Experience

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  UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency

  • Switzerland
  • International Affairs
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Associate Development Officer

    • Oct 2022 - Present

    Strategic Engagement and partnership building, liaising and coordinating with the government on national and development planning issues, working on the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) programming, and policy inclusion of displaced population in line with state pledges at the Global Refugee Forum (GRF). Building linkages and coordinating national development efforts with the team in partnership with National Technical Committee, World Bank, African Development Bank, and private sector Engagement to include forced displaced population in the planning and development programming as well as having their voices on the platform through UNHCR participation.

  • Assistant Protection Officer

    • Sep 2019 - Sep 2022

    Coordinate/conduct protection assessment of vulnerabilities, screening of theextremely vulnerable persons, Lead the coordination with authorities and policymakers ensuring that, the government take their primary responsibility to provideprotection to the affected population and communities at large.• Ensure through advocacy and engagement of policy makers, laws to provideprotection and enable respect for human rights at all levels are created andimplemented by the authorities.• Ensure protection services delivering including counselling, referrals, identification,distribution of targeted assistance and sanitary kits to the persons of concerns andare guided by the standard approaches & principles.• Coordinate protection cluster response, for effective, efficient, and quality protectionprogramming.• Provide capacity building trainings and mentoring to the partners to ensure qualityprotection responses such as protection monitoring, assessments, identification,verification and FGDs with POCs.• Ensure respect for human rights and dignity of women and girls through advocacywith the local authorities especially on abuses of power that amount to SGBV andother protection concerns.• Capacity builds the law enforcement agents, local authorities and communitystructures including local leaders to uphold and respect all human rights, contributeto SGBV prevention and response, protection of POCs.• Prepare advocacy notes as well as design training materials, awareness raisingmaterials as well the development of SOPs and contribute to the legal documents onbehalf of UNHCR.• Lead the protection team and MFTs in programming, partners monitoring andcoordinating most of the protection responses in the AOR.On programming side, provide technical support, leadership and oversight for the team including providing direction for the MFT team.Being the main focal point for coordination, heading the office in absent of the HoFO and heading the protection unit

  • Protection Associate

    • Oct 2015 - Aug 2019

    Duties and Responsibilities1. The protection of populations of concern is met through the application of International and National Law, relevant UN/UNHCR protection standards and IASC principles;2. Protection activities are guided by the UNHCR country protection strategy;3. The participation of persons of concern is facilitated through continuous assessment and evaluation using participatory, rights and community based approaches;4. Protection incidents are immediately identified and reported;5. Stay abreast of political, social, economic and cultural developments that have an impact on the protection environment;6. Consistently apply International and National Law and applicable UN/UNHCR and IASC policy, standardsand codes of conduct;7. Assist in providing comments on existing and draft legislation related to persons of concern;8. Provide advice on protection issues to persons of concern; liaise with competent authorities to ensure the issuance of personal and other relevant documentation;9. Assist in conducting eligibility and status determination for persons of concern;10. Contribute to measures to identify, prevent and reduce statelessness;11. Contribute to a country-level child protection plan as part of the protection strategy;12. Contribute to a country-level education plan as part of the protection strategy;13. Monitor Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for all protection/solutions activities;14. Manage individual protection cases including those on SGBV and child protection; Monitor, and intervene in cases of refoulement, expulsion and other protection incidents;15. Assist in identifying durable solutions for the largest possible number of persons of concern through voluntary repatriation, local integration and where appropriate, resettlement;16. Contribute to the design, implementation and evaluation of protection related AGD based program

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  NILE HOPE

  • LIVELIHOOD PROGRAM OFFICER

    • Jul 2014 - Sep 2015

    Coordination of the project in Mingkaman, Awerial County of Lake StateCommunity mobilization and trainingsManaging and Facilitating Cash for Work programme for the IDPs and Host communityOversee the whole project implementation and give directivesRun all the activities with the team as a team leader in the areaAdvocacy and Awareness on the good practices on economic recoveryWomen and Youth Empowerment on the economic recovery projectsGuide and train IDPs and Host community on the Income generating activities.Focal point for Nile Hope in the area.Peace building and promotion of entrepreneurship

  • Gender & Protection Assistant Coordinator

    • Oct 2012 - Jun 2014

    CoordinationHuman rights and Child protection trainingsConducting activities in the countiesManaging the protection project

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  Ministry of Education Science and Technology

  • Jonglei State

  • Inspector

    • Sep 2009 - Mar 2012
    • Jonglei State

    Data and statistics managerIn-charge of all technology equipments installations, configuringin-charge of Nominal rollDaily activities on the Primary and Secondary education sectorsManagement of Exam database