Overview
The Senior Protection Assistant provides functional protection support to information management and programme staff, and quality, timely and effective protection support to persons of concern. The role contributes to designing a comprehensive protection strategy and liaises with local authorities and partners on protection issues.
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 in support of eligibility, status determination, durable solutions and social needs assessment.
- 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 for PoC as part of the protection strategy.
- Monitor Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for all protection/solutions activities.
- Participate in individual protection case management including cases of GBV and child protection. Monitor and report on cases of refoulement, expulsion and other protection incidents.
- Assist in identifying durable solutions for PoC in 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.
- Draft reports, routine correspondence, update relevant databases and compiling statistics within the Area of Responsibility (AoR).
- 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 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
Minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible experience in protection, human rights, or related fields. Diverse field experience desirable. Experience in working with governmental and non-governmental organizations, particularly in refugee or humanitarian contexts. Previous experience of coordination at the camp level/site and conduct protection needs assessment including participatory assessments of affected populations. Proven experience in drafting reports on protection issues and other statements on behalf of the protection sector.
Qualifications
International Law; Political Science;
