Refugee Community Based Protection (CBP) Assistant

Details

Mission and objectives

UNHCR CZE organization mission TBD

Context

This UNV assignment is part of UNHCR’s response to the Ukraine refugee situation and in this context an increased operational engagement with the relevant national stakeholders in the area of community engagement, community empowerment and community-based protection. The assignment shall contribute to complementing inclusion of refugees from Ukraine, in line with the strategy of the Government of the Czech Republic. Application to this assignment is exclusively open to individuals residing in Slovakia, with stateless, refugee or similar protective status, including Temporary Protection. 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.

Task description

Within the delegated authority and under the supervision of Associate Community-Based Protection Officer or his/her designated mandated representative(s), the UNV Refugee CBP Assistant will: • Through relationships with refugees 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 refugees 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. • 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 Gender Based Violence (GBV). • Assist in working with host communities to involve national civil society groups in improving the protection of PoC. • Assist in the analysis that identifies the capacities of communities of concern and risks they face. • Support participatory assessments and ongoing consultation with refugees. • Ensure community understanding of UNHCR's commitment to deliver on accountability and quality assurance in its response. • Collect data for monitoring of programmes and budgets from an Age, Gender, Diversity (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 UNHCR’s work. • 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. • Any other related tasks as may be required or assigned by the supervisor. Furthermore, UN Volunteers are encouraged to integrate the UN Volunteers programme mandate within their assignment and promote voluntary action through engagement with communities in the course of their work. As such, UN Volunteers should dedicate a part of their working time to some of the following suggested activities: • Strengthen their knowledge and understanding of the concept of volunteerism by reading relevant UNV and external publications and take 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; • Provide annual and end of assignment self-reports on UN Volunteer actions, results and opportunities. • 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 and utilize the UNV Online Volunteering service providing themselves and their organizations with flexible, free of charge, Online Volunteer capacity to support their efforts. Information and promotional material can be found in the onsite kit. Results/expected outputs: • As an active UNHCR Czech Republic team member, efficient, timely, responsive, client-friendly and high-quality support rendered to UNHCR and its beneficiaries in the accomplishment of her/his functions, including: o Support provided for establishing effective community engagement for UNHCR in the Czech Republic; o Support provided in identifying suitable projects for UNHCR’s assistance to the refugee community; o Support with the interpretation for the participatory assessments, focus group discussions and similar interactions with the Ukraine refugee community; o Support for establishment of an effective feedback mechanism with the refugee community; o Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD) perspective is systematically applied, integrated and documented in all activities throughout the assignment; o A final statement of achievements towards volunteerism for peace and development during the assignment, such as reporting on the number of volunteers mobilized, activities participated in and capacities developed; Results/Outputs can be modified as appropriate; should not entirely mirror the task description but serve as a basis for workplan and deliverables].