Senior Protection Associate G7 (Fixed Term Appointment)

Joining UNHCR means serving refugees and other displaced populations, ensuring their protection, and seeking adequate solutions for their situation. It also means living, sharing, and promoting the organization’s core values relating to inclusion, diversity, and gender equality. 

We offer careers, not just jobs, and take pride in going the extra mile to serve people in need. Every day, our teams use their skills to find innovative, long-lasting solutions that better support the people we serve. UNHCR offers a variety of local short-term and fixed-term contracts through which you can make a positive difference in refugees’ lives. 

Dreaming of a career within the UN system? 

UNHCR is seeking to hire motivated candidates for the Senior Protection Associate role at the in Iasi, Romania to support the section. These opportunities are excellent steppingstones for UNHCR and the UN system. 

Senior Protection Associate G7 (Fixed Term Appointment) 

Salary 

A competitive tax-exempted salary. For more information, you may wish to visit the UNDP Public Website.  

Benefits                                                  

Family allowances 

Depending on your contract type, you may be entitled to family allowances, including dependency allowances if you have an eligible dependent spouse and/or child(ren) and, under certain conditions. 

Holidays and leave 

Depending on your contract type, you will be entitled to 18 to 30 days of vacation per year. In addition, staff members have the option to take periods of Uncertified Sick Leave for up to 7 working days during an annual leave cycle for non-certified medical issues and/or family-related reasons. 

Maternity, paternity, adoption 

Staff members of any gender or sex can benefit from parental leave entitlements, regardless of how they become parents. This includes mothers, fathers, parents via surrogacy or adoption, and primary and secondary caregivers 

Tax exemption 

Salaries, grants, and allowances paid by the United Nations to staff are normally exempt from income tax. 

Health insurance 

Staff is eligible to participate in one of the United Nations-sponsored medical insurance plans, which include dental insurance. The monthly premiums are co-shared by yourself and the Organization. 

Retirement pension 

If you have a staff appointment of six months or more or complete six months of service without interruption, you become a participant in the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund. A compulsory contribution will be deducted from your monthly salary. 

Career Support 

Our career management, learning, performance management, and mobility programs ensure that staff is well equipped to advance in their careers. 

Join UNHCR and be part of our strong team, comprised of committed and engaged individuals from diverse nationalities, cultures, languages, and backgrounds. We seek to sustain and strengthen this diversity by upholding an inclusive working environment without distinction on the grounds of race, colour, sex, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and gender identity. 

 

• Stay abreast of political, social, economic, and cultural developments that have an impact on the protection environment. 

• Consistently apply International and National Law and applicable UN/UNHCR and IASC policy, standards, and codes of conduct. 

• Assist in providing comments on existing and draft legislation related to PoC.   

• Provide advice and guidance on protection issues to PoC; liaise with competent authorities to ensure the issuance of personal and other relevant documentation. 

• Assist in conducting eligibility and status determination for PoC in compliance with UNHCR procedural standards and international protection principles.  

• 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 as part of the protection strategy. 

• Assist the supervisor in implementing and monitoring Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for all protection/solutions activities. 

• Manage individual protection cases including those on GBV and child protection. Monitor, and assist the supervisor with intervening in cases of refoulement, expulsion and other protection incidents. 

• Assist in identifying durable solutions for the largest possible number of PoC through 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. 

• Contribute to and facilitate a programme of results-based advocacy with sectorial and/or cluster partners. 

• Facilitate effective information management through the provision of disaggregated data on PoC and their problems.  

• Participate in initiatives to capacitate authorities, relevant institutions, and NGOs to strengthen national protection related legislation and procedures. 

• Assist the supervisor with intervening with authorities on protection issues. 

• Provide assistance to the supervisor in deciding priorities for reception, interviewing and counselling for groups or individuals. 

• Assist the supervisor with enforcing compliance of staff and implementing partners with global protection policies and standards of professional integrity in the delivery of protection services. 

• Assist the supervisor with enforcing compliance with, and integrity of, all protection standard operating procedures. 

• Recommend and prepare payments to individual cases.