Associate Protection Officer

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Mission and objectives

UNHCR Lebanon supports both Lebanese communities and refugees. UNHCR coordinates the protection response for all refugees in Lebanon with the Government, UN agencies, and local and international partners, including registration; protection/border monitoring and advocacy; legal aid; civil documentation; psychosocial support; child protection; prevention and response to gender-based violence; and resettlement to third countries.

Context

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).

Task description

Within the delegated authority and under the supervision of Protection Officer or his/her designated mandated representative(s), the UN Volunteer Associate Protection Officer will: • Support UNHCR protection monitoring activities in Lebanon that seek to engage refugee population in generating information concerning their situation, analysis of trends in protection environment and assessment of protection gaps, with a view to support evidence-based advocacy and programming of UNHCR, LCRP partners and broader humanitarian community in the country. • Process and analyze information generated through protection monitoring and systematically present its findings to internal and external stakeholders to help better design programmatic interventions, target protection advocacy and communicate information about protection situation in Lebanon to relevant authorities, partners, donors, and other humanitarian actors. • Identify regional dimensions of protection and assistance issues by looking at regional trends, hence supporting the planning and resource allocation phases of humanitarian programming cycle. • Design, revise/update and oversee the implementation of standard operating procedures and other guidance documents on protection monitoring and analysis for UNHCR and partner staff. • Support the drafting of various thematic reports and as required provide input to policies, strategies, action plans, operational blueprints and other types of documents produced by UNHCR Lebanon. • Provide advice to senior management with regards to protection monitoring and analysis and relevant substantive matters. • Contribute to the Protection team's general information management component which: provide disaggregated data on populations of concern and their problems; researches, collects and disseminates relevant protection information and good practices to enhance protection delivery and provide technical advice if necessary.