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Senior Community - Based Protection Associate

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Kampala,Uganda

Closing: May 14, 2024

7 days remaining

Published: May 6, 2024 (2 days ago)

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Job Summary

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The Senior Community-Based Protection Associate is a member of the Protection Unit and may report to the Protection Officer, Community-Based Protection Officer, or another more senior staff member in the Protection Unit. Under the overall direction of the Protection Unit, and in coordination with other UNHCR staff, government, NGO partners and other stakeholders, the Senior Community-Based Protection Associate works directly with communities of concern to identify the risks they face and to leverage their capacities to protect themselves, their families and communities. The incumbent may have direct supervisory responsibility for part of the protection and/or support staff and supports the application of community-based protection standards, operational procedures and practices in community-based protection delivery at the field level. To fulfil this role, the Senior Community-Based Protection Associate is required to spend a substantial percentage of the workday outside the office, building and maintaining networks within communities of persons of concern (PoC). The development and maintenance of constructive relationships with PoC that measurably impact and enhance protection planning, programming and results, form the core of the work of the incumbent. S/he also supports the designing of a community-based protection strategy by ensuring that it is based on consultation with PoC.

Requirements

• For G7 - 4 years relevant experience with High School Diploma; or 2 years relevant work experience with Bachelor or equivalent or higher

Certificates and/or Licenses

• Development, Human Rights, nternational Law

• Social Work, Social Science, Political Science,

• (Certificates and Licenses marked with an asterisk* are essential)

Responsibilities

Requirements

• For G7 - 4 years relevant experience with High School Diploma; or 2 years relevant work experience with Bachelor or equivalent or higher

Certificates and/or Licenses

• Development, Human Rights, nternational Law

• Social Work, Social Science, Political Science,

• (Certificates and Licenses marked with an asterisk* are essential)

• Assist functional units, the Multi-Functional Team (MFT) and senior management to integrate participatory and community-based approaches in the overall protection strategy and operational procedures.

• 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 the protection team. Understand the perspectives, capacities, needs and resources of the PoC and advise the protection team accordingly, highlighting the specific protection needs of women and men, children, youth and older persons, persons with disabilities, marginalized groups.

• Work with host communities to identify opportunities for national civil society involvement in improving the protection of PoC.

• Work with implementing and operational partners as well as with displaced and local communities to develop community-owned activities to address, where applicable, the social, educational, psycho-social, cultural, health, organisational and livelihood concerns as well as child protection and prevention and response to GBV.

• Perform analysis that identifies the capacities of communities of concern and risks they face.

• Contribute to participatory assessments and ongoing consultation with PoC using multifunctional teams.

• Plan and monitor programmes and budgets with an AGD perspective.

• Build capacity to maximize opportunities for participatory and community-based approaches and to make appropriate use of guidelines and tools in working with partners and other relevant entities.

• Support communities in establishing representation and coordination structures.

• Ensure community understanding of UNHCR's commitment to deliver on accountability and quality assurance in its response.

• Assist in developing UNHCR communication strategies by emphasizing the participatory, community-based and AGD approaches.

• Act as an interpreter in exchange of routine information, contribute to related liaison activities and respond directly to routine queries.

• Contribute to the enforcement of participatory AGD sensitive analysis as an essential basis for all of UNHCR's work.

• Initiate AGD sensitive interventions at the appropriate level on community-based protection issues and to respond to protection concerns and incidents within the office, with external interlocutors, groups and individuals based on agreed parameters.

• Identify and select which individuals or groups to prioritize for counselling and field visits based on agreed criteria.

• Intervene with authorities on protection.

• Enforce compliance of staff and implementing partners with global protection policies and standards of professional integrity in the delivery of protection services.

• As instructed by the supervisor, approve individual payment requests for 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.

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