Senior Protection Assistant - Prt032 - Beirut For The South (G5 Unops - Affiliated Workforce)

- Conduct regular travel to the field to follow up on the overall protection situation in refugee settlements and other areas where refugees have been accommodated. - Counsel individual asylum seekers and refugees to manage their expectations on protection, assistance and durable solutions. - Identify vulnerable asylum seekers and refugees and refer cases through the right channels for further assistance. - Conduct protection interviews, maintain a counselling database and provide regular input on daily actions specified above; - Support activities and contribute to the design, implementation and evaluation in protection related to AGD based programming with implementing and operational partners. - Conduct preliminary information gathering and interviews in support of eligibility, status determination, durable solutions and social needs assessment. - Contribute to a child protection plan as part of the protection strategy. - Monitor Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for all protection/solutions activities. - Participate in individual protection case management including cases of SGBV and child protection. Monitor and report on cases of refoulement, expulsion and other protection incidents. - Assist in identifying durable solutions for persons of concern in voluntary repatriation, local integration and where appropriate, resettlement. - Assist in drafting reports, routine correspondence, updating relevant databases and compiling statistics for the protection unit / section. - Contribute to initiatives to enhance national and local protection capacities.