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CONSULTANCY - TERMS OF REFERENCE

UNRWA is a United Nations agency established by the General Assembly in 1949 and is mandated to provide assistance and protection to a population of some 5.5 million registered Palestine refugees. Its mission is to help Palestine refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, West Bank and the Gaza Strip to achieve their full potential in human development, pending a just solution to their plight. UNRWA’s services encompass education, health care, relief and social services, camp infrastructure and improvement, microfinance and emergency assistance. UNRWA is the largest UN operation in the Middle East with more than 30,000 staff. UNRWA is funded almost entirely by voluntary contributions.**

Consultancy- Protection Coordination

(International)

BACKGROUND

In recent years UNRWA has strengthened the implementation of its protection mandate and the Agency’s approach to protection has evolved accordingly. Protection and human development are mutually reinforcing goals for UNRWA, and both are upheld in the Agency’s Medium-Term Strategy (MTS) 2016-2021. The Agency started a process for the re-structuring of protection to further concretize its commitment to the centrality of protection in its services delivery with a new Protection Strategic Framework being defined and a new organizational design. Both require strengthening coordination data collection, monitoring and evaluation, and reporting on protection results.

To this end, UNRWA is seeking the recruitment of a consultant to support protection coordination data collection, and reporting in the Protection Division in headquarters.

Description of Duties and Responsibilities

Under the direct supervision of the Chief Protection Division and as part of the Protection Division at UNRWA headquarters in Amman, the Protection Coordinator is responsible for coordinating activities to ensure that data is collected around human rights protection risks, indicators, and deliverables and feeds in UNRWA strategic planning and reporting processes in conjunction with thematic leads in the protection division, the department of Planning and other relevant HQ departments, protection staff in all the fields of operation: Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, West Bank and the Gaza Strip. In accordance with the established Agency policy and procedures, particularly in relation to protection, the incumbent will:

Research, data analysis and reporting (60%)

• Oversee the data collection, analysis and reporting of protection results across the agency and consolidate the inputs of the different field offices, including in relation to gender, disability, child protection, protection vulnerabilities, monitoring, reporting and advocacy.
• Act as the main focal point for substantive inputs of the Protection Division into key reports of the Agency including the Annual Operational Report, the Commissioner-General’s report to the General Assembly, etc and select external UN reports.
• Coordinate inputs on protection to relevant resource mobilization documents including the UNRWA emergency appeals for Syria and the occupied Palestinian territory.
• Produce both internal and external up-dates, briefing documents, and other reporting products that provide visibility and awareness of UNRWA’s protection work.
• Oversee the modernisation of UNRWA protection data capture and analysis tools and knowledge management systems
• Support efforts to update Agency-wide indicators for protection outcomes in line with strategic goals and data capture, spearheading the development of methodologies for data dashboards on priority issues (gender, disability, and protection vulnerabilities)
• Contribute to analysis and research on different protection and human rights issues that affect Palestine refugees across the Agency’s areas operation.
• Help with the drafting of funding proposals for the Protection Division on related topics and reporting on them.

Coordination (20%)

• Support production of data and analysis on protection issues across fields, including soliciting input from focal points
• Provide support to the coordination mechanisms on protection in UNRWA which may include the secretariat of agency-wide Protection Working Groups, ad hoc working groups on the situation of Palestinian refugees from Syria and the International Protection individual case management function, and contribute to external working groups, clusters and co-ordination functions as required
• Assist to design and organise trainings and workshops to convene protection staff and focal points from across the agency.

Guidance (10%)

• Provide research and inputs on the drafting of needs assessments, guidance and policy documents on protection issues, including protection considerations in emergency settings
• Contribute to the finalization, distribution and maintenance of different publications and guidance documents provided by the protection team including through modernised knowledge management.

Advocacy (10%)

• Provide substantive input and support to the drafting of advocacy documents that analyse and synthesize different protection and human rights issues for a range of stakeholders.
• Provide inputs on different communications materials and documents.
• Support organisation of advocacy events and briefings for different audiences.

minimum Qualifications and Experience

· Advanced university degree from an accredited educational institution in public or business administration, social sciences, international law, international relations or related discipline;

· Minimum five years of relevant professional experience including at the field level in the area of protection programming and mainstreaming, including at least two years of international experience outside one’s home country;

· Experience in the design, development, implementation, evaluation and monitoring of protection-tailored projects and with humanitarian programme management;

· Fluency in spoken and written English.

Competencies

· Leadership of complex strategy and guidance processes Agency-wide to develop and take forward protection coordination activities, data-collection, and reporting;

· In-depth knowledge of best practice approaches to protection monitoring and data collection;

· Planning and organization of data collection and reporting in relation to protection;

· Excellent communication skills (both written and oral) and demonstrated ability to handle sensitive situations diplomatically;

· Excellent report drafting skills;

· Ability to establish and maintain effective working relations with staff and outside collaborators including community; ability to interact effectively and with discretion with colleagues and external partners of differing levels of seniority and different professional and cultural backgrounds;

CONDITIONS OF SERVICE

· The duration of this Consulting Services is initially for 11 months, renewable subject to satisfactory performance, requirement and funds availability.

· Remuneration for this consultancy is equivalent to a P3 level.

· The consultant is expected to be based in the Protection Division in UNRWA Headquarters Amman.

APPLICATION PROCESS

Applicants should submit a cover letter and CV or UN Personal History Form demonstrating clearly the knowledge and experience required to meet the consultancy requirements via consultancy@unrwa.org indicating the title of this consultancy “**Consultancy- Protection Coordination**” in the subject line of the message. The deadline for the submission of applications is 8 August 2021.

UNRWA is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from both women and men. UNRWA encourages applications from qualified women. Only those applicants shortlisted for interview will be contacted. UNRWA is a non-smoking environment.