Job Description
ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT
- The Senior Community Services Associate is part of the Community Services Unit in the Country Operation, which is an integral part of the Protection team. The incumbent reports to the Head of Unit, and normally supervises some support staff. The community services role, broadly described, is to act as a critical interface between UNHCR and communities of concern, providing an AGD sensitive analysis of community risks and capacities that form the essential foundations to all UNHCR work in a given country context. Under the overall direction of the Protection Unit, and in coordination with other UNHCR staff, government, NGO partners and other stakeholders, Community Services staff work directly with communities to leverage their capacities for community-based protection. To fulfil this role, the Senior Community Services Associate, and all Community Services staff, are required to spend a substantial percentage of their time working outside of the office, building and maintaining networks within communities of persons of concern.
FUNCTIONAL STATEMENT.
Accountability - Effective support and advice is provided to promote and undertake community-based protection activities which address the social, cultural, and livelihood needs of populations of concern.
- Effective support and advice is provided to involve the host community in improving 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.
Responsibility
- Assist functional units the Multi-Functional Team (MFT) and senior management to integrate participatory and community-based approaches in the overall protection strategy.
- Work with host communities to identify opportunities for national civil society involvement in improving the protection of persons of concern.
- Work with 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 the analysis that identifies the capacities and risks residing in communities of concern.
- Assist with regular participatory assessments and ongoing consultation with persons of concern using multifunctional teams.
- Assist in planning and monitoring of programmes and budgets with an AGD perspective.
- Assist in building capacity to maximize opportunities for participatory and community-based approaches and to make appropriate use of guidelines and tools in working with partners and other relevant entities.
Assist in developing UNHCR communication strategies by emphasizing the participatory, community-based and AGD approaches.
Authority
- Contribute to 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, with external interlocutors, groups and individuals based on agreed parameters.
- Identify and select which individuals or groups to prioritize for counselling and field visits based on agreed criteria.
Numbers of Vacancies: One (1)
Duty Station: Cairo, Egypt
Category and Level: Fixed-Term Appointment (FTA)
Grade: G7
Closing Date: 05 December 2015
Job Details
| Date Posted: | 2015-11-22 |
| Job Location: | Cairo, Egypt |
| Job Role: | Other |
| Company Industry: | Community/Social Services/and Nonprofit |
Preferred Candidate
| Career Level: | Mid Career |
| Nationality: | Egypt |
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