Community Services Assistant Job Vacancy at United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Job Title: Community Services Assistant

Duty Station: Rwamwanja, Uganda

Duties & Responsibilities:
• Assist in working with host communities to involve national civil society groups in improving the protection of persons of concern
• Offer support implementing and operational partners as well as with displaced and local communities to develop community-owned activities to address the social, educational, psycho-social, cultural, health, organisational and livelihood concerns as well as child protection and prevention and response to GBV.
• Assist in analyzing protection risk and capacities of communities of concern.
• Support participatory assessments and ongoing consultation with persons of concern
• Collect data for monitoring of programmes and budgets for the AGD perspective
• Accompany and interpret for senior management in their contacts with local interlocutors
• Draft and type routine correspondence, documents and reports using word processing equipment and maintain up-to-date filing systems
• Assist in the enforcement of participatory AGD sensitive analysis as an essential basis for all of UNHCR’s work
• Take lead in the identification of individuals and groups to prioritize for counselling and field visits in an agreed criteria
• Perform other duties as instructed.
Qualifications, Skills & Experience:
• The prospective employee should have completed secondary education and possess post-secondary training in social sciences or social work.
• The candidate should possess at least three years previous job experience in a related or similar job role
• Personal Competencies:
• Computer literacy skills
• Fluency in both written and oral English.
• Knowledge of another UN or local language
How to Apply:
All Interested candidates who meet the above criteria should submit their applications, under confidential cover, quoting the Post No addressed to:
The Senior Administrative/ Finance Officer,
UNHCR Representation in Uganda,
P.O. Box, 3813,
Kampala, Uganda
Application Deadline: 3rd Oct 2013