Assistant Protection Officer-Beirut-Hrs003

Responsibility: - 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 persons of concern. - Provide legal advice and guidance on protection issues to persons of concern; liaise with competent authorities to ensure the issuance of personal and other relevant documentation. - Promote and contribute to measures to identify, prevent and reduce statelessness. - Contribute to a country-level protection strategy and implementation; - Provide inputs for the development of global / regional international protection policies and standards. - Implement and monitor Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for all protection/solutions activities. - Manage individual protection cases including those on SGBV and child protection. Monitor, and intervene in cases of refoulement, expulsion and other protection incidents. - 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. - Contribute to 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. - Ensure that information on legal activities are reported and compiled on a monthly basis and that areas for improvement are identified and addressed; - Identify areas and topics for advocacy interventions; - Provide guidance to the field offices and the units on protection issues; - Any other function as required by the Protection and the Senior Protection Officer;   Authority - Intervene with authorities on protection issues. - Decide priorities for reception, interviewing and counseling for groups or individuals. - Enforce 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. - Recommend and prepare payments to individual cases.