JOB DETAILS

• Organization: UNHCR – United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
• Location: N’Djamena | Gore
• Grade: Level not specified – Level not specified
• Occupational Groups:
  • Children’s rights (health and protection)
  • Protection Officer (Refugee)
• Closing Date: MAY 29, 2023

ABOUT UNHCR

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a  worldwide organization dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights, and building a better future for refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people. They work to make sure that everyone has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution, or war at home. UNHCR has been setting essential protection and assistance to refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced, and stateless people since 1950. They have a presence in many countries around the world, and give information and assistance to refugees, asylum-seekers, and stateless people.

TASKS

The duties for Child Protection Associate at UNHCR are :

• Requires identification, Strategy and Advocacy
• Contribute to evaluating child protection issues through multi-sectoral and protection-specific assessments.
• Simplify consultation with children, youth and communities to inform child protection strategy and programme activities.
• Contribute to the formulation of child safety strategy and planning.
• Assure compliance with UNHCR’s child protection policy, priorities and commitments, as well as other aligned policies on age, gender, diversity (AGD) and accountability to affected populations (AAP), GBV, gender equality, disability and youth empowerment.
• Help the analysis of the national systems and ensure that child protection programmes complement national child protection systems and work towards the inclusion of children of concern into national child protection laws, policies and services.
• Launch consultation with children, youth and communities and provide information on appropriate and meaningful approaches for their effective participation and programmatic responses on child protection issues.
• Provide input to Protection Unit to inform advocacy to discourse key child protection concerns. Programme planning and implementation
• Engage children, youth and neighbourhoods in the implementation of child protection activities, provide information to children, youth and communities about child protection services and monitor and report on needs and issues to inform the Operations Response.
• Perform Best Interest Procedures for individual children at heightened risks and prepare Best Interests Determination report, when required.
• Partake in the Best Interests Procedure Case Conferences and BID panels and draft associated documentation as required.
• Enforce child protection SOPs and ensure up-to-date and effective referral to key services.
• Store and update child’s case file in UNHCR data bases in agreement with UNHCR standards.
• Engage with children, youth and community members in recognising community-based child protection activities.
• Observe and support appropriate care arrangements for unaccompanied and separated children and referral of children to ICRC or other relevant partners for the establishment of family linkages.
• Regularly report on emerging conservation issues and concerns voiced by children, youth and communities and assist in drafting reports, compiling and preparing data for the protection unit/section.
• Provide functional direction to UNHCR and partner staff involved in child protection activities. Partnership, coordination and capacity building
• Help the Child Protection interagency coordination and information management activities as required.

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QUALIFICATIONS

The requirements for Child Protection Associate at UNHCR are :

•  3 years relevant  with High School Diploma; or 2 years relevant work background with Bachelor or equivalent or higher
• 3 years of prior work background relevant to the function of child protection in a local context and having experience in the field of child protection deterence and response, broader protection or social work involving the empowerment of women and girls, gender, child protection, mental health, counselling and working with survivors, humanitarian and development issues.
•  For International Professional and Field Service positions: Knowledge of English and UN working language of the duty station if not English.
• For National Professional jobs: Command of English and UN working language of the duty station if not English and local language.
• For General Service jobs: Command of English and/or UN working language of the responsibility station if not English.

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