Senior Community-Based Protection Assistant

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Senior Community-Based Protection Assistant

Organizational Setting and Work Relationships
The Senior Community-Based Protection Assistant is a member of the Protection Unit and may report to the Protection Officer Community-Based Protection Officer or another more senior staff member in the Protection Unit. Under the overall direction of the Protection Unit and in coordination with other UNHCR staff government NGO partners and other stakeholders the Senior Community-Based Protection Assistant works directly with communities of concern to identify the risks they face and to leverage their capacities to protect themselves their families and communities. The incumbent supports the application of community-based protection standards operational procedures and practices in community-based protection delivery at the field level. To fulfil this role the Senior Community-Based Protection Assistant is required to spend a substantial percentage of the workday outside the office building and maintaining networks within communities of persons of concern (PoC). The development and maintenance of constructive relationships with PoC that measurably impact and enhance protection planning programming and results form the core of the work of the incumbent. S/he also supports the designing of a community-based protection strategy by ensuring that it is based on consultation with PoC.


All UNHCR staff members are accountable to perform their duties as reflected in their job description. They do so within their delegated authorities in line with the regulatory framework of UNHCR which includes the UN Charter UN Staff Regulations and Rules UNHCR Policies and Administrative Instructions as well as relevant accountability frameworks. In addition staff members are required to discharge their responsibilities in a manner consistent with the core functional cross-functional and managerial competencies and UNHCRs core values of professionalism integrity and respect for diversity.


Duties
- Assist functional units the Multi-Functional Team (MFT) and senior management to integrate participatory and community-based approaches in the overall protection strategy.
- Through relationships with PoC and network of partners stay abreast of political social economic and cultural developments that have an impact on the protection environment and provide advice to the protection team. Understand the perspectives capacities needs and resources of the PoC and advise the protection team accordingly highlighting the specific protection needs of women and men children youth and older persons persons with disabilities marginalized groups.
- Assist in initiatives with host communities to involve national civil society groups in the protection of PoC.
- Support implementing and operational partners as well as displaced and local communities to develop community-owned activities to address where applicable the social educational psycho-social cultural health organisational and livelihood concerns as well as child protection and prevention and response to GBV.
- Assist in the analysis that identifies the capacities of communities of concern and risks they face.
- Support participatory assessments by multifunctional teams and ongoing consultation with PoC.
- Support efforts to build the office capacity for community-based protection.
- Support communities in establishing representation and coordination structures.
- Ensure community understanding of UNHCRs commitment to deliver on accountability and quality assurance in its response.
- Collect data for monitoring of programmes and budgets from an AGD perspective.
- Draft and type routine correspondence documents and reports and maintain up-to-date filing systems.
- Act as an interpreter in exchange of routine information contribute to related liaison activities and respond directly to routine queries.
- Assist in the enforcement of participatory AGD sensitive analysis as an essential basis for all of UNHCRs work.
- Initiate AGD sensitive interventions at the appropriate level on community-based protection issues and to respond to protection concerns and incidents within the office and with persons and communities of concern based on agreed parameters.
- Identify and recommend which individuals or groups to prioritize for counselling and field visits based on agreed criteria.
- Enforce compliance of implementing partners with global protection policies and standards of professional integrity in the delivery of protection services.

- 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.

Minimum Qualifications

Years of Experience / Degree Level
For G5- 2 years relevant experience with High School Diploma; or 1 year relevant work experience with Bachelor or equivalent or higher

Field(s) of Education
Not applicable.

Certificates and/or Licenses
Development Human Rights International Law
Social Work Social Science Political Science
(Certificates and Licenses marked with an asterisk* are essential)

Relevant Job Experience
Essential
Not specified.

Desirable
UNHCR learning programmes (PLP). Knowledge of MSRP.

Functional Skills
UN-UN/UNHCR Administrative Rules Regulations and Procedures
*IT-Computer Literacy
IT-Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
PR-Community-based Protection - Principles and methodologies
CL-Multi-stakeholder Communications with Partners Government & Community
(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.


All UNHCR workforce members must individually and collectively contribute towards a working environment where each person feels safe and empowered to perform their duties. This includes by demonstrating no tolerance for sexual exploitation and abuse harassment including sexual harassment sexism gender inequality discrimination and abuse of power.

As individuals and as managers all must be proactive in preventing and responding to inappropriate conduct support ongoing dialogue on these matters and speaking up and seeking guidance and support from relevant UNHCR resources when these issues arise.


This is a Standard Job Description for all UNHCR jobs with this job title and grade level. The Operational Context may contain additional essential and/or desirable qualifications relating to the specific operation and/or position. Any such requirements are incorporated by reference in this Job Description and will be considered for the screening shortlisting and selection of candidates.

Operational context

Occupational Safety and Health Considerations:

The Security Level for Amman and the rest of the country is assessed at Level 1 (MINIMAL) except the northeast Jordanian Syrian border area where it is assessed at Level 3 (MODERATE). Road traffic accidents remain a pertinent risk to staff. Vehicle travel is difficult at certain times due to adverse weather conditions low visibility and/or heavy traffic.

To view occupational safety and health considerations for this duty station please visit: of Position:

The office of UNHCR in Irbid covers the 3 northern governorates of Jordan and serves about 120.000 Syrian refugees who have arrived since the beginning of the Syrian crisis and live in the host communities. In this protracted situation along with the increase voluntary return of the Syrian refugee and the current funding challenges maintaining a community engagement remain essential by enhancing the collaboration with the local stakeholders such as local community and structures local leaders civil society and local authorities in order to ensure a sustainable protective environment for refugees. Enhancing the outreach and maintain channels of communication are also critical to keep abreast of the refugees needs and adjust the response of the office accordingly. Community empowerment is an important tool to address and mitigate protection risks and enable self-resilience. The incumbent will contribute to operationalize those priorities by supporting the implementation of the Community-based Protection and Accountability to Affected Population strategies in the local context. In that sense the incumbent will be part of the Protection and Solution team. The incumbent will work closely with the other protection units in order to ensure synergy and complementarity and will monitor and support the implementing partners.

Living and Working Conditions:

Irbid: Irbid Governorate in Jordan is 90 kms NW from the capital Amman. With a population of just under 2 million Irbid is Jordans second largest city. Irbid is categorized as (B) duty station.

Accommodation average rent at Irbid Governorate can range between 300 USD a month for unfurnished apartments to 750 USD a month for a fully furnished 3 bedrooms apartment.

Irbid tends to have a Mediterranean climate; summers are mildly hot. winters are usually cool and wet starts around the end of November and continues until mid-March there is occasional snowfall.

International schools are not available in Irbid most of the available schools are governmental with few privet Arabic schools. All private schools in Irbid are fee-paying and study is mostly in Arabic. Fees varies between 600- 4900 USD a year. The admission procedures for all schools are quite simple.

Advanced medical services are available in Irbid. However critical medical situation treatment is referred to Amman. UNHCR has signed a frame agreement with Irbid Specialty Hospital to treat UNHCR patients and their dependents when the need be.

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