ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT:
The Senior Community Services Assistant 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. 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 Assistant, 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. Describe the accountabilities, responsibilities and authorities associated with the position.
Accountability (key results that will be achieved)
- Effective support and advice is provided to promote AGD sensitive analysis of community risks and capacities as the essential basis for all of UNHCR’s work.
- Support and advice is provided to establishing community activities which address the social, cultural, and livelihood needs of populations of concern.
- Support is provided to involve the host community in 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 (process and functions undertaken to achieve results):
- Assist functional units, the Multi-Functional Team (MFT) and senior management to integrate participatory and community-based approaches in the overall protection delivery strategy.
- Assist in initiatives with host communities to involve national civil society groups in the protection of persons of concern.
- Support 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 analyzing protection risks and capacities of communities of concern.
- Support participatory assessments by multifunctional teams and ongoing consultation with persons of concern.
- Collect data for monitoring of programmes and budgets from an AGD perspective.
- Accompany, and interpret for, senior management in their contacts with local interlocutors.
- Draft and type routine correspondence, documents and reports using word processing equipment and maintain up-to-date filing systems.
- Support efforts to build the office capacity for community-based protection.
Authority (decisions made in executing responsibilities and to achieve results):
- Assist in 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 and with persons and communities of concern based on agreed parameters.
- Identify which individuals or groups to prioritize for counselling and field visits based on agreed criteria.
Position Number: 10025340
Numbers of Positions: One Vacant Position
Duty Station: Alexandria, Egypt
Category and Level: Fixed Term Appointment (FTA) for 1 year
Grade: G5
Closing Date: 27 February 2016
Job Details
| Date Posted: | 2016-02-10 |
| Job Location: | Alexandria, Egypt |
| Job Role: | Other |
| Company Industry: | Community/Social Services/and Nonprofit |
Preferred Candidate
| Career Level: | Mid Career |
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