UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is a global organization dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights and building a better future for refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people.

We work to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution, war or disaster at home.

Since 1950, we have faced multiple crises on multiple continents, and provided vital assistance to refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced and stateless people, many of whom have nobody left to turn to.

We help to save lives and build better futures for millions forced from home.

The Office of the UNHCR was established on 14 December 1950 by the UN General Assembly. The agency is mandated to lead and co-ordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide. Its primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees. It strives to ensure that everyone can exercise the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge in another State, with the option to return home voluntarily, integrate locally or to resettle in a third country (www.unhcr.org)
Mozambique currently hosts 25,000 refugees and asylum-seekers, mainly from countries in East and Central Africa including: Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, and Somalia, Of the total number of refugees and asylum-seekers, the majority of the population lives in Nampula province, including in the Maratane refugee settlement. The rest of the population live in Maputo and other provincial locations in the country.
Despite Mozambique’s reservations to key provisions of the 1951 Refugee Convention : elementary education and property, work permit, right to association, freedom of movement and residence and naturalization laws (art. 13, 17, 22, 26, 34), in practice , asylum-seekers and refugees have enjoyed freedom of movement, access to labor market, primary and secondary education as well as public health care. There has been a recent countrywide population verification exercise and there is continuous registration and data quality enhancement activities. Refugees and asylum seekers are provided with civil documentations, Identity documents and travel documents by the Government.
In addition to refugees and asylum seekers, Mozambique hosts over one million conflict-induced internally displaced persons (IDPs) in northern region, as per IOM DTM data, mainly in Cabo Delgado and Nampula provinces, and the country is also prone to natural disasters, especially floods and cyclones

Within the delegated authority and under the supervision of Protection Officer or his/her mandated representative(s), the UN Volunteer Associate Registration Officer will:

Assist in the implementation of registration, enrolment, and digital identity strategies, for the people we serve, in compliance with global and regional protection and inclusion objectives and priorities, ensuring that relevant standards are met, and appropriate methodologies and technologies are implemented.

Provide technical support to staff on planned registration and digital identity management activities
Contribute to the development and dissemination of operational guidance, instructions and capacity-development initiatives, in accordance with policy and guidance disseminated by the Global Data Service in Headquarters.

Design appropriate procedures and systems for assurance of quality registration data and conduct regular data quality and audit checks to monitor the accuracy of data collected, as well as a tool for identification and prevention of fraud.

Assist the country team to establish and strengthen internal digital identity, registration and identity management capacity and/or that of government counterparts to manage registration and maintain population data.

Liaise with Digital Identity and Registration Section of the Global Data Service as necessary to facilitate registration and identity management activities in the region/ country.

Support government authorities to strengthen fair and efficient registration and digital identification procedures and systems and that the identity documents or credentials of the people we serve are recognized for the purposes of accessing humanitarian, public and private sector services.

Establish linkages with key partners to implement appropriate case and data management approaches for efficient, accountable and standardized targeting and delivery of assistance and other programming and protection needs.

Support the operationalization and negotiation with government and UN partners related to interoperability of external digital identification systems with UNHCR refugee registration and identity management systems.

Liaise and actively engage with government, humanitarian and development actors, and the private sector to promote the inclusion of refugees and asylum-seekers into host States’ population registers and digital identity systems and the registration of birth, marriages, deaths and other vital events of forcibly displaced persons in the host Government’s civil registry.

Support the collection of reliable data and the availability of effective analysis relating to the registration of the people we serve, identity management and digital identification at global, regional and country levels (as appropriate) including for the purposes of strategy development and monitoring and evaluation.

Monitor, document and report on registration and identity management activities at the regional/ country level, and report on the impact of support interventions to the management of operations.

Perform other related duties as required.