Assistant Community Services Officer

-          Stay abreast of political, social, economic and cultural developments that impact on the protection environment. -          Assist in advising the country senior management on community-based protection aspects of the country protection strategies. -          Participate in consultative processes with government counterparts, partners and persons of concern to develop and implement community-based protection strategies. -          Establish links with inter-agency capacity building initiatives which promote participatory, community-based and AGD approaches. - Establish systems, including those managed by communities, to ensure that individual cases identified at the field level are assessed, referred as appropriate, and followed up using ProGres or other established case management systems. -          Assist in guiding programme/protection units, country offices and partners, in order to integrate participatory, community-based and AGD approaches in the overall protection strategy. -          Provide analyses on protection risks to communities of concern as well as their capacities and resources for community-based protection and self-protection initiatives.  -          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 SGBV. -          Assist in implementing regular participatory assessments and maintain on-going consultation with persons of concern using multifunctional teams. -          Assist in the planning and monitoring of programmes and budgets through an AGD perspective. -          Assist in reporting on the Unit's activities as well as implementing partners' activities. -          Assist in building Office capacity for community-based protection through training and establishing systems for community mobilization and participation of persons of concern. -          Contribute to UNHCR communications strategies by emphasizing the participatory and community-based and AGD approaches. -          Monitor community services budget and expenditures and advocate with senior management for (re)allocation of resources within the country envelope to meet new and/or outstanding needs.