UNHCR Social Work Jobs – Community Services Assistant at United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

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Organisation: United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees (UNHCR)
Position No.: 10020297
Reports to: Assistant Field Officer
Vacancy Notice: 021/2013
Duty Station: Rwamwanja, Uganda
About UNHCR:
The Office of
the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was established on December
14, 1950 by the United Nations General Assembly. The agency is mandated to lead
and co-ordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee
problems worldwide. Its primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and
well-being of refugees. It strives to ensure that everyone can exercise the
right to seek asylum and find safe refuge in another State, with the option to
return home voluntarily, integrate locally or to resettle in a third country.
It also has a mandate to help stateless people.
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
  • Assist
    in working with host communities to involve national civil society groups
    in improving the protection of persons of concern
  • Offer
    support implementing and operational partners as well as with displaced
    and local communities to develop community-owned activities to address the
    social, educational, psycho-social, cultural, health, organisational and
    livelihood concerns as well as child protection and prevention and
    response to GBV.
  • Assist
    in analyzing protection risk and capacities of communities of concern.
  • Support
    participatory assessments and ongoing consultation with persons of concern
  • Collect
    data for monitoring of programmes and budgets for the 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
  • Assist
    in the enforcement of participatory AGD sensitive analysis as an essential
    basis for all of UNHCR’s work
  • Take
    lead in the identification of individuals and groups to prioritize for
    counselling and field visits in an agreed criteria
  • Perform
    other duties as instructed.
Qualifications, Skills & Experience:
  • The
    prospective employee should have completed secondary education and possess
    post-secondary training in social sciences or social work.
  • The
    candidate should possess at least three years previous job experience in a
    related or similar job role
Personal Competencies:
  • Computer
    literacy skills
  • Fluency
    in both written and oral English.
  • Knowledge
    of another UN or local language
How to Apply: 
All Interested
candidates who meet the above criteria should submit their applications, under
confidential cover, quoting the Post No addressed to:
The Senior Administrative/ Finance Officer,
UNHCR Representation in Uganda,
P.O. Box, 3813, Kampala, Uganda

Deadline: 3rd October 2013 –
5pm

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