Overview
The Protection Associate monitors protection standards and provides functional protection support. The incumbent coordinates protection responses to the needs of populations of concern and integrates protection safeguards in operational responses.
Tasks Summary
- - 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 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.
- - 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 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.
- - 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 in prioritizing PoC for interview, counselling and propose protection support for individual cases.
- - Assist the supervisor with enforcing compliance of local implementing partners with global protection policies and standards of professional integrity in the delivery of protection services.
- - Assit the supervisor with enforcing compliance with, and integrity of, all protection standard operating procedures.
- - Submit individual payments request for PoC for approval.
- - 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.
Experience Requirements
- 2 years of experience in the humanitarian field, emergency planning, and response, particularly working with IDPs, returnees, and refugees, in camps, urban areas and protection activities.
- Experience in monitoring and managing programs with UN agencies and/or NGOs and INGOs.
- Solid protection background, previous work experience in protection activities.
- Experience in coordinating/managing relations with multiple stakeholders.
- Knowledge of the local context in Deir Ezzour and the NES area, including experience in protection activities.
Qualification Requirements
- High School Diploma (3 years relevant experience)
- Bachelor or equivalent or higher (2 years relevant work experience)
- Certificates and/or Licenses: International Law, Political Science or other related field
