| Snr safety Officer |
Organizational Setting and Work Relationships
inside the Bureaux, the Senior safety Officer works beneath the direct supervision of the Bureau Deputy Director or Head of Bureau safety Service or Senior safety Coordinator. inside the sector, the incumbent usually stories to the consultant, Deputy or Assistant consultant (safety) or Head of Sub office as acceptable. The incumbent has direct supervisory obligation for cowl staff whose work might embody RSD, neighborhood-based mostly safety, registration, resettlement, inner displacement, complementary pathways, and training, amongst utterly different areas. In HQ, the incumbent might report again to a Chief of part or Deputy Director and ought to lead a Unit and/or supervise utterly different safety staff.
The incumbent acts as a key advisor to senior administration and leads the event of a full safety approach beneath the world of obligation (AoR). S/he represents the group to authorities, UN sister businesses, companions and utterly different stakeholders on safety coverage and doctrine.
The Senior safety Officer plans, leads and coordinates extreme quality, well timed and efficient safety responses to the wants of populations of concern beneath the AoR. This contains making sure that operational responses in all sectors are original in a safety optic, are in holding with and promote respect for related worldwide regulation and UNHCR’s doctrine, mainstream safety methodologies and combine safety safeguards. one other very important aspect of the incumbent¿s features is to be optimistic that that individuals of concern of all age, gender and different teams are involved with the office in making selections which have an effect on them, whether or not in accessing their rights or in figuring out and implementing acceptable options to their factors. To undertake this position effectively, the incumbent would possibly want to assemble and preserve efficient interfaces with utterly different related teams all by means of the operation or the Bureau (collectively with programme; PI and exterior relations; IM) and with DIP, communities of concern, authorities, safety and assist companions as effectively as to a broader community of stakeholders who can contribute to enhancing safety and attaining options.
All UNHCR staff members are accountable to carry out their duties as mirrored of their job description. They obtain this inside their delegated authorities, in line with the regulatory framework of UNHCR which incorporates the UN structure, UN staff guidelines and guidelines, UNHCR insurance coverage policies and Administrative instructions as effectively as to related accountability frameworks. as effectively as, staff members are required to discharge their duties in a trend in holding with the core, practical, cross-practical and managerial competencies and UNHCR¿s core values of professionalism, integrity and respect for range.
Duties
– current technical steering and assist to UNHCR and companions on all safety associated factors.
– preserve abreast of authorized, political, social, financial and cultural developments which have an influence on the safety setting.
– handle a consultative course of with authorities counterparts, companions and individuals of concern to develop and implement a full safety and options approach addressing the exact safety wants of males and women, kids, youth and older individuals, individuals with disabilities, individuals of numerous sexual orientation and/or gender identities (LGBTI individuals), individuals dwelling with HIV/AIDS; gender equality and Gender based mostly Violence (GBV) priorities with regard to these individuals.
– In operations making use of the Cluster strategy, make optimistic the response of the safety Cluster is grounded in a approach which covers all assessed and prioritized safety wants of the affected populations.
– be optimistic that the safety approach is absolutely constructed-in into the nation Operations Plan, the UN progress and assist Framework (UNDAF) and the Humanitarian nation workforce¿s frequent humanitarian response plan as effectively as to with the implementation of the worldwide Compact on Refugees and the Three 12 months approach on Resettlement and Complementary Pathways.
– Promote related worldwide, Regional and nationwide regulation and relevant UN/UNHCR and IASC coverage, requirements and codes of conduct and be optimistic that every one sectors and /or in clusters in relevant operations fulfil their duties in mainstreaming safety.
– Promote the implementation of the AGD coverage, collectively with UNHCR¿s up thus far commitments to women and women, and design, ship and monitor programmes on an AGD basis to deal with recognized safety wants.
– Develop, implement and monitor neighborhood-based mostly safety strategies and guarantee systematic utility and integration of participatory and neighborhood-based mostly approaches in safety and options planning, programming and methods.
– assist the institution of suggestions and response methods and the incorporation of suggestions acquired from individuals of concern into programme design and adaptation.
– information the operation inside the event and implementation of sturdy prevention, identification, and responses to fraud inside safety processes and procedures, collectively with registration, RSD, and resettlement, making sure the integrity of interventions throughout all safety actions.
– Oversee the administration of particular person safety circumstances collectively with these on GBV and youngster safety.
– current authorized advice and steering on safety factors to inner and exterior interlocutors; guarantee authorized assist is accessible to individuals of concern; liaise with competent authorities to be optimistic that the issuance of private and utterly different related paperwork to individuals of concern (collectively with women and others in want of civil documentation particularly delivery certificates).
– As designated knowledge safety focus, assist the information controller in ending up his or her duties regarding the information safety coverage (7.2 DPP).
– Oversee eligibility and standing dedication inside the Operation(s) beneath the AoR, making sure compliance with UNHCR procedural requirements and worldwide safety guidelines.
