Job Title: Senior Community Services Assistant
Organisation: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
City Nakivale,
Country Uganda
Reports to: Head of Unit
About UNHCR:
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.
Job Summary: The Senior Community Services Assistant is an integral part of the Protection team in the Community Services Unit. The job holder will act as a critical interface between UNHCR, communities of concern, providing an AGD sensitive analysis of community risks and capacities that form the essential foundations of all UNHCR work in a given country context. Under the overall direction of the Protection Unit, and in coordination with other UNHC staff, government, NGO partners and other key stakeholders, Community services staff work directly with communities to leverage their capacities for community based protection.
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
Assist functional units, the Multi-Funtional 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 ociety groups in the protection of persons of concern.
Offer support in the implementation and also to operational patners 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 protections and response to SGBV.
Assist in analyzing protection risk 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 for the 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
Perform other duties as instructed.
Qualifications, Skills & Experience:
The prospective employee should have completed secondary education and possess post-secondary training in social sciences or social work.
The candidate should possess at least four years previous job experience in a related or similar job role
Personal Competencies:
Computer literacy skills
Fluency in both written and oral English.
Knowledge of another UN or local language
How to Apply:
All Interested candidates who meet the above criteria should submit their applications, under confidential cover, quoting the Post No addressed to:
The Senior Administrative/ Finance Officer,
UNHCR Representation in Uganda,
P.O. Box, 3813, Kampala, Uganda
Deadline: 3rd October 2013 - 5pm
