JO# 33052 – Senior Community-Based Protection Associate – G7 – PN 10029627 – UNHCR Fixed-Term Appointment – Tyre, Lebanon

Organizational Setting and Work Relationships
The Senior Community-Based Protection Associate is a member of the Protection Unit and may report to the Protection Officer, Community-Based 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 Senior Community-Based Protection Associate works directly with communities of concern to identify the risks they face and to leverage their capacities to protect themselves, their families and communities. The incumbent may have direct supervisory responsibility for part of the protection and/or support staff and supports the application of community-based protection standards, operational procedures and practices in community-based protection delivery at the field level. To fulfil this role, the Senior Community-Based Protection Associate is required to spend a substantial percentage of the workday outside the office, building and maintaining networks 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. S/he also supports the designing of a community-based protection strategy by ensuring that it is based on consultation with PoC.

The Senior Protection Associate (Community Based) at UNHCR¿s Field Office in Tyre, South Lebanon is expected to have a managerial skills, as she/he has direct supervisory responsibility concerning case management covering SGBV, Child Protection, and Persons with Specific Needs (PwSN), focusing on the prevention, response, and mitigation programmes, and applying community-based protection standards, operational procedures and practices in community-based protection delivery at the field level. To fulfil the role, the Senior Protection Associate (Community Based) is required to coordinate closely with UNHCR staff and partners implementing SGBV, Child Protection, and PwSN programmes, in order to ensure the effectiveness and adequacy of UNHCR¿s interventions, as well as providing capacity building activities to UNHCR and partners staff on protection principles, including on SGBV and Child Protection. The incumbent will ensure the effectiveness and impact of case management interventions, improve the quality of protection reports and tracking systems, strengthen partnerships including with UN agencies, local authorities and INGOs and NNGOs. The incumbent will represent the organization externally through relevant coordination, such as in the SGBV and Child Protection working groups, as well as in high-level missions.

The incumbent will conduct focus group discussions with refugees as well as participate in the annual Participatory Assessment to identify key issues affecting their communities to inform UNHCR and partners programmatic response. He/she is also expected to interview and refer refugee cases with protection concerns when and as needed.

This position requires someone with excellent written and oral communication skills including report writing and the ability to exercise diplomacy when communicating information. He/she must be fluent in both written and spoken English and Arabic. He/she should be able to work independently with minimal supervision to meet tight deadlines, while always exercising UNHCR¿s Core Values of professionalism, integrity and respect for diversity. Flexibility, adaptability, teamwork, attention to details, and strong organizational skills are also essential for the successful fulfilment of the roles and responsibilities of this position. He/she should have demonstrated experience in managing relationships with different stakeholders, including partner NGOs, government authorities, UN agencies, etc. He/she should also have demonstrated managerial experience.

All UNHCR staff members are accountable to perform their duties as reflected in their job description. They do so within their delegated authorities, in line with the regulatory framework of UNHCR which includes the UN Charter, UN Staff Regulations and Rules, UNHCR Policies and Administrative Instructions as well as relevant accountability frameworks. In addition, staff members are required to discharge their responsibilities in a manner consistent with the core, functional, cross-functional and managerial competencies and UNHCR's core values of professionalism, integrity and respect for diversity.

Duties
- Assist functional units, the Multi-Functional Team (MFT) and senior management to integrate participatory and community-based approaches in the overall protection strategy and operational procedures.
- Through relationships with PoC and network of partners, stay abreast of political, social, economic and cultural developments that have an impact on the protection environment and provide advice to the protection team. Understand the perspectives, capacities, needs and resources of the PoC and advise the protection team accordingly, highlighting the specific protection needs of women and men, children, youth and older persons, persons with disabilities, marginalized groups.
- Work with host communities to identify opportunities for national civil society involvement in improving the protection of PoC.
- Work with 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 GBV.
- Perform analysis that identifies the capacities of communities of concern and risks they face.
- Contribute to participatory assessments and ongoing consultation with PoC using multifunctional teams.
- Plan and monitor programmes and budgets with an AGD perspective.
- Build capacity to maximize opportunities for participatory and community-based approaches and to make appropriate use of guidelines and tools in working with partners and other relevant entities.
- Support communities in establishing representation and coordination structures.
- Ensure community understanding of UNHCR's commitment to deliver on accountability and quality assurance in its response.
- Assist in developing UNHCR communication strategies by emphasizing the participatory, community-based and AGD approaches.
- Act as an interpreter in exchange of routine information, contribute to related liaison activities and respond directly to routine queries.
- Contribute to 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, with external interlocutors, groups and individuals based on agreed parameters.
- Identify and select which individuals or groups to prioritize for counselling and field visits based on agreed criteria.
- Intervene with authorities on protection.
- Enforce compliance of staff and implementing partners with global protection policies and standards of professional integrity in the delivery of protection services.
- As instructed by the supervisor, approve individual payment requests for PoC. 
- Perform other related duties as required.