– Promote and implement strategies and measures to decide, forestall and reduce again statelessness.
– Develop and implement an training plan as an aspect of the safety approach all by means of the AoR as related.
– Develop and implement a toddler safety plan as an aspect of the safety approach all by means of the AoR, making sure programmes use a toddler safety methods strategy.
– Monitor and intervene in circumstances of refoulement, expulsion and utterly different safety incidents by means of working relations with governments and utterly different companions.
– Work to safeguard the rights of individuals of considerations inside the context of mixed actions as related.
– Coordinate the preparation of, implement and oversee commonplace working Procedures (SOPs) for all safety/options actions.
– be optimistic that sturdy options by means of voluntary repatriation, native integration and the place acceptable, resettlement and complementary pathways are sought and supplied to the largest attainable quantity of individuals of concern collectively with endeavor, supporting, and/or overseeing resettlement and complementary pathways actions, collectively with implementation of the GCR Three 12 months approach.
– Coordinate the design, implementation and evaluation of safety associated programming with implementing and operational companions.
– Develop and implement a programme of outcomes-based mostly advocacy by means of a consultative course of with sectorial and/or cluster companions.
– be optimistic that the safety Sector or Cluster has an environment nice knowledge administration part which provides disaggregated knowledge on populations of concern and their factors.
– evaluation, buy and disseminate related safety knowledge and good practices to reinforce safety supply.
– Develop the safety performance of nationwide and native authorities, companions and civil society to imagine their duties vis-à-vis all individuals of concern by means of safety teaching, mainstreaming and associated actions.
– Coordinate performance-progress initiatives for communities and people to declare their rights.
– Advise and capacitate nationwide authorities, related institutions and civil society to strengthen legal guidelines and standing dedication procedures and mechanisms.
– carry out utterly different associated duties as required.
For positions in Bureaux
– assist the Regional Bureau and nation Operations to mirror the safety and decision angle in assist of individuals of concern with regional processes.
– assist nation Operations inside the event of strategies to assemble and extra develop nationwide asylum/RSD methods with a view to making sure their equity, effectivity, adaptability and integrity, beneficial safety setting and options.
– assist UNHCR administration at nation diploma to adjust to insurance coverage policies and dedication on safety from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse measures.
– assist nation Operations and guarantee they meet their complementary pathways goals and resettlement quotas.
– In shut collaboration with DIP, (a) contribute to the event of background and regular normative, coverage, and authorized positions, in compliance with UNHCR¿s world safety insurance coverage policies and requirements; (b) contribute to the event of strategies on the regional and nation diploma on the utilization of regulation and coverage approaches, collectively with legislative and judicial engagement and UN human rights mechanisms ¿and/or regional ones ¿ and utterly different safety frameworks, and constructed-in human rights requirements in safety strategies and advocacy; and (c) coordinate and evaluation UNHCR¿s nation stories to the UN human rights mechanisms.
– work together in related worldwide and regional fora and forge regional partnerships to advocate for key safety and mandate factors, and have interplay in cross-reducing safety-associated issues, collectively with mixed movement, inner displacement and local climate change/disaster-associated displacement responses, as effectively as to Statelessness in cooperation with DIP and the place related RSD.
minimal skills
Years of expertise / diploma diploma
For P4/NOD – 9 years related expertise with Undergraduate diploma; or eight years related expertise with Graduate diploma; or 7 years related expertise with Doctorate diploma
discipline(s) of training
regulation, worldwide regulation, worldwide refugee regulation, worldwide Human Rights regulation,
worldwide Humanitarian regulation, Refugee and compelled Migration, Political Sciences
or utterly different related discipline.
(discipline(s) of training marked with an asterisk* are important)
Certificates and/or Licenses
safety studying Programme RSD-Resettlement studying Programme
administration studying Programme
(Certificates and Licenses marked with an asterisk* are important)
related Job expertise
important
minimal 7 years of related expert expertise inside the world of refugee safety, inner displacement, human rights or worldwide humanitarian regulation, collectively with expertise in working straight with discipline workplaces. glorious knowledge of worldwide Refugee and Human Rights regulation and expertise to use the related authorized guidelines, and of UNHCR¿s safety strategies and insurance coverage policies. glorious authorized evaluation, analytical abilities and drafting.
fascinating
numerous discipline expertise. Good IT abilities collectively with database administration abilities.
practical abilities
*PR-safety-associated solutions, requirements and indicators
*PR-Age, Gender and different (AGD)
PR-Refugee Coordination mannequin
PR-Human Rights Doctrine/requirements
PR-worldwide Humanitarian regulation
PR-evaluation of IDPs standing, Rights, Obligation
PR-full options Framework
LE-Judicial Engagement
PR-local climate change and disaster associated displacement
PR-Accountability to Affected people – guidelines and Framework
PR-Gender based mostly Violence (GBV) Coordination
(practical abilities marked with an asterisk* are important)
Language requirements
For worldwide expert and discipline Service jobs: knowledge of English and UN working language of the obligation station if not English.
