Location: Tripoli, Libya
Description
Description
Organization:
UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Country: Libya
Closing date: 15 Oct 2013
Vacancy Notice: LBY/TRI/ADM/ADV/2013/13
Title of the Position: Assistant Protection Officer – NOA
Position No: 10018521
Location: Tripoli-Libya
Duration: Fixed Term, 1 year renewable
<Closing Date: 15/10/2013
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Libya is seeking dynamic, committed and qualified persons interested in an exciting career in humanitarian affairs.
BACKGROUND
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was established on December 14, 1950 by the United Nations 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. It also has a mandate to help stateless people. In more than six decades, the agency has helped tens of millions of people restart their lives. Today, a staff of some 7,190 people in more than 120 countries continues to help some 36.4 million persons. Graduates in Law, Politics, Human Rights and Social Sciences in particular are encouraged to apply for the following positions:<
Organizational Context
The Assistant Protection Officer reports to the Protection Officer or the Senior Protection Officer. Depending on the size and structure of the Office, the incumbent may have supervisory responsibility for protection staff including community services, registration, resettlement and education. He/she provides functional protection guidance to information management and programme staff; and monitors protection standards, operational procedures and practices in protection delivery in line with international standards.
The Assistant Protection Officer is expected to: coordinate quality, timely and effective protection responses to the needs of populations of concern; and identify opportunities to mainstream protection methodologies and integrate protection safeguards in operational responses in all sectors. He/she contributes to designing a comprehensive protection strategy and represents the organization externally on protection doctrine and policy as guided by the supervisor. He/she also ensures that persons of concern are involved with the Office in making decisions that affect them, whether in accessing their rights or in identifying appropriate solutions to their problems. To achieve this, the incumbent will need to build and maintain effective interfaces with communities of concern, local authorities and protection and assistance partners.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Stay abreast of political, social, economic and cultural developments that have an impact on the protection environment.
- Consistently apply International and National Law and applicable UN/UNHCR and IASC policy, standards and codes of conduct.
- Assist in providing comments on existing and draft legislation related to persons of concern.
- Provide legal advice and guidance on protection issues to persons of concern; liaise with competent authorities to ensure the issuance of personal and other relevant documentation.
- Conduct eligibility and status determination for persons of concern in compliance with UNHCR procedural standards and international protection principles
- Promote and contribute to measures to identify, prevent and reduce statelessness.
- Contribute to a country-level child protection plan as part of the protection strategy.
- Contribute to a country-level education plan as part of the protection strategy.
- Provide inputs for the development of global / regional international protection policies and standards.
- Implement and monitor Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for all protection/solutions activities.
- Manage individual protection cases including those on SGBV and child protection.
- Monitor, and intervene in cases of refoulement, expulsion and other protection incidents.
- Assess needs for Promote and find durable solutions for the largest possible number of persons of concern through voluntary repatriation, local integration and where appropriate, resettlement.
- Assess resettlement needs and apply priorities for the resettlement of individuals and groups of refugees and other persons of concern.
- Contribute to the design, implementation and evaluation of protection related AGD based programming with implementing and operational partners.
- Contribute to and facilitate a programme of results-based advocacy with sectorial and/or cluster partners.
- Contribute to and facilitate effective information management through the provision of disaggregated data on populations of concern and their problems.
- Contribute to capacity-building initiatives for communities and individuals to assert their rights.
Participate in initiatives to capacitate authorities, relevant institutions and NGOs to strengthen national protection related legislation and procedures.
Results/Expected Output:
- The protection of populations of concern is met through the application of International and National Law, relevant UN/UNHCR protection standards and IASC principles.
- Protection activities are guided by the protection strategy and respect the policy of UNHCR on age, gender and diversity (AGD).
- The participation of persons of concern is assured through continuous assessment and evaluation using participatory, rights and community based approaches.
- Protection incidents are immediately identified and addressed.
Essential Minimum Qualification and Professional Experience Required
Education:
- University degree in Law, International Law, political Sciences or related field.
Job Experience:
- Minimum 2 years relevant professional experience.
- Excellent knowledge of English and working knowledge of another UN language.
- Fluency in English and Arabic.
Managerial Competencies/ Cross-Functional Competencies
Judgment and Decision Making -Analytical Thinking
Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
- Desirable qualifications & Competences
- Diverse field experience desirable.
- Good IT skills including database management skills.
Completion of the Protection Learning Programme, RSD- Resettlement Learning Programme.
Important Note
Please send your Personal History/Resume and letter of interest to <a href=' mailto:lbytr@unhcr.org'> lbytr@unhcr.org</a>.
Please indicate the title and the position number in the subject of the email when you submit your application.
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.</p><br /> <strong>How to apply:</strong><br /> <ul> <li>Please send your Personal History/Resume and letter of interest to <a href=' mailto:lbytr@unhcr.org'> lbytr@unhcr.org
Please indicate the title and the position number in the subject of the email when you submit your application.
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.</li> </ul>
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