Community-Based Protection Associate

The Community-Based Protection Associate works directly with communities of concern to identify risks and leverage their capacities for protection. The role involves supporting community-based protection standards and practices at the field level, building networks within communities, and contributing to protection planning and programming.

Responsibilities

• Assist functional units, Multi-Functional Team and senior management to integrate participatory and community-based approaches in protection strategy and operational procedures
• Stay abreast of political, social, economic and cultural developments impacting protection environment and advise protection team
• Work with host communities to identify opportunities for national civil society involvement in protection of persons of concern
• Develop community-owned activities addressing social, educational, psycho-social, cultural, health, organizational and livelihood concerns including child protection and GBV prevention and response
• Assist in analysis identifying capacities and risks of communities of concern
• Support participatory assessments and ongoing consultation with persons of concern
• Assist in planning and monitoring programmes and budgets with an Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD) perspective
• Build office capacity for community-based protection through training and establishing systems for community mobilization and participation
• Support communities in establishing representation and coordination structures
• Ensure community understanding of UNHCR's commitment to accountability and quality assurance
• Act as interpreter in exchange of routine information and respond to routine queries
• Contribute to enforcement of participatory AGD sensitive analysis
• Initiate AGD sensitive interventions on community-based protection issues and respond to protection concerns and incidents
• Identify and prioritize individuals or groups for counselling and field visits
• Intervene with authorities on protection issues
• Enforce compliance of implementing partners with global protection policies and standards
• Recommend and prepare payments to individual cases
• Support risk identification and management and raise issues to supervisors
• Perform other related duties as required

Requirements

• 3 years relevant experience with High School Diploma; or 2 years relevant work experience with Bachelor or equivalent or higher
• Certificates and/or Licenses in Development, Human Rights, International Law, International Social Work, Social Science, Political Science
• Knowledge of English and Arabic is essential; French required at B2 level
• Knowledge of UNHCR Administrative Rules, Regulations and Procedures
• IT-Computer Literacy and IT-Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) skills
• Experience in community engagement and mobilization, setting up governance in camps, and developing terms of reference for community structures
• Experience in developing community-based protection and analyzing strategy to analyze protection risks, prioritize problems and identify solutions
• Knowledge of the main characteristics of the stages of community-based protection, focusing on understanding the community and identifying stakeholders
• Competence in multi-stakeholder communications with partners, government and community
• Stakeholder management and coordination with implementing partners (government, NGO, corporate)
• Capacity building skills

Skills

• Community Engagement
• Social Mobilization
• Governance Setup
• Terms of Reference
• Community-Based Protection
• Protection Risk Assessment
• Protection Strategy Development
• Stakeholder Identification
• Stakeholder Communication
• Stakeholder Management
• Partner Coordination
• Capacity Building
• UN/UNHCR Administrative Rules
• UNHCR Operations
• IT-Computer Literacy
• ERP Systems
• Human Rights Knowledge
• International Law Knowledge
• Social Science Knowledge
• Political Science Knowledge

Languages

French, English, Arabic