Volunteer Opportunity in South Sudan: Associate Protection Officer at UNV
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Applicant criteria
NationalityNo specific nationality required
SpecialityLaw and Human Rights, Political Science and International Relations
Skills• Highly organized and good planner., مهارات التنظيم, مهارات التحليل, مهارات حل المشكلات, Analytical skills, − Excellent verbal and written communication skills , Self-reliance skills, مهارات الاعتماد على الذات, Excellent presentation skills, Excellent problem-solving skills, مهارات العرض التقديمي الممتازة, مهارات التواصل الممتازة تحدثاً وكتابة
Age
- 18 - 60
Gender
- Both
Opportunity criteria
Opportunity FieldPsychology and Sociology, Law, Human Rights and Gender
Job locationSouth Sudan
Needed documentsMotivation Letter
Deadline2024-08-17
Opportunity description
UNV offers a volunteer opportunity to work as an associate protection officer in South Sudan for 12 months starting from 01/10/2024. This position is based in the UNISFA compound and supports the Abyei Administration Area. You will provide field operation management and lead a small team in the assessment of protection and humanitarian assistance in the AoR. You also will ensure that PoCs are meaningfully engaged in the decisions that affect them, and support program design and adaptations that are influenced by the concerns, priorities, and capacities of them.
Duties & responsibilities
You will be responsible for the following tasks:
- Through relationships with persons of concern, authorities and network of partners stay abreast of political, social, economic, and cultural developments.
- Ensure that the perspectives, capacities, needs, and resources of the persons of concern are reflected in the protection strategy, planning processes, and operations plan addressing the specific protection needs of women and men, children, youth and older persons, persons with disabilities, minority groups such as sexual minorities and persons living with HIV/AIDS.
- Utilize the IDPs' footprint during the planning process.
- Coordinate the promotion of international refugee law principles and standards and also IDP legislation or policies ensuring that all sectors and clusters fulfil their responsibilities mainstreaming protection.
- Provide policy guidance and operational support to UNHCR and partners on all protection-related issues.
- Provide legal advice and guidance on protection issues to internal and external interlocutors; ensure legal assistance is accessible to persons of concern.
- Monitor, and assist with the intervention in cases of refoulement, expulsion, and other protection incidents through working relations with governments and other partners.
- Assist in the coordinated implementation and oversight of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for all protection/solutions activities.
- Ensure that durable solutions through voluntary repatriation, local integration, and where appropriate, resettlement are sought and provided to the largest possible number of persons of concern.
- Ensure through direct action and advocacy with more senior protection staff that the necessary resources are allocated to enable protection activities to identify and address protection and assistance gaps.
- Promote confidence building and conflict resolution among populations of concern, authorities, and host communities.
- Maintain protection presence through regular field missions and reports, making direct contact with persons of concern, host communities, local authorities, and partners.
- Research, collects and disseminates relevant protection information and good practices to enhance protection delivery and provide technical advice if necessary.
- Ensure participatory, community-based protection and AGD approaches are included in, strategies and plans in the country operation.
- Support persons of concern in developing structures that enhance their participation and protection.
- Furthermore, you are required to:
- Strengthen your knowledge and understanding of the concept of volunteerism by reading relevant UNV and external publications and taking an active part in UNV activities.
- Be acquainted with and build on traditional and/or local forms of volunteerism in the host country.
- Reflect on the type and quality of voluntary action that you are undertaking, including participation in ongoing reflection activities.
- Contribute articles/write-ups on field experiences and submit them for UNV publications/websites, newsletters, press releases, etc.
- Assist with the UNV Buddy Programme for newly arrived UN Volunteers.
Eligibility criteria
You must have:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Law, International Law, International Relations, Social Sciences, Political Sciences or a related field.
- 3 years of experience with refugees and/or other people of concern in a protection capacity.
- Knowledge of UN policies and procedures.
- Good analytical, planning, and organizing effective organizational skills.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills in a multicultural setting.
- Ability to live and work in the difficult and harsh conditions of developing countries.
- Solid experience in coordination, protection assessment, monitoring, assistance, response, managing, and leading refugees and or returnees and or internal displacement operations, from emergency assistance to durable solutions.
- Experience in protection cluster coordination mechanism, information management, enabling protection mandate, accountabilities, and prompt solutions.
- Experience of UNHCR protection policies, guidelines and strategies, delivery results for assistance to Refugees/returnees/IDPs in coordination with local authorities and NGOs.
- Completed protection learning program (PLP) and other relevant training related to the function.
- Ability to prepare and submit regular quality reports.
- Commitment to continuous learning and ability to adapt to changes in the work environment.
- Problem-solving skills and ability to establish priorities and to plan, and coordinate; ability to work under pressure, with conflicting deadlines.
- Teamwork and respect for diversity.
- Good spoken and written communication skills, including the ability to prepare clear and concise reports; and the ability to conduct presentations.
- Flexibility, adaptability, and ability and willingness to operate independently in austere, remote, and potentially hazardous environments for protracted periods.
- Genuine commitment towards the principles of voluntary engagement, which includes solidarity, compassion, reciprocity and self-reliance, and commitment towards the UN core values.
Please note: Candidate must be a national of a country other than the country of assignment and be aged 18 - 80.
About the United Nations Volunteers(UNV):
The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) program is the UN organization that promotes volunteerism to support peace and development worldwide. Volunteerism can transform the pace and nature of development and it benefits both society at large and the individual volunteer. UNV contributes to peace and development by advocating for volunteerism globally, encouraging partners to integrate volunteerism into development programming, and mobilizing volunteers.