Protection Assistant

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:

1. Duties and Responsibilities:

· Consistently apply International and National Law and applicable UN/UNHCR and IASC policy, standards and codes of conduct.

· Observe and respect protection related Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).

· Provide functional and administrative support in all protection related AGD based programming with implementing and operational partners.

· Provide functional and administrative support in implementing participatory approaches, needs assessments, monitoring, reporting and case management.

· Support assessments on durable solutions through voluntary repatriation, local integration and where appropriate, resettlement.

· Facilitate liaison with competent authorities for the issuance of personal and other relevant documents.

· Assist in drafting reports, routine correspondence, updating relevant databases and compiling statistics for the protection unit/section.

1. Essential Minimum Qualification and Professional Experience Required

• Education: Completion of secondary school. Additional Training courses in protection related issues required.
• Job experience: relevant to the function: 2 years.
• Fluency in English and working knowledge of another relevant UN language or local language.

(In offices where the working language is not English, excellent knowledge of working language of duty station and working knowledge of English.)

• Fluent in Arabic.

1. REQUIRED COMPETENCIES

• Political Awareness.
• Stakeholder Management

1. Desirable qualifications & Competences

• Knowledge of another official UN language(s) an asset.
• Good computer skills.

How to apply:

Please fill in the attached personal history form and send your application and letter of interest tolbytr@unhcr.org. Please indicate the title of the position number in the subject of the email.