Community-Based Protection Associate at UNHCR

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 a...