NOTICE OF PUBLICATION IN INTERNAL/EXTERNAL N°034/2015

Position Title: Associate Protection Officer

Position N°: 10024113

Position Location: Yaoundé

Duration: One Year(with possible extension)

Start date: Immediately

Position Grade: NOB

Deadline for submission on nominations: 15 July 2015

RESPONSABILITIES

Under the direct supervision of the Senior Protection Officer of the office in Yaounde, the incumbent will be assumed of the following functions:

• Stay abreast of political, social, economic and cultural developments that have an impact on the protection environment.
• Promote International and National Law and applicable UN/UNHCR and IASC policy, standards and codes of conduct.
• Foster their consistent and coherent interpretation and application through mainstreaming in all sectors and/or in clusters in applicable operations.
• 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.
• Conduct eligibility and status determination for persons of concern in compliance with UNHCR procedural standards and international protection principles.
• Promote and contribute to measures to identify, prevent and reduce statelessness.
• Contribute to a country-level child protection plan as part of the protection strategy to ensure programmes use a child protection systems approach.
• Contribute to a country-level education plan.
• Implement and oversee Standard Operating Procedures(SOPs) for all protection/solutions activities.
• Oversee and manage individual protection cases including those on SGBV and child protection. Monitor, and intervene in cases of refoulement, expulsion and other protection incidents through working relations with governments and other partners.
• Recommend durable solutions for the largest possible number of persons of concern through voluntary repatriation, local integration and where appropriate, resettlement.
• Assess resettlement needs and apply priorities for the resettlement of individuals and groups of refugees and other persons of concern.
• 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 through a consultative process with sectorial and/or cluster partners.
• 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 individual to assert their rights.
• Participate in initiatives to capacitate national authorities, relevant institutions and NGOs to strenghten national protection related legislation and procedures.

REQUIRED COMPETENCIES

• Education: University degree in Law, International Law, political sciences or related field.
• Job Experience: Minimum 4 years(2 years with advanced University degree) relevant professional experience.
• Excellent knowledge of English and working knowledge of another UN language.

DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS & COMPETENCIES

• Diverse field experience desirable.
• Good IT skills including database management skills.
• Completion of the Protection Learning Programme, RSD-Resettlement Learning Programme.

ELIGIBILITY

The internal candidates are the members of the staff of general services currently in service, who have been appointed by the CA process and have an appointment of indefinite duration or determined. Interested staff members should consult the Policy and procedures of UNHCR on the assignments of the locally recruited staff(PPAL).

External candidates must be legally present in Cameroon at the time of the request and of the recruitement.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF NOMINATIONS: 15 July 2015.

Les dossiers de candidature doivent comprendre:

• A letter of motivation signed
• A Personal History Form (P. 11) and/or the factsheet,
• A certificate of nationality
• A certified copy of the diploma
• The names and addresses of three persons of references.

NB: For external candidates, a Personal History (P. 11)(see on the site www.unhcr.org/recruit/p11new.doc)

• If you want to be considered(es) for this vacancy notice position, remove your folder under closed enveloppe in the post bod of the UNHCR no 7077 Yaounde / Cameroon with mention "candidacy for the position no. 10024113 of Associate Protection Officer to the attention of the Representative, UNHCR Representation in Cameroon, Neighborhood Bastos, 1,778 stree behind the Residence of the Ambassador of Nigeria, at the latest by 15/07/2015.
• Only selected candidates will be notified for the tests.
• Applications received after the deadline date of pulication will not be accepted.

IMPORTANT

• Only selected candidates will be called for a written test and an interview.
• The candidates must be of Cameroonian nationality.
• The requests received without the mention "candidacy for the position no. 10024113 of Associate Protection Officer" and/or after the deadline for the closure of the post will not be accepted.
• The women candidates are strongly encouraged.