Overview
The Senior Protection Associate monitors protection standards and provides functional protection support. The incumbent coordinates timely and effective protection responses to the needs of populations of concern and integrates protection safeguards in all sectors.
Key Responsibilities
- - Stay abreast of political, social, economic and cultural developments that have an impact on 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 PoC.
- - Provide advice and guidance on protection issues to PoC; liaise with competent authorities to ensure the issuance of personal and other relevant documentation.
- - Assist in conducting eligibility and status determination for PoC in compliance with UNHCR procedural standards and international protection principles.
- - 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.
- - Assist the supervisor in implementing and monitoring Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for all protection/solutions activities.
- - Manage individual protection cases including those on GBV and child protection. Monitor, and assist the supervisor with intervening in cases of refoulement, expulsion and other protection incidents.
- - Assist in identifying durable solutions for the largest possible number of PoC through voluntary repatriation, local integration and where appropriate, resettlement.
- - Contribute to the design, implementation and evaluation of protection related AGD based programming with implementing and operational partners.
- - Contribute to and facilitate a programme of results-based advocacy with sectorial and/or cluster partners.
- - Facilitate effective information management through the provision of disaggregated data on PoC and their problems.
- - Participate in initiatives to capacitate authorities, relevant institutions and NGOs to strengthen national protection related legislation and procedures.
- - Assist the supervisor with intervening with authorities on protection issues.
- - Provide assistance to the supervisor in deciding priorities for reception, interviewing and counselling for groups or individuals.
- - Assist the supervisor with enforcing compliance of staff and implementing partners with global protection policies and standards of professional integrity in the delivery of protection services.
- - Assist the supervisor with enforcing compliance with, and integrity of, all protection standard operating procedures.
- - Recommend and prepare payments to individual cases.
- - 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.
Required Experience
- - Relevant professional experience in international refugee protection, human rights or international humanitarian law, including experience in managing teams at country operation’s level;
- - Previous experience with organizing and facilitating capacity building initiatives, including workshops and training activities, particularly for government counterparts;
- - For G7 - 4 years relevant experience with High School Diploma; or 2 years relevant work experience with Bachelor or equivalent or higher
Qualifications
- - International Law;
- - Political Science;
- - or other relevant field.
