Job opportunities – UNHCR Rwanda

UNHCR is the UN Refugee Agency – mandated to ensure that refugees around the world are protected, assisted and enjoy human rights.

In Rwanda, UNHCR co-leads the response for refugees with the Government of Rwanda’s Ministry in charge of Emergency Management (MINEMA). UNHCR’s responsibility includes ensuring protection of refugees, such as registration, prevention of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), and protecting children; finding durable solutions for refugees; and providing multisectoral assistance ranging from shelter, water and sanitation, health and reproductive health, education, access to energy, etc. UNHCR assists refugees living in six refugee camps, three reception/transit centers, and also those living in urban areas.

As Rwanda is one of the smallest countries in Africa and the continent’s most densely populated country, local integration remains challenging. UNHCR thus also works with the international community to help refugees living in Rwanda who lack prospects for returning home to find resettlement in third countries. UNHCR also supports thousands of Rwandan returnees who are coming home since the 1951 Convention Cessation Clause was invoked in June 2013. With the Government and UN and NGO partners, UNHCR receives and assists returnees to reintegrate in Rwanda and rebuild their lives here.

Open positions

1.Data Management Assistant in replacement Capacity

This position is advertised open to internal and external applicants.Procedures and EligibilityInterested applicants should consult the Administrative Instruction on Recruitment and Assignment of Locally Recruited Staff (RALS).Duties and Qualifications

Data Management Assistant

FUNCTIONAL STATEMENT

Accountability

– The Office has reliable and up-to-date data on persons of concern.

Responsibility

– Enter data mainly related to asylum seekers, refugees and persons of concern to UNHCR into the computer database.
– Contribute to the preparation of reports and project documents by providing information, preparing tables and drafting routine correspondence and reports.
– Update and maintain existing databases and generate various statistical reports.
– Assist in the development of forms for data collection and analysis, if requested.
– Act as interpreter in the exchange of routine information and translate routine documents and correspondence as and when required.
– May be required to undertake field trips to project sites.
– Perform any other duty, as requested.

Authority

– Decide on the data recorded in database.
– Decide on appropriate resolution to incidents and escalate issues to the supervisor if incident cannot be resolved within the scope of responsibility.

ESSENTIAL MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

– 1 year relevant experience with High School Diploma; or Bachelor or equivalent or higher
in Electronic data processing, Information Technology or related field.

(In offices where the working language is not English, excellent knowledge of the UN working language of duty station and working knowledge of English.)

DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS & COMPETENCIES

– Knowledge of any other relevant UN or local language.
– Completion of  UNHCR learning programmes or specific training relevant to functions of the position.Language Requirements

– Fluency in English and working knowledge of another relevant UN language or local language.

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT

The position is normally supervised by a Professional or Senior General Service staff member who provides the incumbent with regular guidance and support. The position has no supervisory role.

Contacts are mainly with the colleagues in the same duty station to exchange information and to discuss the work plans. External contacts are not frequent. In the Field locations, under supervision of the manager, the incumbent may play a liaison role with the national and local authorities for gathering and exchange of data.Closing Date : Closing date for submissions or applications is 02 November 2020.How to applyTo apply,please visit UNHCR Recruitment portal and follow the instructions

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2. Senior Protection Assistant

Eligible ApplicantsThis position is advertised open to internal and external applicants.Procedures and Eligibility

Interested applicants should consult the Administrative Instruction on Recruitment and Assignment of Locally Recruited Staff (RALS).Duties and Qualifications

Senior Protection Assistant

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

– Consistently apply International and National Law and applicable UN/UNHCR and IASC policy, standards and codes of conduct.
– Provide counselling on protection issues to PoC; liaise with competent authorities to ensure the issuance of personal and other relevant documentation.
– Support activities in protection related 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 measures to identify, prevent and reduce statelessness.
– Contribute to a country-level child protection plan as part of the protection strategy.
– Contribute to a country-level education plan for PoC 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 PoC in voluntary repatriation, local integration and where appropriate, resettlement.
– Contribute to the design, implementation and evaluation of protection related AGD based programming with implementing and operational partners.
– Draft reports, routine correspondence, update relevant databases and compiling statistics within the Area of Responsibility (AoR).
– Contribute to initiatives to enhance national and local protection capacities.
– Select PoC for preliminary interviews and decide which relevant information to share.
– Enforce integrity in the delivery of protection services by local implementing partners.
– Perform other related duties as required.

Minimum Qualifications

Education & Professional Work Experience

Years of Experience / Degree Level

G5 – 2 years relevant experience with High School Diploma; or 1 year relevant work experience with Bachelor or equivalent or higher

Field(s) of Education- Not applicable

Certificates and/or Licenses

International Law; Political Science;

Relevant Job Experience

Essential: Not specified.

Desirable: Not specified.

Functional Skills

IT-Computer Literacy
CL-Protection & Solutions Awareness
PR-Protection-related guidelines, standards and indicators
PR-Refugee Protection Principles and Framework
(Functional Skills marked with an asterisk* are essential)Language RequirementsKnowledge of English and/or UN working language of the duty station if not English.Operational Context

Organizational Setting and Work Relationships:

The Senior Protection Assistant normally reports to a more senior Protection colleague. The incumbent monitors protection standards, operational procedures and practices in protection delivery in line with international standards and provides functional protection support to information management and programme staff.

The Senior Protection Assistant provides quality, timely and effective protection support to persons of concern (PoC) and identifies opportunities to mainstream protection methodologies and safeguards in operational responses. S/he contributes to designing a comprehensive protection strategy and may liaise externally with local authorities and partners on protection issues as guided by the supervisor.

The Senior Protection Assistant also ensures that PoC are involved in making decisions that affect them, whether in accessing their rights or in identifying appropriate solutions to their problems. To achieve this, the incumbent will need to build and maintain effective interfaces with communities of concern, local authorities and protection and assistance partners.Closing Date : Closing date for submissions or applications is 02 November 2020.

How to apply

To apply,please visit UNHCR Recruitment portal and follow the instructions.

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