Associate Protection & Neutrality Officer, Band F At UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East

Support the integrated checks of UNRWA installations

• Follow up with inspectors to organise visits, Facilitate and/ or accompany visits

• Support the analysis and follow up of issues arising during visits, contributing to an area based plan as appropriate feeding into protection mainstreaming work

• Identify and carry out mural projects, working closely with community members

• Work with CAOs to resolve issues as requested Support UNRWA staff to ensure that services are safe and everyone, including particularly vulnerable groups and individuals, has safe, dignified and meaningful access to them.

• Advise as requested other UNRWA programmes to integrate protection principles and age, gender and diversity considerations

• Support protection audit activities and other mainstreaming initiatives from LFO

• Support training on protection to staff and partners as required

• Support other programmes to safely identify and refer cases on a systematic and ad-hoc basis

• Facilitate area level coordination meetings

• Raise issues and trends to Area Management team and LFO protection team

• Support individuals with particularly difficult cases to access UNRWA services Ensure that Palestine Refugees have access to appropriate individual support, safely identifying and referring cases. (PNA)

• Identify and refer Palestinian refugees and other vulnerable individuals to access UNRWA services and those of other partners

• Identify, document and refer appropriately cases of protection violations as appropriate

• Identify, document and refer cases for emergency cash

• Ensure regular updating of reporting mechanisms

• Lead trend analysis discussions for the area. Ensure regular protection monitoring, analysis and response in the community

• Train and support focal points for protection monitoring

• Follow up with focal points to ensure forms are filled; Conduct quarterly protection monitoring meetings in camps

• Design and implement action plan based on protection monitoring together with focal points and with input from UNRWA protection staff

• Provide other service providers and other UNRWA programmes with regular updates and analysis on this context

• Support and take part in other assessments

• Work closely with the legal aid team to support Palestinian refugees to access legal aid services. Monitor the situation of PRS and identify actions to support their needs

• Interview PRS new arrivals on a regular basis and support their access to services and undertake regular surveys

• Support the legal team to meet regularly with PRS committees or groups and identify access cases

• Regularly monitor the protection situation of PRS through close consultation with them Coordinate work on the protection of Palestinian refugees at an area and camp level, acting as a bridge between the community and UNRWA

• Undertake service mapping or updating on an annual basis

• Play an active role in meetings at a camp level (CPNs, Women’s networks, others) and ensure information is relayed to appropriate UNRWA actors – and that UNRWA departments are linked to these groups

• Participate in protection working groups and ensure other actors have a good knowledge of UNRWA’s protection services, sharing trends analysis with them.

• Organise and coordinate visits as required

• Work closely with the legal team

• Maintain regular contact with women and girls’ committees, ensuring they are linked to UNRWA and feel valued