ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT
The Senior Protection Assistant normally reports to the Assistant/Associate RSD Officer or RSD Officer. The Senior Protection Assistant is a member of the Refugee Status Determination (RSD) team. S/he is responsible for supporting all activities related to the processing of refugee claims in the Operation. The Senior Protection Assistant provides counselling to, and responds to queries from, asylum seekers and refugees regarding UNHCR’s RSD procedures, their rights and obligations, including towards the host authorities, and the status of the processing of their claims. In discharging these responsibilities, the Senior Protection Assistant liaises closely with Registration, Community Services, Resettlement, and other Protection staff. The Senior Protection Assistant is responsible for conducting COI and other research related to RSD and maintaining the Operation’s local repository of relevant information, guidelines and standards. S/he assists in drafting RSD Assessments and compiling and analysing information related to the RSD activities of the Operation, as well as in drafting related correspondence and reports. Senior Protection Assistant may provide interpretation and/or translation services in cases for which s/he has the required language competencies.
FUNCTIONAL STATEMENT.
Accountability
- The participation of persons of concern is facilitated through supporting participatory, rights and community based approaches.
- Support is provided to identify and report protection incidents.
Responsibility
- Consistently apply International and National Law and applicable UN/UNHCR and IASC policy, standards and codes of conduct.
- Provide counselling on protection issues to persons of concern; 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 persons of concern 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 SGBV and child protection. Monitor and report on cases of refoulement, expulsion and other protection incidents.
- Assist in identifying durable solutions for persons of concern 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.
- Assist in drafting reports, routine correspondence, updating relevant databases and compiling statistics for the protection unit / section.
- Contribute to initiatives to enhance national and local protection capacities.
Authority
- Select persons of concern for preliminary interviews and decide which relevant information to share.
- Enforce integrity in the delivery of protection services by local implementing partners.
Numbers of Vacancies: Three (3)
Duty Station: Cairo, Egypt
Category and Level: Fixed-Term Appointment (FTA)
Grade: G5
Closing Date: 12 September 2015
Job Details
| Date Posted: | 2015-09-06 |
| Job Location: | Cairo, Egypt |
| Job Role: | Law/Legal |
| Company Industry: | Community/Social Services/and Nonprofit |
Preferred Candidate
| Career Level: | Mid Career |
| Nationality: | Egypt |
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