Associate Durable Solution Officer at United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Duties

• Implement activities in accordance with the comprehensive solutions strategy, with a view to finding durable solutions to the maximum number of forcibly displaced and stateless persons.
• Participate in the planning of, and advise on opportunities for alternative solutions, including available regional and national legal frameworks.
• Participate in consultative processes within UNHCR and with a broad range of regional and national external partners to promote voluntary repatriation, local integration and resettlement.
• Meet forcibly displaced and stateless persons, assess their durable solutions needs and identify the most appropriate solutions for them.
• Monitor the implementation of the durable solutions strategy and provide advice for improvements.
• Analyse statistics, trends, and other documents, and draft reports.
• Interview and prepare Resettlement Referral Forms (RRF), in line with Resettlement SOPs.
• Interview candidates for local integration and prepare the appropriate documentation for onward submission to local authorities or partners, in line with Local Integration SOPs.
• Implement and contribute to the designing of national and regional comprehensive durable solutions strategies
• Engage national and local interlocutors on durable solutions issues.
• Authorize payments relating to durable solutions.
• 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.

Minimum Qualifications

Education & Professional Work Experience

Years of Experience / Degree Level

• For P2/NOB 3 years relevant experience with Undergraduate degree; or 2 years relevant experience with Graduate degree; or 1 year relevant experience with Doctorate degree

Field(s) of Education : Political Science; Social Science; Law/International Law; Economics; International Relations; or other relevant field.