Protection Assistant

The Protection Assistant provides functional and administrative support to the protection unit on protection related liaison, correspondence, monitoring, case management and reporting activities. The role supports the design of protection strategies and effective protection responses to persons of concern, liaising with local authorities and partners as guided by the supervisor.

Responsibilities

• Consistently apply International and National Law and applicable UN/UNHCR and IASC policy, standards and codes of conduct.
• Observe and respect protection related Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• Provide functional and administrative support in all protection related AGD based programming with implementing and operational partners.
• Provide functional and administrative support in implementing participatory approaches, needs assessments, monitoring, reporting and case management.
• Support assessments on durable solutions through voluntary repatriation, local integration and where appropriate, resettlement.
• Facilitate liaison with competent authorities for the issuance of personal and other relevant documents.
• Assist in drafting reports, routine correspondence, updating relevant databases and compiling statistics within the Area of Responsibility (AoR).
• Select Persons of Concern 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.

Requirements

• 1 year relevant experience with High School Diploma; or Bachelor or equivalent or higher
• Knowledge of English and/or UN working language of the duty station if not English
• Knowledge of Spanish
• IT-Computer Literacy
• PR-Protection-related guidelines, standards and indicators
• PR-Refugee Protection Principles and Framework
• Completion of HCR Learning Program - UNHCR
• Completion of HCR Protection Induction Program - UNHCR

Skills

• Protection guidelines knowledge
• Protection Standards
• Protection Indicators
• Refugee Protection Principles
• Protection Frameworks
• Case Management
• Protection Monitoring
• Protection Reporting
• Liaising with Authorities
• Protection Strategy Development
• IT-Computer Literacy
• UNHCR Learning Programmes
• UNHCR Protection Induction
• Correspondence Management

Languages

Spanish, English