Community-Based Protection Assistant (G4) (m/w/d)

Vacancy Announcement

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) National Office in Austria

is seeking a

Community-Based Protection Assistant (G4)

Requirements

* Relevant Job Experience
* Excellent written and oral command of German (C2) and English (C1)
* Excellent computer skills, in particular in MS Office applications
* Excellent communication and intercultural skills
* Knowledge of international, EU as well as national refugee / asylum law
* Knowledge of the legal, judicial and political system as well as the reception system in Austria
* Excellent drafting skills
* Previous work experience with UNHCR (particularly in Austria) an asset
* Demonstrated work in the reception context desirable
* Demonstrated work experience with child and women asylum-seekers desirable

Main responsibilities

* Deal with cases of asylum-seekers and refugees which exceptionally need follow-up on the part of UNHCR.
* Advocate for family reunification for refugees and beneficiaries of subsidiary protection and follow-up on individual hardship cases with other UNHCR Offices, the asylum authority and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
* Organize and conduct missions to reception and detention centres, including participatory assessments with persons of concern to UNHCR, with special focus on child protection and prevention and response to GBV and draft reports on identified good practices as well as challenges.
* Build and maintain contacts with relevant junior civil servants of federal and provincial authorities, with guardians and legal representatives of unaccompanied and separated asylum-seeking children as well as with NGO representatives and lawyers with the aim to address possible protection concerns, notably in individual cases.
* Through relationships with asylum-seekers and refugees and a network of partners, understand the perspectives, capacities, needs and resources of asylum-seekers and refugees and advise the protection team and external partners accordingly, highlighting the specific protection needs of women and men, children, youth and older persons, persons with disabilities, marginalized groups.
* Draft reports and correspondence concerning protection-related issues.
* Assist in the enforcement of participatory age-, gender- and diversity-sensitive analysis as an essential basis for all of UNHCR's work.
* As back-up for the Senior Protection Assistant, assess individual cases submitted to UNHCR Austria by the Federal Office of Immigration and Asylum (BFA) in the context of the so-called "airport procedure" - an accelerated procedure for asylum applications filed at the airport - by case-specific legal analysis as well as research concerning the human rights situation in countries of origin on the internet;
* Assist in managing and supervising Protection Unit interns.
* Support the Senior Protection Associate and the Head of Office as required.

We offer:

Initial fixed-term employment of six months from 1 July 2024 with possible prolongation by another six months until 30 June 2025

Annual Net Salary according to UN salary scale, starting at EUR 48,500

Applications can only be accepted through the following link:

Careers (myworkdayjobs.com)

Deadline: 20 May 2024

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interviews.

www.unhcr.at

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