UNHCR Assc Protection Officer Jobs 2022 – Zimbabwe NGO Jobs

UNHCR Assc Protection Officer Jobs 2022 – Zimbabwe NGO Jobs. UNHCR Zimbabwe looking for “Assc Protection Officer“. Applicants with a degree in Graduate degree may apply on or before August 09, 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.

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UNHCR Assc Protection Officer Jobs 2022

The UNHCR has published a job vacancy announcement on August 03, 2022 for qualified Zimbabwe’s to fill in the vacant post of Assc Protection Officer to be based in Tongogara, Zimbabwe.

Recruiter United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Position Assc Protection Officer
Location Tongogara, Zimbabwe
Country Zimbabwe
Total Vacant Post N/A
Qualification Graduate degree
Experience Required Minimum Two years
Application Deadline August 09, 2022

UNHCR Job Vacancy 2022

Duties:

  • – 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.
  • – Conduct eligibility and status determination for persons of concern 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 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 GBV 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.
  • – Assess 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 to and facilitate a programme of results-based advocacy through a consultative process with sectorial and/or cluster partners.
  • – Facilitate effective information management through the provision of disaggregated data on populations of concern and their problems.
  • – Promote and integrate community-based approaches to protection and contribute to capacity-building initiatives for communities and individuals to assert their rights.
  • – Support activities in the area of risk management related to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, fraud, case-processing, data protection, and human rights due diligence at country level.
  • – Participate in initiatives to capacitate national authorities, relevant institutions and NGOs to strengthen national protection related legislation and procedures.
  • – Intervene with authorities on protection issues.
  • – Negotiate locally on behalf of UNHCR.
  • – Decide priorities for reception, interviewing and counselling for groups or individuals.
  • – Enforce 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:

  • Job Title: Assc Protection Officer
  • Location: Tongogara, Zimbabwe
  • Hardship Level: D
  • Job ID: 39113
  • Salary Grade: P2
  • Family Location Type: Family

Qualification:

  • 3 years relevant experience with Undergraduate degree; or 2 years relevant experience with Graduate degree; or 1 year relevant experience with Doctorate degree
  • Professional experience in the area of refugee protection, internal displacement, human rights or international humanitarian law. Good knowledge of International Refugee and Human Rights Law and ability to apply the relevant legal principles.
  • Field experience, including in working directly with communities. Good IT skills including database management skills.

How to Apply UNHCR Assc Protection Officer Jobs 2022

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

Then to apply, go to https://public.msrp.unhcr.org/psp/RAHRPRDX/EMPLOYEE/HR/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_APP_SCHJOB.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST&Action=U&FOCUS=Applicant&SiteId=2&JobOpeningId=39113&PostingSeq=1

The Closing Date: August 09, 2022.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.

Particulars Details Link
Job Advertisement Download
Official Website www.unhcr.org
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