Job Description
UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES VACANCY
NOTICE
- Title
of Position: Senior Protection Assistant
- Job
Opening (JO): 37952
- Position
Number: UNOPS
- Category
& Level: LICA-5
- Location: Aden,
Yemen
- Effective
date: As soon as possible
- Duration: Until
31 December 2022
- Closing
Date: 07 July 2022
Organizational Setting and Work Relationships
The Senior Protection Assistant normally reports to a more
senior Protection colleague. The incumbent monitors protection standards,
operational procedures and practices in protection delivery in line with
international standards and provides functional protection support to
information management and programme staff.
The Senior Protection Assistant provides quality, timely and
effective protection support to persons of concern (PoC) and identifies
opportunities to mainstream protection methodologies and safeguards in
operational responses. S/he contributes to designing a comprehensive protection
strategy and may liaise externally with local authorities and partners on
protection issues as guided by the supervisor.
The Senior Protection Assistant also ensures that PoC are
involved in making decisions that affect them, whether in accessing their
rights or in identifying appropriate solutions to their problems. To achieve
this, the incumbent will need to build and maintain effective interfaces with
communities of concern, local authorities and protection and assistance
partners.
Duties
All UNHCR staff members are accountable to perform their
duties as reflected in their job description. They do so within their delegated
authorities, in line with the regulatory framework of UNHCR which includes the
UN Charter, UN Staff Regulations and Rules, UNHCR Policies and Administrative
Instructions as well as relevant accountability frameworks. In addition, staff
members are required to discharge their responsibilities in a manner consistent
with the core, functional, cross-functional and managerial competencies and
UNHCR’s core values of professionalism, integrity and respect for diversity.
- Consistently
apply International and National Law and applicable UN/UNHCR and IASC
policy, standards and codes of conduct.
- 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 SGBV 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.
- Perform
other related duties as required.
Minimum Qualifications
Years of Experience / Degree Level
- 2
years relevant experience with High School Diploma; or 1 year relevant
work experience with Bachelor or equivalent or higher.
Certificates and/or Licenses
- Desirable:
- Not
specified.
Relevant Job Experience
- Functional Skills:
- IT-Computer
Literacy
- CL-Protection
& Solutions Awareness
- PR-Protection-related
guidelines, standards and indicators PR-Refugee Protection Principles and
Framework
Key Competencies
Core Competencies
- Accountability
- Communication
Organizational Awareness Teamwork & Collaboration
- Commitment
to Continuous Learning Client & Result Orientation
Managerial Competencies
- Not
specified.
Cross-Functional Competencies
- Analytical
Thinking
- Political
Awareness
- Stakeholder
Management
Language Requirements
- knowledge
in English & Arabic is essential
Additional Information
Candidates may be required to sit for a test. Only
pre-selected candidates will be notified. Only online applications are accepted
(applications sent by email will not be accepted). No late applications will be
accepted.
UNHCR is committed to diversity and welcomes applications
from qualified candidates regardless of disability, gender identity, marital or
civil partnership status, race, colour or ethnic and national origins, religion
or belief, or sexual orientation.
UNHCR does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment
process (application, interview meeting, processing, training or any other
fees).
If you have questions during the on-line application, please
contact HR Team well before the deadline: at yemadhr@unhcr.org (Aden)
and yemsahr@unhcr.org (Sana'a).
This is only part of the Vacancy Notice. For more
information about this Job Opening, eligibility criteria and procedures please
follow this link (or go to www.unhcr.org /Careers/
Vacancies). Please follow the below instructions on applications for External
Applicants.
How to Apply
Submission of applications (External Applicants)
- Interested
candidates should submit their applications for this Job Opening online.
- The
Applicants will need to follow this link or go to www.unhcr.org /Careers/
Vacancies
- The
Applicants will need to search for the Job Opening by using the available
filters (e.g. Compendium Exercise: Local Vacancies; Country: Yemen) or
with its number (37952).
- Once
the Job Opening is selected, the Applicants will be directed to the Job
Description page in the online application process.
- Applicants
must “Sign in” or “Register” and then “Sign in”, in order to apply. They
must click on “New User” for the first time they apply as an external
candidate.
- Applicants
begin by clicking the “Apply” button, after which the page in the next
image will open. The applicant must click on “Next” in order to move ahead
in the application process.
- Applicants
must agree to the terms, before reaching the Letter of Interest page of
the application. They must include a Letter of Interest and completed
online application including personal, profile and qualifications
information.
- In
the “Additional Information” section all questions MUST be answered. Once
all is completed, the applicant may click “Review/Submit” application.
Here the candidate may preview their application and review it by section.
- By
clicking on “Confirmation and Consent” the applicant will submit their
application and receive automatic notification by e-mail that the
application has been submitted.
Applications submitted by email will not be accepted.
If you have questions during the on-line application, please
contact HR Team well before the deadline: at yemadhr@unhcr.org (Aden).