Vacancy Notice No.: ETH/SH/UNOPS/VN/015/18
Grade: L-ICA 4
Type of Appointment: Individual Contractor Agreement
Closing Date: 04/05/2018
Duration of Contract: Initially until 31 December 2018
Organizational Context
The Protection Assistant reports to the Associate Protection Officer and is under the overall supervision of the Senior Protection Officer. The incumbent will be a member of the Registration Unit and will be primarily responsible for ensuring access to registration services for newly arriving asylum seekers including a high number of unaccompanied and separated children arriving every year. In addition, the incumbent will provide functional support to the protection unit on protection related liaison with government counterparts and partners, monitoring, case management and reporting activities.
The Protection Assistant also supports the protection unit in designing a comprehensive protection strategy and in providing quality, timely and effective protection responses to persons of concern. He/she may liaise externally with local authorities and partners on correspondence and/or protection issues as guided by the supervisor.
The Protection Assistant also facilitates the involvement of persons of concern 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.
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