New Job at UNHCR Tanzania, Community-Based Protection Associate | Deadline: 10th September, 2020

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Duration: 04 months
Start date: 01 October 2020.
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ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT
The
Community-Based Protection Associate is a member of the Protection Unit
and may report to the Protection Officer, Community-Based Protection
Officer, or another more senior staff member in the Protection Unit.
Under the overall direction of the Protection Unit, and in coordination
with other UNHCR staff, government, NGO partners and other stakeholders,
the Community-Based Protection Associate works directly with
communities of concern to identify the risks they face and to leverage
their capacities to protect themselves, their families and communities.
The incumbent may have direct supervisory responsibility for part of the
protection and/or support staff and supports the application of
community-based protection standards, operational procedures and
practices in community-based protection delivery at the field level. To
fulfil this role, the Community-Based Protection Associate is required
to spend a substantial percentage of the workday outside the office,
building and maintaining networks within communities of PoC. The
development and maintenance of constructive relationships with PoC that
measurably impact and enhance protection planning, programming and
results, form the core of the work of the incumbent. S/he also supports
the designing of a community-based protection strategy by ensuring that
it is based on consultation with PoC.

All UNHCR staff
members are accountable to perform their duties as reflected in their
job description. They do so within their delegated authorities, in line
with the regulatory framework of UNHCR which includes the UN Charter, UN
Staff Regulations and Rules, UNHCR Policies and Administrative
Instructions as well as relevant accountability frameworks. In addition,
staff members are required to discharge their responsibilities in a
manner consistent with the core, functional, cross-functional and
managerial competencies and UNHCR’s core values of professionalism,
integrity and respect for diversity.

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DUTIES

• Assist functional units, the Multi-Functional Team (MFT) and senior
  management to integrate participatory and community-based approaches in
  the overall protection strategy and operational procedures.
• Through relationships with PoC 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 PoC 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.
• Work with host communities to identify opportunities for national civil society involvement in improving the protection of PoC.
• Work with implementing and operational partners as well as with
  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 SGBV.
• Assist in the analysis that identifies the capacities of communities of concern and risks they face.
• Support participatory assessments by multifunctional teams and ongoing consultation with PoC.
• Assist in planning and monitoring of programmes and budgets, with an AGD perspective
• Build office capacity for community-based protection through
  training and establishing systems for community mobilization and
  participation of PoC.
• Support communities in establishing representation and coordination structures.
• Ensure community understanding of UNHCR’s commitment to deliver on accountability and quality assurance in its response.
• Act as an interpreter in exchange of routine information, contribute
  to related liaison activities and respond directly to routine queries.
• Contribute to the enforcement of participatory AGD sensitive analysis as an essential basis for all of UNHCR’s work.
• Initiate AGD sensitive interventions at the appropriate level on
  community-based protection issues and to respond to protection concerns
  and incidents within the office, with external interlocutors, groups and
  individuals based on agreed parameters.
• Identify and select which individuals or groups to prioritize for counselling and field visits based on agreed criteria.
• Intervene with authorities on protection.
• Enforce compliance of implementing partners with global protection
  policies and standards of professional integrity in the delivery of
  protection services.
• Recommend and prepare payments to individual
• Perform other related duties as required.

Education & Professional Work Experience

• 3 years relevant experience with High School Diploma, or 2 years relevant work experience with Bachelor or equivalent or higher.
• English language is essential for the work of the post.
• Another UN language and good knowledge of the local language is an asset.

Essential:
Experience
of working in humanitarian programmes in the role which required
day-to-day engagement with multiple implementing partners. 
Desirable:
UNHCR learning programmes (PLP). Knowledge of MSRP 

Functional Skills 
*IT-MS Office Applications
*IT-Computer Literacy
IT-Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
UN-UN/UNHCR Administrative Rules, Regulations and Procedures
UN-UN/UNHCR Financial Rules and Regulations and Procedures
PR-Community-based Protection
PR-Community-based Protection – Principles and methodologies
CL-Multi-stakeholder Communications with Partners, Government & Community
PG-Experience with coordinating with Implementing Partners (Government/INGO/Corporate)
*TR-Capacity Building***
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How to apply
Interested applicants should express their
interest by completing the attached new Personal History Form and the
Supplementary form if needed in full. Please note that submission of the
Personal History Form which is not signed may render the application
ineligible for consideration. Submission of the Personal History Form is
MANDATORY and cannot be substituted by a Curriculum Vitae. Please quote
the Vacancy Notice Number and Position title as the subject of your
email.

Download the Personal History Form (PHF) for applications which require direct email application:

• PHF Form / Supplementary Sheet

The deadline for submitting the application is 10th September, 2020.
*Qualified female and candidates with disabilities are encouraged to apply.*