Overview
The Senior Protection Assistant (Capacity Building) role focuses on providing protection support to persons of concern and contributing to the design and implementation of protection strategies. The incumbent will also be responsible for developing and delivering training and information materials.
Key Responsibilities
- - Provide counselling on protection issues to PoC.
- - Liaise with competent authorities to ensure the issuance of personal and other relevant documentation.
- - Support activities in protection related AGD based programming with implementing and operational partners.
- - Conduct preliminary information gathering and interviews.
- - Contribute to measures to identify, prevent and reduce statelessness.
- - Contribute to a country-level child protection plan.
- - Contribute to a country-level education plan for PoC.
- - Monitor Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for all protection/solutions activities.
- - Participate in individual protection case management.
- - Monitor and report on cases of refoulement, expulsion and other protection incidents.
- - Assist in identifying durable solutions for PoC.
- - Draft reports, routine correspondence, update relevant databases and compiling statistics.
- - Contribute to initiatives to enhance national and local protection capacities.
- - Select PoC for preliminary interviews and decide which relevant information to share.
- - Enforce integrity in the delivery of protection services by local implementing partners.
- - Support the identification and management of risks and seek to seize opportunities impacting objectives.
- - Perform other related duties as required.
- - Design and deliver training modules on international protection, international and EU refugee law, RSD procedure, interviewing techniques.
- - Ensure individual coaching to legal counselors.
- - Support legal counselors in organizing and performing targeted training and capacity development initiatives.
- - Develop training materials for legal counselors and information materials for asylum seekers.
Required Experience
- G5 - 2 years relevant experience with High School Diploma; or 1 year relevant work experience with Bachelor or equivalent or higher.
- Previous experience in protection or RSD activities in Italy would be an asset.
Qualifications
- International Law;
- Political Science;
- IT-Computer Literacy;
- PR-Protection-related guidelines, standards and indicators;
- PR-Refugee Protection Principles and Framework.
