Overview
The Senior Protection Associate provides functional protection support and coordinates quality, timely, and effective protection responses to the needs of populations of concern. The role contributes to designing a comprehensive protection strategy and represents the Office externally on protection doctrine and policy.
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
- 4 years relevant experience with High School Diploma; or 2 years relevant work experience with Bachelor or equivalent or higher.
- Essential: Not specified.
- Desirable: RSD-Resettlement LP and/or Protection Learning Programme.
Qualifications
- High School Diploma or Bachelor or equivalent or higher.
- Certificates and/or Licenses: International Law; Political Science; or other relevant field.
