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Mission and objectives
The international obligations of Turkey and its national legislative framework on asylum have shaped the form of the current collaboration with UNHCR. During the last 54 years, UNHCR and Turkey have been working together in close partnership. Turkey has provided the asylum space for persons seeking refuge, and UNHCR has assisted Turkey to determine who is in need of international protection and to enable access to rights by these persons, including access to justice. As the main partner of the Turkish State in the field of international protection, UNHCR Turkey continues to cooperate with the Presidency of Migration Management (PMM), the Union of Turkish Bar Associations (UTBA), the Justice Academy of Turkey (JAT) and other national institutions to enhance institutional capacity-development in the field of refugee protection.UNHCR in Turkey also intervenes to strengthen access to justice by persons of concern through conducting technical assistance and capacity development activities for legal actors, in a way to include lawyers, judges, prosecutors, interns, I/NGOs, national and local authorities. Access to justice is consisted of enabling access to various rights, such as, inter alia, legal aid, legal assistance, interpretation, and access to courts.
Context
The assignment is with the Interagency Coordination Unit of UNHCR Sub-Office Gaziantep with coverage of 11 provinces in Southeast Türkiye. UNHCR supports the Government of Türkiye under the Syria Regional Refugee and Resilience Plan (3RP) 2023-2025 which is co-led by UNHCR and UNDP and designed to support national priorities in the response to Syrians under temporary protection and persons under international protection, based on Türkiye’s comprehensive legal framework. The UN Volunteer will support interagency initiatives to strengthen and enhance coordination and stakeholder engagement and state-led inclusive and localized coordination arrangements, at the provincial level, with national and local actors and ensuring complementarity with the support of other actors, including international financial institutions, development partners, and municipalities. As a result of the February 2023 earthquakes, coverage also includes the ongoing transition from humanitarian activities to early recovery and development programming. Mission travel in the Areas of Responsibility (AoR) of Sub-Office Gaziantep and earthquake-affected provinces is required for the nature of the position.
Task description
Under the direct supervision of the Head of the Interagency Coordination Unit of the UNHCR Sub-Office in Gaziantep, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:
• Support the organization of thematic and technical meetings on refugee, development, and including conducting preparatory research and analysis, reporting, information management activities, and event administration.
• Conduct research and analysis and develop background documents on thematic and sectoral issues relating to the protection of refugees and mixed population movements, humanitarian, and development nexus.
• Support evaluation, monitoring, and reporting activities of the Interagency Unit in relation to the refugee response under the 3RP 2023-2025, the humanitarian response, and the transition to early recovery of the coordination mechanism because of the February 2023 Earthquakes in Türkiye.
• Provide administrative, technical, and secretariat support to interagency and sectoral meetings organized by the Southeast Türkiye Protection Sector and its subsectors of Child Protection and Gender-Based Violence, as well as task teams including Legal Counsellors Group, Youth Task Team, and Case management groups in nine provinces.Furthermore, UN Volunteers are encouraged to integrate the UN Volunteers programme mandate within their assignment and promote voluntary action through engagement with communities in the course of their work. As such, UN Volunteers should dedicate a part of their working time to some of the following suggested activities:
– Strengthen their knowledge and understanding of the concept of volunteerism by reading relevant UNV and external publications and taking active part in UNV activities (for instance in events that mark International Volunteer Day, 5th of December).
– Be acquainted with and build on traditional and/or local forms of volunteerism in the host country.
– Provide annual and end-of-assignment self-reports on UN Volunteer actions, results, and opportunities (for instance at https://vra.unv.org),
– Contribute articles/write-ups on field experiences and submit them for UNV publications/websites, newsletters, press releases, etc.
– Assist with the UNV Buddy Programme for newly arrived UN Volunteers.
– Promote or advise local groups in the use of online volunteering or encourage relevant local individuals and organizations to use the UNV Online Volunteering service whenever technically possible.
• Support the organization of thematic and technical meetings on refugee, development, and including conducting preparatory research and analysis, reporting, information management activities, and event administration.
• Conduct research and analysis and develop background documents on thematic and sectoral issues relating to the protection of refugees and mixed population movements, humanitarian, and development nexus.
• Support evaluation, monitoring, and reporting activities of the Interagency Unit in relation to the refugee response under the 3RP 2023-2025, the humanitarian response, and the transition to early recovery of the coordination mechanism because of the February 2023 Earthquakes in Türkiye.
• Provide administrative, technical, and secretariat support to interagency and sectoral meetings organized by the Southeast Türkiye Protection Sector and its subsectors of Child Protection and Gender-Based Violence, as well as task teams including Legal Counsellors Group, Youth Task Team, and Case management groups in nine provinces.Furthermore, UN Volunteers are encouraged to integrate the UN Volunteers programme mandate within their assignment and promote voluntary action through engagement with communities in the course of their work. As such, UN Volunteers should dedicate a part of their working time to some of the following suggested activities:
– Strengthen their knowledge and understanding of the concept of volunteerism by reading relevant UNV and external publications and taking active part in UNV activities (for instance in events that mark International Volunteer Day, 5th of December).
– Be acquainted with and build on traditional and/or local forms of volunteerism in the host country.
– Provide annual and end-of-assignment self-reports on UN Volunteer actions, results, and opportunities (for instance at https://vra.unv.org),
– Contribute articles/write-ups on field experiences and submit them for UNV publications/websites, newsletters, press releases, etc.
– Assist with the UNV Buddy Programme for newly arrived UN Volunteers.
– Promote or advise local groups in the use of online volunteering or encourage relevant local individuals and organizations to use the UNV Online Volunteering service whenever technically possible.
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Application ends on
January 1, 1970