Protection Analyst

UNRWA, the largest United Nations operation in the Middle East with over 30,000 staff working across five areas of operation, is looking for highly committed personnel wishing to make a change. If you are looking for a rewarding opportunity to make a tangible difference for one of the most vulnerable communities in the world, UNRWA would like to hear from you. The incumbent reports to the Protection Team Leader, Lebanon Field Office

Lead Protection Monitoring and Analysis: • Reviews and strengthen the Field's protection monitoring methodology, ensuring alignment with global best practices and UNRWA protection standards. • Oversees the planning, implementation, and follow-up of protection monitoring activities, in coordination with area teams, ensuring consistent data collection, verification, visualization, and trend analysis. • Manages and improves protection data tools and systems to ensure they are fit for capturing emerging risks, with a focus on legislative, policy, and structural barriers affecting Palestine refugees. • Produces risk assessments, vulnerability profiles, and protection trend reports to inform programming and advocacy efforts. Support Strategic Advocacy and External Engagement: • Drafts protection advocacy strategy for Lebanon field, in consultation with key stakeholders, including programmes. • Leads on the production of protection advocacy materials, including briefing notes, talking points, key messages, and analysis for the Front Office and external stakeholders. • Monitors political developments, public discourse, and media coverage relevant to protection risks, and identify advocacy opportunities in line with UNRWA's protection and humanitarian strategies. • Drafts and leads on Agency reporting to international human rights mechanisms, donors, and the UN system on protection-related issues, violations, and refugee access to services, and other requests for inputs as needed. • Conducts analysis and drafts related reports, briefs, talking points and advocacy messages on protection trends and context in Lebanon related to Palestine refugees, including in relation to specific thematic issues, policies and the law. • Supports to senior field management in carrying out protection advocacy interventions with relevant interlocutors, including by maintaining a record of interventions, drafting written interventions, note-taking at high-level meetings, and tracking and monitoring advocacy interventions over time, developing a knowledge management platform and issue tracker. • Supports field protection teams and UNRWA senior management in developing networks and contacts for the purposes of engaging in external advocacy initiatives. Coordinate Sector and Internal Protection Efforts: • Participate in protection sector coordination and maintain active engagement with relevant stakeholders and working groups, ensuring coherence and complementarity of protection efforts in the field. • Supports the implementation of the UNRWA advocacy framework and monitor progress against protection-related indicators. • Facilitates information-sharing and coordination across UNRWA programmes to support integrated protection responses and mainstreaming of protection principles. • Undertakes quarterly integrated assessments of all UNRWA installations according to protection, humanitarian principles and CP/GBV standards. Contribute to Protection Reporting: • Oversees the preparation of regular internal and external protection reports, including quarterly protection updates, situation reports, and thematic analysis. • Ensures that all reporting outputs are accurate, timely, and evidence-based, using visual tools such as dashboards, graphs, and presentations where relevant. • Contributes to the drafting of annual, mid-term, and ad hoc reports, as required. Context-Specific Functions in Lebanon: • Monitors and analyse the impact of legal frameworks, national policies, circulars, memos and other government documents on the rights of Palestine refugees in Lebanon, particularly regarding civil documentation, movement restrictions, and access to services. • Identifies and escalates emerging protection risks linked to contextual dynamics, including displacement, armed violence, and socioeconomic vulnerability. • Ensures that UNRWA protection programming and responses are informed by realtime, field-based evidence and reflect the voices and needs of affected communities. • Supports emergency preparedness and response efforts as needed, including through supporting the drafting of situational reports, documenting violations of rights, and impact of emergencies on the rights and wellbeing of Palestine refugees.

UN Core Values of integrity, Professionalism and Respect for Diversity, and Core Competencies of Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results apply by default. Default managerial competencies may apply. Analyzing Learning and Researching Formulating Strategies and Concepts Relating and Networking Planning and Organizing Skills in writing and drafting reports.

Advanced university degree (Master's or equivalent) from an accredited educational institution in international relations, public administration, human rights, law, social science, communication, journalism, humanities or related field.

Not available.

At least five years of responsible and relevant experience in humanitarian work, refugee sector, human rights and/or protection with a particular focus on protection analysis, monitoring, or humanitarian reporting is required. Unless already serving as an international staff member in the UN common System, at least two continuous years of relevant international experience outside UNRWA, and outside the country(s) of citizenship is required. Practical Knowledge and understanding of the Palestine refugee situation and the Practical experience in reporting, preferably in humanitarian and human rights issues and drafting official reports; ability to present information and data in a clear and instructive manner is required. Candidates are required to make a declaration as to whether they have any current or past affiliations with non-governmental organisations, academic institutions, political organisations, military, or have/are engaged in activities or have made any public statements, that could be seen to impact their neutrality, objectivity or independence in the performance of their duties for the UN / UNRWA. Any declaration will not necessarily disqualify candidates from consideration for this post. Familiarity with the work of non-UN organizations working in protection-related fields is desirable. Knowledge and understanding of the Palestine refugee situation and the political context of the Middle East is desirable Advanced university degree (Master's or equivalent) from an accredited educational institution in international relations, public administration, human rights, law, social science, communication, journalism, humanities or related field is required.

