Community-Based Protection Community of Practice Assistant

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Mission and objectives

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Context

UNHCR’s Community-based protection (CBP) approach empowers communities to obtain their rights safely and with dignity. By applying age, gender and diversity-inclusive and community-based approaches, people affected by forced displacement and statelessness can work together to better identify a community's most serious protection risks and explore causes and effects. It also enables the participation of communities in deciding on the best ways of responding to and preventing protection risks, thus increasing the impact and results of humanitarian interventions. For several decades, UNHCR has developed guidance and tools to support this work both globally and at the field level and has built an experience in working with communities placing it among the leading organizations on implementing community-based and age, gender and diversity approaches. Community-based approaches are increasingly applied across the humanitarian world and have expanded through innovative approaches and use of technology. The COVID-19 pandemic was particularly critical in showcasing how community engagement can adapt to new realities. For UNHCR to be able to effectively implement CBP, UNHCR staff and partners need to be equipped with the knowledge and skills that facilitate their interaction with communities and supports the integration of their voices into humanitarian programming. This learning can be facilitate through the exchange of experiences, lessons learned and best practices among practitioners across operations and regions. The global Community-Based Protection online community of practice facilitates such peer learning and exchange. It brings together resources from UNHCR and other community-based protection actors, including tools, guidelines, videos, training materials, and examples of successful field practices. In addition, the community is an interactive space where practitioners are directly involved in the exchange of ideas, examples, news, and updates. To ensure the community of practice remains relevant and interesting, the CBP Unit in the Division of International protection will carry out a revamping/update of the CBP community of practice to enhance its accessibility, use and interaction. This will require among others a restructuring of the repository of resources, developing and implementing an engagement strategy to increase the online activity with practitioners, and enhancing other features such as practitioner’s blog, news letters and event calenders.

Task description

Assignment Place Remark: Important, please read Important, please, read before applying. - This assignment is open only for the application of refugees; who are recognized as Refugees by the competent authorities responsible for granting of Refugee status in the Country of residence/refuge, or person has been recognized as a Refugee in accordance with UNHCR mandate and has right to reside legally in the country of refuge. - Official document as a proof of refugee status is mandatory to submit. The applicant with abovementioned refugee status should submit the official document as a proof of refugee status before and/or during the interview. The applications without the respective document will not be considered for this assignment. - Duty Station and Entitlements: The selected candidate’s contracting duty station & entitlements will be where the candidate is recognized with a refugee status in the country of current residency. There will be no relocation to Geneva. - This RUNV assignment is subject to proof of vaccination against Covid-19 with WHO approved vaccine unless the UNHCR Medical Service approves an exemption from this requirement on medical grounds. --- Under the direct supervision of Associate Protection Officer (community-based protection) the Refugee UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks: • Review the current structure of the CBP community of practice, consult with relevant entities in UNHCR and develop a plan for revamping/modification of the site. • Develop and/or update a communication and engagement plan for the CoP to in-crease its interactivity and facilitate the exchange amongst practitioners on CBP. • Collect CBP resources and good practices developed by country operations and regularly update the community of practice library of resources. • Maintaining a mapping of recent developments and new resources in the fields of community engagement, age, gender and diversity, accountability to affected people and relevant areas of work, with the purpose of identifying relevant content for the community of practice, including local and localized resources developed by regional bureaus and country operations. • Post updates, create content, organise the site and drive engagement. • Be the focal point for the community of practice when technical or other issues are reported. • Moderate day-to-day activity on the online community site, managing posts, answering questions in coordination with technical focal points, and solving technical problems. • Develop and organise training and tutorial resources on the use of the community of practice. • Monitor the use and accessibility, for forcibly displaced and stateless partners as well as persons with disabilities, of the community of practice and produce periodic reports. Provide regular updates to the CBP unit on trends and new questions raised by field colleagues through the community of practice to inform CBP tools. • Any other related tasks as required. Furthermore, UN Volunteers are required to: • Strengthen their knowledge and understanding of the concept of volunteerism by reading relevant UNV and external publications and taking an active part in UNV activities (for instance in events that mark International Volunteer Day); • Be acquainted with and build on traditional and/or local forms of volunteerism in the host country; • Reflect on the type and quality of voluntary action that they are undertaking, including participation in ongoing reflection activities; • Contribute articles/write-ups on field experiences and submit them for UNV publications/websites, newsletters, press releases, etc.; • Assist with the UNV Buddy Programme for newly arrived UN Volunteers; • Promote or advise local groups in the use of online volunteering or encourage relevant local individuals and organizations to use the UNV Online Volunteering service whenever technically possible. Results/Expected Outputs: As an active UNHCR DIP-CBP team member, efficient, timely, responsive, client-friendly and high-quality support rendered to UNHCR and forcibly displaced and stateless persons in the accomplishment of their functions, including: • A revamped CBP Community of Practice accompanied by a strategy for communication and engagement. • Daily management of the CBP Community of Practice, including membership, engagement, posts, updates, and other requests as needed. • Developed guidance and training materials on the use of the community of practice, for both internal and external colleagues • CBP Quarterly Updates, produced and published on the community of practice • Periodic reports on the use and accessibility of the community of practice • Age, Gender, and Diversity (AGD) perspective is systematically applied, integrated, and documented in all activities throughout the assignment • A final statement of achievements towards volunteerism for development during the assignment, such as reporting on the number of volunteers mobilized, activities participated in, and capacities developed