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UNHCR Assistant Protection Officer Jobs 2023 – Uganda NGO Jobs

UNHCR Assistant Protection Officer Jobs 2023 – Uganda NGO Jobs.

UNHCR Uganda looking for “Assistant Protection Officer”.

Applicants with a degree in Undergraduate degree may apply on or before November 19, 2023.

The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was created in 1950, during the aftermath of the Second World War, to help millions of Europeans who had fled or lost their homes. We had three years to complete our work and then disband.

UNHCR Assistant Protection Officer Jobs 2023

The UNHCR has published a job vacancy announcement on November 10, 2023 for qualified Uganda’s to fill in the vacant post of Assistant Protection Officer to be based in Mbarara, Uganda.

Recruiter United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Position Assistant Protection Officer
Location Mbarara, Uganda
Country Uganda
Total Vacant Post N/A
Qualification Undergraduate degree
Experience Required Minimum One years
Application Deadline November 19, 2023

UNHCR Job Vacancy 2023

Description of duties

  • – 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 legal advice and guidance on protection issues to PoC; liaise with competent authorities to ensure the issuance of personal and other relevant documentation.
  • – Conduct eligibility and status determination for PoC in compliance with UNHCR procedural standards and international protection principles.
  • – 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.
  • – Contribute to a country-level education plan as part of the protection strategy.
  • – Provide inputs for the development of protection policies and standards within the AoR.
  • – Implement and monitor Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for all protection/solutions activities.
  • – Manage individual protection cases including those on GBV and child protection. Monitor, and intervene in cases of refoulement, expulsion and other protection incidents.
  • – Recommend durable solutions for the largest possible number of PoC through voluntary repatriation, local integration and where appropriate, resettlement.
  • – Assess resettlement needs and apply priorities for the resettlement of individuals and groups of refugees and other PoC.
  • – 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.
  • – Contribute to and facilitate effective information management through the provision of disaggregated data on populations of concern and their problems.
  • – Assist capacity-building initiatives for communities and individuals to assert their rights.
  • – Participate in initiatives to capacitate authorities, relevant institutions and NGOs to strengthen national protection related legislation and procedures.
  • – Intervene with authorities on protection issues.
  • – Assist the supervisor in deciding priorities for reception, interviewing and counselling for groups or individuals.
  • – Assist the supervisor in enforcing compliance of staff and implementing partners with global protection policies and standards of professional integrity in the delivery of protection services.
  • – Enforce compliance with, and integrity of, all protection standard operating procedures.
  • – Perform other related duties as required.

Position in Organization:

  • Full time
  • Posted Today
  • job requisition id: JR2330237
  • Location: Mbarara, Uganda

Qualification:

  • 1 year relevant experience with Undergraduate degree; or no experience with Graduate degree; or no experience with Doctorate degree.
  • Knowledge of International Refugee and Human Rights Law and ability to apply the relevant legal principles
  • Completion of the Protection Learning Programme, RSD- Resettlement Learning Programme.

Functional Skills

  • *PR-Protection-related guidelines, standards and indicators
  • *PR-Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD)
  • MG-Project Management
  • PR-Human Rights Doctrine/Standards
  • PR-International Humanitarian Law
  • PR-Assessment of IDPs Status, Rights, Obligation
  • PR-Climate change and disaster related displacement
  • CO-Drafting and Documentation
  • PR-Gender Based Violence (GBV) Coordination
  • (Functional Skills marked with an asterisk* are essential)

Language Requirements

  • For International Professional and Field Service jobs: Knowledge of English and UN working language of the duty station if not English.
  • For National Professional jobs: Knowledge of English and UN working language of the duty station if not English and local language.
  • For General Service jobs: Knowledge of English and/or UN working language of the duty station if not English.

How to Apply UNHCR Assistant Protection Officer Jobs 2023

Note: Before you apply, please download (link is given below) the full advertisement and read it carefully.

Then to apply, go to https://unhcr.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Assistant-Protection-Officer_JR2330237?locationCountry=db69e6f2446c11de98360015c5e6daf6

The Closing Date: November 19, 2023.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.

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