UNHCR Senior Community-Based Protection Assistant Jobs 2023 – Uganda NGO Jobs. UNHCR Uganda looking for “Senior Community-Based Protection Assistant“. Applicants with a degree in University Degree may apply on or before March 10, 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 Senior Community-Based Protection Assistant Jobs 2023
The UNHCR has published a job vacancy announcement on Feb. 24, 2023 for qualified Uganda’s to fill in the vacant post of Senior Community-Based Protection Assistant to be based in Kiryandongo, Uganda.
| Recruiter | United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) |
| Position | Senior Community-Based Protection Assistant |
| Location | Kiryandongo, Uganda |
| Country | Uganda |
| Total Vacant Post | N/A |
| Qualification | University Degree |
| Experience Required | Minimum One years |
| Application Deadline | March 10, 2023 |
UNHCR Job Vacancy 2023
Duties
- – Assist functional units, the Multi-Functional Team (MFT) and senior management to integrate participatory and community-based approaches in the overall protection strategy.
- – Through relationships with PoC and network of partners, stay abreast of political, social, economic and cultural developments that have an impact on the protection environment and provide advice to the protection team. Understand the perspectives, capacities, needs and resources of the PoC and advise the protection team accordingly, highlighting the specific protection needs of women and men, children, youth and older persons, persons with disabilities, marginalized groups.
- – Assist in initiatives with host communities to involve national civil society groups in the protection of PoC.
- – Support implementing and operational partners as well as displaced and local communities to develop community-owned activities to address, where applicable, the social, educational, psycho-social, cultural, health, organisational and livelihood concerns as well as child protection and prevention and response to GBV.
- – Assist in the analysis that identifies the capacities of communities of concern and risks they face.
- – Support participatory assessments by multifunctional teams and ongoing consultation with PoC.
- – Support efforts to build the office capacity for community-based protection.
- – Support communities in establishing representation and coordination structures.
- – Ensure community understanding of UNHCR’s commitment to deliver on accountability and quality assurance in its response.
- – Collect data for monitoring of programmes and budgets from an AGD perspective.
- – Draft and type routine correspondence, documents and reports and maintain up-to-date filing systems.
- – Act as an interpreter in exchange of routine information, contribute to related liaison activities and respond directly to routine queries.
- – Assist in the enforcement of participatory AGD sensitive analysis as an essential basis for all of UNHCR’s work.
- – Initiate AGD sensitive interventions at the appropriate level on community-based protection issues and to respond to protection concerns and incidents within the office and with persons and communities of concern based on agreed parameters.
- – Identify and recommend which individuals or groups to prioritize for counselling and field visits based on agreed criteria.
- – Enforce compliance of implementing partners with global protection policies and standards of professional integrity in the delivery of protection services.
- – Perform other related duties as required.
Position in Organization:
- Full time
- Posted Today
- job requisition id: JR2209360
Qualification:
- 2 years relevant experience with High School Diploma; or 1 year relevant work experience with Bachelor or equivalent or higher.
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 Senior Community-Based Protection Assistant 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/Snr-Community-Based-Prot-Asst_JR2209360?locationCountry=db69e6f2446c11de98360015c5e6daf6
The Closing Date: March 10, 2023.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.
| Particulars | Details Link |
| Job Advertisement | Download |
| Official Website | unhcr.org |
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