Le Haut Commissariat des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés (HCR) a été créé en 1950, au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, pour aider des millions d’Européens qui avaient fui ou perdu leur maison. Nous avons eu trois ans pour terminer notre travail et ensuite nous dissoudre. Aujourd’hui, plus de 65 ans plus tard, notre organisation travaille toujours d’arrache-pied pour protéger et aider les réfugiés du monde entier.
Eligible Applicants
This Job Opening is available to eligible UNHCR staff members and external applicants.
Procedures and Eligibility
Eligibility:
Candidates must be Congolese Nationals.
Interested staff members should consult the Administrative Instruction on Recruitment and Assignment of Locally Recruited Staff (RALS, UNHCR/AI/2020/1/Rev.1). If you have questions regarding your eligibility, you may also contact the HR Unit.
In line with the RALS, the below category of candidates are eligible to apply for internally/externally advertised vacancies.
Group 1 candidates: Current NPO staff members holding an indefinite or fixed-term appointment are eligible to apply to advertised positions in the NPO category at their personal grade and one grade below or above, as Group 1 candidates.
External candidates: All other candidates are eligible to apply to positions in the NPO category as external
candidates, including GS staff members holding a university degree and fulfilling eligibility requirements, regardless of grade or length of service, who may apply to any vacant NPO position in their country of assignment for which they qualify. External candidates must meet the essential minimum requirements of the position.
Duties and Qualifications
Assistant Protection Officer
Duties
– Stay abreast of political, social, economic and cultural developments that have an impact on the protection environment.
– Consistently apply International and National Law and applicable UN/UNHCR and IASC policy, standards and codes of conduct.
– Assist in providing comments on existing and draft legislation related to PoC.
– Provide legal advice and guidance on protection issues to PoC; liaise with competent authorities to ensure the issuance of personal and other relevant documentation.
– Conduct eligibility and status determination for PoC in compliance with UNHCR procedural standards and international protection principles.
– Promote and contribute to measures to identify, prevent and reduce statelessness.
– Contribute to a country-level child protection plan as part of the protection strategy.
– Contribute to a country-level education plan as part of the protection strategy.
– Provide inputs for the development of protection policies and standards within the AoR.
– Implement and monitor Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for all protection/solutions activities.
– Manage individual protection cases including those on GBV and child protection. Monitor, and intervene in cases of refoulement, expulsion and other protection incidents.
– Recommend durable solutions for the largest possible number of PoC through voluntary repatriation, local integration and where appropriate, resettlement.
– Assess resettlement needs and apply priorities for the resettlement of individuals and groups of refugees and other PoC.
– Contribute to the design, implementation and evaluation of protection related AGD based programming with implementing and operational partners.
– Contribute to and facilitate a programme of results-based advocacy with sectorial and/or cluster partners.
– Contribute to and facilitate effective information management through the provision of disaggregated data on populations of concern and their problems.
– Assist capacity-building initiatives for communities and individuals to assert their rights.
– Participate in initiatives to capacitate authorities, relevant institutions and NGOs to strengthen national protection related legislation and procedures.
– Intervene with authorities on protection issues.
– Assist the supervisor in deciding priorities for reception, interviewing and counselling for groups or individuals.
– Assist the supervisor in enforcing compliance of staff and implementing partners with global protection policies and standards of professional integrity in the delivery of protection services.
– Enforce compliance with, and integrity of, all protection standard operating procedures.
– Perform other related duties as required.
Minimum Qualifications
Years of Experience / Degree Level
For P1/NOA – 1 year relevant experience with Undergraduate degree; or no experience with Graduate degree; or no experience with Doctorate degree
Field(s) of Education
Law, International Law, Political Sciences
or other relevant field.
(Field(s) of Education marked with an asterisk* are essential)
Certificates and/or Licenses
Not specified;
(Certificates and Licenses marked with an asterisk* are essential)
Relevant Job Experience
Essential
Knowledge of International Refugee and Human Rights Law and ability to apply the relevant legal principles
Desirable
Completion of the Protection Learning Programme, RSD- Resettlement Learning Programme.
Functional Skills
*PR-Protection-related guidelines, standards and indicators
*PR-Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD)
MG-Project Management
PR-Human Rights Doctrine/Standards
PR-International Humanitarian Law
PR-Assessment of IDPs Status, Rights, Obligation
PR-Climate change and disaster related displacement
CO-Drafting and Documentation
PR-Gender Based Violence (GBV) Coordination
(Functional Skills marked with an asterisk* are essential)
Position Competencies
Competency Requirements
All jobs at UNHCR require six core competencies and may also require managerial competencies and/or cross-functional competencies. The six core competencies are listed below.
Core Competencies:
Accountability
Communication
Organizational Awareness
Teamwork & Collaboration
Commitment to Continuous Learning
Client & Result Orientation
Managerial Competencies:
Judgement and Decision Making
Cross-Functional Competencies:
Stakeholder Management
Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
Political Awareness
Language Requirements
The Knowledge of French is required and English is essential
Additional Information
Submission of Applications:
Interested internal candidates should apply through MSRP Self-Service Recruiting Activities Careers (please search by JO number or by Location). Please update your personal profiles with all required information in order to be able to apply. Please consult the attached documents for further guidance on how to update the personal profile.
