UNHCR JPO – Associate Protection Officer Jobs 2022 – Nigeria NGO Jobs

UNHCR JPO – Associate Protection Officer Jobs 2022 – Nigeria NGO Jobs. UNHCR Nigeria looking for “JPO – Associate Protection Officer”. Applicants with a Masters degree may apply on or before 17 July 2022.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a UN agency mandated to aid and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people, and to assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to a third country. It is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, with over 17,300 staff working in 135 countries.

UNHCR JPO – Associate Protection Officer Jobs 2022

The UNHCR has published a job vacancy announcement on 18 June 2022 for qualified Nigeria’s to fill in the vacant post of JPO – Associate Protection Officer to be based in Abuja, Nigeria.

Recruiter	United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Position	JPO – Associate Protection Officer
Location	Abuja, Nigeria
Country	Nigeria
Total Vacant Post	N/A
Qualification	Masters degree
Experience Required	2 years
Application Deadline	17 July 2022

UNHCR Job Vacancy 2022

Duties: The Associate Protection Officer is expected to contribute to the coordination of quality, timely and effective protection responses to the needs of populations of concern, ensuring that operational responses in all sectors mainstream protection methodologies and integrate protection safeguards. The incumbent contributes to the design of a comprehensive protection strategy and represents the organization externally on protection doctrine and policy as guided by the supervisor. S/he also ensures that persons of concern are meaningfully engaged in the decisions that affect them and support programme design and adaptations that are influenced by the concerns, priorities and capacities of persons of concern. To achieve this, the incumbent will need to build and maintain effective interfaces with communities of concern, authorities, protection and assistance partners as well as a broader network of stakeholders who can contribute to enhancing protection.

Responsibility:

• Stay abreast of political, social, economic and cultural developments that have an impact on the protection environment.
• Promote International and National Law and applicable UN/UNHCR and IASC policy, standards and codes of conduct.
• Foster their consistent and coherent interpretation and application through mainstreaming in all sectors and /or in clusters in applicable operations.
• Assist in providing comments on existing and draft legislation related to persons of concern.
• Provide legal advice and guidance on protection issues to persons of concern; liaise with competent authorities to ensure the issuance of personal and other relevant documentation.
• Promote and contribute to measures to identify, prevent and reduce statelessness.
• Contribute to a country-level child protection plan as part of the protection strategy to ensure programmes use a child protection systems approach.
• Contribute to a country-level education plan.
• Implement and oversee Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for all protection/solutions activities which integrate AGD sensitive procedures.
• Oversee and manage individual protection cases, including those on SGBV and child protection. Monitor, and intervene in cases of refoulement, expulsion and other protection incidents through working relations with governments and other partners.
• Recommend durable solutions for the largest possible number of persons of concern through voluntary repatriation, local integration and where appropriate, resettlement.
• Support operations’s strategy in use of resettlement as a protection tool and support the identification of persons meeting the resettlement needs and apply priorities for the resettlement of individuals and groups of refugees and other persons of concern.
• Participate in the organisation and implementation of participatory assessments and methodologies throughout the operations management cycle and promote AGD sensitive programming with implementing and operational partners.
• Contribute proactively to the multi-functional teams to facilitate an accountable protection delivery keen on demonstrating results and provide input into evidenced based  advocacy through a consultative process with sectorial and/or cluster partners.
• Contribute to effective information management, closely working with the information management and external relations teams in collation of disaggregated data on populations of concern and core protection issues.
• Promote and integrate community-based approaches to protection and contribute to capacity-building initiatives for communities and individuals to assert their rights.

Qualification & Experience:

• Masters degree or equivalent in Law, International Law, Political Sciences or other relevant field.
• A first-level university degree (Bachelor¿s degree or equivalent) in combination with qualifying experience (at least 3 years of relevant working experience) may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree
• Minimal 2 years  to maximal 4 years relevant working experience

Other Details

• Contract Type: Full Time
• Selection Process: Interview
• Salary: negotiable
• Application Process: Online

How to Apply UNHCR JPO – Associate Protection Officer Jobs 2022

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The Closing Date: 17 July 2022

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.

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