Location:

Zarzis, Tunisia
Salary:

negotiable / YEAR
Job type:

INTERN
Posted:

2 months ago
Category:

Administration, Conference and Meeting Services
Deadline:

21/09/2024

JOB DESCRIPTION

Hardship Level (not applicable for home-based)

A (least hardship)

Family Type (not applicable for home-based)

Family

Staff Member / Affiliate Type

Internship

Target Start Date

2024-10-01

Deadline for Applications

September 21, 2024

Terms of Reference

Organizational Unit:
UNHCR

Duty station:
Tunisia (Zarzis)

Duration of the internship:
Six months

Expected start date:
Immediately

Background information/Organizational Context
UNHCR Tunisia is providing registration and protection services for persons seeking international protection. The office works with asylum seekers and refugees from 47 different nationalities and spread across different locations in the country.
The incumbent’s primary role is to support the work of UNHCR protection unit to support the office’s legal assistance program and to maintain coherent and regular communication with asylum seeker and refugee communities, ensuring information on UNHCR and partners’ services are timely distributed.

The Registration Intern is a member of the Registration team and is supervised by the Registration Associate

Duties and Responsibilities
– Conduct registration interviews in accordance with local SOPs and registration standards.
– Respond to queries from asylum seekers and refugees regarding UNHCR’s registration procedures and their rights and entitlements.
– Maintain accurate and up-to date records and data related to all individual registration cases.
– Identify persons with specific needs and ensure timely referral to protection follow-up as required.
– Collaborate with protection staff and/or partners in the delivery of assistance and programming, including provision of identity and entitlement documentation
– Act as interpreter and translator when needed.
– Refer cases to other units within the office and to implementing partners as necessary.
– Support the identification and management of risks and seek to seize opportunities impacting objectives in the area of responsibility. Ensure decision making in risk based in the functional area of work. Raise risks, issues and concerns to a supervisor or to relevant functional colleague(s).
– Perform other related duties as required.

Minimum qualifications required
• University degree in Social science, Statistics , Mathematics, Information technology, or related field. Knowledge of Arabic, French and English

Eligibility
In order to be considered for an internship, candidates must meet the following eligibility criteria:
• Recent graduate (those persons who completed their studies within one year of applying) or current student in a graduate/undergraduate school programme from a university or higher education facility accredited by UNESCO; and
• Have completed at least two years of undergraduate studies in a field relevant or of interest to the work of the Organization.

Allowance
Interns who do not receive financial support from an outside party will receive an allowance to partially help to cover the cost of food, local transportation and living expenses.