Interested external applicants are also invited to apply online and complete the mandatory motivation letter. For help with logging in to the MSRP External Portal, or with online applications, please contact the HR Unit well before the deadline to allow sufficient time for any technical problem to be resolved. External vacancies are posted on the external UNHCR website and applicants who do not have internal status must apply through the external UNHCR website. https://www.unhcr.org/careers.html Careers Career opportunities Other Opportunities Vacancies sort by Location or search by Job Opening number.
Not signed, incomplete and late applications will not be accepted. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Shortlisted candidates will be required to sit for a written test and oral interview. UNHCR does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview, processing or any other fees).
The evaluation of applicants will be conducted based on the information submitted during the application. Applicants must provide complete and accurate information pertaining to their personal profile and qualifications. No amendment, addition, deletion, revision or modification shall be made to applications that have been submitted. Candidates under serious consideration for selection will be subject to reference checks to verify the information provided in the application.
UNHCR strongly encourages qualified female applicants to apply. UNHCR seeks to ensure that male and female employees are given equal career opportunities. UNHCR is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms gender, disability, marital or civil partnership status, race, color or ethnic and national origins, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidentiality.
UNHCR has a zero-tolerance policy against Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA). SEA is unacceptable behavior and prohibited conduct for UNHCR personnel. It constitutes acts of serious misconduct and is therefore grounds for disciplinary measures, including dismissal. Any concerns or suspicions about a possible case of SEA should be reported immediately to the Inspector Generals Office (IGO) at [email protected] or through the online complain form at https://www.unhcr.org/php/complaints.php or by confidential fax: +41 22 739 73 80.
For any technical problems encountered during the online application, please send an email to the below email address titled Online VA Query-your name and surname. Human Resources Kinshasa [email protected]
See below for this postion’s Operational Context
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is the biggest operation of the Regional Bureau for Southern Africa, and one of the oldest on the continent. It hosts over 500,000 refugees countrywide (including over 200,000 Rwandan refugees and 45,336 Burundian refugees in North and South Kivu). DRC also continues to host over 5 million IDPs mainly located in the Kasai provinces, and Ituri, North Kivu, South Kivu and Tanganyika provinces, including nearly 3 million in North and South Kivu.
In line with the 2020-2025 UNHCR DRC Protection Strategy, UNHCRs operations in the East of the DRC focus on working with communities towards protective environments that are conducive for durable solutions; providing multi-sectoral assistance to refugees, IDPs and returnees both in camps/sites and in host communities including through cash interventions, in accordance with the alternatives to camps policy; building self-reliance by supporting livelihood opportunities for refugees and host communities; protection monitoring and referral of cases of human rights violations in conflict contexts; prevention of and response to gender-based violence (GBV); prevention of statelessness; andcapacity-building of communities and local authorities as first responders to forced displacement crises, while ensuring an emergency response capacity.
In DRC, UNHCR works in 5 sub offices and the Branch Office in Kinshasa. The Goma Sub Office covers activities in North and South Kivu, with offices in Goma, Beni, Bukavu, Uvira and Baraka. This position will be based in Goma, but will include missions to other offices and localities in North and South Kivu. In line with the general duties outlined below, the incumbent may contribute to the following activities:
– The Assistant Protection Officer for Beni Field Office is responsible for the direct implement of protection activities such as legal support for the IDPs, protection monitoring; support to the peaceful coexistence aspects of programmes such as community fields ;
– Support to protection monitoring programme ;
– Implementation of GBV activities with the partner, Child Protection, and SEA, approaches and strategy;
– Capacity building for the local authorities on several aspect of protection (IDPs rights, protection principles, protection approaches, UNHCR mandate, etc.)
– Supporting the field activities (distributions, field assessments, PDM, etc.)
– Conduct the AGD assessment for Field Office Beni in coordination with the UNHCRs parteners in the field
– Support the partner in charge of statelessness activities
– Conduct the advocacy on the protection problems issues as needed
– Supporting the other protection activities of Field Office Beni as needed.
The Assistant Protection Officer is a member of the Protection Unit and may report to the Associate Protection Cluster Coordination Officer in Beni, may interact with colleagues from SO Goma such as the Senior Protection Officer, Associate Protection Officer or another more senior staff member in the Protection Unit. Under the overall direction of the Protection Unit, and in coordination with other UNHCR staff, government, NGO partners and other stakeholders, the Assistant Protection Officer works directly with UNHCRs protection partners and often with communities of concern to identify the risks that POCs face and to leverage their capacities to protect themselves, their families and communities. The incumbent may have direct support to the staff of partners in terms of capacity building , protection standards, operational procedures and practices in community-based protection delivery at the field level.
To fulfil this role, the Assistant Protection Officer is required to spend a substantial percentage of the workday outside the office, in the field, building and maintaining networks between thw Protection Unit and UNHCR partners and within communities of persons of concern (PoC). The development and maintenance of constructive relationships with PoC that measurably impact and enhance protection planning, programming and results, form the core of the work of the incumbent.
Closing Date
The closing date for submission of applications is 13 Mai 2022 (Midnight Geneva time)
