UNHCR Senior Protection Assistant Jobs 2024 – Uganda NGO Jobs.
UNHCR Uganda looking for “Senior Protection Assistant”.
Applicants with a Bachelor’s Degree may apply on or before March 02, 2024.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 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.
UNHCR Senior Protection Assistant Jobs 2024
The UNHCR has published a job vacancy announcement on February 22, 2024 for qualified Uganda’s to fill in the vacant post of Senior Protection Assistant to be based in Kyangwali, Uganda.
| Recruiter | United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) |
| Position | Senior Protection Assistant |
| Location | Kyangwali, Uganda |
| Country | Uganda |
| Total Vacant Post | N/A |
| Qualification | Bachelor’s Degree |
| Experience Required | Minimum 02 years |
| Application Deadline | March 02, 2024 |
UNHCR Job Vacancy 2024
Duties
- – 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 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.
Eligibility criteria:
- 2 years relevant experience with High School Diploma; or 1 year relevant work experience with Bachelor or equivalent or higher.
Functional Skills
- IT-Computer Literacy
- PR-Protection-related guidelines, standards and indicators
- PR-Refugee Protection Principles and Framework
- (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 Senior Protection Assistant Jobs 2024
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/Senior-Protection-Assistant_JR2437163?locationCountry=db69e6f2446c11de98360015c5e6daf6
The Closing Date: March 02, 2024.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.
| Particulars | Details Link |
| Job Advertisement | Download |
| Official Website | www.unhcr.org |
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