Overview
The Protection Associate monitors protection standards and provides functional protection support. The role coordinates protection responses 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
- Demonstrated experience in protection programming, with a primary focus on Gender-Based Violence (GBV) prevention and response, and foundational exposure to child protection in return, displacement, and emergency contexts.
- Proven experience supporting GBV risk mitigation, survivor-centered case management, safe referrals, protection monitoring, and coordination with service providers.
- Experience in community-based protection approaches is essential, particularly engagement with women, girls, and other at-risk groups to identify protection risks and service gaps, while ensuring ethical and safe information management.
- Experience working with partners and inter-agency coordination mechanisms.
- For G6 - 3 years relevant experience with High School Diploma; or 2 years relevant work experience with Bachelor or equivalent or higher.
Qualification Requirements
- Certificates and/or Licenses: International Law, Political Science or other related field.
- Relevant training in GBV case management, protection, and child protection is highly desirable.
