Hardship Level (not applicable for home-based)D
Family Type (not applicable for home-based)
Family
Staff Member / Affiliate TypeInternship
Target Start Date2023-09-01
Job Posting End DateAugust 8, 2023
Terms of ReferenceUNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is offering a full-time internship with the Community-based Protection Unit at UNHCR Cox’s Bazar.
Established in December 1950, UNHCR is a global organization dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights and building a better future for asylum seekers, refugees, returnees, internally displaced communities and stateless people. Every year, millions of men, women and children are forced to flee their homes to escape conflict and persecution. UNHCR currently operates in over 130 countries, using its long expertise to protect and care for millions.
Title: Intern (Community-Based Protection)
Duty Station: Cox’s Bazar
Duration: 1 September 2023 to 29 February 2024
Contract Type: Internship
Organizational context
Since August 2017, under the leadership of the Government of Bangladesh (GoB), UNHCR has undertaken a large-scale response to provide protection and assistance to Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, who fled violence and persecution in Rakhine State. As of 31 December 2022, 952,309 Rohingya refugees were residing in Bangladesh’s Chittagong Division, with 923,358 of them living in 33 extremely congested camps formally designated by the GoB in Cox’s Bazar District. The remaining 28,951 Rohingya refugees reside on Bhasan Char, an island located 60km from the Bangladesh mainland, and were relocated from Cox’s Bazar by the GoB as part of a project to decongest the camps.
UNHCR’s Community-based Protection Unit works to engage refugee communities as agents of their own protection in the camps. The unit aims to provide refugees with information, skills and opportunities to strengthen their resilience and that of their communities. The CBP Unit has four pillars: community outreach, communication with communities (including religious engagement), community representation, and community groups. Fundamental to all these pillars is a continuous engagement with communities, collecting feedback on diverse issues and ensuring appropriate responses.
The position
The CBP Intern will play a vital role in supporting the unit to collate, analyse, share and respond to information coming from communities. In particular, the CBP Intern will support community consultations, analysis of Field Insights Tool reports and referrals, and will coordinate with other units on responses to community issues. Field visits, with support of UNHCR staff, may be required to properly undertake this work.
Duties and responsibilities
• Support the organisation, compilation, analysis, reporting and follow up of community consultations.
• Develop a facilitation guide and training module for community consultations.
• Develop a sustainable data collection and analysis system for qualitative information collected through partner and staff field reports.
• Participate in CBP Unit meetings, trainings and missions as required and/or as relevant to learning objectives.
• Support the CBP Unit with ad hoc duties and requests as assigned by the CBP Officer.
• Undertake all UNHCR mandatory trainings and those relevant to CBP.
Minimum qualifications required
In order to be considered for an internship, candidates must meet the following eligibility criteria:
• Be either a recent graduate (having completed their studies within two years of applying) or a current student in a graduate/undergraduate school programme from a university or higher education facility accredited by IAU/UNESCO; and
• Have completed at least two years of undergraduate studies in a field relevant or of interest to the work of UNHCR.
• Excellent verbal and writing communication skills in English are required.
• Understanding/Speaking abilities of the Rohingya language is required.
• Proficiency with Microsoft applications, in particular Word and Excel, is required.
Desirable qualifications and skills
• Experience in working with refugees, or with community development or mobilisation activities is desirable.
• Experience in data analysis applications such as PowerBI is desirable.
• Experience in information analysis and clear and concise report drafting.
Conditions
It is a full-time role with working hours starting from 8.00am to 5:00pm Sunday to Thursday (40 hours per week). The successful candidate will be assigned to support the team in Cox’s Bazar Bangladesh.
Allowance: Interns who do not receive financial support from an outside party will receive an allowance to partially help to cover the cost of food, local transportation and living expenses.
The UNHCR workforce consists of many diverse nationalities, cultures, languages and opinions. UNHCR seeks to sustain and strengthen this diversity to ensure equal opportunities as well as an inclusive working environment for its entire workforce. Applications are encouraged from all qualified candidates without distinction on grounds of race, colour, sex, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation and gender identity.
UNHCR does not charge a fee at any stage of its recruitment process (application, interview, meeting, travelling, processing or training.
We welcome applications from candidates with a refugee or stateless background.
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Other informationOnly Shortlisted candidates will be contacted for the Assessment Exercises for the recruitment of the position, which may include Written/Technical tests and/or Interviews, as applicable for the recruitment of the position.This position doesn't require a functional clearance