Job Title: Senior Community Services Assistant
Company: UN High Commissioner For Refugees
Job Type: Full Time
Qualification: SSCE
Experience: 4 years
Location: Bauchi, Nigeria
Job Field: Administration/Secretarial NGO/Non-Profit
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Internal/External Vacancy Announcement
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Vacancy Notice No:2015/VA/03
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Post Title:Senior Community services Assistant
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Position Number:10023794
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Grade:GL-5
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Contract Type:Fixed Term Appointment
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Duration of Contract:One Year (with possibility of renewal)
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Duty Station:Bauchi, Nigeria
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Supervisor: Protection Officer
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Starting: 1st April 2015
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Deadline for Application:17 March 2015
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DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: – Under the supervision and guidance of the Protection Officer, the Senior Community services Assistant act as a critical interface between UNHCR and communities of concern, providing an AGD sensitive analysis of community risks and capacities that form the essential foundations to all UNHCR work in a given country context.
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Under the overall direction of the Protection Unit, and in coordination with other UNHCR staff, government, NGO partners and other stakeholders, s/he works directly with communities to leverage their capacities for community based protection. To fulfill this role, the Senior Community Services Assistant is required to spend a substantial percentage of their time working outside of the office, building and maintaining networks within communities of persons of concern.
. – The Supervisor will provide general guidance in accordance with the principles and human values of the United Nations and in adherence with the UNHCR Code of Conduct.
. – Assist functional units, the Multi-Functional 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 society groups in the protection of persons of concern. – Support 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 analyzing protection risks 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 from an 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. – Performs other duties as required.
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ESSENTIAL MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
· Completion of the Secondary education; Training in the related field of work.
· Minimum of 4 years previous relevant job experience.
· Computer skills (MS Office, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access).
· Fluency in English and working knowledge of local language
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DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS & COMPETENCIES:
· Knowledge of Administrative/financial rules, procedures, processes in the context of UNHCR offices and Field operations.
· UNHCR learning programmes (PLP).
· Knowledge of MSRP.
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