Technical Expert – Community-Based Protection Systems Strengthening

The expert will build community-based protection systems across five Palestine refugee camps by assessing risks and local mechanisms, establishing and training a volunteer network, supporting community-led action plans and developing a sustainable scale-up roadmap.

Department: Syria Field Office – Protection Programme

• Assess community protection mechanisms, power dynamics, capacities and stakeholders across target camps
• Facilitate participatory consultations and protection-risk analysis using age, gender and diversity principles
• Establish and support a representative network of 50 community protection volunteers
• Develop and deliver training on community-based protection, referrals, confidentiality and data protection
• Facilitate five camp protection action plans and ten community-led protection activities
• Prepare transition, scale-up and final reports documenting results, lessons and recommendations

• Advanced university degree in social work, human rights, international law, social sciences, development studies, psychology, community development or a related field
• Excellent command of written and spoken English
• Ability to be based in Damascus for the assignment

• Eight-month consultancy
• Monthly fee of USD 7,400
• UNRWA provides approved accommodation and inbound and outbound duty-station travel
• Rest and recuperation travel follows the prevailing Damascus cycle