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Job Title:  Community Based Protection Assistant (8 Fresher Jobs)

Organisation: ALIGHT

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

About US:

ALIGHT, formerly the American Refugee Committee (ARC), is an international non-profit, non-sectarian organization that has provided humanitarian assistance and training to millions of beneficiaries over the last 40 years. In 2011, Alight helped nearly 2.5 million people get essential services to regain their health and take back control of their lives. Alight works with its partners and constituencies to provide opportunities and expertise to communities of refugees and internally displaced persons in seven countries in Africa, Asia and Europe, including Iraq, Kosovo, and in the Darfur region of Sudan and is currently providing for emergency relief and recovery in Haiti. Alight provides shelter, clean water and sanitation, health care, skills training, microcredit education, protection to help survivors of war and natural disasters to rebuild their lives with dignity, health care, security and self-sufficiency.

Job Summary:  Hello!  Alight is recruiting a Community Based Protection Assistant for our program in Uganda. You’re interested in joining us? Welcome, we’re happy you’re here!  A team with deep experience in co-designing solutions that create new value around the world. We know we need to always be better, and we believe in the power and abundance of everyday people, everywhere, to change the world with us.

A culture of radical accountability to our customers –as we help build a meaningful life for and with the displaced, we ask them what they want and then deliver on it.

The Community Based Protection Assistant will be responsible for empowering Persons with Special Needs to enhance Quality and healthy life for sustainability development. He / she will also be responsible for community involvement and ownership to enhance sustainability and empowerment of Refugees in the Settlement.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:  Under the supervision of the Community Based Protection officer contribute to achieving monthly targets for the sub sector

• Develop monthly plans for Community Based Protection program delivery  including expanding and managing community desks.
• Follow the standards and or principles of the respective thematic areas as well as ALIGHT guidelines and accountability standards.
• Carry out and support all outreach activities in the Refugees settlement such as mobilization, sensitization, counseling etc for Refugee to realize full potentials and build on self-mechanism.
• Responsible for effective and efficient follow up of individual cases of beneficiaries for support
• Conduct community leaders meetings including planning meetings, AGDM Verification and Needs assessment
• Support teams during the CRI distributions working with community mobilizers and case workers to establish litigation desks in the process of CRI distribution for POCs from Alight.

Peaceful Coexistence

• Lead on the delivery of the peaceful coexistence activity delivery engaging both refugee and host communities
• Lead on increasing community led activity delivery and community ownership of peaceful coexistence activities

Support to PSN:

• Participate from Alight the process of PSN profiling and ongoing risks analysis in order to design adequate responses.
• Ensure PSN support is provided as per needs assessment and profiling
• Conduct follow up field/ home visits to all PSNs and EVIs, reporting regularly their living and health conditions
• Contribute to proper documentation and filing of PSN cases.
• Case management of PSN with clear documentation

Strengthening of community structures:

• Responsible for providing support of community based structures in the settlement to Community Based Protection officer
• Responsible for managing the structures assigned by community services officer
• Participate and support community services officers in conducting needs assessment and providing, tracking and monitoring of support provided to 1. Community self-management structures 2. Community groups – as per agreed programs of UNHCR and BPRM
• Support in identification of capacity gaps of community structures and building their capacity.
• Engaging community structures on protection related issues, creating awareness and empowering them to reduce the number of risks in the community.

Strengthening of community:

• Participate and co lead the quality trainings – with pre and post-tests, training reports and clearly documenting impact of trainings on persons trained
• Leading in strengthening the Accountability to affected population (AAP) through meaningful engagement with community leaders and members.

Community Complaint Mechanism

• Responsible for functionality of all Complaint Response mechanism are fully functional (suggestion boxes, FRRM, Protection desks, Community structures)
• Share information on monthly trends on complaints received with community services officer to gauge which methods is working well and or not and putting in corrective actions
• Ensure completion of targets/ activities assigned for Accountability to Affected Population Plan (e.g. FGDs etc) – how, what, when, where, who is developed – all data received should be documented as per each sub sector
• Managing feedback on times as the complaint comes including internal /external referral for service provision.
• With guidance and instructions from the Alight protection staff, follow up on all protection related issues.
• Routinely share with each specific sector/partners the protection concern that are reported and can’t be handle by Alight
• Share findings of /weekly flash reports on major protection incidents and risks. in the settlement with protection Manager.
• Contribute in preparation of monthly and weekly activity and spending plans.
• Prepare daily, weekly and monthly reports to be submitted to the supervisor.
• Be in charge of organizing, mobilizing and facilitating international events days in the settlement such as Women days, World Refugees days, Youth days, 16 days of activism etc.
• Prepare daily, weekly and monthly reports to be submitted to the supervisor.
• Conduct strategic development and empowerment village informational meetings with the RWC leader
• Assess and report all relevant and emergency incidents as and when they occur in Community.
• Perform any other duties assigned.

Qualifications, Skills, and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Social work, Community Psychology, Education, Development studies
• A minimum of two years of working experience in Community Development services with an INGO
• Excellent report writing, communication and analytical skills.
• Work with minimum supervision.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks at a time and work effectively with colleagues from different backgrounds
• Strong computer skills.

How to Apply:

All suitably qualified and interested applicants should apply online at the link below.

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Deadline: 24th May 2024

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