The Protection Assistant will work under the supervision of the Senior Community-based Protection Associate at the Field Office in Kos to whom s/he will report on a weekly basis.
The incumbent shall perform the following duties:
- Assist in the identification, referral, preparation and roll out of the transfers for PWSN and other individuals to pre-selected alternative accommodation on the islands of Kos and Tilos and in the mainland.
- Consistently apply International and National Law and applicable UN/UNHCR and IASC policy, standards and codes of conduct.
- Provide information upon arrival in group sessions and individual counselling on protection issues to persons of concern; 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 persons of concern 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 asylum, border and detention policies, procedures and practices and on cases of detention, refoulement, expulsion and other protection incidents.
- Assist in the enrolment, verification and certification exercises for the provision of cash assistance to the accommodated population at the Reception Identification Centers and alternative UNHCR accommodation.
- Assist in identifying durable solutions for persons of concern 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.
- Assist in drafting weekly situation reports, routine correspondence, updating relevant databases and compiling statistics for the protection unit / section.
- Contribute to initiatives to enhance national and local protection capacities
- Perform other protection-related activities as requested by the Head of Field Office in Kos and the Senior Community-based Protection Associate in Kos.
