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Protection Officer - P2 (Evergreen)

Multiple locations

  • Organization: UNHCR - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
  • Location: Multiple locations
  • Grade: Junior level - P-2, International Professional - Internationally recruited position
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Protection Officer (Refugee)
  • Closing Date: Closed

Job Requisition Type

Evergreen (Formerly known as talent pools, in order to have a balanced number of ready-to-hire candidates who can be deployed at short notice to a vacancy that best matches their skills. Evergreens are primarily used to fill Temporary Appointments.)

Current UNHCR staff members holding an Indefinite or Fixed-term Appointment in the international professional category who are looking for Internal Temporary Assignment (ITA) opportunities – instead of applying to an Evergreen profile – should contact the Emergency and Temporary Staffing Unit.

Call for applications - Protection Officer, P2

Location: Various location

Why should you join us?

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, takes the lead in protecting people forced to flee the world, providing life-saving aid including protection shelter, food and water to ensure safety, rights and dignity. With over 20,000 women and men working in 137 countries, we work tirelessly to make a difference in the lives of millions forcibly displaced people worldwide.

Our dedicated and professional staff work around the world in roles including legal protection, community-based protection, health and more. Despite the challenges, our staff are proud to work for UNHCR and determined to make a positive impact on the lives of people forced to flee.

How can you make a difference?

The Associate Protection Officer is expected to coordinate quality, timely and effective protection responses to the needs of populations of concern, ensuring that operational responses in all sectors mainstream protection methodologies and integrate protection safeguards. The incumbent contributes to the design of a comprehensive protection strategy and represents the organization externally on protection doctrine and policy as guided by the supervisor. S/he also ensures that persons of concern are meaningfully engaged in the decisions that affect them and support programme design and adaptations that are influenced by the concerns, priorities and capacities of persons of concern. To achieve this, the incumbent will need to build and maintain effective interfaces with communities of concern, authorities, protection and assistance partners as well as a broader network of stakeholders who can contribute to enhancing protection.

Key responsibilities and duties:

  • Provide legal advice and guidance on protection issues to persons of concern (PoC).

  • Conduct eligibility and status determination for PoC in compliance with UNHCR procedural standards and international protection principles.

  • Promote and contribute to measures to identify, prevent and reduce statelessness.

  • Oversee and manage individual protection cases, including those on GBV and child protection.

  • Monitor, and intervene in cases of refoulement, expulsion and other protection incidents

  • Recommend durable solutions through voluntary repatriation, local integration and where appropriate, resettlement.

  • Promote and integrate community-based approaches to protection and contribute to capacity-building initiatives for communities and individuals to assert their rights.

  • Negotiate locally on behalf of UNHCR.

  • Enforce compliance of staff and implementing partners with global protection policies and standards of professional integrity in the delivery of protection services.

Who are we looking for?

Candidates with For P2/NOB - 3 years relevant experience with Undergraduate degree; or 2 years relevant experience with Graduate degree; or 1 year relevant experience with Doctorate degree.

Requirements

Professional experience in the area of refugee protection, internal displacement, human rights or international humanitarian law. Good knowledge of International Refugee and Human Rights Law and ability to apply the relevant legal principles.

Advantage

Field experience, including in working directly with communities. Good IT skills including database management skills.

For a more detailed description, please review the job description:

https://www.unhcr.org/63dcfba74

COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

UNHCR’s workforce consists of many diverse nationalities, cultures, languages, age and perspectives. We seek to sustain and strengthen this diversity and to ensure equal opportunities, as well as an inclusive working environment, for our entire workforce. Joining us means living, sharing and promoting these core values of inclusion, diversity and gender equality.

Applications are encouraged from qualified candidates without distinction on the grounds of race, colour, sex, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation and gender identity.

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