Officer in charge: Protection Officer; UNHCR
Location: Dar Es Salaam.
Applications' deadline is September 22, 2024.
Overview of the Function
In this capacity, the Protection Officer answers to several senior officials depending on their deployment area. If in the Field or Headquarters, they could be under direction from a Senior Protection Coordinator, Senior Protection Officer, or Representative. This role is crucial in enabling UNHCR's aim to be fulfilled with possible direct supervision over teams managing tasks including refugee status determination (RSD), community-based protection, registration, resettlement, and internal displacement.
Serving top management, the Protection Officer helps create protection plans. On issues of protection policy, they speak for UNHCR to authorities, other UN agencies, partners, and stakeholders.
In this function, the Protection Officer plans quick protection actions to help those in need. Whether concerning rights access or finding workable answers to problems, the responsibility entails working with several teams to guarantee the involvement of different groups in decision-making processes.
Main Objectives and Accountability
Provide UNHCR and its associates professional guidance and help on protection concerns.
Keep Updated: Track legal, political, social, and economic developments affecting protection and document as needed.
Working with national agencies, help to create and enhance asylum and RSD systems.
Work with government agencies, partners, and those in need to develop and carry out protection measures catered to the needs of different groups, such children, the elderly, and persons with disabilities or HIV.
In a Cluster Approach environment, make sure the Protection Cluster Strategy covers all found and given priorities.
Support top management in helping to match the protection strategy with national and international policies and frameworks like the Global Compact on Refugees and the UN Development and Assistance Framework (UNDAF).
Encourage legislation, regulations, and standards at all levels to guarantee that sectors and clusters apply protection concepts in their operations.
With an eye towards participatory methods of protection and solutions planning, apply policies that inspire community involvement.
Help create response systems so that programs are shaped using the community's input.
Support initiatives aiming at preventing, spotting, and handling fraud in protection services so guaranteeing ethical behaviour in all kinds of protection operations.
Help national management follow rules aimed at stopping sexual exploitation and abuse.
Oversaw individual protection cases, mostly those involving child protection or gender-based violence (GBV).
Legal Support: Provide legal advice on protection concerns to guarantee those in need have access to legal aid. Provide pertinent paperwork, including birth certificates for women and children, working with authorities.
Acting as the focal point for data protection, help to ensure data management complies.
Under UNHCR's instructions, supervise the evaluation of eligibility and status.
Create plans to help to lower statelessness inside the Area of Responsibility (AoR).
Contributing to the education strategy helps to support protective initiatives.
Create and apply kid protection policies inside the AoR.
Track and act in response to refoulement, expulsion, or other protection events by working with governments and partners.
Protect the rights of those engaged in movements of mixed migration.
Create and oversee SOPs for operations involving solutions and protection.
Seek for lasting answers for individuals in need including voluntary repatriation, local integration, and resettlement.
Coordinate results-oriented advocacy via a collaborative process with sectorial or cluster partners.
Oversee data management initiatives to guarantee accurate information and best practices are shared to improve protection delivery.
Training national and local officials as well as partners on protective concepts helps to build local capability.
Risk Management: Point up opportunities and hazards, therefore raising any major issues for pertinent managers.
Extra Authority in Regional Bureaux
Support for Regional and Country Operations: Help integrate protection into regional processes and support the establishment of fair, efficient, and sustainable national asylum systems.
Represent UNHCR in international and regional contexts, therefore promoting important protection issues.
Minimum Knowledge and Experience
- Empathy Needed:
P3/NOC Level: At least 6 years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree, 5 years with a Master's, or 4 years with a Doctorate. - Education Fields:
Degrees in Law, International Law, International Refugee Law, Human Rights, or related fields. - Verification certificates:
Need: RSD-Resettlement Learning Programme - Essential Experience:
At least 4 years working in refugee protection, displacement, or human rights, ideally with field experience.
Solid grasp of International Refugee and Human Rights Law, plus research, analytical, and drafting skills. - Desirable Skills:
Broad field experience and proficiency in database management and IT.
Key Skills
Familiarity with protection guidelines, diversity and inclusion principles, and human rights standards.
Knowledge in handling IDP status, climate displacement, accountability principles, and GBV coordination.
Language Requirements
For Professional and Field Service Positions: Fluent in English and any UN language relevant to the duty station if not English.
For National Professional Roles: Proficiency in English and the local language is necessary.
How to Apply
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