Deadline: 01 January, 2021

Location: Yola, Nigeria

United Nations Volunteers is seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of Associate Protection Officer.

The United Nations Volunteers programme is a UN organisation that contributes to peace and development through volunteerism worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Stay abreast of political, social, economic and cultural developments that impact on the protection environment and provide advice to senior management
• Ensure 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 persons living with HIV/AIDS, etc
• Utilise the IDPs footprint during planning process
• Coordinate the promotion of international refugee law principles and standards and also IDP legislation or policies, ensuring all sectors and clusters fulfill their responsibilities
• Coordinate the implementation and monitoring of programmes, ensuring identified protection needs, including Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD) approach, are adequately addressed
• 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
• Liaise with competent authorities to ensure the issuance of personal and other relevant
  documents to persons of concern
• Monitor, and assist with the intervention in cases of refoulment, 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/solution activities
• Ensure 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 identify and address protection and assistance gaps
• Support a consultative process with government counterparts at local levels, partners and persons of concern to develop and implement integrated strategies that address the key protection priorities, including, for example, child protection, education and
  SGBV, and solutions approaches
• 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
• In operations applying the humanitarian cluster system, contribute to ensuring
  the response of the protection cluster is grounded in an AGD-compliant strategy which covers all assessed and prioritised protection needs of the affected populations
• Ensure participatory, community-based protection and AGD approaches are included in strategies and plans in the country operation
• Support persons of concern to develop structures that enhance their participation and protection

Requirements