English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For this job opening, English is required. Arabic is desirable. The table below shows the minimum required level for each skill in these languages, according to the UN Language Framework (please consult

https://languages.un.org

for details).

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Required Languages

Language

Reading

Writing

Listening

Speaking

English

UN Level III

UN Level III

UN Level III

UN Level III

Desirable Languages

Language

Reading

Writing

Listening

Speaking

Arabic

UN Level I

UN Level I

UN Level I

UN Level I

Evaluation of qualified candidates may include an assessment exercise which may be followed by competency-based interview.

Type of Contract and duration: Temporary Appointment for 10 months with the possibility of further extension subject to funds availability, need and performance. Only applications that have been fully completed in UNRWA's online e-recruitment system inspira will be considered and no late applications will be accepted. The Personal History Profile (PHP) should be completed with full work experience under the experience tabs as per the requirements in the Job Opening. All university degrees must also be stated, where applicable. UNRWA personnel must ensure adding their contract type and grade level. Given the large pool of applicants, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for further assessment. Providing incorrect or misleading information on an application form will result in the immediate disqualification of the candidate. Advertisements published in English will only accept applications in English, other language submissions will not be considered. UNRWA welcomes applications from qualified candidates with disabilities. A roster may be created from the selection exercise, and successful candidates may become eligible for appointment to the same post or a similar post, when the need arises. Equivalency: A first level university degree in combination with additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree. NB: work experience alone or formal qualifications with no relevant work experience are not considered an acceptable combination. The Agency disqualifies applicants whose name appears on the UN Sanctions List or a UN database of staff separated for reason of misconduct or of staff who separated while a misconduct process was pending. UNRWA shares investigation and misconduct information with other UN Agencies, and past and prospective employers about staff members who have been separated for misconduct, or who have separated while an investigation and/or disciplinary process for misconduct is underway; and those individuals may be prohibited from employment with the United Nations. UNRWA is funded almost entirely by voluntary contributions from UN member states, regional bodies, business foundations and individual contributions. The mission of UNRWA is to help Palestine refugees achieve their full potential in human development under the difficult circumstances in which they live. For more details on UNRWA, please visit: https://www.unrwa.org/

Staff members are subject to the authority of the Commissioner-General of UNRWA and to assignment by him or her. UNRWA is committed to achieving gender parity at all levels of staffing under the current UN-wide gender agenda and strongly encourages applications from qualified applicants from under-represented groups. At UNRWA, the paramount consideration in the recruitment and employment of staff is the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence and integrity, with due regard to geographic diversity. All employment decisions are made on the basis of qualifications and organizational needs. UNRWA is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment of mutual respect. Reasonable accommodation for applicants with disabilities may be provided to support participation in the recruitment process when requested and indicated in the application. UNRWA Considerations UNRWA staff are expected to uphold the highest standards of efficiency, competence, neutrality, impartiality and integrity. This includes respect for and commitment to human rights, diversity and non-violent means of dealing with all kinds of conflict. Only persons who fully and unconditionally commit to these values should consider applying for UNRWA jobs. Candidates will not be considered for employment with UNRWA if they have committed violations of international human rights law, violations of international humanitarian law, sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, or sexual harassment, or if there are reasonable grounds to believe that they have been involved in the commission of any of these acts. Candidates who have committed crimes other than minor traffic offences may not be considered for employment. The Agency may disqualify applicants who have separated for reason of misconduct, who left a UN Agency while misconduct processes were pending, or who appear on the UN Sanctions List. UNRWA is a non-smoking work environment. Applicants are urged to follow carefully all instructions available in the online recruitment platform, inspira. For more detailed guidance, applicants may refer to the Manual for the Applicant, which can be accessed by clicking on “Manuals” hyper-link on the upper right side of the inspira account-holder homepage. The evaluation of applicants will be conducted on the basis of the information submitted in the application according to the evaluation criteria of the job opening and the applicable internal legislations of the United Nations including the Charter of the United Nations, resolutions of the General Assembly, the Staff Regulations and Rules, administrative issuances and guidelines. Applicants must provide complete and accurate information pertaining to their personal profile and qualifications according to the instructions provided in inspira to be considered for the current job opening. No amendment, addition, deletion, revision or modification shall be made to applications that have been submitted. Candidates under serious consideration for selection will be subject to reference checks to verify the information provided in the application. Job openings advertised on the Careers Portal will be removed at 11:59 p.m. (New York time) on the deadline date.

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