United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Availability of the Post : Effective 03/08/2015

Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Consistently apply International and National Law and applicable UN/UNHCR and IASC policy, standards and codes of conduct.

2. Provide counselling on protection issues to persons of concern.

3. Support activities in protection related AGD based programming with implementing and operational partners.

4. Conduct preliminary information gathering and interviews in support of eligibility, status determination, durable solutions and social needs assessment.

5. Contribute to measures to identify, prevent and reduce statelessness.

6. Contribute to a country-level child protection plan as part of the protection strategy.

7. Monitor Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for all protection/solutions activities.

8. 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.

9. Assist in identifying durable solutions for persons of concern in voluntary repatriation, local integration and where appropriate, resettlement.

10. Contribute to the design, implementation and evaluation of protection related AGD based programming with implementing and operational partners.

11. Assist in drafting reports, routine correspondence, updating relevant databases and compiling statistics for the protection unit / section.

12. Contribute to initiatives to enhance national and local protection capacities.

13. Perform other duties as required.

More info on the enclosed documents.