UNHCR Assistant Refugee Status Determination Officer Jobs 2024 – Uganda NGO Jobs

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UNHCR Assistant Refugee Status Determination Officer Jobs 2024 – Uganda NGO Jobs.

UNHCR Uganda looking for “Assistant Refugee Status Determination Officer”.

Applicants with a University Degree may apply on or before January 29, 2024.

The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was created in 1950, during the aftermath of the Second World War, to help millions of Europeans who had fled or lost their homes. We had three years to complete our work and then disband.

The UNHCR has published a job vacancy announcement on January 15, 2024 for qualified Uganda’s to fill in the vacant post of Assistant Refugee Status Determination Officer to be based in Kampala, Uganda.

UNHCR Job Vacancy 2024

Duties

– Stay abreast of legal, political, security and other developments which impact on the protection environment, and in particular, on protection delivery through RSD.
– Assist in the development of the RSD strategy of the operation and in the annual planning exercise.
– Conduct RSD interviews and draft RSD Assessments in accordance with applicable standards and guidelines.
– Review and endorse RSD decisions and provide appropriate feedback and guidance to RSD staff.
– Maintain accurate and up-to date records and data related to work on individual cases.
– Provide counselling to asylum seekers and refugees.
– Assist in preventing and identifying fraud in RSD through oversight, advice and guidance to UNHCR staff, partners and persons of concern.
– Assist in monitoring RSD trends and in compiling and analysing RSD statistics related to RSD case processing to identify and respond to developments or issues impacting on the efficiency or quality of RSD decision-making, and to propose remedial measures.
– Conduct research on country of origin information (COI) and legal issues related to RSD and assist in maintaining a local repository of relevant information, guidelines and standards accessible to RSD staff in the operation
– Ensure that persons of concern, Government authorities and legal partners have accurate information on the RSD procedures, including UNHCR standards, policy and practice.
– Assist in developing and maintaining processes to ensure that persons of concern, Government authorities and partners have accurate information on the RSD procedures, including UNHCR standards, policies and practice.
– Assist in initiatives to advocate with and support Government authorities and legal partners to establish and strengthen fair and efficient RSD procedures and RSD decision-making.
– Assist in evaluating and projecting RSD staffing needs using the RSD Staffing Benchmarks.
– Decide and endorse RSD decisions.
– 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.

Position in Organization:

Full time
Posted Today
job requisition id: JR2435076
Location: Kampala, Uganda

Qualification:

1 year relevant experience with Undergraduate degree; or no experience with Graduate degree; or no experience with Doctorate degree.

Functional Skills

DM-Data Collection and Analysis
PR-Counselling Asylum Seekers or Refugees
CO-Drafting and Documentation
LE-Legal Research
PR-RSD – Principles and Procedures, operational arrangements/assistance
SO-Research
PR-Government Refugee Status Determination (RSD) procedures
WB-Treatment of vulnerable/traumatized individuals
(Functional Skills marked with an asterisk* are essential)

Language Requirements

For International Professional and Field Service jobs: Knowledge of English and UN working language of the duty station if not English.
For National Professional jobs: Knowledge of English and UN working language of the duty station if not English and local language.
For General Service jobs: Knowledge of English and/or UN working language of the duty station if not English.