Overview
The Senior Community-Based Protection Assistant works directly with communities of concern to identify risks and leverage capacities for protection. The role supports the application of community-based protection standards and operational procedures at the field level.
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.
- - Support partners and communities in developing community-owned activities.
- - Assist in analyzing community capacities and risks.
- - Support participatory assessments and ongoing consultation with persons of concern (PoC).
- - 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 programme monitoring from an Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD) perspective.
- - Draft correspondence, documents, and reports.
- - Act as an interpreter and respond to routine queries.
- - Assist in enforcing AGD sensitive analysis.
- - Initiate AGD sensitive interventions and respond to protection concerns.
- - Identify and recommend individuals or groups for counselling and field visits.
- - Enforce compliance of implementing partners with global protection policies.
- - Support identification and management of risks and opportunities.
Required Experience
- Experience working with refugees, forcibly displaced and other vulnerable populations, including protection case management.
- Proven experience in community-based protection and participatory assessments.
- Experience supporting community structures and coordination mechanisms.
- Experience in data collection, programme monitoring and reporting.
- Experience in protection case management with refugees and vulnerable populations.
- Experience working in humanitarian action.
- Experience working in the field or border areas is an asset.
Qualifications
- Certificates and/or Licenses:
- Development, Human Rights, International Law, Social Work, Social Science, Political Science.
- Minimum Qualifications:
- For G5 - 2 years relevant experience with High School Diploma; or 1 year relevant work experience with Bachelor or equivalent or higher.
