Self-Reliance and Resilience Assistant -Tunis

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Mission and objectives

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, works to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees all over the world. UNHCR’s purpose is to ensure that everyone can exercise the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge from war and persecution. UNHCR also protects stateless people.

Context

This volunteering opportunity is supported by the Embassy of Switzerland in Tunisia in the framework of the initiative launched in partnership with UNV in December 2023 to foster youth and disability inclusion through meaningful and impactful volunteering assignments with the United Nations between 2024 and 2026.
The Self-Reliance and Resilience Assistant will be part of the Project Coordination Unit within Tunisia Operation. The incumbent will support in operationalizing the strategic vision to align self-reliance and resilience efforts with the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR), which underscores the need to mobilize additional actors and to adopt a whole-of-society approach to strengthen refugee self-reliance and help ease pressure on host countries. S/he will contribute to the objectives of the unit under the direct supervision of Associate Coordination and Support Officer. S/he will collaborate closely with UNHCR self-reliance partners to enhance the resilience of both UNHCR beneficiaries and host community members. The incumbent will also be expected to deliberately explore opportunities of collaboration with other UNHCR cross cutting areas such as protection, education, cash, partnerships, research and analytics, GBV, solutions, complementary pathways and more. S/he will assist to mobilize refugees of different age, gender and background and to ensure that all stakeholders well understand the potential of self-reliance for refugees and host community members, and to help communicate opportunities with UNHCR beneficiaries.

Task description

Embedded within the Project Coordination Unit, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:
– Support the operation’s strategic planning and objectives aiming at building resilience and self-reliance mechanisms and systems, including towards to build resilience and self-reliance mech-anisms
– Support the operation’s identification and profiling efforts to identify refugees’ needs and their capacities for the purpose of including them in suitable interventions in a targeted manner;
– Support in developing programs to build or enhance refugees and asylum seekers’ skills, com-petencies and capacities for prospective self-reliance opportunities contributing to build their resilience;
– Provide counselling to and share information with refugees and asylum seekers on self-reliance opportunities and ensure effective communication with communities;
– Support UNHCR’s partners working on the portfolio of self-reliance and resilience, including through regular meetings, field visits, referrals, follow-ups and information sharing;
– Prepare regular statistical and ad-hoc reports to ensure accurate and updated information is available and shared with relevant units and partners;
– Support refugees and asylum seekers in search of durable solutions and complementary path-ways, including through local and international self-reliance and resilience-building opportuni-ties;
– Any other relevant task and duty assigned by technical and direct supervisors.