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UNHCR Social Work Jobs – Community Services Assistant at United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Job Title: Community
Services Assistant
Services Assistant
Organisation: United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees (UNHCR)
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.
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
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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