For nationwide expert jobs: knowledge of English and UN working language of the obligation station if not English and native language.
For regular Service jobs: knowledge of English and/or UN working language of the obligation station if not English.
All UNHCR workforce members should individually and collectively, contribute in direction of a working setting the place every particular person feels safe, and empowered to carry out their duties. This contains by demonstrating no tolerance for sexual exploitation and abuse, harassment collectively with sexual harassment, sexism, gender inequality, discrimination and abuse of vitality.
As people and as managers, all ought to be proactive in stopping and responding to inappropriate conduct, assist ongoing dialogue on these issues and talking up and in search of steering and assist from related UNHCR sources when these factors come up.
it is a commonplace Job Description for all UNHCR jobs with this job title and grade diploma. The Operational Context might comprise extra important and/or fascinating skills referring to the exact operation and/or place. Any such requirements are integrated by reference on this Job Description and would possibly seemingly be thought of for the screening, shortlisting and different of candidates.
Desired Candidate Profile
Desired Candidate Profile:
The incumbent would want to have:
– confirmed advocacy and persuasion abilities to work together with authorities authorities and to collaborate on tasks with a broad range of stakeholders, strategic pondering and cultural sensitivities;
– Demonstrated written and spoken communication abilities in English;
– earlier Programme-associated expertise;
– earlier expertise of working with PSP;
– expertise as a Deputy consultant/OIC an asset.
Nature of place:
– The Senior safety Officer works beneath the direct supervision of the consultant and with practical assist from the Regional Bureau of Asia and Pacific (RBAP) and the division of worldwide safety (DIP) in Headquarters.
– The Senior safety Officer possesses a regular expertise in safety advocacy and performance-progress vis-à-vis authorities, and civil society on worldwide refugee regulation and requirements to current extreme-extreme quality authorized advice, and facilitate full workshops specializing in Refugee standing dedication, as effectively as to options and integration.
– In a rustic that raises roughly 50 mil. USD a 12 months from the private sector, the Senior safety works carefully with the PSP workforce to broaden partnerships with the private and agency sector and enhance the safety setting for the individuals we serve.
– In-depth knowledge of and expertise with UNHCR’s consequence-based mostly administration system and COMPASS to coordinate the multi-12 months strategic planning of the operation, as effectively as to regular expertise in partnership administration and undertaking administration is required to information programme staff with the assist of RBAP.
– The incumbent of the place additionally should show organizational and political consciousness in relation to UNHCR’s contributions for emergency preparedness on the Korean peninsula, collectively with offering teaching and briefings to civilian ministries and the navy on refugee safety guidelines and key features of emergency response.
dwelling and dealing circumstances:
Seoul is an obligation station A with superior infrastructure and providers/items, as might even be anticipated in industrialized nations and H obligation stations. The office is in a industrial space subsequent to the Seoul metropolis hall and shut to the Ministry of overseas Affairs and utterly different NGO and authorities companions. the frequent price of dwelling inside the Republic of Korea is comparatively extreme. The capital metropolis of Seoul is the costliest place to reside inside the Republic of Korea. The housing lease value is extreme in Seoul as in contrast with utterly different areas inside the Republic of Korea. Medical providers in Korea are glorious; some predominant hospitals (Yonsei Severance Hospital and Kangbuk Samsung Hospital) are positioned shut to the office and current excellent medical wants for foreigners. The winter season inside the Republic of Korea is harsh, with temperatures round minus 10-15 levels Celsius from December to February, summers with over 30-32 levels, and a comparatively prolonged and sporadic moist season (North-East monsoon) between June and September.
although the Republic of Korea has a decrease crime charge than utterly different nations of comparable financial standing, there was a gradual enhance inside the quantity of road crimes in metropolis areas inside the Republic of Korea. Police statistics have mirrored the rise in arrest fees, whereas general crime statistics have remained regular for the previous years. over the previous few years, no crime incidents involving the UN staff nor damage to UN premises property have been reported. although political demonstrations and protests have been widespread at present, there was a marked decrease in violence associated to political rallies. The quantity of protests might be extreme, nonetheless the rallies are peacefully managed and usually set off any extreme disruption.
The Republic of Korea is at diploma 1 in line with the UNDSS safety risk/hazard evaluation. the precept ‘risk’ to safety comes from a attainable navy confrontation between North Korea and the Republic of Korea, as their 1950-fifty three battle ended with an armistice, not a peace settlement. regardless of a quantity of missile exams by North Korea at present, confrontation stays primarily verbal. The situation is frequently monitored, nonetheless, by the SMT, headed by a chosen Official for safety (UN-ESCAP Seoul), as effectively as to a Beijing-based mostly Regional safety Advisor (UNDSS).
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