Overview
The Senior Community-Based Protection Assistant works with communities to identify risks and leverage capacities for protection. The role supports the application of community-based protection standards and involves significant interaction with communities.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist in integrating participatory and community-based approaches into the protection strategy.
- Stay abreast of developments impacting the protection environment and advise the protection team.
- Understand and advise on the capacities, needs, and resources of persons of concern.
- Assist in initiatives involving national civil society groups in the protection of persons of concern.
- Support partners and communities in developing community-owned activities.
- Assist in analyzing capacities of communities of concern and risks they face.
- Support participatory assessments 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 of programmes and budgets from an AGD perspective.
- Draft and type routine correspondence, documents and reports and maintain up-to-date filing systems.
- Act as an interpreter in exchange of routine information, contribute to related liaison activities and respond directly to routine queries.
- Assist in the enforcement of participatory AGD sensitive analysis.
- Initiate AGD sensitive interventions and respond to protection concerns and incidents.
- Identify and recommend individuals or groups for counselling and field visits.
- Enforce compliance of implementing partners with global protection policies and standards.
- Support the identification and management of risks and seek to seize opportunities.
- Perform other related duties as required.
Required Experience
For G5- 2 years relevant experience with High School Diploma; or 1 year relevant work experience with Bachelor or equivalent or higher.
Qualifications
- Certificates and/or Licenses:
- Development, Human Rights, International Law
- Social Work, Social Science, Political Science,
- (Certificates and Licenses marked with an asterisk* are essential)
