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Assist functional units, the Multi-Functional Team (MFT) and senior management to integrate participatory and community-based approaches in the overall protection strategy and operational procedures.

Through relationships with PoC and network of partners, stay abreast of political, social, economic and cultural developments that have an impact on the protection environment and provide advice to the protection team.

Understand the perspectives, capacities, needs and resources of the PoC and advise the protection team accordingly, highlighting the specific protection needs of women and men, children, youth and older persons, persons with disabilities, marginalized groups.

Work with host communities to identify opportunities for national civil society involvement in improving the protection of PoC.

Work with implementing and operational partners as well as with displaced and local communities to develop community-owned activities to address, where applicable, the social, educational, psycho-social, cultural, health, organisational and livelihood concerns as well as child protection and prevention and response to GBV.

Perform analysis that identifies the capacities of communities of concern and risks they face.

Plan and monitor programmes and budgets with an AGD perspective.

Build capacity to maximize opportunities for participatory and community-based approaches and to make appropriate use of guidelines and tools in working with partners and other relevant entities.

Support communities in establishing representation and coordination structures.

Ensure community understanding of UNHCR's commitment to deliver on accountability and quality assurance in its response.

Assist in developing UNHCR communication strategies by emphasizing the participatory, community-based and AGD approaches.

Act as an interpreter in exchange of routine information, contribute to related liaison activities and respond directly to routine queries.

Contribute to the enforcement of participatory AGD sensitive analysis as an essential basis for all of UNHCR's work.

Initiate AGD sensitive interventions at the appropriate level on community-based protection issues and to respond to protection concerns and incidents within the office, with external interlocutors, groups and individuals based on agreed parameters.

Identify and select which individuals or groups to prioritize for counselling and field visits based on agreed criteria.

Intervene with authorities on protection.

Enforce compliance of staff and implementing partners with global protection policies and standards of professional integrity in the delivery of protection services.

As instructed by the supervisor, approve individual payment requests for PoC.

Support the identification and management of risks and seek to seize opportunities impacting objectives in the area of responsibility.

Ensure decision making in risk based in the functional area of work. Raise risks, issues and concerns to a supervisor or to relevant functional colleague(s).

Perform other related duties as required.