Job Description

Title: Senior Field Associate

Company Name: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Representation in Bangladesh

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Cox's Bazar

Employment Status: Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ Years of Experience / Degree Level:
∎ For G7: 4 years relevant experience with High school diploma, OR
∎ 2 years relevant experience with Bachelor's degree or equivilant or Higher level Degree
∎ Certificates and/or Licenses:
∎ Business Administration, Law, Political Science - desirable only

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 2 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ Vacancy Notice No. VA/BGDCO/FTA/2020/011
∎ Category/grade: General Service, G7
∎ Post Number: 10033641, 10033642
∎ Type of contract: Fixed-term Appointment
∎ Location: Cox`s Bazar, Bangladesh (ISCG Office)
∎ Date of Issue: 12 August 2020
∎ The Effective Date of Assignment: As soon as possible

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Undertake regular visits to various sites in order to assess needs of persons of concern, with particular attention to vulnerable groups.
∎ Advise the supervisor on programme requirements and formulate project submissions, including community development and self-reliance activities, where applicable, in collaboration with authorities and implementing partners.
∎ Monitor and supervise the implementation of UNHCR programme including the delivery of all assistance items and monitoring of infrastructure and make the necessary recommendation for its improvement.
∎ Keep regular contacts with local authorities and implementing partners as requested by supervisor.
∎ Act as interpreter when required.
∎ Contribute to the preparation of status and progress reports by providing info, preparing tables, etc.
∎ Monitor refugee movements related to repatriation and other inter-camps transfers.
∎ Inform and act on the reports received on persons of concern within the refugee community or from the local authorities.
∎ Handle, in coordination with implementing partners, the reception, registration and provision of assistance to persons of concern to UNHCR.
∎ Negotiate with local authority counterparts, partners and populations of concern.
∎ Represent UNHCR in physical monitoring of projects.
∎ Provide inputs for the country operations plan and other submissions and reports.
∎ Perform other related duties as required.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Relevant Job Experience:
∎ Essential:
∎ Knowledge of International legal affairs relating to asylum, migration and related issues.
∎ Desirable:
∎ Completion of UNHCR learning programmes or specific training relevant to functions of the position. UNHCR field experience.
∎ Functional Skills:
∎ *IT-Computer Literacy
∎ EX-Field experience with UNHCR and/or with other humanitarian organizations
∎ MS-Drafting, Documentation, Data Presentation
∎ CL-Multi-stakeholder Communications with Partners,
∎ PG-Programme Management (project formulation, programme cycles and reporting standards)
∎ (Functional Skills marked with an asterisk* are essential)
∎ Language Requirements:
∎ Knowledge of English and/or UN working language of the duty station if not English.
∎ Competency requirements:
∎ Core Competencies:
∎ Accountability
∎ Communication
∎ Organizational Awareness
∎ Teamwork & Collaboration
∎ Commitment to Continuous Learning
∎ Client & Result Orientation
∎ Managerial Competencies:
∎ Empowering and Building Trust
∎ Managing Performance
∎ Cross-Functional Competencies:
∎ Analytical Thinking
∎ Planning and Organizing
∎ Stakeholder Management
∎ Eligibility:
∎ Interested staff members should consult the Administrative Instruction on Recruitment and Assignment of Locally Recruited Staff (RALS, UNHCR/AI/2020/1/Rev.1). If you have questions regarding your eligibility, you may also contact the HR Unit.
∎ In line with the RALS, the below category of candidates are eligible to apply for internally/externally advertised vacancies.
∎ Group 1 candidates: Group 1 comprises current GS staff members holding an indefinite or fixed-term appointment who, at the date of the deadline for application, are serving in the country of the vacancy at the grade of the position or one grade below or above.
∎ Group 2 candidates: Group 2 comprises candidates from the below categories after completion of one cumulative or continuous year of service in the country of the vacancy. They must also meet the essential minimum requirements of the position.
∎ Currently employed locally recruited UNHCR staff members holding a Temporary Appointment;
∎ Former locally recruited UNHCR staff members who held an indefinite or fixed-term appointment (within 2 years of separation for males and 5 years for females);
∎ National United Nations Volunteers currently working for UNHCR;
∎ National UNOPS and individual contractors currently working for UNHCR;
∎ Current GS staff members holding an indefinite or fixed-term appointment applying to a position in the same category two grades above the staff member's personal grade;
∎ Current UNHCR staff members in the International Professional category holding an indefinite or fixed-term appointment applying to a GS post;
∎ Current UNHCR staff members in the NPO category holding an indefinite or fixed-term appointment applying to a GS post;
∎ Current locally recruited female staff members from other UN system Organizations holding the equivalent of an indefinite or fixed-term appointment.
∎ External candidates: External candidates are candidates who are not in Group 1 or Group 2. They must meet the essential minimum requirements of the position and candidates not citizens of the country must comply with all eligibility requirements for employment in line with the prevailing legislative prerequisites in the country.

Compensation & Other Benefits:

Application Deadline: 25 Aug 2020

Company Information:
∎ 13 Aug 2020
∎ United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Representation in Bangladesh
∎ Business : International UN Refugee Agency
Humanitarian assistance

Category: NGO/Development

Source: bdjobs.com

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