Senior Community-Based Protection Assistant

The Senior Community-Based Protection Assistant works directly with communities of concern to identify risks and leverage their capacities for protection. The role supports community-based protection standards and practices, builds networks within communities, and contributes to protection planning and programming under the Protection Unit.

Responsibilities

• Assist functional units, the Multi-Functional Team (MFT) and senior management to integrate participatory and community-based approaches in the overall protection strategy
• Stay abreast of political, social, economic and cultural developments impacting protection environment and advise protection team
• Assist in initiatives with host communities to involve national civil society groups in protection of persons of concern
• Support implementing and operational partners and communities to develop community-owned activities addressing social, educational, psycho-social, cultural, health, organisational and livelihood concerns as well as child protection and GBV prevention and response
• Assist in analysis identifying capacities and risks of communities of concern
• Support participatory assessments by multifunctional teams and ongoing consultation with persons of concern
• Support efforts to build office capacity for community-based protection
• Support communities in establishing representation and coordination structures
• Ensure community understanding of UNHCR's commitment to accountability and quality assurance
• Collect data for monitoring programmes and budgets from an AGD perspective
• Draft and type routine correspondence, documents and reports and maintain filing systems
• Act as interpreter in exchange of routine information and respond to routine queries
• Assist in enforcement of participatory AGD sensitive analysis as basis for UNHCR's work
• Initiate AGD sensitive interventions on community-based protection issues and respond to protection concerns and incidents
• Identify and recommend individuals or groups to prioritize for counselling and field visits
• Enforce compliance of implementing partners with global protection policies and standards
• Support identification and management of risks and seize opportunities impacting objectives in area of responsibility
• Perform other related duties as required

Requirements

• For G5- 2 years relevant experience with High School Diploma; or 1 year relevant work experience with Bachelor or equivalent or higher
• Certificates and/or Licenses in Development, Human Rights, International Law, Social Work, Social Science, Political Science
• Knowledge of English and/or UN working language of the duty station if not English
• Fluency in English, Russian and Romanian languages in oral and written communication
• Experience in community and/or social work
• Strong communication, negotiation, organizational and drafting skills
• Working experience with UN/UNHCR or other international public sector organizations is an added advantage
• Knowledge of UN-UN/UNHCR Administrative Rules, Regulations and Procedures
• IT-Computer Literacy
• IT-Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
• PR-Community-based Protection - Principles and methodologies
• CL-Multi-stakeholder Communications with Partners, Government & Community

Skills

• Community-Based Protection
• Social Work
• Human Rights
• International Law
• Political Science
• Development
• Community Engagement
• Protection Planning
• UN Administrative Procedures
• ERP Systems
• IT-Computer Literacy
• CL-Multi-stakeholder Communications
• Negotiation
• Drafting Skills
• Organizational Skills
• UNHCR Experience

Languages

English, Russian, Romanian