Registration Assistant

Processes Palestine refugee registration cases in the Damascus area by verifying supporting documents, recording births, deaths, transfers and family changes, maintaining the registration database and paper indexes, responding to applicant queries and issuing updated registration cards.

Department: Relief and Social Services Programme, Damascus Area

• Verify the authenticity and accuracy of documents submitted with registration applications
• Process births, deaths, transfers, family splits and other registration changes
• Review and approve eligible newborn and deceased-person registration updates
• Enter, amend and retrieve records in the registration database
• Scan supporting documents and maintain accessible paper indexes
• Respond to registration queries in coordination with area officers
• Print and distribute updated registration cards and collect replaced cards
• Act for the Area Registration Officer during absences

• Post-secondary diploma in business, office practice or a related discipline
• At least three years of progressively responsible relevant experience
• English at UN Level II
• Arabic at UN Level I
• Residence in Syria within commuting distance of Damascus and authorisation to work at the duty station

• Daily-paid assignment
• Open to internal and external candidates