Job: Snr. Community Services Assistant

Location: Erbil
Deadline: Monday, 28 October 2013

The Iraq Operation of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Iraq invites qualified candidates to apply for the following vacancy:

Functional Title & Grade: Snr. Community Services Assistant; G-5;

Date of Issue: 22 October 2013

Position No.: 10021557

Fixed-term (one year)

Duty Station: Erbil, Iraq Contractual Status:

Deadline for applications: 28 October 2013

INTERNAL/EXTERNAL VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

The incumbent will undertake the following responsibilities under the overall supervision of the Community Services Officer at UNHCR Sub Office Erbil, Iraq:

FUNCTIONAL STATEMENT.

Accountability

• Effective support and advice is provided to promote AGD sensitive analysis of community risks and capacities as the essential basis for all of UNHCR's work.
• Support and advice is provided to establishing community activities which address the social, cultural, and livelihood needs of populations of concern.
• Support is provided to involve the host community in the protection of persons of concern.
• The Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD) approach is applied in all aspects of his/her protection and solutions work on behalf of persons of concern.

Responsibilities

• Assist functional units, the Multi-Functional Team (MFT) and senior management to integrate participatory and community-based approaches in the overall protection delivery strategy.
• Assist in initiatives with host communities to involve national civil society groups in the protection of persons of concern.
• Support 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 analyzing protection risks and capacities of communities of concern.
• Support participatory assessments by multifunctional teams and ongoing consultation with persons of concern.
• Collect data for monitoring of programmes and budgets from an AGD perspective.
• Accompany, and interpret for, senior management in their contacts with local interlocutors.
• Draft and type routine correspondence, documents and reports using word processing equipment and maintain up-to-date filing systems.
• Support efforts to build the office capacity for community-based protection.

Authority

• Assist in 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 and with persons and communities of concern based on agreed parameters.
• Identify which individuals or groups to prioritize for counselling and field visits based on agreed criteria.

REQUIRED COMPETENCIES

• Analytical thinking;
• Planning and organizing;
• Political awareness

ESSENTIAL MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• Education: Completion of the Secondary education;
• Training in the related field of work.
• Job Experience: Minimum of 4 years previous relevant job experience.
• Computer skills (MS Office, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access).
• LANGUAGE: Good working knowledge of English and other UN language (written/oral/comprehension).

DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS & COMPETENCIES

• University degree in social sciences;
• Fluency in Arabic essential;
• Fluency in Kurdish would be an asset

Interested applicants should forward the UN history form (P-11) with a covering letter in English explaining their interest in the position to: e-mail: irqerbad@unhcr.org Please indicate the post title you are applying for in the subject. Only short-listed applicants will be contacted, and engagement is needed immediately.

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