Protection Associate

The Protection Associate supports protection responses to populations of concern by monitoring protection standards and operational procedures, providing functional protection support, and coordinating protection activities. The role involves liaising with authorities and partners, managing individual protection cases, and contributing to protection strategies and programming.

Responsibilities

• Stay abreast of political, social, economic and cultural developments that impact the protection environment
• Consistently apply International and National Law and applicable UN/UNHCR and IASC policy, standards and codes of conduct
• Assist in providing comments on existing and draft legislation related to populations of concern (PoC)
• Provide advice on protection issues to PoC; liaise with competent authorities to ensure issuance of personal and other relevant documentation
• Assist in conducting eligibility and status determination for PoC
• 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 as part of the protection strategy
• Monitor Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for all protection/solutions activities
• Manage individual protection cases including those on GBV and child protection
• Monitor and intervene in cases of refoulement, expulsion and other protection incidents
• Assist in identifying durable solutions for PoC through voluntary repatriation, local integration and resettlement
• Contribute to design, implementation and evaluation of protection related AGD based programming with partners
• Facilitate effective information management through provision of disaggregated data on PoC and their problems
• Participate in initiatives to capacitate authorities, institutions and NGOs to strengthen national protection legislation and procedures
• Assist supervisor in prioritizing PoC for interview, counselling and propose protection support for individual cases
• Assist supervisor with enforcing compliance of local implementing partners with global protection policies and standards
• Assist supervisor with enforcing compliance with protection standard operating procedures
• Submit individual payments request for PoC for approval
• Support identification and management of risks and seek opportunities impacting objectives in area of responsibility
• Perform other related duties as required

Requirements

• 3 years relevant experience with High School Diploma; or 2 years relevant work experience with Bachelor or equivalent or higher
• Certificates and/or Licenses in International Law, Political Science or other related field
• Knowledge of English and/or UN working language of the duty station if not English
• IT-Computer Literacy
• PR-Refugee Protection Principles and Framework
• PR-Protection-related guidelines, standards and indicators

Skills

• International Law
• Political Science
• Refugee Protection Principles
• Protection guidelines knowledge
• Protection standards monitoring
• Protection Case Management
• Protection Programming
• Operational Procedures
• IT-Computer Literacy

Languages

English, Spanish