problems; researches, collects and disseminates relevant protection information and good practices to enhance protection delivery.
• Build the protection capacity of national and local government, partners and civil society to assume their responsibilities vis-à-vis all persons of concern through protection training, mainstreaming and related activities.
• Coordinate capacity-building initiatives for communities and individuals to assert their rights.
• Advise and capacitate national authorities, relevant institutions and civil society to strengthen legislation and status determination procedures and mechanisms.
• 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.

For positions in Bureaux:

• Support the Regional Bureau and Country Operations to reflect the protection and solution angle in support of persons of concern within regional processes.
• Support Country Operations in the development of strategies to build and further develop national asylum/RSD systems with a view to ensuring their fairness, efficiency, adaptability and integrity, favourable protection environment and solutions.
• Assist UNHCR management at regional and country level to comply with polices and commitment on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse measures.
• Support Country Operations and ensure they meet their complementary pathways objectives and resettlement quotas.
• In close collaboration with DIP, (a) contribute to the development of background and general normative, policy, and legal positions, in compliance with UNHCR's global protection policies and standards; (b) contribute to the development of strategies at the regional and country level on the usage of law and policy approaches, including legislative and judicial engagement and UN human rights mechanisms - and/or regional ones - and other protection frameworks, and integrated human rights standards in protection strategies and advocacy; and (c) support coordination and review of UNHCR's country reports to the UN human rights mechanisms.
• Engage in relevant international and regional fora and contribute to forging regional partnerships to advocate for key protection and mandate issues, and engage in cross-cutting protection-related matters, including mixed movement, internal displacement and climate change/disaster-related displacement responses, as well as Statelessness, in cooperation with DIP and where relevant RSD.

Minimum Qualifications
Years of Experience / Degree Level

• For P3/NOC - 6 years relevant experience with Undergraduate degree; or 5 years relevant experience with Graduate degree; or 4 years relevant experience with Doctorate degree

Field(s) of Education:

• Law; International Law; International Refugee Law;
• International Human Rights Law; International Humanitarian Law;
• Refugee and Forced Migration Studies; Political Sciences or other relevant field.
• Certificates and/or Licenses
• Protection Learning Programme
• RSD- Resettlement Learning Programme

Relevant Job Experience
Essential:

• Minimum 4 years of relevant professional experience in the area of refugee protection, internal displacement, human rights or international humanitarian law, including experience in working directly with Field Offices.
• Good knowledge of International Refugee and Human Rights Law and ability to apply the relevant legal principles. Excellent legal research, analytical skills and drafting.

Desirable:

• Diverse field experience. Good IT skills including database management skills.

Functional Skills:

• PR-Protection-related guidelines, standards and indicators
• PR-Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD).

Application Closing Date
28th November, 2023.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online